Established in 1994, Graphic Havoc a visual agency (GHAVA for short) is a direction and design studio. Their approach is highly collaborative and focused on innovation. GHAVA executes tailored solutions in any medium to meet the communication needs of their clients, helping them create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences.
With a core team of five creatives, GHAVA provides art and creative direction, graphic design, brand identity development, and moving image direction for live action and animation that span multiple technologies and media outlets. GHAVA works across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, health care, publishing, music, education, finance, retail, and fashion.
The collective works within the overlap of art and design and has a keen interest in the exploration of the collaborative process and its effects on commercial design projects as well as other artistic outlets. Through consistent exploration of this process, GHAVA has brought an artistic slant to numerous commercial projects for clients such as adidas, Nokia, Cartoon Network, Warp Records, Coca-Cola, Triple Five Soul and Mtv.
The agency was formed in Atlanta in 1994 by Derek Lerner and Randall J. Lane. Over the next few years, David Merten, Peter Rentz, and Sadek Bazaraa came on board to complete the team. GHAVA relocated to Brooklyn in 2000 and maintained a small studio in Los Angeles from 2002-2007. After the success of the self-published book, The Elizabeth Kent Story, Booth-Clibborn Editions published a monograph documenting 10 years of commercial work along with the showcasing of individual and collaborative works of art in 2004. In 2006, GHava{Press} was founded as an independent publishing platform for both emerging and established artists.