I am a graphic designer, creative director and founder of the 100 Days Project.
Recognition and Awards:
Silver — New Zealand Best Awards 2019 (Material Creative)
Finalist – Next Woman of the Year Awards 2014, Arts & Culture (100 Days Project)
Speaker – TEDxAuckland 2012
Gold – New Zealand Best Awards 2008, 2010
Webby Awards Finalist 2011, Webby Awards Honoree 2011
My work for clients has been featured by Communication Arts, ProDesign, The FWA and Adobe.
Recognition and Awards:
Silver — New Zealand Best Awards 2019 (Material Creative)
Finalist – Next Woman of the Year Awards 2014, Arts & Culture (100 Days Project)
Speaker – TEDxAuckland 2012
Gold – New Zealand Best Awards 2008, 2010
Webby Awards Finalist 2011, Webby Awards Honoree 2011
My work for clients has been featured by Communication Arts, ProDesign, The FWA and Adobe.
Writing:
Navigating the default: Patriarchal culture in design
Seven things from seven years of the 100 Days Project
Designers Speak Up: Wahine Toi Aotearoa
Navigating the default: Patriarchal culture in design
Seven things from seven years of the 100 Days Project
Designers Speak Up: Wahine Toi Aotearoa
Some of the things I am interested in right now:
Podcasts! Music! I am obsessed
Using less to say more
Abstraction
Food! Always
Service
Getting enough sleep
What it means to be human
Making a really good margarita
18th Century English Literature
Ready salted chips
Movies and stories from 1975
Podcasts! Music! I am obsessed
Using less to say more
Abstraction
Food! Always
Service
Getting enough sleep
What it means to be human
Making a really good margarita
18th Century English Literature
Ready salted chips
Movies and stories from 1975
Recommended reading and watching, in no particular order:
Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Teju Cole, Bernadette Evaristo, bell hooks — esp her books on love, John Green — esp. This. Jane Austen, Death Star Canteen (always), Deborah Levy — esp. Hot Milk, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Keri Hulme, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Ashleigh Young. George Orwell — esp Down and out in Paris and London, Jennifer Egan, Liz Moore, Marc Maron WTF, Cormack McCarthy.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte — what a trio. Virginia Woolf — Killing The Angel In The House, A Room of One's Own. The two little boys hear the Ice Cream Van. Tina Fey, Eleanor Catton, Robert Altman, Bill Bryson, AA Gill, Dick Francis, Oscar Wilde. Joey Soloway's Masterclass: The Female Gaze, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Grace Taylor, Tusiata Avia, everything by Lana Lopesi.
Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Teju Cole, Bernadette Evaristo, bell hooks — esp her books on love, John Green — esp. This. Jane Austen, Death Star Canteen (always), Deborah Levy — esp. Hot Milk, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Keri Hulme, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Ashleigh Young. George Orwell — esp Down and out in Paris and London, Jennifer Egan, Liz Moore, Marc Maron WTF, Cormack McCarthy.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte — what a trio. Virginia Woolf — Killing The Angel In The House, A Room of One's Own. The two little boys hear the Ice Cream Van. Tina Fey, Eleanor Catton, Robert Altman, Bill Bryson, AA Gill, Dick Francis, Oscar Wilde. Joey Soloway's Masterclass: The Female Gaze, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Grace Taylor, Tusiata Avia, everything by Lana Lopesi.