Hosking Industries is happy to announce the arrival of its first custom iPhone cases. With many more designs still to come, the first five are now available via Redbubble.com. CLICK HERE to take a closer look at the range, which includes iPhone 3Gs through to iPhone 5, as well as the iPod Touch.
Stay tuned for more new designs to come!
Through the process of creating a bespoke logo design for a company, one invariably creates a number of draft designs while seeking out the ‘one’. In the case of our work for Woods & Woods Motor Car Co. recently, that design process and the number of drafts we created was far larger than usual. This is because we spent some time coming up with design ideas even before being properly commissioned to take on the job, proactively showing the client what we could do based on no more than a brief of ‘deco’.
While none of the initial design variations we created initially took the company’s fancy, we did still score the job, designing two new logos for them (see them HERE).
Having had the pleasure of seeing Joe Satriani in concert at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney a few years back, one of the things left on our bucket list was to see Steve Vai: the very guy Ben played air guitar to throughout his younger years with Vai’s Passion & Warfare album cranking out of his boom box. That was officially ticked off the list on July 15, 2013, when Ben photographed and reviewed Steve Vai’s gig at the Enmore for lifemusicmedia.com. You can read it below.
To see the images, CLICK HERE or on the thumbnails above.
In the sphere of instrumental music, few names stand as tall as Steve Vai‘s. With a career that really started to take off while under the tutelage of Frank Zappa and then a stint with both Whitesnake and David Lee Roth‘s band, his place in the pantheon of music icons was cemented with the release of his second solo album, ‘Passion and Warfare’, in 1990.
23 years later, Vai is still adding music to his catalogue as vital and urgent as any of his output in the ’90s. It was no surprise then, to find Sydney’s Enmore Theatre almost at capacity for the local leg of his tour in support of ‘The Story of Light’.
While there were perhaps more women and families in the crowd than this reviewer (and self-confessed Vai fan) would have predicted, the majority of punters were of the guitar-nerd persuasion. That’s OK though, given that there’s no more appreciative a crowd for this kind of music than the type that’s ready to air-guitar in public like no-one is watching.
This is the ninth in a regular series of editorial pieces we’ll be posting here on the blog, originally written by Hosking Industries’ Ben Hosking for Street Commodores magazine and other magazines he’s completed opinion pieces for. This column appeared in issue 175 of Street Commodores:
Blocked! (Written 27 July, 2010)
Sure, writing for magazines can be a bloody sweet gig. But every now and then, we all get a decent dose of writer’s block.
Despite the stresses and deadlines, the last seven or eight years have been the best in my working life – without question. Sure, before I moved to Sydney in 1999 I worked in the music industry with is about the most fun industry you can work in. Sadly though the pay is almost always shit and you’ll get kicked in the teeth by it plenty of times.
Working on magazines – on a subject I love, no less – is employment heaven. Now I’m doing it for myself, working from my home office, it’s even better! Except it can be a little hard sometimes, knowing your work is right there in the back room, just crying for some more attention. And I usually give it all the attention it can take – it can become an addiction.
We had the pleasure of getting in to see all the wonderful hot rods, muscle cars, motorcycles and Aussie classics during the pre-show press launch at the Meguiar’s MotorEx yesterday afternoon. This included the press conference with the talented Chip Foose, who is this year’s celebrity attendee.
We stuck around for a few hours and snapped off a stack of shots for anyone unable to get there this year. So without further ado, CLICK HERE or on the thumbnails below to view 111 images from the 2013 MotorEx.
Issue 4 of Australia’s newest photography magazine, InFocus Australasia, is available FREE on Apple’s Newsstand right now! Get it HERE.
Issue 4 of InFocus includes interviews with advertising photographer Chris Budgeon and Antarctic landscape wizard Joshua Holko, tutorials on RAW vs. Jpeg and choosing the right AF mode and an in-depth look at getting better audio on your DSLR video projects. There’s also plenty of new camera and accessory information as well as this month’s cover story in which we take a long look at Australian copyright laws and how they affect photographers.
If that weren’t enough, we look at Lightroom 4’s Book module, showcase some of the 2013 AIPP Epson ACT competition winners and give you the chance to win yourself a Wacom tablet valued at $399 by following this month’s project: window silhouettes.
Hosking Industries recently created two new logo designs for Woods & Woods Motor Car Co., based on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. The client requested Art Deco design styles for both logos, as their primary stock in trade is the restoration of pre-war vehicles and the creation of bespoke 1930s-style phantoms. You can see the entire gallery HERE.
With the deadline to the 2013 MotorEx fast approaching, it was a rapid process of drafting and proofing, before also designing the company’s MotorEx display materials, business cards and fliers. The business cards will feature a three-step process involving both spot UV coating and spot foil application.
If your business is in need of a new logo or you have run out of business cards, feel free to request an obligation-free quote! And be sure to check out the Woods & Woods trade stand at this year’s MotorEx, starting tomorrow, July 19, 2013. While you’re there, be sure to visit The Chop Shop and Ziggy’s Hot Rods stands and pick up one of their posters, with photography also by Hosking Industries!
Wicked Wednesdays is here again, folks! One more lot of FREE high-resolution macro photographic texture images for your enjoyment. They’re a little more obscure and random this time around, with some shots of sea shells, radiator fins, sand-smoothed broken glass, an electric guitar’s selector switch and of course, more wool! We hope you are able to find uses for them all. If we find the time to get out and shoot some more soon, we’ll bring you more in the future. Feel free to send requests.
All images were shot on a Canon 7D with a 100mm f2.8L macro lens, using several shots of each object for focus stacking.
Simply CLICK HERE to view the gallery of six images or right-click on the thumbnails below to download the images direct. As always, these are FREE for commercial and personal creative use, however you may not resell or redistribute or claim them as your own. Enjoy!
This is the eighth in a regular series of editorial pieces we’ll be posting here on the blog, originally written by Hosking Industries’ Ben Hosking for Street Commodores magazine and other magazines he’s completed opinion pieces for. This column appeared in issue 174 of Street Commodores:
Dare to Be Original (Written July 1, 2010)
There’s no need to follow the pack. But you do need to have conviction in your ideas and ideals.
It can be all too easy to end up building a car that’s just the same as everyone else’s. Perhaps you’re truly inspired by the cars you see in Street Commodores or your local car show. Maybe you feel limited by what the aftermarket offers you in the way of off-the-shelf parts. There’s also a good chance that you’re swayed by the common reaction to Commodores that show a healthy percentage of originality. Sadly that reaction is rarely overwhelmingly positive.
Just take a wander through the Street Commodores online forum. There’s a ‘My Commodore’ section where members can display photos and technical details of their pride and joy. More often than not, anyone who strays too far from the perceived regular path scores themselves some overly critical and unnecessarily harsh replies.
Issue 212 of Street Commodores is on sale now and includes our photo shoot on Michael Timms’ tough-as Holden VK Commodore, pictured here. Powered by a rebuilt 308ci Holden V8 (something much larger looms on the horizon), Michael’s homage to the mighty Blue Meanie HDT VKs has been built largely in the shed at home and sees plenty of cruising with mates, many of whom also own tough Holdens.
CLICK HERE or on the thumbnails below to view and download six FREE desktop wallpaper images of Michael Timms’ Holden VK Commodore! Photo fans will find our EXIF data on each image as well as our lighting information on the detail shots (sorry strobist fans, the exteriors were shot with natural light this time). Enjoy!
