Monthly Archives: February 2010

Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain at UFL

February 26th, 2010
Two days ago, UFL in Auck­land brought across three inter­na­tional guest speak­ers: Argentina-born designer Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain, from Derlot, was one. He shared his thoughts on, amongst other things, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, ‘mono-materiality and why design­ers have a respons­ib­il­ity to help poorer countries. For starters, Loter­sz­tain ticks the first box to which all ser­i­ous design­ers should aspire – like Kon­stantin Grcic, [...]
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From the Pic­ture Library

February 25th, 2010
World War II Posters. A few years ago Te Papa Tongarewa ran an exhib­i­tion on posters from World War II entitled “Duty Calls”. The Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary recently gave us per­mis­sion to repro­duce a few of these posters online. Much of this col­lec­tion was amassed, dis­trib­uted and dis­played by Wel­ling­ton man­u­fac­tur­ing busi­ness­man Cecil Her­bert Andrews [...]
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Urbis Designday: Designer/Showroom Pairings

February 24th, 2010
Designer and show­room pair­ings for the fifth Urbis Designday were announced this morning. This year the cre­at­ive prac­ti­tion­ers include mul­ti­me­dia cre­at­ors, archi­tects, fur­niture design­ers, land­scape and fash­ion design­ers – all work­ing in part­ner­ship with 13 Auck­land show­rooms. In all, around 42 cre­at­ive indi­vidu­als, design­ers or artists will play a part in this year’s event, which has a design brief [...]
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Super City Logo Com­pet­i­tion ‘Lost Opportunity’

February 19th, 2010
The Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and has expressed dis­ap­point­ment and con­cern that the design pro­fes­sion has not been involved in any con­sulta­tion to date about a pub­lic com­pet­i­tion to design a new logo for Auckland’s Super City. Sean McGarry, pres­id­ent of dinz, the national organ­isa­tion rep­res­ent­ing pro­fes­sional design­ers, said that the brand­ing of the Super City was [...]
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With Bells On

February 18th, 2010
Wingate & Farquhar’s long, lin­ear form for a New Zea­l­and com­pany steeped in tra­di­tion. Words: Anthony Coates. Images: Simon Devitt. (From ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images). The day the tea ran out, Reporoa, Octo­ber, 1993 – I’d decided to spend the day read­ing a novel on a sun-drenched couch while drink­ing cups of milky, sug­ary tea. From memory, the nov­el­ist [...]
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Full Char­ac­ter Set

February 18th, 2010
David Ben­newith, in his bio­graph­ical endeav­our Joseph Church­ward, presents us with the rational and intu­it­ive sides of the type designer and recip­i­ent of New Zealand’s highest hon­our for design­ers at the recent BeST Awards. The book reflects on an extens­ive body of work – span­ning four dec­ades and encom­passing over 600 fonts – which Church­ward ten­derly describes as a gift [...]
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Rock On

February 18th, 2010
Self-initiated work leads to a musical break for Ratio. (ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images) Here’s a rock-related story. Peter Oxley is a rock climber. So too, as it hap­pens, is the Pix­ies’ band man­ager. In a slightly con­vo­luted chain of events, Oxley, cre­at­ive dir­ector of Christ­ch­urch design firm Ratio, who knew the band man­ager from Lon­don, got think­ing about [...]
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Night at the Museum

February 5th, 2010
Shed­ding Light: Cana­dian com­pany Lightemotion’s LED design for the Auck­land War Memorial Museum. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. Those tak­ing a night­time stroll (or per­haps sleep­ing rough) at the Auck­land Domain recently might have noticed that the old girl with the new lid is look­ing quite dramatic. Share/Save
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Urbis Designday: Register Now

February 5th, 2010
Sign up now for Auckland’s premier design event. This year the worlds of fash­ion, art and archi­tec­ture col­lide at a num­ber of care­fully selec­ted Auck­land design show­rooms. The showroom/designer pair­ings will be announced at an exclus­ive Urbis Designday launch party on 24 Feb­ru­ary and will be live on the Urbis web­site the same day. Register for Urbis [...]
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