Monthly Archives: January 2010

Bikes: A Fol­low Up

January 27th, 2010
Port­able Bikes The two-page spread on bikes in ProDesign issue 104 was par­tic­u­larly well received. Unfor­tu­nately we couldn't include all the bikes in the spread that we had ori­gin­ally planned, so here's a small gal­lery of fold­ing or port­able bikes. Joey Ruiter's re-imagining of the bike at left prob­ably gen­er­ated the most com­ments, so I've added a couple [...]
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Cover Story: Issue 104

January 26th, 2010
The Penny Drops Will this buzzy bike, one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best inven­tions of 2009, become a Kiwi icon? Words Michael Smythe. From ProDesign issue 104, with addi­tional images. It’s unlikely that a focus group ever said, “Bring back the penny farth­ing!” But it’s that flash of recog­ni­tion that puts instant smiles on turned heads when a Yike [...]
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Win Me: James Jean's Kindling

January 25th, 2010
Kinder Sur­prise Win James Jean's Kind­ling. Judging by the fan­boy (and fangirl) scenes of last year's Semi-Permanent, James Jean is a pretty big cheese in the world of illustration. Leaf­ing through Kind­ling, which arrived on my desk just in time to be ignored in the pre-Christmas chaos, the respect Jean has garnered is pretty well jus­ti­fied. Kind­ling [...]
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Inter­view: Jasmax's Tim Hoo­son & Nick Moyes

January 25th, 2010
Max in, Max Out Jas­max were respons­ible for both the base build­ing and the interi­ors at the recently com­pleted NZI Centre. ProDesign spoke with two lead archi­tects about the motiv­a­tions for the 5 green star-rated building. Inter­view: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­to­graphy: Simon Devitt. From ProDesign, issue 104 (with addi­tional images).
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Pho­to­graphy: I See You There

January 22nd, 2010
Notions of space Pho­to­grapher Simon Devitt cov­ers a fair bit of ground in the pur­suit of his archi­tec­tural sub­ject mat­ter. Many read­ers will have seen his work on the pages of Archi­tec­ture NZ, Urbis, land­scape Archi­tec­ture NZ and, indeed, ProDesign. To be fair, those mags are all from the same AGM stable, but what the heck, a little self-promotion [...]
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