Monthly Archives: September 2009

Graphic Design: Posters of The Inter­na­tional Office

September 30th, 2009
A Few Posters… Fol­low­ing an over­whelm­ingly pos­it­ive response to our latest cover image (a poster for Kris Sowersby’s AGDA speak­ing tour) designed by The Inter­na­tional Office, ProDesign returned to the Wellington-based graphic design duo to check out what other work it has done in the poster format. Here is the res­ult, with cap­tion inform­a­tion provided [...]
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Graphic Design: Italian Posters

September 30th, 2009
Gal­lery – the graphic iden­tity of Cosmit Graphic design­ers, and fans of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, might be inter­ested in this gal­lery of posters that charts the visual his­tory of the annual fur­niture show­case. What’s inter­est­ing is the vari­ance in styles from dec­ade to dec­ade, and of course from designer to designer. It looks a bit like [...]
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Graphic Design: Wine by Mash

September 29th, 2009
Return of the Liv­ing Red Film noir meets pinot noir; zom­bie meets zin­fan­del. These illus­trat­ive and evoc­at­ive wine labels designed by Adelaide-based Mash seem to have more in com­mon with pop cul­ture than château styling. Share/Save
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Envir­on­mental Pho­to­grapher of the Year

September 28th, 2009
Talk About Stars A selec­tion of images from the CIWEM Envir­on­mental Pho­to­grapher of the Year. Share/Save
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K is for Kris (Aug/Sept cover story)

September 23rd, 2009
…and K is for Klim and koru. Kris Sowersby’s AGDA Inter­na­tional Speaker Tour poster. Share/Save
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Review: Manu­frac­tured

September 22nd, 2009
Book Review: Manufractured. Almost dead for all money, but not quite, craft is back as industrial art.
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Toast­ing Our Own

September 22nd, 2009
Browning bread, controversies and copies, a New Zealand history. By Michael Smythe.
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Math­ieu Lehan­neur at the Laboratoire

September 22nd, 2009
LaboBrain - French designer Mathieu Lehanneur at the Laboratoire
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Sus­tain: A Human Thing, Indeed

September 21st, 2009
ProDesign talks to Mark Kelly about Pub­lic #5, Woods Bagot’s new tome on sustainability. It is without doubt a pecu­liar conun­drum. As Mark Kelly, dir­ector of sus­tain­ab­il­ity at multi-national archi­tec­ture firm Woods Bagot states, “We are des­troy­ing the world devel­op­ing viable economies.” So, what to do about that? As Kelly, who has recently fin­ished edit­ing the [...]
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I Must Be Dreaming

September 18th, 2009
The books of pho­to­grapher and artist Bruce Connew. By Ham­ish Thompson “When people look at my pic­tures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” 
— Robert Frank, LIFE (26 Novem­ber 1951) This com­ment from Robert Frank, the pho­to­grapher whose book The Amer­ic­ans turned pho­to­graphy and a cul­ture [...]
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