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Graphic Design: Woods & Woods MotorEx 2013 Trade Display

20 Aug

Tags: 2013, art deco logo, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, business card design, car, design services, graphic design, hosking industries, logo design, motorex, Photoshop, sydney, trade displays, vehicle, woods & woods
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You may remember that Hosking Industries designed two new company logos and a few other things like business cards and fliers for Central Coast (NSW) business Woods & Woods Motor Co a couple of months ago. If not, you can see the designs HERE. While we were at it, we were also commissioned by Woods & Woods to design the company’s trade displays for this year’s MotorEx in Homebush, Sydney. Check them out below.

The design incorporated the new logos we designed for the company and continued with the Art Deco theme that they were after. The main banner was over two metres high and over three long, while the smaller of the two banners was 2m high and around 800mm wide, designed using Adobe Illustrator and supplied to the printer as high-resolution PDFs. There was no sign of distortion or artifacts even right up close.

If you’ve got a design project coming up, let Hosking Industries provide you with an obligation-free quote. You won’t be disappointed!

Design: New Hosking Industries Business Cards

08 Aug

Tags: 2013, august, australia, ben hosking, business card design, design services, desktop, graphic design, hosking industries, image, images, News, nsw, Photoshop, sydney, sydney design services
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Not news exactly, but we thought we’d share our new business card designs with you. Since we haven’t updated the design in almost two years, it seemed high time to give things a freshen up. We’ve got two different designs this time: one that’s motoring specific and another that’s more general in focus.

Contact Hosking Industries today for an obligation-free quote on your next design project. Nothing is too big, or too small!

Custom Gear: iPhone Cases are GO!

25 Jul

Tags: 2013, australia, automotive, ben hosking, car, custom cases, holden, hosking industries, image, images, iphone, iphone cases, motoring, phone case, photography, Photoshop, redbubble, sydney, vehicle
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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!

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Design: Unreleased Woods & Woods Logo Designs

25 Jul

Tags: 2013, art deco design, art deco logo, australia, automotive, ben hosking, graphic design services, graphic design sydney, hosking industries, logo design, motoring, nsw, woods & woods
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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).

Logo Design: Woods & Woods Motor Car Co.

18 Jul

Tags: 2013, australia, automotive, ben hosking, business card design, desktop, graphic design, hosking industries, logo design, motorex, nsw, Photoshop, sydney, trade displays, wallpaper, woods & woods
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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!

Graphic Design: Furious Performance Business Card

13 Aug

Tags: 2012, australia, automotive, ben hosking, business card design, furious performance, graphic design services, hosking industries, Photoshop, rhys bloomfield, sydney, sydney designer
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Hosking Industries doesn’t just specialise in taking photos and writing stories; we also offer professional and creative graphic design services. Here is an example of our latest work, a business card for Sydney performance automotive retailer Furious Performance, who are based in Brookvale, NSW. Check out their website HERE.

A business card design created for Sydney company Furious performance.

For an obligation-free quote on graphic design work for your business, contact us today!

Check out our other design stuff: CLICK HERE

We offer quality, creative design work at competitive rates; so if you’re looking for something beyond the typical, contact us today for an obligation-free quote.

We Made a Book! Automotive Photography: The Story So Far…

20 Nov

Tags: 2011, australia, automotive, ben hosking, blurb, feature cars, hosking industries, hosking industries photo book, image, images, motoring, News, nsw, photo book, photography, sydney, vehicle
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Hey everyone, just a quick note to show you a preview of our first photo book, self-published through Blurb.com. We really only created and printed a few copies to satisfy ourselves and have a record of the first 12 months of feature car work on our bookshelves; but thought that perhaps, by some stroke of miracle some folks at home might like to own a copy as well. So, we’ve made the book available for purchase via the Blurb website.

Given the fact we ticked all the premium options to make the book look and feel its best, it isn’t a cheap tome, weighing in at almost AUS$200 posted to your door, the 160-page book will probably only interest the owners of the 39 cars featured. But having a sneak peak won’t cost you anything!

Here’s the preview, giving you a look at around 30 pages of the book. We have shot almost 100 cars and bikes in the 12 months since Hosking Industries began doing this line of work, but selected 39 of our favourites. We hope you enjoy the preview and if you’re interested in purchasing this hard cover, bound book, there’s a button for that on the preview, too!

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Design: Hosking Industries’ New Business Cards

16 Apr

Tags: 2011, april, april 2011, australia, automotive, automotive journalist, ben hosking, business card design, design, graphic design services, graphic design sydney, hosking industries, image, images, motoring, nsw, photography, Photoshop, sydney, sydney automotive journalist, vehicle
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This is the design of Hosking Industries’ new business card for our photojournalism services. We’ll be revising the design regularly as the pile runs out, updating them with other examples of our photographic work. Our original card design didn’t use any photographic elements as we hadn’t started shooting cars as our business yet – plus we were wanting them to represent not only photography and automotive journalism, but graphic design, copywriting, web design and much more as well.

We reckon this design kind of covers all the bases and shows off some of our design skills at the same time. Hope you like it and we hope we get the chance to hand you one of them at some point, too!

Hosking Industries offers commercial and private photographic services, specialising in the automotive and music industries. Even if you don’t think your car or bike is good enough for a full feature in a magazine, we can still shoot your pride and joy just as if it were going into one; making it look as glamorous as the vehicles you see in print on newsstands all over the world. Contact us today for an obligation-free quote on a custom framed print!

Design: Fresh Logo and Business Card for BLISS Custom Machining

07 Apr

Tags: 2011, affordable logo design, andrew ruhland, april, australia, ben hosking, bliss custom machining, business card design, graphic design, hosking industries, Illustrator, logo design, nsw, Photoshop, sydney, sydney brand creation, sydney graphic design, sydney logo design
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Here are some samples of the new logo and business card design we created for Queensland business BLISS Custom Machining. The client wanted something simple but memorable that they could machine into their custom jobs. We took that inspiration and tried to design something that looked like metal. Also displayed in straight red, white and black are some alternative options we drafted during the design process.

Let Hosking Industries create a new business identity or freshen up your existing one. Contact us today for an obligation-free quote on your next design project.

Logo Design: More Pro Flow Logo Options

17 Mar

Tags: 2011, australia, automotive, ben hosking, branding, graphic design, hosking industries, Illustrator, logo design, motoring, new pro flow logo, Photoshop, pro flow fabrications, pro flow melbourne, professional design services, professional logo design, sydney
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During the course of designing a new logo for a business, we often create numerous other designs or variations on the final theme before coming up with THE version the customer loves. As with our work for Mace Engineering last year, our journey to create Pro Flow’s new logo saw us come up with a few other designs before falling on the one the customer wanted the most.

Here’s a few examples of those designs, keeping in mind that some logos only got as far as a one-dimensional draft and did not enjoy the same levels of 2D work that we usually like adding.

If you like what you see, Hosking Industries would love to create a new identity for your business. Please contact us today for an obligation-free quote on your next design project.

Click on the logos to view more options and in a high resolution: