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Philip Trusttum's visit to St Mary's School

Philip Trusttum and I had a great time at St Mary's school on Tuesday morning.

BEST in show

I'm a few days late on this, but we're due some bragging after picking up two great wins in the BEST Design Awards in Wellington last Friday.

What's in a title page

Quite a lot if you happened to be a graphic designer working in London during the Victorian period as the three examples below highlight.

For all the bad press Walter Buller gets for his activities as a bird stuffer you've got to hand it to him, he pulled one out of the bag with his first edition of A History of the Birds of New Zealand.

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Foresight

Our predecessor, the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, opened on 16 June 1932. By co-incidence, the premises we currently occupy opened the day after.

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Morose Jester

An early work by Sydney Lough Thompson (1877-1973) is a recent addition to the collection, having been left to the Gallery by generous bequest.

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Stronger together

We thought those of you who kept track of Sian Torrington's Outer Spaces project in Avonside might be interested to see what she has been up to recently.