Blackspade™ is the art, design, sound, ideas & ventures of Chris Sharp

Design was provided by client I just had to make it work inside the beast. CSS Hackery.

I won a competition Serato/Rane held a few months back to design a promotional Tee for their new do-it-all Mixer the TTM57SL. Scored a Mixer out of it which is my new fav toy.

Tee concept for Chop headwear/apparell based in Wanaka. Look out for this one in their newer Tee range. Chop o’clock alarm! If you havent seen or heard of ‘Chop’ yet keep an eye out, lots of cameo appearances poppping up here and there. Now in stock at your local skate shop.

Im also working on a new website launch for Chop which shouldnt be too far off, ill post as soon as its up @ www.chop.co.nz

Photography, custom type and design promotional for ‘Dub City’ a local Welly Hip Hop gig in July, featuring some local MC talent.

Commissioned A1 poster design for the University of Otago. This poster was distributed to every School in New Zealand and proved to be very popular. Recently featured in an article in NZ Pro Design Magazine. Stoked with the response I’ve had for this one. The original Ahua Maori pencil sketch was done by my good friend Matu Pene.

Otago student David Foes dug the design so much he’s had it inked up! still a work in progress in the below apparantly, thanks for sending through the pic David, ..and for asking first! Ill try track down a finished photo.

Re:Fuel is an infamous Dunedin live music venue and student drinking hole. I chucked this one up on the Toilet wall the night of the Dunedin Street Art exhibition. So yea, this one went up the shitter, literally. Dunno if its still up, let me know.

Soundway is a Dunedin car audio company, specialising in custom installs of all sizes. They wanted a sticker for vehicles they had worked on, to get their name out there and advertise their services. Needed to be something separate to their corporate logo that people would want to stick on their cars. It is now also painted up on the wall in their garage.

A tiled poster series for a Dunedin fringe festival project called “Random Graphics”. Really just a personal project for fun and a night paste-up mission. All the text is just random sentences I come up with that I may use again, except the “Who defines you, confines you” which is from K.R.S ONE, and “nothing proper about your propaganda” from RATM. I guess you could say this series had political undertones.”Who owes Who?”
“United stripes of Utopia”
“15 Minutes of Lame”
“It must be true!”

Another variation on my Buddha character, these were printed as A1 posters.

A personal illustration/tee project, just a dig at all the blind consumers/celebs who were all rocking $250 Von Dutch caps and had absolutely no idea who Von Dutch was, I found it ironic that his name was being so completely sold out. Read up on the real Von Dutch on Wikipedia or sum’ if you get a chance, dude was an interesting character.

Making use of my old decks, Stencil steez. I still really dig this one, only thing is you kinda have to nail some decent holes in the wall to put it up properly.

This was my first attempt at a DVD menu, it was reasonably easy using ‘DVD Studio pro’ and worked out pretty well. I haven’t done another DVD menu since, but was something I quite enjoyed doing, if anything like this comes my way again.

Tipsta’ is a Dunedin local strummer who I helped out with an album cover for his first release of tracks.
His music is heavy’ish acoustic folk, with a touch of spiritual/political consciousness.

Photography by Rewa Pene taken at Moeraki boulders, South Island, NZ.

This one was just a hold page before I had my blackspade.co.nz portfolio together a few years back, I still really like the combination of elements. So thought i’d leave it up.

Just some randoms from an old sketch book, looking at these again I really need to get back into analog mode and pick up a pencil again!