25 Watts Print & Design

21/01/2025

Anyone trying to get in touch, I've created a new email address: [email protected] - drop me a line!

19/01/2025

Greetings - I am posting here to create a contact point for anybody wanting to commission my services. Contact me for Graphic Design, Posters, T-shirts, Flyers or anything design-related. WhatsApp 0451 225 735. Cheers.

18/01/2025

Hi - I am restarting this website as a contact point for anybody who'd like to commission my Graphic Design services, have T-shirts printed, Posters, Flyers, or anything else you care to run past me. To contact me, please contact me via WhatsApp on 0451 225 735. OK Talk Soon.

We’re a boutique screen printing & consultancy design service. Specialising in rock band merchandising, Discharge ink & distributing Ryonet inks Australia

19/04/2024

So long Ramblin’ Man Dickey Betts - Allman Brother 1943 - 2024

17/02/2024

Just watching a documentary where the interviewee recounts seeing pictures of punk rock bands in magazines and trying to imagine what they sounded like. It took me back to New Zealand in the late seventies. Pre-Internet and the UK rock press 3 months behind by the time it hit the New Zealand newsagents. We had a raggle-taggle band who rehearsed in my basement bedroom every Sunday. Something was in the air, we could tell by some of the records we had been able to get a hold of. The Saints, Dr. Feelgood and Radio Birdman - short sharp and genuinely exciting. The Damned promised much, amongst their number, they had a bloke that looked like Dracula and a bassist in a tutu. The British press was going bananas over their initial 45s and suddenly, there was an album. We simply had to hear this. My friend Dave McKenzie who was probably the only punk rocker in Christchurch, excitedly called me to let me know there were a few copies of the Damned's first record available at the Record Room (which was odd as the shop specialised in Classical Music) in the city. Dave donned his homemade bo***ge trousers and duly hopped on the Maidstone Road bus with the sole intention of returning with this holy grail. Trouble was, the guy at the Record Room believed the Damned album was so awful that nobody in their right mind would enjoy this racket and refused to sell Dave a copy. "Why should I sell you this when you'll probably just return it tomorrow?" was his reasoning. Dave literally had to beg the guy to get him to hand it over.

I rushed over to Dave's place to hear this new music praying that it wouldn't be a letdown. I shouldn't have worried. Damned Damned Damned sounded like the Stooges album hopped up on Bop Pills, Wild, Fast, Brutal with an obvious sense of humour. They could obviously play, but without all the frills and production values of the music we were hearing on the radio. This was it, the way forward. Next to the Damneds debut, the Pistols Bo****ks, when we finally got to hear it, sounded like Led Zeppelin!

05/08/2021

Proposed design for playing card suit. TAFE assessment.

21/03/2021

Just in case, here's my design for Harmony Day 2021. Cheers for all the great feedback. Happy Harmony Day Y'all.

14/02/2021

I'd forgotten about this - I designed this shirt in 2011 at very short notice for Return to Forever's Don't Look Back style show while they were in Australia playing their classic Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy album. Pulled it together in record time as they had no merch for their show that evening at the Sydney Opera House. Rest in Peace Chick Corea your music will live forever.

25/11/2020

First order out the door with our new labels. New look, Still the same great ink.

14/11/2020

Okay, here's the new thing.

25/10/2020

Clearing out the factory, these beautiful rocket lamps were originally from Christchurch New Zealand.

13/10/2020

And its goodnight from us. Helen Sparks and I bow out gracefully and thank those who've supported us through the tough times and the good times. Watch this space, we'll be back in some form or other in the near future. Love youse all.