Category: Logos, lettering and posters

  • Barber Shop Merchandise Shelves

    Barber Shop Merchandise Shelves

    The esteemed Maloney’s Barber Shop has had me back creating and fitting new shelving, between the barber chairs, for showcasing all the merchandise. This lot of 7 wall-hung box shelving is made from reclaimed tongue and groove timber and pine plywood, all oiled up with natural linseed oil. The second stage was making 19 tiny…

  • Custom rat bike for Maloney’s Barber Shop: stage 2.. hand-lettered sign: completion

    Custom rat bike for Maloney’s Barber Shop: stage 2.. hand-lettered sign: completion

    Every now and then stuff falls into place and I end up building something particularly rad for a special person or business. In this case the person was the all round extremely nice dude/ business manager Julian Maloney and the business is Auckland’s well respected Maloney’s Barber Shop. The shop was in need of a…

  • Wordplay blocks for Tongan Language Week @Auckland Art Gallery

    Wordplay blocks for Tongan Language Week @Auckland Art Gallery

    Round two of the children’s interactive poetic-play blocks. I was asked by Auckland Art Gallery to revamp Wordplay with a set of custom Tongan/English Language blocks for Tongan Language Week this week. Check it out now in the story corner at the gallery.

  • Hand lettering for BarberCraft sign

    Hand lettering for BarberCraft sign

    A wee sign I just did for the upcoming BarberCraft pop-up feature at Fashion Week, commisioned by the honorable J. Maloney, esquire. One Shot lettering enamel on recycled Kwila timber.

  • Custom Rat-Bike for Maloney’s Barbershop (stage 1)

    Custom Rat-Bike for Maloney’s Barbershop (stage 1)

    Julian at Maloney’s Barbershop brought me a curious mid 70s beaten up old dusty Raleigh Arena that had been remodeled several times, leaving an interesting patina of paint layers. He asked me to give it a once over, with the idea to install a handmade wooden sign into the frame to park it outside the…

  • Hand painted signwriting

    Hand painted signwriting

      A wee bit of hand signwriting one evening, on recycled timber offcuts. These are in place on my a very steep bush driveway and went up in time for a big birthday party a couple weeks ago