Lorimer Jewellery

January 22nd, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

We recently completed a simple identity for a jewellery designer based in Central Otago. As with jewellery, its all about the details – so we took the business cards to the next level with some letterpress-printed cards by Magpie Press.

Station Brewing

January 9th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

It’s true, we will sometimes work for beer. Station Brewing are a small batch brewery based in Alexandra. We’ve known the owners for a couple three years now, and were chuffed to be asked to help out with some identity and graphic work for the new brewery. We produced some branding, including logo work, website and help with some social media for the 2 owners, who are committed, hardworking, make great beer and undoubtably do the best fries and chicken wings in Central. They’re off the main drag in Alex, in the industrial part of town, occupying a space that used to be a car wreckers. Right up our alley.

We’re counting on you

January 9th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

ICL are a Central Otago-based accountancy firm with offices in Alexandra and Ranfurly. We were approached to put together their annual Farm Survey, a key document for the firm and their many loyal rural customers. The project involved wrangling numbers, graphs and text, while searching and updating the photography featured throughout. Based on a template from another local designer (our friend and ex-co-worker Jonny Simpson), the 48 page document featured quick turnarounds, much like rounding up sheep.

Climb Every Mountain

October 16th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Tenaya is a Spanish-based climbing shoe manufacturer who still make all their products in Spain, also the home of Camper and Bob Dylan’s Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather. We were asked by the local distributor, based in Central Otago, to create a website for these world-class shoes. Safely roped in, we designed and built the site for maximum flexibility and ease of use, showcasing the shoes and some gravity-defying imagery.

To check out their range, head to their site here.

Sure to Rise

July 7th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Oh boy, this book was a biggie! Close to four years in the making, various points of contact, hundreds of images and the weight of responsibility with working on one of the county’s most loved brands.

Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story tells of the famous baking powder, patents, trademarks, the hugely popular cookbook, renowned factory and gardens, the family behind the brand, and the landmarks founder Thomas Edmonds gifted to Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Authored by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson and Richard Wolfe, the book uses more than 500 images to help document the Edmonds family story alongside the evolution of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinctive brands and its domestic trademark – the Edmonds Sure to Rise logo. Done and dusted, and available from (most) good book shops.

Close to Home

July 7th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

This project is one that is very close to home. In fact, it IS home. When we moved to Central Otago in 2019, we commissioned a simple house by Christchurch architect and sometime collaborator Charlie Nott. It’s still a work in progress, but we were stoked to win a few awards in 2023, an NZIA Southern Architecture Award, an NZIA National Award, the NZ Interior Design Award for a residential building and a Best Design Award. Good things come in small packages.

Photo by Simon Devitt
Photo by Biddi Rowley

Otago Brew School

July 7th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

The Otago Brew School is a full time brewery course run by Otago Polytechnic / TePukenga from their Bannockburn, Central Otago / Comwell Campus. The by-product of teaching brewers is they make a lot of beer – in various styles. So they created a retail arm and Gas were tasked with naming, branding and package design. The can design is based on the location in Bannockburn, near Lake Dunstan – an environment surrounded by mountains and dramatic skies. The site is not only a brewery, it is the future of brewing in Aotearoa, by offering hands-on learning to help craft the next generation of brewers. We’ll drink to that.

Grand ‘ol Ophiry

May 16th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Part of living in a small community is that if you want something to happen, you pretty much have to do it yourself. So a group of us in Ophir, Central Otago, have created a hall group that organises concerts and movies in the historic Ophir Peace Memorial Hall (c.1926). This coming weekend we’re welcoming two alt county performers from Australia and last years Gore Golden Guitar winner. Poster by us.

Love Chicken

February 10th, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Throwback Friday. A recent trip through Queenstown reminded me that Love Chicken does one of our favourite burgers. Which is just as well, because we designed the identity for the owner, Darren Love, as well as the mural inside. Love Chicken has been open a little while now and has established itself as THE place to get your chicken fix in the Central Lakes. They use organic Bostock Brothers chicken, and their sauces and salads are all made in-house. Another reason to cross the road…

Annual Report

August 29th, 2022 § 0 comments § permalink

Yes, annual reports are still a thing. We spent the 80s and 90s designing annual reports for large power companies, amongst others, and thought we’d seen the end of lining up rows of financial results in 7pt Franklin Gothic. However, when the MacDiarmid Institute came to us requesting a report that had only 5% pages of financials and 95% new science, we said ‘heck yeah’.