One of my favourite side-projects over the past few months was to design the packaging for Howl Quartet’s new album: Life as we see it, featuring original artwork from Hannah May Smith Read in full →
One of my favourite side-projects over the past few months was to design the packaging for Howl Quartet’s new album: Life as we see it, featuring original artwork from Hannah May Smith Read in full →
One of the most eagerly anticipated bookmarks in my design events calendar is the announcement of the winners of the Best Awards – the New Zealand design industry oscars. Read in full →
Capital Foundation is an organisation set up to raise corporate funding for Auckland City Mission – a charity working with homeless people in Auckland NZ. The typical donation that they handle starts at $150,000 upwards.
They approached Simon Inc with a brief to design a gift for their donors. The gift was to say “thank you” from Capital Foundation, but also was to be something that the donors could then show to their stakeholders to show them where the funds had been used and why they thought it was a worthwhile charity to support.
Our solution was to commission documentary photographer Serena Stevenson to spend two weeks within the mission itself, meeting the people who use it as well as the staff and volunteers. She documented what she saw in a remarkable, sensitive and empathetic series of photographs which really reflect the warmth of the relationships between the homeless people and the Mission staff and volunteers.
