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Thomas Le Bas

The Pain of Digitising My Family’s Photos, and How You Can Do It too.

After taking on a decade-long project of digitising our family photos and albums, I’m sharing my story to empower others to do the same.

13 min readMar 29, 2021

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The Pain of Digitising My Family’s Photos, and How You Can Do It too.

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Fun with Flags!

The Origin Story of Canada’s Flag, eh?

A relatively modern design, the Canadian flag has garnered a great deal of international recognition—not only for being the country’s flag…

9 min readMar 7, 2019

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The Origin Story of Canada’s Flag, eh?

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Fun with Flags!

The Lost History of the Flag of Wellington

In 2016, while still a bit nauseous from a year of studying the New Zealand flag debate and referenda, I found myself perplexed by…

7 min readDec 19, 2017

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The Lost History of the Flag of Wellington

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LAWA: Connecting New Zealanders with their environment through scientific data.

LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) is a website designed with the purpose of making scientific information on New Zealand’s environment…

6 min readDec 18, 2017

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LAWA: Connecting New Zealanders with their environment through scientific data.

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VoteLocal: Helping Kiwis take part in the future of their cities.

VoteLocal was a Voter Advice Application (VAA) designed and built for use in New Zealand’s 2016 local elections, with the goal of helping…

9 min readDec 1, 2017

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VoteLocal: Helping Kiwis take part in the future of their cities.

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Thomas Le Bas

Shedding light on flag design

2015 is the year of flags. I have been slowly drowning in the New Zealand flag debate all year as part of my Master of Design research, and…

5 min readNov 22, 2015

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Shedding light on flag design

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Fun with Flags!

Red Peak and Facilitating a Design Process with the Public

It is no surprise that the Flag Consideration Process put in motion by the Government has had this outcome, but there are plenty of…

5 min readOct 18, 2015

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Red Peak and Facilitating a Design Process with the Public

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Thomas Le Bas

Infoposters are not Infographics

I’m a big fan of information design and information graphics (infographics), and have enjoyed teaching the subject in the past. However, I…

3 min readOct 18, 2015

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Infoposters are not Infographics

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Thomas Le Bas

Thomas Le Bas

Designer, typographer, vexillologist. I like to work with people and tech to help make things that have a positive impact on the world.

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