Monthly Archives: December 2009

Mus­ings on the Decade

December 22nd, 2009
Rise, demise and acute obser­va­tion It's a ret­ro­spect­ive time of year but so far I've been res­ist­ing the urge to write a list. Thank­fully there are people out there who aren't quite as reti­cent when it comes to slap­ping down some thoughts on what's been going on. Designer Dominic Rut­ter­ford is one such person. Read his mus­ings [...]
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Revis­ing History

December 22nd, 2009
A visual tour of Steph­en­son & Turner's recent lec­ture theatre revi­sion at the Uni­ver­sity of Auckland's Bio­logy Building.
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Product Design: Ply-ability

December 16th, 2009
Bend­ing Wood to Will Lucy Ham­monds, cur­ator of the Ply-ability exhib­i­tion at Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gal­lery, talks about Garth Chester and other aspects of New Zealand's ply­wood heritage. ProDesign: I didn’t real­ise that New Zea­l­and had a strong his­tory in ply­wood fur­niture design. Mostly, when you ask people who they think of when you say ply­wood [...]
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Graphic Design: Tivoli, oh Tivoli

December 4th, 2009
20 Years of Rock­ing Posters Words: Stephen Olsen This year has been a festival-based ‘com­ing out’ year for impor­ted Dutch designer Ger­brand van Melle. In Feb­ru­ary he took part in TypeSHED11, the inter­na­tional typo­graphy event held on Wellington’s water­front, fol­lowed in Novem­ber by a one-man-exhibition for one night only at this Mas­sey University’s BLOW cre­at­ive arts festival.
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