Announcing Three Exciting New Greeting Card Ranges May 29, 2025Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
icandy Wholesale Products Now on Fieldfolio! May 29, 2025Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
Celebrating 25 Years of icandy Connections! May 29, 2025Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
Who said Kiwis can't fly - Breakfast TV August 25, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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”....
Little Kiwis review Who said Kiwis can't fly? children's book August 20, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
i candy: Making a business out of creativity - Idealog June 30, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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....
Lisa Hamilton Gibbs in Ponsonby News May 25, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
Canvas reviews Who said Kiwis can't fly? May 07, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs "Kids will love this jaunty tale and Hamilton-Gibbs’ eye catching mixed-media illustrations."
Me & my car - NZ Herald May 02, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
Radio Live interview about our childrens book April 22, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...
Book encourages children to follow their dreams - Scoop April 16, 2016Lisa Hamilton-Gibbs 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...