The Municipal Destructor

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Welcome to Auckland’s original ‘Municipal Destructor’. Everyone, like me, know it as Victoria Park Market – a super popular open air market through the 80's to 2000's – a great place to buy your crystals and tie-dies etc! I've always known that it was originally the city rubbish dump – when the city was waaaay smaller). There is more to the story, of course. It was originally created in reaction to a bubonic plague scare in Sydney. For sanitary reasons it was built to burn Auckland’s rubbish and waste while using the heat generated to provide electricity to power the city. Sounds pretty clever eh, and I guess we were plague free. However, we must have been breathing some seriously toxic smoke fumes! That 38 metre tall chimney must have helped a little but don't forget all the horse manure and night carts, they were definitely smellier times.  The municipal destructor is now a gentrified place that's home to restaurants and businesses, like the superb Milenta restau...
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Pamol Illustrations

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I was recently asked to create some illustrations for a new
Pamol campaign. Grassroots Design asked me to create a
selection of 'before and after' baby characters to be accompanied
by their stressed-out parents.

I love drawing kids, but found drawing the parents especially
straightforward - I've been that stressed out parent myself so know
instinctively what it feels like to have a teething child or one with
a skyrocketing temperature!

Each character has a latin-esque name, along the lines of
Mummimus Stressimax, Parentae Pannicus, Ouchius Alloverus,
Tootahcus Grizzlius, and Cutimus Feveris to add a bit of humor.
See if you can put a name to a face...






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