Self Portrait

Here’s a self-portrait of me wearing my favourite orange t-shirt while eating my favourite ice cream flavour, Neapolitan.

Spaceships

Spaceships in space no less.

Water Buddies Car

The characters I designed for Water Buddies are now driving around New Zealand on a Mini Cooper

New book: Consonant Digraphs Join Parade

Just finished illustrating another Word Plays children's book for Benchmark Education.  This one is called Consonant Digraphs Join Parade. Basically a bunch of letters are late for the balloon parade and they have to think of new balloons to make before they can join the parade. Below are a couple of my favourite illustrations.

Water Buddies Slap Watch

A little while ago I created a bunch of cute characters for a range of low sugar flavoured water drinks called Water Buddies. Just today I received a package that included a slap on watch. These slap on bracelets were all the rage when I was a kid.

Ready 1 2 3...

Slap on!



I just spent 15 minutes slapping on and off the watch. It's the simple things in life.

Ice Cream Brooches

Just added a series of cute laser cut ice cream brooches to my Etsy store. These cute character are made from Alder wood and are finished with a coated surface. They also have a handy safety pin on the back so wear them or attach them to things.

Milla and her Magical Crabsuit

Look who showed up at the Water Buddies HQ, its Milla and her Magical Crabsuit! How cool is that! This is the first character that I've designed that's been made into a mascot. I'd love to see Milla  driving the Water Buddies Mini around town.

Water Buddies bottles update

Here's three of the Water Buddies bottles which are going to be available soon. Looking forward to trying the Kiwifruit and strawberry flavour.

Babich and Stoli

Here is Babich and his loyal but ever suffering sidekick Stoli. They are the two main characters of a 30 page illustrated short story about a guy with a trash can as a helmet who wants to be the greatest warrior in the land.

Goodie Goodie Grape bottle

Here is one of the Water Buddies bottles hot off the production line. Funky bottle design and cute character design. They will be available in the next couple of months so I can't wait to try them.

Character sneak peak

Main character for a story project that I'm currently working on. Just working on the layouts but will show you soon process images soon

Traditional or Vector?

What do you think; traditional or vector?

Water Buddies project

 

For the last couple of months I've been designing some cute characters with design studio Mount Deluxe on a new range of healthy flavoured water drinks for children called Water Buddies. It was for a client MMC Tradelink based in Auckland who export NZ products throughout the world. I had previously worked with them on packaging for infant formula.

Everyone is really happy with the result and they all look super cute and fresh. The range will be released soon in New Zealand so I believe this would be a great and healthy option for kids compared to some drinks currently out in the market.

 

The most anticipated beverage launch for kids ever! Water Buddies is a range of beverages cleverly designed to encourage children to drink more water. Children will love the cool flavours like Goodie Grape, Real Yum Raspberry and Awesomely Orangey.

Parents will love the No Junk Promise and less than 2% Sugar.

Kidsline

Project: Characters for website
Agency: FUSION Communications
Client: Kidsline (NZ)
Character designs of New Zealand birds to be used in an interactive sequence for the redesign of the Kidsline website. Kidsline is New Zealand’s original telephone counselling service for all kids up to 14, so it was opportunity to help this worth while organisation.

Characters for product packaging

Project: Characters for product packaging
Agency: Mount Deluxe
Client: MMC Tradelink
Three cow designs were required for baby milk formula packaging showing the 3 different stages: baby, infant and toddler. The cient is a New Zealand diary company that distributes its products through China and India

We are working on a collaboration with a children’s clothing company called Muck Clothing from the The Netherlands. This is a small colouring-in image to be used for marketing with the Disney Club in Holland.

You can buy clothing brand with our designs here: www.muck.nl

New Toon Packs character designs

Just been busy working on some new Flash and Photoshop character packs for Toon Packs. Currently working on a bunch of Halloween characters and backgrounds. Check them out at www.toonpacks.com.

July cover for Ponsonby News

The July cover for Ponsonby News. The idea was to show all the different characters from the K'Road area. So it's full of colour, life and interesting people.

Check out the online issue of Ponsonby News, it's a great read.

K’rd Characters Part 16

The DJ, the heart beat of the party. DJ Sammy and Alice Deejay were fun.

K’rd Characters Part 15

Pretty lady in red purple