Digital Freelance & Website Design Solutions

BOOK COVERS

For corporate and self-published authors

WEBSITE DESIGN

Designed and deployed using WordPress

INFO GRAPHICS

Making sense of complex information

EVENT DESIGN

Themes for Corporate & Academic Events

PRODUCT LABELS

For various artisan FMG food & beverages

"If you don't take risks, you will always work for someone who does"

Create. Change.

Welcome to my personal website!

This site is a design and layout experiment - it's not perfect (like my Nelson graphic design studio website), but it's fun! This place lets me try out some cool web design techniques in my own personal space on the interwebs.

For privacy and ethical reasons, I am not on social media. Instead, find out more about the real me by connecting the old fashioned way – phone, text, fax (kidding) or email.

It is a pleasure having you here. Read some old-school blog archives, learn about my freelance design career, or visit my full-time creative design studio at Tintagel in Nelson NZ.

Cheers,
Simon Owen

Hong Kong 2019

Envisage Design 2009 Portfolio

Odd Rods gum stickers - RARE!

Majestic South Island NZ

NBR Best Dressed 2012

The Aerial Eye showreel 1

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I have been full-time freelancing since 1994. My celebrated digital design studio is located in central Nelson at Tintagel House.

Envisage Design Limited

The Freelance Design Archives...

Welcome

By Simon Owen | November 26, 2007

And welcome to my blog. This site will be a depository for my ideas, thoughts and trends in all things I dare to deem commercial, creative and worth investigation. That is not to...

A very palatable client

By Simon Owen | November 27, 2007

I'm over the moon to have just picked up Cloudy Bay as a new client.The winery takes its name from the bay at the eastern extremity of the Wairau Valley. It was named...

3D Dragon: video and download

By Simon Owen | December 5, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXvMeupScTs This is a really cool optical illusion! Have a look at the video above (only 38 sec), and then download a dragon of your colour choice below and try it for yourself....

You are a Legend Paul Verdon!

By Simon Owen | December 7, 2007

The Legends of World Rugby collectors edition book is now available in New Zealand.This remarkable limited edition book has been signed by 75 of the worlds best players from the armature era and...

My 1970’s Odd Rod’s sticker collection!

By Simon Owen | December 20, 2007

https://youtu.be/2Pw3Bw4FyII These are a bunch of really cool stickers that I collected back in the 1970's. Retouched in Photoshop CS3 circa 2008. Edited and put to a rocking track by the Subways for...

Student animations from 1990

By Simon Owen | February 1, 2008

Back in the day, the Amiga 2000 was used to create broadcast graphics at TVNZ. As a graduate design student in 1990, I created an odd collection of animations, some of which were...

“The reality we now face implores us to act.”

AL GORE
Founder & Chairman,The Climate Reality Project

FIGHT LIKE YOUR WORLD DEPENDS ON IT