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Free New Zealand Font

Tommy B — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:23:38 +0000

Font design inspired by a beautiful place in New Zealand. The idea came from a range of stimulus in “the Naki”. The crisp cold mountain streams, the sharp bright summer light, the contrast of the bold dark Mt Taranaki shooting into the sky against Len Lye’s spindly Wind Wand undulating to and fro in the sea breeze.

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Free Illustrator font

You are welcome to use it as you please for whatever you want. If you have any comments or would like me to create a different font format please get in contact via twitter @tommybickerdike

IA & UX

Tommy B — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:51:41 +0000

User experience and information architecture upgrade for a long run steel roofing manufacturer. Steelformers came to us with their site that had previously been designed and populated with information from an old website. We were approached with a large wad of product information and a plan to separate the site into two areas, one for trade and one for homeowners. I had doubt about the effects of separating customers based on thier knowledge and was concerned about inbetweeners such as in the case of DIY. You wouldn’t want to bamboozle people with a little knowledge with all the hard facts but it is equally important to supply detailed information. After much consideration and information organisation I put forward a plan to hide information in Russian-doll type product boxes. Starting with product shots and a brief description the user can go into as much detail as they want by sliding open ever more detailed contents. Each product is also linked to the colour options available for it and all other products that can be used in conjunction. The result is an extremely information heavy site that markets products attractively and acts equally as an efficient information resource.

The site update was planned and designed by myself and coded by James at Webfox

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Taranaki Consultancy

Tommy B — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:40:32 +0000

Branding and website for a private investigator. Designed on a tight budget for a start up business to look professional and discreet whilst reassuringly local. A range of logos and branded stationary were presented to the client to pick from, the chosen brand was then applied to a simple website.

Logo created in Illustrator and applied to an existing web template using HTML & CSS. A little Javascript was then added to give a smoother feel to the menu. Business cards created in InDesign.

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Atkin Construction

Tommy B — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:31:11 +0000

Design and intro animation for a construction company based in Hawks Bay. Atkin wanted a slick modern site with flash animation. The site is designed to look modern, reliable, intelligent and approachable. Although I usually advise against long introductions to keep loading speeds up, Atkin were determined they needed one to make the site exciting. To keep the site accessible to a wide range of devises and avoid the need for complex flash content management, I decided to use javascript to create all the animation. Created whilst I was working at Fire design New Zealand in collaboration with James Simmonds at Webfox.

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Garlic Press

Tommy B — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:42:57 +0000

A slick website design to attract customers to The Garlic Press, one of Taranaki’s top restaurants. The site aims to give the visitor a rich preview with a fullscreen slideshow and menu samples. Menu’s can be easily managed by The Garlic Press’s staff with Cushy CMS.

Built to work across all platforms using some home made HTML & Javascript. The full screen slideshow is based on the Supersize plugin.

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Deadmau5 vs DirtySmart Concept

Tommy B — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:22:31 +0000

This is just an initial concept for a Deadmau5 t-shirt series for Dirty Smart clothing. Unfortunately the Mau5’s manager wasn’t nibbling the cheese… I like it though!

Created on a piece of paper and spruced up in Illustrator ready for screen printing.

Other tees by Neil Chow

Lighting Catalogue

Tommy B — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:46:06 +0000

Original design for a reversible Lighting catalogue. We were approached by a Lighting retailer to create 2 catalogues showcasing their outdoor and indoor ranges. I had the idea to put the two together, back to back and present display them either way round depending on where in the show room they are used. I based the page template on their brand style and created a clean, bright and elegant catalogue in order to showcase each light in isolation with clear information.

Template designed in InDesign. Catalogue laid out in collaboration with Traci at Timandra and some clipping path fairies.

Bunkies

Tommy B — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:38 +0000

Concept for pod hotel accommodation at festivals. Initiated by an idea I had working at festivals around the UK selling camping equipment. The amount of ill-prepared people I encountered, and having witnessed the quantity of discarded tents dumped after the event, led me to this solution. Branding, website and promotional banners created at University of Plymouth.

Created using Illustrator & Flash.

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The Score

Tommy B — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:38:16 +0000

A project to raise awareness about the wrongful classification of drugs in the UK aiming to inform young recreational drug takers of the relative risks individual drugs pose. This would lead to individuals making wiser, more informed decision’s and minimise potential risk. Each drug was given a score from 0-3 (with 3 indicating the largest risk) taken from a survey by the home offices Advisory Council on the Misuse of Controlled Drugs.

Screen printed UV T-Shirts, UV Posters and HTML Website.

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Poster under UV light

Illustrated t-shirt. A map of the UK made of pills. Highlighting the 2million E’s taken in the UK every weekend.

Poster under UV light

Illustrated t-shirt. A graph of the difference in damage done to your body by an evening taking ecstasy, drinking and smoking.

Baskerville

Tommy B — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:35:35 +0000

Hand bound typographic book created to illustrate the strange tale of John Baskerville’s corpse. John Baskerville was a typographer who designed and crafted typefaces around the time of the industrial revolution in Birmingham. This book illustrates the bizarre tale of how his corpse was repeatedly exhumed and once shown as a museum curiosity. Created using traditional letterpress techniques. Hand stitched, then bound using leather and thick card.

Cover created using metal typesetting and a Columbia Eagle press, copy printed digitally, solely using the font ‘baskerville’.