Design

September 2021: The Wild birds of New Zealand 2022 Calendar is available to preorder, with invoice for payment and calendar sent in October 2021. The 2022 calendar features the stunning wild Nankeen night herons from Ūpokongaro as well as 11 other native New Zealand birds. Large A3 (297mmX420mm) portrait calendar on 150gsm gloss art paper, with the cover on 300gsm gloss art board. Printed on one side and spiral bound, this means that each month and the cover are a frameable art-quality high resolution print for you to cut out when the month is finished. Excellent Christmas gift for the bird-lover in your life.

Email Louise if you would like one, NZ$28 each inclusive of GST. PDF preview available. Cash on pick-up from Woburn, Lower Hutt or deposit to bank account when ready to ship.

Nankeen night heron. Image: Louise Thomas.

September 2021: A limited amount (only 20) of stunning kererū/wood pigeon prints drawn by Caitlin Thomas-Riley are now available. Slightly smaller than an A3 size, these cost $50.00 each inclusive of GST, plus postage at cost (or free pick-up from Woburn, Lower Hutt). Ten of this limited print run will be given away to people who have pre-ordered our calendar. All prints numbered and signed. ONLY EIGHT LEFT

As we only have limited offerings available to the public we don't have a shopping cart or buy now button on this website. Do things the old fashion way - send Louise an email on louise@louisethomas.co.nz with your address for shipping, etc. and we will send you an invoice for payment.

Image: Caitlin Thomas-Riley.

An original illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley. Caitlin specialises in anime type design work and is available for commissions. Email louise@louisethomas.co.nz.

An original illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley. Caitlin specialises in anime type design work and is available for commissions. Email louise@louisethomas.co.nz.

An original illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley. Caitlin specialises in anime type design work and has recently completed promotional poster commissions for a role play server in the UK, as well as the great spotted kiwi drawing for an article on the IRANZ site.

Caitlin is working on some stills for a computer game. I like that the hero is female, stocky, and more clothed than most female characters in computer games.

Caitlin has been working on short animations. Great for websites.

An illustration by Caitlin Thomas-Riley for an article on recognising individual kiwi calls.

Policy design elements for addressing presentist bias: non-climate analogues relevant to climate change adaptation.

Use of national-scale socio-economic scenarios to reduce ‘presentist-bias’ in climate change adaptation decision making.

New Zealand Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance.

Monitoring foreseeable but uncertain climate change outcomes using expert, practitioner and community elicitation.

Lessons from implementing interdisciplinary appraoches for climate change adaptation

This job was a favour for a school-teacher friend who is trying to get her junior school (five and six year olds) students moving. We came up with a coffee-card style idea where students get a star clipped or a small sticker on their card for every 500m completed. Completed cards can go in the draw for a prize. Apparently it was a hit.

Limited edition fine art prints available: - portrait A4 and A3. Please email with any enquiries.

Limited edition fine art prints available - landscape A4. Please email with any enquiries.

Limited edition fine art prints available - landscape A4 and A3.

This design is also available as a Christmas card (October 2020 update: Christmas card is SOLD OUT. Will be reprinted as a blank card in 2021). Please email with any enquiries.

Overhaul of the Centre for Minerals and Environmental Research (CMER) website to make it mobile friendly.

Design of a promotional layout for the 2019 Intelligent & Informed CAADRIA conference.

A needlepoint design for a footstool. New Zealand's native owl the Ruru or Morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae).

Writing, editing, and layout of a newsletter for the Independent Research Association of New Zealand. A quarterly round-up of research from New Zealand's independent research organisations.

Editing and layout of Climate Change: The Cascade Effect report by Dr Judy Lawrence et al., of Victoria University, for the Deep South National Science Challenge.

The Building Better Newsletter for the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge. Read the latest research on how to improve our built environments.

I write, edit, take some photos, and design this newsletter for the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge.

Redesign of the website for the Independent Research Association of New Zealand, with ongoing design, maintainance, and content creation.

The Research Review highlights how IRANZ Independent Research Organisations (IROs) are a vital and unique part of New Zealand’s science ecosystem, they are all different and they are a great way of enabling New Zealand to increase high-impact research by business, economic sectors, and the community. IROs consistently provide quality science outputs that provide high-impact results for their stakeholders and New Zealand, several examples are featured in the review.

Don't have time to faff around in Illustrator drawing your own atoms? Let people with enough chemistry nouse help you out.

A new needlepoint pattern of a Queen Elizabeth rose for a cushion.

The pattern and an article featured in a UK magazine, Creative with Workbox.

Queen Elizabeth rose cushion, designed by Louise Thomas and stiched in Anchor tapestry wool. The pattern, the cushion, and an article featured in UK magazine Creative with Workbox January/February 2016 issue. Photo: Louise Thomas.