1. Creative Direction,
‘SEA LICE’ Saltpalms Short Brand FilmSea Lice is a short narrative-based brand film created for Saltpalms, shot on Super 8 to explore themes of coastal folklore and connection to the West Coast environment. Local, analogue and tactile, The film introduces the imagined world behind the brand, using character, costume, and setting to expand Saltpalms’ visual storytelling beyond jewellery.
2. Product Design/Art Direction,
The Shell Collector’s Belt KitThe Shell Collector’s Belt Kit is a functional, one-off artefact created to expand the Saltpalms brand world. It works as a practical wearable while exploring ideas of slow-making through its construction, and ethical shell-gathering through the way it’s used.
3. Conceptual Book Cover Design Series
A series of imagined book covers created to explore visual storytelling within publishing design. Combining analogue textures, illustration, and digital layout techniques.
4. ‘CYCLES’ Moving Image
‘Cycles’ Moving Image, Exhibition Screening, 2025
Displayed on the dome at the Stardome Planetarium, Cycles is a short-form experimental motion piece created by manually sanding down and scanning each rock iteration using a stop-motion technique, forming a surreal timelapse that visualises the slow transformation of rocks over time.
Cycles was part of an exhibition curated by Whitecliffe’s final-year Digital Media and Design students — a collection of short-form motion works exploring different interpretations and visualisations of the theme “Cycles.”
5. Publication Design,
The Shell Collector’s Field Guide to the West Coast
The Shell Collector’s Guide to the West Coast is a tiny publication designed to accompany the Shell Collector’s Belt Kit, and assist with identification and context about the West Coast of Aotearoa. The field guide contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of common West Coast sea shells, brief histories of the beaches, and a chapter that documents the way humans interact with the coastline every day.
6. HMWRK Event Poster
Kinship, 2024
Photoshop
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