Aotearoa Stickers

Armed with a sketchbook and pens, I recently challenged myself to complete the 3000km Tour Aotearoa, sketching all 30 of the official photo checkpoints. I drew in rain, wind and bbq-hot temperatures, always aware that I had to keep riding on before it got dark! I'm super happy with the results and hope you enjoy them too. Check out the rest of my shop to celebrate your favourite moments of the tour.

Kia ora is a warm and welcoming greeting you'll hear throughout New Zealand and comes from the indigenous Māori language, te reo.

Armed with a sketchbook and pens, I recently challenged myself to complete the 3000km Tour Aotearoa, sketching all 30 of the official photo checkpoints. I drew in rain, wind and bbq-hot temperatures, always aware that I had to keep riding on before it got dark! I'm super happy with the results and hope you enjoy them too. Check out the rest of my shop to celebrate your favourite moments of the tour.

Collaged bits and pieces of illustrations from New Zealand. (Kiwi and Fantail bird, sheep, fern, latte art, Maori symbol and Hobbiton)

Fantail/piwakawaka is one of the popular native birds in New Zealand. Despite its small body (about 11.5-21 cm long), they move around quite agilely while swinging the long tail that opens like a fan.

Kia ora is a warm and welcoming greeting you'll hear throughout New Zealand and comes from the indigenous Māori language, te reo.

A new rugby style, every time every day.

Tauhou is the Maori name for the Silvereye. This design features 3 Tauhou flying in formation. This Bird is designed with curving korus and curving colours which represent the true colours of the beautiful Silvereye. The silvereye, also know as Wax-eye (Zosterops lateralis) or White-eye, colonised New Zealand from Australia and is one of New Zealand’s widespread bird species. It is found throughout New Zealand. Silvereyes are small songbirds that are easily recognised by a white eye-ring; their feathers are olive-green above and cream below.

Every two years, hundreds of cyclists ride 3000km down the length of New Zealand. Along they way, to officially complete the route they stop at 30 photo checkpoints. Here they all are in their sketched glory!

The 3000km Tour Aotearoa features 30 official photo checkpoints to record your progress. I've made icons for all thirty and they'd work great as stickers or badges along the route!

Kia Ora!

A vector illustration of a cute penguin. This is a yellow eyed penguin, aslo know as hoiho, in Te Reo Maori.

hand drawn illustration of a New Zealand native bird the Kia

Fantail, a native bird of New Zealand, called Piwakawaka in Maori. I have drawn this using Koru designs based on unfurling fern fronds. This vector design is bold and simple. 2 shades of brown, and on some products, an earthy, light brown background.

Skiing is a winter past time for many NZers and visitors to our numerous ski fields.

This design is a black and white pattern of New Zealand / Aotearoa summer holiday images. There are campervans, caravans, and native birds such as tui, kereru, and Kiwis. A NZ kiwi themed travel design.

This NZ design is typography of Te Reo, Maori language positional words. Runga, above, raro, below, roto, in, mua, in front, muri, behind. A design for anyone interested in Maori language, New Zealand, Aotearoa.

Do you like Maori culture? Are you completely in love with the New Zealand and Australia region? Then this design is a great product for you or to give as a gift to friends, family and colleagues. Kia Ora.

Large Kiwi print designed with koru. The koru (Māori for loop) is a spiral shape based on the shape of a new unfurling silver fern frond and symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace. It is an integral symbol in Māori art, carving and tattoos. I drew this for a mural a few years ago, thanks to society6 it is getting a new lease on life. I also have this design with a black kiwi on a white background in my redbubble gallery.

The world famous silver fern of New Zealand.

Humpback whales on sunset with Polynesian design elements. Made for surfers, divers, freedivers, shark divers, everyone who loves the seas, the next beach party or diving vacation.

Modern New Zealand silver fern koru Maori design.

Tino Rangatiratanga Māori Flag

Bru! It's a Christmas kiwi with fairy lights! Choice kiwi Christmas design featuring the iconic New Zealand bird tangled in Christmas lights. Makes a great gift for kiwis, birders, ornithologists and bird fans who love NZ native birds and wildlife. Chur!

Do you like Maori culture? Are you completely in love with the New Zealand and Australia region? Then this design is a great product for you or to give as a gift to friends, family and colleagues. Kia Ora.

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Maori inspired design

A vector illustration of a Kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand / Aotearoa. The bird is nocturnal, and is drawn at night with a full moon. The background is a Maori koru pattern in black and white.

New Zealand (or Aotearoa in the Maori language) is a beautiful country in the South Pacific, about 1000 miles east of Australia. NZers are nicknamed "Kiwis" after the Kiwi bird not the Kiwi fruit. Visit us for the best vacation of your life!

Maori Moko | Tribal Tattoo | New Zealand |

!http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/94/l_47bf0fbea98e4e23b60eb7632f2ed10d.jpg! The Māori people were the original settlers of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Their culture and history is rich and beautiful, and to this day is an important part of New Zealand's culture. Their legends around the creation of the world and this beautiful land have always captured my imagination. A Hei Matau is a bone or greenstone depiction of the Hook of Maui. Māori legend holds that the North Island of New Zealand was once a huge fish that was caught by the great mariner Maui using only a woven line and a bone hook. Legend holds that the shape of Hawke Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the fish's side. For the Māori, the hei matau is tao...

Kia Ora is a TE REO Maori language greeting. This Maori phrase is written in a speech bubble above a retro telephone. A New Zealand/ Aotearoa design for anyone who likes retro technology. This old phone is drawn with a distressed style.

Map of New Zealand in Maori Style.

While we were staying in Rotorua we visited Te Puia where, besides beautiful geothermal pools and geysers, you can also visit the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, established in the 1920s to keep traditional māori arts and crafts alive and teach them to future generations. As part of the evening tour you also get to see a māori performance, which includes dance, songs and storytelling. One of the most famous dances performed which inspired this drawing is the haka, which inspired this design. The haka is a ceremonial dance or challenge in Māori culture. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements, stamping of the feet and facial contortions with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.

A weta riding a kiwi. What's more to say :P