Art direction & design of the 2009 promotional book for the largest hand-paint advertising company in the United States.
Colossal Media is an innovative Out Of Home company that specializes in high-impact painted wallscapes. GHAVA worked closely with cofounders Paul Lindahl and Adrian Moeller to deliver an engaging leave-behind sales tool that offers deeper insight into their business in a personalized manner.
The book contains behind the scenes imagery, overviews of services, as well as in-depth case studies for some of their more noteworthy projects including Banksy’s large scale murals in NYC and The New York Public Art Fund commissioned 19,744 square foot installation of artist Sarah Morris’s work on the ceiling of the Lever House, a NYC landmark building.
Photography by Morgan Howland, Stephen Schuster, Ray Mock, and Colossal Media.
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Wow, we get to hang with legendary photographer Harry Benson! We’re in the last phase of designing his new book, a large format compendium which will be published by powerHouse Books.
We are now offering a free PDF download of our very first self-published book, The Elizabeth Kent Story. Compiled and designed between 1999 and 2002 the book is a collection of pages, both individual and collaborative, from the members of Graphic Havoc. The Elizabeth Kent Story was originally offered as a limited and numbered edition of 1000 and has been sold out for years.
Download the file and enjoy a glimpse into our early publishing endeavors.
The Elizabeth Kent Story
Review by Brian Sholis
[...]By contrast, unremitting pain characterizes the pictures in Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan, edited by Leora Kahn for the nonprofit organization Proof: Media for Social Justice. The volume presents the work of eight acclaimed photojournalists and the beseeching testimony of aid agency workers, noted writers, and a handful of celebrities; proceeds from its sales will be donated to Amnesty International and the Genocide Intervention Network. If the chilly formalism of the North Korea pictures testifies to the Dear Leader’s control over his population and his country’s visitors, the presence of so many emaciated, fly-ridden bodies mere inches from the camera lenses indicates that whatever order once held in this arid African plateau has now irredeemably collapsed. Yet the photographic depiction of even the most lawless, unprecedented situation adheres to decades-old visual convention: a regular alternation of somber black-and-white and vividly colored pictures; a preponderance of children and the elderly; stark outlines of malnourished, brittle bodies graphically contrasted with sand and dirt; and long lines of displaced people stretching into the distance.[...] via pring mag.
Brian Sholis is an editor at Artforum and is the coeditor of The Uncertain States of America Reader (Sternberg Press, 2006).
We are happy to announce that powerHouse books has been given a Lucie award for its new book on Darfur, art directed and designed by GHAVA.
IPA awards Lucies to those in the creative community who are an integral part of crafting an image.
The IPA members and Photographers Advisory Board have awarded powerHouse Books – Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide as Photography Book Publisher of the Year at The 5th Annual Lucie Awards.
Second Place
by Jody Fausett
Released September 2007.
Jody Fausett’s images brim with dark whimsy. They play with the seemingly impermeable division between life and death.
ISBN: 978-0-9716702-2-8 Published by GHava{Press}
“Like advertisements for a place you might not want to visit, Jody Fausett’s photographs sizzle with inchoate menace. Fragility and a whiff of violence collide in a body of work centered on Fausett’s kin and the vacant-eyed critters who attest to the family’s favorite avocation of taxidermy”
— Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing
