Tommy Bickerdike

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

LIVE Magazine

Tommy B — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:06:44 +0000

For almost a year I worked on an upmarket monthly magazine for Taranaki residents. My role was to collect content for editorials and adverts and lay everything out. Designing for magazines involves speed, creativity, ingenuity, flexibility and the patience of a saint. Every month I worked with many people from a wide range of professions to create an attractive public platform for local business which succeeded to consistently stimulate a devout reader fan base. Each advert and article was designed to have its own character whilst reinforcing and sustaining the LIVE magazine brand.

Creating LIVE used a variety of techniques but it was pulled together seamlessly using Adobe InDesign.

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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Honda

Tommy B — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:19:03 +0000

Two websites designed for New Zealand Honda franchises. The two companies wanted websites that looked similar but distinguished to present their products and services to a market of boisterous kiwi lads. The design aims to communicate the excitement and adrenaline in tearing around the countryside on a Honda whilst reinforcing the brands colour palette. The headers and flash banners differ to reflect the two target markets.

Original design created in Photoshop and Illustrator. Banners created with Flash. Site coded by Webfox.

Hastings Honda

Mills Honda

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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New Plymouth Venues

Tommy B — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:22:53 +0000

This multi-faced site was created to promote the New Plymouth District Council’s Event venues. All that existed before were factsheets on the main council website. In order to attract more functions and events, the sites needed to shine. I created a landing page and 3 sites for TSB Stadium, TSB Bowl of Brooklands and Yarrow Stadium. I was asked to match the sites to an existing design for TSB Showplace… but I couldn’t help souping it up a bit. Unique wallpapers were created for each venue as part of a larger branding operation for all the venues primarily created by Alana Clark @ Fire design before I joined.

Designed with Adobe and made using PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript and some handy JQuery Plugins

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Rob Mason

Tommy B — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:46:10 +0000

I built this technical yet accessible site for a New Plymouth electrical company. Using an existing design, I brought the site to life using a variety of rewired Ajax plugins. I then tweaked it for maximum performance, compatibility and searchability. The site was delivered with a CMS that allows Rob Mason Group to customise essential areas to keep the content up to date.

Made possible with the magic of HTML,CSS, JQuery and Cushy CMS

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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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Shanley Building

Tommy B — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:42:13 +0000

A slideshow made to fit in with an existing site to jazz up a builders website portfolio.

Created with Javascript

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