Team Secret Santa

Secret Santa came on 18th Dec at stuff.co.nz HQ.  I got Tommee Tippee orthodontic teat for my future coming baby, thanks Santa!

Thanks for Ms Hayley Collins, who took these awesome photos of our team.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my subscribed readers and visitors. I’m taking a little Christmas break to enjoy the holidays with family and friends, but I’ll be back after the first of New Year 2010.

I enjoyed this song "Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel" on last Sunday's Carol Service in church, I embed it here, wish you enjoyed it too.

Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel

by The Franz Family // Canon 5D Mark II from ColdWater Media on Vimeo.

Stuff.co.nz Christmas Logo 2009

Congratulations to Thomas Flinn, the winner of the Stuff Christmas logo competition! Really fantastic doodle, nice job, I love your work! Your logo will be displayed on stuff.co.nz homepage from Christmas Eve until Boxing Day.

We were overwhelmed with the quality of all the entries and 15 finalists got displayed on stuff.co.nz for each day since 9th Dec. We would like to thank everyone who participated.

See the 15 finalists in the slides below if you have missed any:

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Win your logo on Stuff on Christmas Day

We are offering you the opportunity to show off your skills and design a logo which will be displayed on New Zealand's number one news website Stuff.co.nz on Christmas Day.

Here at Stuff, we highly value our readers and would love to see your creative contribution to the site. Show us what is important to you about Christmas, whether it be holidays, family, Santa or presents and explore your imagination. With a little bit of Christmas magic, you and the rest of New Zealand might see your design up on Stuff.co.nz, and one lucky winner will have their logo displayed on Christmas Day!


Here are some tips from our design team:

• Make sure your design complements the Stuff logo.
• Don't over-complicate it - simpler images often have the most impact. Keep in mind how your logo will look on Stuff.co.nz.
• Avoid commercial or copyrighted images.
• Feel free to use the space behind and in front of the Stuff letters, but try to maintain your design's overall balance.
• Be original and have fun!!
• Your design can be created using computer drawing or design software, or in pencil, crayons, felt tip or paint.

You can download the template here, and save your final copy as a .jpeg or .png or .gif, max file size 2MB.

How to enter:

To enter the competition, Email your submission to competitions@stuff.co.nz with your name, address, age (only provide if 15 and under) and daytime phone number before 5pm on 7/12/09.

Get ideas what previous Stuff doodle logos look like? check them out at here. and Good Luck!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my subscribed readers and visitors. I’m taking a little Christmas break to enjoy the holidays with family and friends, but I’ll be back after the first of New Year 2009.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy new year

Silent Night -- (Britney Spears live)

Christmas and New year Card

This is the Xmas and New Year card I designed for 2009, will send greetings from Cynthia and I to most of friends.

Xmas Card from stuff.co.nz team

Christmas card from stuff.co.nz team this year,  one of our graphic designers made this flash.

TradeMe Christmas logos

Christmas is getting near all of us, New Zealand's web giant TradeMe has launched its Christmas doodle logos. Trademe.co.nz is the NZ second busiest website just right after google.co.nz

Below is some stats of trademe.co.nz

No. of active members (live)	2,128,822
Average time spent on the site	14 minutes
Number of people who visit each month	4,521,509
Average number of people who visit each day	489,613