Ben Akhurst – Graphic Designer

HM magazine

Ben Akhurst — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:26:49 +0000

Hotel Management magazine is the leading accommodation trade magazine in the Asia-Pacific and is distributed to most accommodation properties in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Noumea, Vanuatu and Tahiti.

I’ve been working on HM for about 4 years. In that time I’ve redesigned it twice. Here are some examples from the latest re-design.

HM has been a great to work on over the years. Apart from the magazine I’ve also been heavily involved with the HM Awards which involve designing all of the material needed for a 600 seat awards ceremony. Things such as advertisements, tickets, certificates, flags, floorplans, programs, slideshows, media walls and many more little things that add up to present the night of night for the accommodation industry.

Inside Film ipad magazine

Ben Akhurst — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:56:27 +0000

Inside Film or ‘if’ magazine is the first magazine I’ve designed for the ipad using Adobe’s Digital Publishing Solution.

The main aim for this project was to get the printed magazine onto the ipad, and at the same time develop the skills necessary to exploit the potential of the ipad. Being a Film Industry magazine there’s a lot of good material here that the ipad can make good use of such as movie trailers.

Its only early days but the potential is huge and I look forward to doing more work in this medium. The cover features a small animation that I put together in Photoshop using some of the images from the cover story. I’ve also got a live twitter feed, slide shows, pinch & zoom and scrollable content all over the place.

Its only basic but its the start of an exciting new era.

The app will be available soon and this first issue will be free to download.

Fruit Runners

Ben Akhurst — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:41:08 +0000

Fruit Runners is a small fruit delivery business servicing some of Sydney’s finest hotels, cafe’s, restaurant’s, offices and takeaways.

This was a great project to work on as a designer. It had it all, illustration, creative typography and character design along with business cards and truck signage.

The Art of Absinthe – Bars & Clabs magazine

Ben Akhurst — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:03:25 +0000

In this article for Bars & clubs magazine I wanted to incorporate some of the old Absinthe artwork from the 1920′s to give it a classical look. I also took a little inspiration from the strip ad featured at the bottom of the page by the the feature sponsor Green fairy.

Cocktail Cold war – Bars & Clubs magazine

Ben Akhurst — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:31:38 +0000

For this article in Bars & clubs magazine two teams of mixologist’s from the east and west of Adelaide were lined against each other in a cocktail shootout.

Since this was a mighty battle between East-V-West my idea here was to use a cold war theme for the article.

Star Baseball

Ben Akhurst — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:17:02 +0000

Star baseball is a women’s baseball organsation based in Sydney. The brief was for a somewhat traditional baseball logo but a bit more funky and fun.

Along with the main logo for the playing top, a hat logo was also needed. The combined Australian/USA logo was added to the side of the hat as the team was touring the USA.

Star Baseball hat logo

Star Baseball flag logo