Sarah Maxey was born in Marton in 1967. She graduated from Massey University in 1988 with a Design degree majoring in Textiles.
Sarah has been distracted by letterforms since she was old enough to hold a crayon and has worked as a bookseller and graphic designer. She spent two very informative years as a Design Manager at Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK in the mid-nineties.
Since returning to New Zealand, she has established her own studio, Sarah Maxey Design, providing thoughtful design and print solutions for art projects. Sarah is well-known for her award-winning work designing literary book covers using her own illustration and hand lettering.
She is busy building up her own imprint, Nice Work, publishing fine stationery and small limited-edition books. Sarah is focusing on personal hand-lettering projects, exhibiting her work in galleries in Auckland and Wellington. The awards she has won for book design are too numerous to list.