McCarthy is a Christchurch, New Zealand studio shaping identities and campaigns with the care of a small team and the reach of a national practice. From stage and gallery to paddock and platform, their work moves easily between culture and commerce: brand and festival systems for Christchurch Arts Festival and The Arts Foundation, album-adjacent energy for the Taite Music Prize, sculptural sensitivity for projects with Ron Mueck and Toi Art, and clean, confident tools for Drive Software. They partner with grassroots initiatives like Artstart and Lake House Arts, and lend the same precision to rural icons such as Middlehurst Station and to classic institutions like the National Concerto Competition. What sets McCarthy apart is a designer’s eye for structure paired with editorial instinct—type that carries a story, images that earn their space, ideas finished to the last detail. Rooted in Ōtautahi yet sought across Aotearoa, they build work that lives