Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta!

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:10:57 +1300

2011 is nearly behind us and I can only say I’ve been fortunate yet again to be able to work with the talented people at justONE. I’ve had great fun being part of your creative team in 2011. I especially loved being able to be there to give birth to the visual side of the Digital Evolution of Subcard and Farmers Club Launch – fingers crossed we get the top prize once again in the RSVP Awards on 24th February 2012.

Also, thanks to the innovative website design company Zeald and especially Auckland E-Business Consultant Rose Love for her trust in my design skills by sending a few start-up companies my way with their logo needs – be it designing from scratch or helping out with execution: Vanilla Cupcake, NZ Health Store, Warmo and Changing Jobs. I wish you all the best with your businesses in 2012! Last but definitely not least, thank you New Zealand Retail Interior Association NZRIA for your continued use of my design expertise :)

If there is anything visual YOU need help with in 2012, just drop me a line – click here. Cheers!

Freestylist is in da house!

Wed, 18 May 2011 15:34:03 +1200

I love designing T-shirts which is why I have set up a couple of print-on-demand shops online. Whilst I post most of the designs in Zazzle’s Madinagoodway store, I wanted to open a new shop dedicated solely to quirky hand-drawn doodle-style designs. Check out freestylist now!

justONE shines again in RSVP & Nexus Awards

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:02:35 +1300

Thank you, justONE and Ben, for a joyful night at Langham last night. It was a pleasure to see the fruit of your/our hard work recognised in the 2010 RSVP & Nexus Awards. May there be many more for many more lucky clients :) Big hugs to Farmers, Subway and ACP!

Below, our winners and finalists:

Farmers Beauty Club extreme makeover
Gold, Loyalty / Relationship Programme, RSVP Awards, 2010 (CLICK)
Gold, Loyalty / Relationship Programme, RSVP Awards, 2010 (CLICK)

Subway Staff Incentive 'Text to Win'
Gold, Internal, RSVP Awards, 2010 (CLICK)

Subway: Making lunch a faster easier experience
Gold, Innovation, RSVP Nexus Awards, 2010 (CLICK)

Farmers: A beautiful lapsed goldmine
Silver, Customer Retention, RSVP Awards, 2010 (CLICK)

Farmers: VIP means VIP
Finalist, RSVP Awards, 2010

Farmers Beauty Club Dynamic Value Segmentation
Finalist, RSVP Awards, 2010

ACP: Getting personal with Your Home & Garden subscribers
Finalist, RSVP Awards, 2010

Vanilla Cupcake fresh out of the oven

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:59:11 +1200

I had a pleasure of designing the logo for Vanilla Cupcake – a boutique party supply company that has just opened its fantastic virtual doors at www.vanillacupcake.co.nz. So whether you need something for that special kids’ party or baby celebrations, including wrapping paper & cupcake tins, it’s all here.

To view more of my design work, click HERE.

justONE gets a J1 facelift

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:35:13 +1200

I have worked closely with justONE ever since I started freelancing (since early 2008), so when the Managing Director Ben Goodale said he wanted me to refresh their logo, I was honoured and excited – it’s not every day I get to put such a big stamp on a brand I love. Thank you Ben.

Logo below, and click here to see the stationery items.

11012010. Happy New Year!

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:18:39 +1300

Maybe it’s just me, my latent dyslexia or old age, 2010 seems to be so easy to get wrong. Thank goodness my ‘Numbers’ software (Excel equivalent to all of you non-Mac people) completes my dates correctly. Well, at least I can still spell correctly and all the typos are down to my compact apple keyboard ;-)

Below, a collection of some new designs I’ve uploaded in my Zazzle store over the Christmas & New Year, a lot of it inspired by holiday time over-indulgence. Enjoy, and have a look at the rest of the products and designs in each category by clicking on the images if you want!

Give your liver a break –  it deserves it. 

Percent Off –  who’s the biggest loser? 

Finland Rolls –  for those who believe in the Finnish ‘sisu’ 

Planes –  four models come into one 

Flying Finns –  see the Finnish ski jumpers in action at the  2010 Vancouver winter olympics 

Greener Grass –  if you’ve got something to brag about! 

No P –  it’s a menace. Don’t do it. 

Up –  a moving design, in more ways than one... 

Robber TV –  ‘inspired’ by real-life events 

Tees, tees, tees... and caps and beer mugs and aprons and....

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:45:42 +1300

I spend a lot of my free time designing and posting stuff for sale at Zazzle. The topics vary between interesting, current, upsetting and totally random – or anything Finnish! Here are a few highlights, and much more on site.

Halloween is coming... Maybe a bit too late to order for this year but hey, maybe someone will! LOL

Hollyween range:

Paw Pumpkin range:

I’m not a fan of facial hair, except for the month November – and even then only for Movember.

Shaving Next Month range:

Shaving Is Overrated range:

And talking about months, specifically ‘times of’ them regarding us women, I say no more:

The PMS Witch range (perfect for Halloween):

Christmas is also approaching and in Finland it is the time when elves are sneaking around finding out who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. TONTTU is Finnish for a Christmas elf, or Santa’s little helper, and now you too can become one:

Tonttu range (personalise with your name):