I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a sucker for anything wrapped in beautiful, intriguing, unique or elegant packaging and it certainly seems I’m not alone. “In September 2009, Neil Stansfield of Northamptonshire was jailed for over two years for buying own-brand, non-organic supermarket food, repackaging it as well-sourced organic produce and selling it [...]
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Karebou has moved
After too many years in a lonely home office Karebou has moved into a new centrally located office space on Karangahape Road (K Rd) in the new IronBank building. I’m pretty excited about the move and the office. The building has been Ecologically Sustainably Designed (ESD) and includes great features like rain water harvesting, solar water heating [...]
2/3 of NZ businesses don’t have a website
I went to a very interesting talk about How NZ Businesses Use the Net, given by Julian Smith from MYOB and I thought I’d share some of the astonishing stats from Julian’s research.
Design matters
I wish I could read Portuguese but to my utter disappoint I can’t.
Recently Portugal’s i newspaper won The Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition. It was the clear winner and it’s easy to see why.
Carpet Surgeon goes live!
Carpet Surgeon is an Auckland based carpet cleaning and repair company who needed a re-design of their web site. I’m happy to announce that the new Carpet Surgeon website is now live!
Let’s hear it for the NZIPF website!
Great news for The New Zealand International Piano Festival (NZIPF) and Lewis Eady. Their piano festival has expanded to include all of New Zealand and their new website has gone live!
Welcome to the new Karebou
In France they say the shoemaker has the worst shoes and this certainly applies to me…until now. Call it procrastination or call me my most difficult client, which is really closer to the truth, but I’ve spent the last twelve months designing and then re-designing my site.


