Help CBA broadcast the real Easter message | 3.3.10

Christian Broadcasting Association (CBA) has been given 18 hours of air time on Good Friday to broadcast the real Easter message nationwide on NewsTalkZB and Radio Sport. The air time is free but they still have production costs and they need your help to make this happen! Donate now by text or adding $$ to your phonebill. Easy peasy. Check out CBA's RealEaster.co.nz to find out more. {web/video work by CBA}

Perfect Gift for Mum? | 25.4.09

The Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, in association with Black and Husk, have just put out a DM piece to promote the purchase of appropriate gifts for visually-impaired Kiwis... specifically for Mums. From large-print playing cards to a magnified compact mirror and a talking watch, the catalog has a great range of inspiring and fun pressies perfect for those who need to think outside the box in their gift-giving. more

Tear Fund Sudan Christmas Focus | 11.12.07

One of our favourite jobs this year was putting together the brochure, poster and DVD artwork for Tear Fund's Christmas Appeal raising funds for the dire situation in Darfur, Sudan. The appeal material highlights 'the gravest humanitarian disaster of the new millennium – 2 million people displaced, up to 400,000 butchered, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground, rape used as a weapon of war and intimidation, families separated, children orphaned.' TEAR Fund NZ considers this crisis so unjust and evil that they're pledging to raise $300,000 for the victims of Darfur through the appeal. We count it a privilege to be involved.

WSPA's Indian Dancing Bears | 10.7.07

Taken grieving from their mothers as a tiny cubs, hundreds of India's 'dancing bears' are in constant pain. With ropes threaded through their sensitive noses, they are tortured by swaying on their hind legs in response to severe yanks on the rope and being hit by sticks. When not performing at fairs, carnivals and markets across India, they're chained to poles, poorly fed and vulnerable to disease and blindness. WSPA are working with the Wildlife Trust of India, to end the torment of the dancing bears and change the lives of rescued bears. As agonising as it was, the Huskies worked with Black to prepare print collateral explaining the plight of these bears in order to seek help and thus funds that would help save their lives.More >>

World Vision + Judy Bailey | 3.5.07

Favourite NZ television presenter Judy Bailey was moved when she visited some of the world's poorest communities recently with World Vision. The latest WV appeal focuses on a little Indian boy called Mithu. Judy says "I saw the depth of poverty when I spoke to Mithu’s mother. She broke down in tears, saying that if Mithu falls ill like his father, he will certainly die. His mother weeps alone, trying not to cry in front of her boy. But she cannot afford to give him decent food or clothes. She struggles on less than $2 a week." We love WV's hands-on approach to helping those less fortunate than ourselves... and urge you to consider sponsoring a child too :) more >>

RNZFB Guide Dog Appeal | 20.2.07

The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind is NZ's primary provider of rehabilitation services to blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people. Each year nearly 1,200 New Zealanders who have gone blind or experienced serious sight loss register as RNZFB members. We recently worked with Black to design the PuppyPal newsletter and Guide Dog Appeal Collateral. A rewarding experience. more

WSPA Stray Dogs Appeal 2007 | 17.2.07

For stray dogs in Colombo, life can be horrific. These poor dogs have to compete for survival, desperately scavenging and constantly at risk of becoming infected with fatal diseases like rabies and distemper. Collected from the streets, their misery and hardship continues, crammed in tiny, unhygienic cages with the spread of disease unavoidable. We recently had the privilege of working on appeal collateral for WSPA Australasia through our friends at Black - yet another worthy + inspiring cause. more