It’s mine! No, it’s yours! More on this soon…

The Arts Foundation of New Zealand The Arts Foundation established a new award this year in association with Ann Mallinson of Mallinson Rendel Publishers, to honour a children’s book illustrator. The inaugural award went to the very clever David Elliot. The Arts Foundation commissioned me to design the award, which was again beautifully letterpress printed by Shona Gow of Magpie Press.

Ho ho ho A range of typographic greetings cards drawn for the stationery arm of the very excellent Gecko Press, curiously good books published by my good friend Julia Marshall. Buy them at Vessel, or contact Gecko & Co. My stationery arm hurts.

Once more down to the beach… The Designers Institute of New Zealand commissioned this piece of work to be used as a pull-out poster in ProDesign magazine, heralding the impending summer holidays. I can’t remember who first used this joke in my earshot, but it was probably my uncle, who is an English teacher & who also said to me one Easter: ‘Shall I compare thee to a currant bun?’

So long, darling I made these three drawings into limited edition letterpress prints, printed by the wonderful Shona Gow at Magpie Press in Auckland, with generous support from the mysterious False Dog. Printed in dark blue on 425gsm Somerset in an edition of 50, signed and numbered. Buy them here, or email me to buy direct.