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After 25 years in business, you’d think we might be ready to slow down. Not a chance! At icandy, we have so many ideas bursting out of our studio, it’s...

At icandy, we've always been about connection - through our cards, our creativity, and our commitment to our stockists. As we've grown over the past 25 years, expanding across New...

25 years is a long time – a quarter of a century even! And that’s how long icandy has been in business helping our customers make meaningful connections. The icandy...

We were delighted to see Herb the Kiwi bird on Breakfast TV! Rawdon Christie said “This is a gorgeous little book… if your kids read this they WILL win Olympic gold”....

To coincide with the upcoming launch of our new i candy book ‘Who said kiwi’s can’t fly’, we thought it would be a great opportunity to get some kids’ reactions. We...

In 2000, Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs started a business by door-knocking retailers armed with her homemade range of 40 cards. Nearly 16 years on, her business – icandy – is almost unrecognisable....

What were you going to be when you grew up? A doctor like my dad. How did you come to be a designer/writer? Through incredible frustration in the corporate world...

"Kids will love this jaunty tale and Hamilton-Gibbs’ eye catching mixed-media illustrations."

By Donna McIntyre for the NZ Herald LISA HAMILTON-GIBBS, AUTHOR OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WHO SAID KIWIS CAN’T FLY? AND ICANDY.CO.NZ FOUNDER What do you like about your 2014 VW Touareg? It...

Listen to the Radio Live interview with author Lisa Hamilton Gibbs as she explains the process of creating her new children’s book Who Said Kiwis Can’t Fly – or take a sneak peek...

As self-belief books go, this one carries special messages not only for young readers. It’s also a metaphor for the author’s struggle to be true to herself, to find a...