Thursday, February 05, 2009

Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National with Kim Hill:
7 February 2009

10.05 Haggis Hague
Haggis Hague teaches literacy at a secondary school in the Northland
region, where he built his own home. He is a flamenco guitar player, and
recently self-published a book about becoming a father, fitness and
food: It's Not the End: Encouragement and Practical Ideas for Men.
It is available as a free PDF download from his website: www.haggismagic.com/

11.00 Joseph Churchward
New Zealand type designer Joseph Churchward was born and raised in
Samoa. He moved to New Zealand at age 13, and attended Wellington
Technical College, where he concentrated on art and lettering, then
worked as a commercial artist at Charles Haines Advertising for 12 years
before setting up Churchward International Typefaces in 1969.
His company was the first company in New Zealand to publish original
photo-lettering.
Now retired, he continues to create unique alphabets and has over 600 original fonts to his name.
An exhibition of his work,
Letter Man: Joseph Churchward's World Of Type, runs at Te Papa until 16
February, and he is a guest at the TypeShed11 event in Wellington from
11-15 February.
A biography of Joseph Churchward by David Bennewith will
be published later this month; the author will launch the book at the TypeShed11 event.
www.tepapa.govt.nz
www.typeshed11.co.nz/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That date's odd, I remember going to Joe's (very good!) Christmas party in his Courtenay Place studio in 1967. His firm had been going a while even then. All the local ad agencies used him; he was successful right from the start. Pleased to hear he's still going strong.