Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

The media loved Piglet
Dyrevennen Print E-mail
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June 2008, Denmark

 
Coastguard Print E-mail
ImagePiglet was a supporter of Coastguard.
 
NZIA Awards 2003 Print E-mail
ImagePiglet featured in the NZIA Award publication.
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Metro July 2007 Print E-mail

Image"There's ponytailed Tony at specialty bread shop Tower Bakery, who started selling iced pink pigs as a joke protest after his mate Tony Watkins' pig was evicted from Karaka Bay beachfront some years ago. He still sells the biscuits - and still sends his scraps to Piglet the Great in her new home in the Hokianga."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nomination for Mayor Print E-mail
ImageAt first no one took Pilglet's nomination for mayor very seriously. Everything changed when she began attracting a broad groundswell of popular support.
 
NZ House and Garden Print E-mail
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Photograph by Rachel Hale
The light had almost gone when we arrived at the TreeHouse to find Rachel and Piglet waiting.
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AIPA Awards 1997 Print E-mail
ImageRachel Hale's photograph of Piglet won an AIPA Photographic Award.
 
SPCA Animals Voice Print E-mail
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Cover
Piglet featured on the cover of the SPCA magazine.
 
Calendars and cards Print E-mail
ImageThe Pet NZ Calendar for 1998.
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Sunday Star Times Print E-mail

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Photograph by Phil Doyle
When Cedric threatened to kill Philippa Keane, a reporter from the Sunday Star Times, she knew there was a story waiting to be told.

 

 

Piglet and Tony make a splash.

 

 

 

31 September 1997 

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North and South Print E-mail

ImagePiglet's presence at Karaka Bay was noted as one of the highlights of the year.

 

That Was 1997 That Was

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Wildlife NewZ Print E-mail

ImagePigs, Pussycats and Statutory Pigeons

 Editorial

 

 

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Pet New Zealand Print E-mail

ImageImage Rachel told the story behind her award winning photograph of Piglet.

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Jakarta Post Print E-mail

ImageThe photograph of Piglet which circulated around the world on the Reuters network was published in the most unlikely places, including Jakarta and London.

 

Tuesday 7 October 1997

 
NZ Herald Print E-mail
ImagePiglet pushed the edges of the envelope until every mayoral hopeful was photographed with an animal running mate.
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East and Bays Courier Print E-mail
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12 February 1997-photo by Garry Brandon
Piglet first appeared in the media when she featured on the front page of the Courier on12 February 1997.
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