Arise Church began in 2002 and grew from a group of 7 people in a small dance and drama studio to a church of thousands in 8 locations around New Zealand.

We have worked with Arise for more than a decade, and for them produce printed collateral such as flyers, brochures, booklets, cards, signage and posters. Printed items that Arise use to communicate with their thousands of members and to run regular conferences, campus events, summer camps and community programmes.

Arise are an incredible and passionate team and we are lucky to have them as clients.

For Garage Project last beer release for 2016, they saved the best for last! Mutiny on the Bounty - a very South Pacific take on an Export Stout brewed with Breadfruit, roasted Plantain, Coconut and Tahitian Vanilla.

Tim Gibson of Flying Whities was commissioned to create the design and we were asked to print the bottles rather unique paper wrap. This project had a tight deadline as Garage Project needed to launch in the days leading up to Christmas.

To get the printing done in time, we split the project in half. In the final working days of 2016, we digitally printed and foiled several hundred wraps delivering to Garage Project in time to meet the Christmas demand. Then in 2017 we offset printed several thousand additional wraps and foiled and die cut each. Delivering the wraps to Garage Project in January 2017 ready to meet what will likely be a huge demand for the beer.

We design and produce business cards for hundreds of clients based all over the country. Each of these business cards is unique but can utilise the following processes. Printing colour on premium satin or matt paper stocks of up to 400gsm. Lamination to improve the cards finish and durability. Metal foiling, spot UV varnishing and round cornering to soften the cards corners. Each of these finishes can be combined to create a business card as cost effective or as premium as the client desires.

Testimonial from Wayne Mitchell, Director of Mitchell/Davies Chartered Accountants.

'I received my business cards today by courier - thanks so much for this, they look great and I really like the finish on them, it seems better than the current ones. You have made this whole process very easy, have been thoroughly professional and I really do appreciate all of this. You shall be my first port of call for anything printing related.'

Maria and Bill have created an interesting product, Bubba Hug a baby wrap that made nappy changing simpler for parents. They commissioned Matt at Think Packaging in Auckland to design the cartons structure and designed the graphics themselves.

They came to us to produce their packaging so they could get the product into the market. As a start up they wanted a cost effective carton that would look professional on the shelf.

After a couple of meetings and a round of prototypes we printed the design in black on a course textured craft carton board. We then computer cut and creased each carton to shape and hand assembled.

We were introduced to the Harvard Cider team by Tim Gibson of Flying Whities. Tim had designed and illustrated some beautiful labels, but wanted us to review his work to make sure Harvard got the best result when printed in the States.

We converted his designs into reprographic ready label artwork, proofed to Tim (in Wellington) and the Harvard Cider team and on approval supplied the label artworks to the printer.

Testimonial from Chase Brooks, Co-Founder & Director of Marketing, Harvard Cider Co.

'Your work was literally the only thing that allowed us to get those labels expedited. Our printer told us straight up that if the artwork hadn't been so well prepared for print there is no way they would have hit our deadline. We are extremely happy to have brought you on to help us get this done right.'

When Garage Project launched 9 years ago they brewed on a 50-litre brew kit and described themselves as being not even a microbrewery, but time has changed all that.

Garage Project is now without a doubt one of New Zealand's preeminent breweries and produces beer in volumes to match.

We produce the tap badges Garage Project use to sell their beer in bars around the world. As at May 2020, we had produced badges for 135 unique beers, and for each we hold their art assets on file allowing for easy re-ordering.

Each tap badge is printed on an easy to remove self-adhesive vinyl that is then computer kiss cut to a circle shape ready to be given to the bar along with their keg order.

When Garage Project launched 9 years ago they brewed on a 50-litre brew kit and described themselves as being not even a microbrewery, but time has changed all that.

Garage Project is now without a doubt one of New Zealand's preeminent breweries and produces beer in volumes to match, distributing much of it in 330ml or 440ml aluminium beer cans.

We work with Garage projects graphic designers and illustrators and convert their designs into files that are ready for dry offset can printing. The art for each can is laid out to the correct positional guide and is then converted or re-drawn in vector format (essential for production).

Dry offset can printing is a challenging process to prepare artwork for, as up to 6 inks are laid on the can aluminium at once, the inks cannot overlap or even touch and due to production scheduling, deadlines can be tight and must be met.

As at February 2017, we have prepared the artwork for 37 unique beers, so we are starting to get the hang of it.

Emporio is one of the original Wellington coffee roasters and distributes boutique roasted coffee in over 50 cafes nationwide. There HQ is also based across the road from our Walter Street office which is handy.

When Emporio rebranded in 2016 they commissioned Gary Stewart at Wellington's Gas Project to create the brand identity, but then needed a team to layout the various menus, adverts and promotional items they needed on a day to day basis. This is where we came in and as we could roll out the design and print the various components they needed, we were a good fit.

Emporio Coffee one of the original Wellington coffee roasters wanted to distribute its coffee in 250g & 500g retail pouches. They wanted a simple and effective label to close the pack and inform the consumer of grind, blend and weight.

In collaboration with Simon at Emporio, we designed a two piece label for each pouch size that could be customised by marking the grind on the top of the pouch.

To identify the coffee blend we produced an additional smaller label that can be hand applied on top of the larger grey label. This kept the product looking consistent on shelf regardless of who packed it (and how tidy their handwriting is) and lowered the print cost as the same base label could be produced in greater volumes and then customised as new blends are produced.

We provide printing services to a number of local cafe's and restaurants such as Cuba Streets iconic Laundry, Oriental Parades retro Beach Babylon and Wellington's beer geek heaven the Little Beer Quarter. For these clients, we print menus, posters of all sizes, gift vouchers and table talkers.

Wellington's ParrotDog brewery came to us with an interesting problem. They were launching a new range of special release beers named 'rare bird'. Each beer in the range would be launched separately every couple of months and each beer bottle needed photography for marketing and promotional purposes.

Rather than commissioning a new photoshoot for each beer. We created a computer model of the beer bottle, mapped its textures right down to the refractive index of the glass and then within the CGI software wrapped the label around the bottle and rendered a photo-realistic image.

This approach was vastly more cost effective than doing separate photo shoots and also ensured that the lighting for each bottle was completely consistent despite being created months apart.

Bastard Rye, a beer Wellington's Garage Project brewery launched in 2016 was without a doubt one of the most complex and unique beers brewed in the Garage. This very special release needed some special labelling to match and they commission Tim Gibson of Flying Whities to create the design.

The label design Tim came up with was rather complex and we were asked to convert the design into an artwork file ready to be passed onto Garage Project's label printers.

The front label utilised three different levels of embossing, two stages creating the raised emboss and one stage creating the lowered deboss area. To add definition on the label subtle ink shading was used and finally, the word Rye was foiled in gold.

We prepared the artwork, editing and optimising the file to get the best result on the press and to make sure Tim's design intentions could be achieved in production, the results speak for themselves.

We offer a white label printing service for graphic designers. This service allows graphic designers the ability to offer to print to their clients as a value-added service while allowing them to make a little extra profit on each project.

Here's how it normally works:

1. The graphic designer designs a printed item for their client such as a business card, once it been approved by the end client, the designer contacts us for a quoted price for the printing.

2. The designer then adds a fair margin such as 20-30% to our print price to cover their time, then they quote this price to their client, perhaps bundling it with their design costs.

3. We print the project and can either send to the designer or direct to their client.

4. Finally, we send an invoice to the designer for the print cost, while they invoice their client, being the print cost + the percentage margin the designer added.

Once all is paid the designer retains this margin as a little additional profit while saving their client the hassle of finding a quality printer.


Testimonial from Krishni Manek, Graphic Designer at Neo.

'Just wanted to say thank you so much for the business cards. They look amazing and it was a really good service. I'll definitely print with you again next time and recommend you to others.'

Resene is New Zealand's largest privately held paint manufacturer. Since 2013 we have worked in close association with Resene's print management supplier, to digitally print a number of Resene's promotional items producing a range of A4 and A3 posters and DL flyers.

Resene is New Zealand's largest privately held paint manufacturer and since the year 2000, we have completed the prepress for the majority of Resene's paper-printed labels and metal-printed cans.

Over many years we have streamlined a prepress production process that prepares the files for a printed output, focusing on maintaining output standards.

Resene tells us they value our attention to detail.

Wellington's Garage Project asked us to print some bunting flags that incorporated the art from the 'Day of the Dead' and 'La Calavera Catrina' beers.

PartsTrader is an easy-to-use online marketplace that allows automotive trade buyers to find the right parts, at the right price, at the right time from new and recycled parts suppliers.

PartsTrader wanted a pad that could be given to its client so that mechanics could more easily identify the automotive parts they needed and to encourage them to source these parts through the PartsTrader platform.

We created an A5 pad that did just that and because we were printing digitally and each page in the pad could be unique, we added a message on the last page of the pad that rewarded the user for placing 20 part orders and also messages throughout the pad to explain how close the user was to receiving the reward.

Passionate is a women's conference that Arise Church hosts in Wellington each year. Arise's team designed a beautiful invitation to invite its members to the conference. We offset printed these invitations on a high quality textured matt paper and to complete the package we produced a custom opaque envelope to enclose the invite.

Kendons is a Lower Hutt based accountancy firm that we are fortunate to have as clients. For Kendons, we print corporate stationery such as letterheads, notepads, business cards and as well occasionally producing more specialist items such as a sign for their reception.

First day covers are custom envelopes that once gummed with stamps of the same design, create a unit that marks the first day of issue of each stamp set released.

We produce these custom first day cover envelopes for both Vanuatu and the the Pitcairn Islands postal service working for their print production partner Latitude Fulfilment.

These first covers are printed in small batches, diecut and hand assembled to ensure the quality for the stamp collectors who collect them world wide.

Every year Arise Church hosts several conferences in Wellington which are attended by thousands of its members. For these conferences, we produce printed wrist bands that are worn by each attendee. These use a synthetic material that is exceptionally durable and can be colour coded or customised to identify the programme to attend or age group of the attendee.

Nadia Marychurch had written a novel named The Dreamers and wanted a dozen copies of the original manuscript printed before it was handed off to her editors. We printed and perfect bound the novel in a few days and Nadia loved the final result.

We produce retractable pull up banners for our clients for use at events and trade shows. These banners are printed onto a premium scrimless grey backed PVC banner material. Once opened the banners measure a large 850mm wide by 2285mm tall and for easy transport, they retract into their inbuilt stands.

Arise Church began in 2002 and grew from a group of 7 people in a small dance and drama studio to a church of thousands in 8 locations around New Zealand.

Arise wanted to communicate with its members its goals for expansion and to achieve this designed a beautiful set of printed collateral including a brochure, envelope and bookmark, which we printed over a few weeks in September of 2017.

However, the most special part of the project was producing a display made up of over 275 hanging hearts some sized over a meter wide. These were printed on a rigid 3mm Paylite material and computer cut to shape, before being dispatched to 7 locations around the country. We were very pleased with how they came out.

Hallertau asked us to produce a special gold foiled tap badge for the seasonal release of their Resurgence Strong NZ Pale Ale.

Hallertau wanted this to match the gold foiled finish of their bottle labels but it was not practical to apply gold foil to the removable self-adhesive vinyl that we produce tap badges from. So instead we started with a metallic gold vinyl, then printed several coats of white ink to mask out the areas of the badge that should not be metallic. Then we overprinted this white mask with the coloured background before kiss cutting each badge to shape. We were really happy with how they came out.

Flexitime and Invoxy are two software products built by the same team right here in Wellington. Their lead designer James had some nice things to say about our printing services.

"After trying multiple printing companies with mixed results we came across Colourcraft and have never looked back. The quality of the product and service are of the highest standard and we recommend them to anyone looking for a printing solution."

Testimonial from James Barber, Lead Designer at FlexiTime & Invoxy.

Garage Project asked us to produce a 2-meter tall decal to decorate a beer chiller at Moore Wilsons Porirua. We printed the image on a permanent adhesive vinyl then sealed it in a gloss lamination to improve durability and match the gloss of the chillers white paint, then installed it onsite.

A flyer we printed for Room of Beauty designed by the local and talented Designerbloom

Anne from Room of Beauty was kind enough to leave us this review on Google.

’Colourcraft provided outstanding service for my print job, super speedy and efficient communication provided by Lance. I highly recommend.’

When Garage Project brewed Touchwood, a malted barley and wheat infused with Elderflower beer. Tim Gibson of Flying Whities was commissioned to create the design and we were asked to print the bottles rather unique paper wrap.

Touchwood was brewed in very limited quantity and only 2500 bottles were released to the public. Each bottle wrap was uniquely numbered to make the consumer aware of the beers rarity.

Garage Project needed the wraps urgently so we produced all 2500 unique wraps and had them delivered to Garage Project in less than 24 hours.

Phillips & Phillips a digital public relations agency in Wellington asked for our help in producing some printed marketing collateral for one of their clients Kiwicamp.

We met to figure out what was possible and decided on an A5 folder that could be filled with a booklet and various flyers. The way the collateral package could be added to in the future.

We were asked to complete the production fast to have the material ready for an upcoming trade show and everyone seemed happy with the results.

Phillips & Phillips a digital public relations agency in Wellington asked for our help in producing some printed marketing collateral for one of their clients Kiwicamp.

We met to figure out what was possible and decided on an A5 folder that could be filled with a booklet and various flyers. The way the collateral package could be added to in the future.

We were asked to complete the production fast to have the material ready for an upcoming trade show and everyone seemed happy with the results.

When Wellington's iconic Venetian bar and restaurant Ombra changed ownership in early 2018, Gary at the Gas Project was commissioned to re-brand the business.

When Ombra needed a printer, our name was put forward and the first two jobs off the ranks were a set of business cards and vouchers. Both printed onto a premium 320gsm board, then gold foiled.

In 2018 Metlink were in the process of a major update to the Wellington public transport network, rejigging timetables across the region so as to improve the connection between Metlink buses, trains and ferries.

They wanted to produce an A5 booklet that would communicate the extent of these changes and asked us to help. First, we designed the 24-page document in Meltink's brand style and then printed 1000 booklets in just a few days to meet a deadline.

When Fulton Hogan wanted to put its best foot forward in a tendering process they asked us to produce a handful of printed documents.

Each document was produced with a laminated case bound cover, tabs to separate sections and full-colour pages with a wiro bind.

When Jack & Maggie got married in early 2018 they wanted something special for a save the date card. These cards were gold foiled onto a premium heavyweight black card, before being trimmed to final size.

When Wall Street a Wellington interior design business needed some new business cards, they chose to work with us. Their cards were digitally printed on a 350gsm stock, before being matt laminated to provide a soft touch finish. Finally to add something special the logo was foiled in a metallic pink.

We are lucky enough to produce tap badges for quite a few brewery clients scattered across the country. Several of these clients needed a way to attach a tap badge to the keg during transit and we thought we could help.

We designed a folded keg collar, that can enclose the tap badge and protect it during transit. After a bit of testing we identified a suitable carton board that stands up to cold storage well and a keg collar shape that is easy to fold while attaching to the keg securely.

We showed a few clients the concept and both Epic and Heyday Beer Co quickly placed orders.

We printed a pull-up banner and several hundred posters for Promisia and Stacey the client was kind enough to give us a testimonial.

"We received a slick promotional package from Colourcraft which was compelling so we thought we'd give them a go for a small print job, although we were very happy with our current print supplier at that time. Since then, we've entrusted them with key promotional printing and conference assets as their quality is excellent, let alone their customer service and attention to detail. The turnaround time is outstanding - as an example, Colourcraft had provided a print proof and completed our print job including delivery before another company had even managed to organise a print proof. If you have high expectations as we do, use Colourcraft."

Stacey Neale, Marketing Manager at Promisia Ltd.

Warkworth's 8 Wired Brewing asked if we could produce some low-cost coasters for their Brew Haiku promotion. So those passionate about beer could start writing poems about it.

We digitally printed a few thousand of these coasters on a 350gsm offset stock then diecut them to the circle shape.

Aimee designed a beautiful document and asked us to print it on a coloured card, using both pearlescent and transparent papers. The sheets were then Coptic stitched with an exposed spine by Susan at Peacock Bindery. We all loved the final result.

QT Wellington asked us to produce some custom door hangers using their brand on a material durable enough to stand up to use.

These were printed onto a 3mm thick paylite material, then router cut to final shape.

The Buy New Zealand Made Campaign asked us to produce some ESL tags, to be used by New Zealand brands to differentiate their products as NZ Made on congested supermarket shelves.

Working closely with the Buy New Zealand Made Campaign we produced several thousand tags with the iconic Kiwi trademark screen printed on to a white polypropylene before being die-cut to shape.

The Buy New Zealand Made Campaign asked us to produce some premium swing tags, that boutique’s and other high-end retailers could use to attach to their products.

Working closely with the Buy New Zealand Made Campaign we produced several thousand tags with the iconic Kiwi trademark blind de-bossed into a 600gsm soft white card. A card stock made from cotton linters, a byproduct of the cotton industry.

Arise Church needed a premium gift box produced, so after working closely with the Arise creative team this is what we came up with. It was foiled in gold and silver onto a high-quality 240gsm Rothmill Mulberry stock before being die-cut and glued to final shape.

The Buy New Zealand Made Campaign designed a voucher and very special slipcase and asked us to produce it. Working closely with the Buy New Zealand Made Campaign this is what we produced. The voucher was digitally printed and foiled in silver and the slipcase was spot gloss varnished onto 250gsm Black Notturno stock before being foiled, die-cut to shape and glued.

Feedback from Ryan Jennings, Executive Director at The Buy New Zealand Made Campaign.

'These look fantastic. What a job. Well done.'

Wellington's Emporio Coffee asked us to produce their business cards, these were digitally printed and foiled on a premium 350gsm Pure White Knight stock.

When Wellington's Emporio Coffee became the official coffee partner of the Phoenix Football Club they produced a special coffee blend for the 2019/20 season. Emporio wanted to create a small run of coffee packaging to celebrate the partnership.

Emporio commissioned a Phoenix illustration and we designed and printed this into a card band that can be wrapped around a 250g coffee pouch.

The MacDiarmid Institute is a Wellington-based institute that researches advanced materials and nanotechnology. We have been lucky enough to print 2017 & 2018 annual reports, these beautiful documents designed by Gary at the Gas Project were digitally printed on Advance Laser stock. The 2018 version was perfect bound, whereas the 2017 report was bound with an exposed spine with a Coptic stitch.

Wellington's public relations and online specialists Phillips & Partners designed a notebook for their client Grochem.

Working closely with Phillips & Partners this is what we produced an A4 sized wiro-bound notebook with a whopping 250+ pages. The covers were matt laminated for durability and throughout the notebook custom full-colour pages were included profiling Grochem's achievements.

A brochure we printed for Just Property Management designed by Nelson’s Tizza Design

Mark from Just Property Management was kind enough to leave us this review on Google.

’These guys are amazing - great communication, incredible turn around and customer service. Cannot recommend highly enough.’