Todd Atticus

Jake walking on Tomahawk Beach

Sandy dunes

Another day, another deserted beach

Aramoana beach

Shells on Aramoana beach

Aramoana, after a pilgrimage to Ralph’s studio.

Pink blossom on a tree

Jake reading

Spring in Tūrangi

Sala Alas

Announcing Sala Alas, my first solo exhibition in New Zealand for ten years. Opening 6pm, Tuesday 28th October at 218c Willis Street, Wellington.

The book cover is of-white. It has the title in black text, 'It's What He Would've Wanted,' and the author's name in orange text, 'Nick Ascroft'. A line drawing shows a man being shot out of a cannon towards an orange sun.

A photo of the author. Nick is a pakeha man with short, dark hair.

It's publication day for It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft. Congratulations, Nick!

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/its...

The blue period continues / Friday Sept 12th, 04:45 UTC

What makes a good election hoarding? Todd Atticus is a designer and has designed plenty of election hoardings and joins Emile Donovan.

That was a fun yarn www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Chatting with Emile Donovan on RNZ in an hour about political hoarding design. I'm studiously reviewing all of this year's local body campaigns on the way into the studio...

Possum the dog visits Inverlochy Art School

Studio visitor

You make a good point!

Sunlight in the Ngaio Gorge

Winter is worth this.

But like actually though

Has anyone ever been convinced to change their vote by a hoarding?

A no u-turn sign

The cognitive dissonance of accepting the name ‘u-turn’ for something that is quite clearly a lowercase n-turn.

Unfurling kuru ferns in Wellington, New Zealand

The truest sign of Springtime.

Stacks of Nick Ascroft’s new poetry collection It’s What He Would’ve Wanted

Three of @assscroft.bsky.social’s five previous book covers were orange.

This one was no accident…

This is tomorrow! See you there!

Photo of copies of How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Photo of copies of How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Hot off the press and out next week! How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a book so impassioned that it needed some big chunky 3D type for its title @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Jui¢y is in $eason

A slither of sunlight hits our wall

Sunlight on the window frame

In our house August 2nd is the start of Spring because it’s the first time in 3 months that sunlight directly enters the house.

Every recycling bag in Wellington looks like this.

A recycling bin full of empty V energy glass drink bottles.

Exposing oneself this publicly terrifies me.

A Wellington bus plastered in a New World grocery advert.

If you can afford to advertise your oranges like this, you’re probably charging too much for them.

A red and white banner features a graphic of the Te Herenga Waka Press logo (THW) and text saying 'New website sale, 50% off all books published 1949-2022, throughout August, while stocks last.'

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website.

✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last

The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

Working on a fair few book covers right now that I’m excited to see out in the world. It’s a nice feeling.

V accurate and uncannily close to a previous iteration.

Thanks! And what a collection of poems it is.

And here are my fave NZ book covers for the year so far. V much love that @erikkennedy.com Sick Power Trip cover by @toddatticus.bsky.social christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... #BookCovers #Pukapuka #NZBooks #ReadNZ ^DR

Advance copies! :) It's What He Would've Wanted, by
@assscroft.bsky.social, out in September! Cover by
@toddatticus.bsky.social

Aw shucks, thank you!