Website design and development for BEINGS.

BEINGS is a platform built on lived experience. Created to explore, discover, and cast actors from Aotearoa’s People of Colour, Rainbow, and Disabled communities, it makes authentic casting not just easier, but so compelling it becomes the obvious choice. It’s aspirational, actually cool, and designed to leave no room for excuses.

Identity design for Jhana Millers, a boutique art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.

Website and identity design for Tom Gould, a director from New Zealand, pairing all caps LL Riforma with Items Condensed.

Motion Sickness is a creative agency in Auckland, New Zealand. Grafik designed their new website, using Condensed SemiBold and Mono styles from Founders Grotesk together with Feature Deck.

Website design for Today Design, an agency from Sydney, Australia, using two weights of Marr Sans Condensed for headers and navigation, and two weights of GT America for copy and smaller texts.

Michael McManus Architects (MMA) undertake projects across the Australian state of Victoria from their studio in North Melbourne. At the beginning of 2020, they pledged to make their business carbon neutral, reinforcing their belief in a sustainable future for our living and working environments.

In line with their vision, I highlighted their forward-thinking approach through an unexpected, earthy colour palette, which also provides contrast amidst the high-end nature of the work. The hues capture a snapshot of many of their projects: deep green for the landscape, yellow for sunlight, grey as breathing space and burnt orange for brick.

Wellington-based photographer Steven Boniface (Boniface) is renowned for his mix of portraiture and commercial projects. Boniface came to me in need of a new identity and website that expresses his character while also emphasising his photography.

My solution centres around an extended typeface that captures an analogue materiality evident in Boniface’s work. Delivered via a deep ultramarine blue, the bold typography acts as the primary interface for the website allowing the photography to just speak for itself.

Porter Packaging is a creative production house based in Auckland. As part of a market repositioning, Porter required a new identity and website to provide clarity around their offering, and to better market their services to designers.

Profile are a studio photography service based in Wellington. They offer a range of packages for individuals, and corporate groups, operating via an appointment service.

The design takes cues from the most popular coloured backdrops used throughout their photography.

Marx Design (Marx) is a branding and packaging design agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Unlike most agencies, Marx doesn’t work to a single mantra or a rigid process. Instead, they adapt their approach to delivering idea-led design that seeks to engage the audience beyond its core function and purpose.

Marx came to me requiring a new website to showcase their highly visual and eclectic body of work. As part of this process, they also needed their identity re-developed.

My solution was to create a website full of rich interaction, fun and playful intrigue — a functional yet engaging experience to house Marx’s portfolio and accurately reflect the qualities that make them unique.

From gallery Jhana Millers:

In SWEET, SWEET FANTASY BABY (a title pulled directly from Mariah Carey’s Daydream tracklist), the artist goes all-in on the make-believe. The exhibition of new rugs and paintings – on view for the first time as part of the Aotearoa Art Fair – offers unbridled access into the artist's high camp inter dimensional fantasy realms.

The exhibition catalog was design by Grafik, using the gallery’s brand typeface – Untitled Sans from Klim Type Foundry.

Grafik handled the identity design, digital design and development for the portfolio website of Glasfurd & Walker, with a refined aesthetic that signifies the marriage of design and strategy whilst showing off creative work that has no limits.

The typography pairs two type families from Klim Type Foundry: Domaine Display Condensed is used for logo, intro animation and menu, while Söhne handles headlines and information throughout the website.

I helped Match Photographers to relaunch – after 20 years of leading the pack as New Zealand’s premier photographic agency – as Match Artists, reflecting unprecedented growth in both photographic and motion assignments.

The new website and identity is a testament to this evolution. It reflects what Match Artists is all about – simplified solutions delivered with impeccable execution.

The typography pairs Söhne Mono (used for logo and menu) with descriptions set in a large size using Cardinal Fruit, while smaller texts use Söhne.

Designer boutiques, award-winning eateries, bars, health, beauty and offices set within some of Auckland’s oldest buildings and newest architecture, Britomart is the place to be from the first meeting of the day to the last whiskey of the night. — Britomart Group

Britomart is a vibrant nine-block precinct at the centre of Waterfront Auckland. The new website represents a colourful evolution of the existing brand, with a focus on the Britomart community.

The slate-coloured website presents information with body copy in Untitled Sans, interspersed with big blocks that contain stylish images and short bits of text using GT Walsheim, set in a big point size and in various colours. The Britomart logo combines two styles of Knockout.

Britomart identity: Inhouse
Website: Inhouse and Grafik
Web development: Grafik

Agnes Lloyd-Platt is a fashion/beauty photographer and filmmaker based in London. Taking predominantly pastel photos of people and objects, she has created a stylistic vision through her use of colour and accompanying ideology. Her work is characterised by colour, optimism and a graphic sensibility.

Using Lloyd-Platt’s singular style as a touchpoint, we developed a website built solely around ‘colour and optimism’ – exhibiting the colour in her work as well as injecting optimism into a field that often takes itself too seriously.

A custom logotype is paired with two weights of Berton Hasebe’s Platform (available from Commercial Type).

Public Library are a fashion and public relations agency based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Grafik & Seachange created a utilitarian website that references book spines and collections. Our solution was to convert the content (their brands) into the main design element.

Patchwork are a small architectural duo based in Wellington, New Zealand. Their architectural style focuses on basic materials to create stunning virtuoso designs, that are expertly assembled and beautifully considered.

Founders Grotesk in use for the website of Ben Pearce, a contemporary sculpturist from New Zealand.

In collaboration with Stylehatch, 606 is a premium tumblr theme that automates the process of arranging information visually.

Using an automated grid system, the information is randomly set on page to create an interesting and varied visual rhythm.

The varied layouts give the site an organic feel, while the large type and white space ensure content clarity.