Monthly Archives: March 2010

Urbis Designday 2010 HP Future Designer Winner

March 29th, 2010
Anzac Tasker named HP Future Designer. Seven install­a­tions by recent AUT design gradu­ates cap­tiv­ated the ima­gin­a­tion and atten­tion of Designday guests last Sat­urday as they voted for the HP Future Designer. The votes were tal­lied and Auck­land based graphic designer Anzac Tasker walked away with the top prize – and a unique HP touch­screen laptop – one of only two [...]
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Caus­ing a Disruption

March 26th, 2010
Two Kiwi design­ers are play­ing on the big stage in the US. Words: Frank Nelson The job title of “Dis­rupter” on Josh Handy’s busi­ness card is per­haps the first indic­a­tion of the edgy, slightly irrev­er­ent nature of some com­pan­ies – and some design­ers – in Cali­for­nia. “It’s about hav­ing a dis­rupt­ive product,” explains Handy, a New Zea­l­and indus­trial designer now firmly [...]
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Mak­ing More of Motif

March 26th, 2010
Xsite Archi­tects’ adven­tures in sym­bol­ism at the John Kinder Theo­lo­gical Lib­rary. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images and drawings. Words: Michael Bar­rett Images: Simon Devitt Fraught with dis­aster is the road of cul­tural motif woven with build­ing design. If you get it wrong, there’s a def­in­ite risk of com­ing across as pat­ron­ising and, at worst, insult­ing. [...]
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Talk­ing Shop

March 26th, 2010
A new depart­ment store receives a period-influenced iden­tity from Bro­gen Aver­ill. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images. Auckland’s latest des­tin­a­tion shop­ping exper­i­ence harks back to the golden age of shop­ping, when things were a bit more soph­ist­ic­ated than a trip down to the mall. Straight­for­wardly named, The Depart­ment Store is posi­tioned at the higher end of the mar­ket, [...]
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Urbis Designday a Great Success

March 24th, 2010
Urbis Designday, an exclus­ive tour of Auckland’s lead­ing design show­rooms, was “the best ever”, accord­ing to happy participants. Share/Save
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Learn­ing from Lye

March 22nd, 2010
Len Lye could inform and enrich the onto­logy of 21st Cen­tury New Zea­l­and design. Words: Michael Smythe. Images: Cour­tesy Len Lye Foundation. From ProDesign 105 (with addi­tional images) Thirty years after the death of Len Lye (1903−1980) New Zea­l­and remains at the fore­front of extraordin­ary efforts to real­ise the kin­etic vis­ions he thought would be [...]
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Clin­ical Trials

March 11th, 2010
Breed­ing an atmo­sphere of good health at a new woman’s health clinic. Pho­tos: Emma-Jane Heth­er­ing­ton. (From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional draw­ings and photos.) Med­ical clin­ics, well-worn places where the lino wraps up the walls and the tang of dis­in­fect­ant hangs heav­ily in the air. In the wait­ing room it’s hot, too hot, and the car­pet is as [...]
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The Art of Eve

March 10th, 2010
The cover story of ProDesign 105 is all about Eve. Ham­ish Thompson takes a look back at the fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han. Words: Ham­ish Thompson. Images: Kate Coo­la­han, cour­tesy Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary (online ver­sion of story fea­tures addi­tional images). The fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han feels uncan­nily famil­iar, though few of us would remem­ber her [...]
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Design­ers Speak, Auckland

March 8th, 2010
Design­ers Speak Series begins this Wednesday. DINZ Design­ers Speak Series kicks off this Wed­nes­day (6.00 — 9.00 pm) at Britomart’s Levy Build­ing, Auck­land. It’s a solid lineup, with three design stu­dios du jour shar­ing insights on what makes them tick. The speak­ers are: Steve Le Mar­quand from award-winning inter­act­ive agency Resn; graphic designer Cath­er­ine Grif­fiths and pho­to­grapher Bruce Con­new, who [...]
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