Monthly Archives: May 2010

Behind the Scenes

May 31st, 2010
Frank Nel­son talks to United States-based New Zeal­ander Nick Bogle, a movie stu­dio model maker turned fur­niture designer. Though you may not be able to place Nick Bogle’s name or the face, the New Zealander’s career cred­its read like those of a Hol­ly­wood A-lister. He’s worked on the Star Wars pre­quel tri­logy – The Phantom Men­ace, Attack of the [...]
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Nature is a Maybe

May 27th, 2010
In Nature is a Maybe, on now at the Gow Langs­ford Gal­lery emer­ging pho­to­grapher Simon Devitt brings together a col­lec­tion of pho­to­graphs that detail the spaces we inhabit. While work­ing largely within the realm of tra­di­tional archi­tec­tural pho­to­graphy (as seen on the pages of Urbis, Archi­tec­ture NZ and ProDesign), Devitt's images exploit the phys­ical fea­tures of his [...]
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Tak­ing aim

May 27th, 2010
Hous­ing two advert­ising agen­cies in one build­ing, albeit under the same par­ent com­pany, can provide a few design chal­lenges. RTA Stu­dio recently under­took such a pro­ject with AIM Prox­im­ity. Pho­tos: Becky Nunes. Advert­ising agen­cies have had a num­ber of hey­days – the 50s, the 80s (up to ’87, of course), per­haps the late 90s and early 00s (up to ’09, per­haps). [...]
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Semi-Permanent: on the way

May 24th, 2010
You might not have real­ised – yesterday's rain was quite dis­tract­ing – but Semi-Permanent tick­ets have gone on sale. The line-up thus far is look­ing good – con­firmed so far are the intriguingly named Light Sur­geons, New York-based typo­grapher, illus­trator and designer Jes­sica His­che (those are her drop­caps below), graphic designer Adrian Shaug­nessy from Lon­don, and New Zealand's own father and son [...]
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Design­works wins Vero award

May 21st, 2010
Design think­ing that’s had a trans­form­a­tional effect on the busi­ness per­form­ance of its cli­ents has won Design­works the Supreme Award in this year’s Vero Excel­lence in Busi­ness Sup­port Awards. Other 2010 award win­ners were Ker­ridge and Part­ners, Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Dis­pute Res­ol­u­tion, UniSer­vices, Rotorua Cham­ber of Com­merce, EECA, Life Care Con­sult­ants and Enable Net­works. Respec­ted journ­al­ist Rod Oram [...]
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Iron­bank wins Archi­tec­ture Medal

May 17th, 2010
Iron­bank, the new steel-clad com­mer­cial build­ing on Auckland’s K’ Road, has received the 2010 New Zea­l­and Insti­tute of Archi­tects’ award for the year’s best build­ing. The mixed-use build­ing, designed by RTA Stu­dio for Sam­son Cor­por­a­tion, beat out some strong com­pet­i­tion, in par­tic­u­lar from Jasmax’s NZI Build­ing on Fan­shawe Steet, Auck­land. Four­teen other pro­jects were also [...]
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Mod­ern Opera

May 14th, 2010
Opera Kit­chen, bring­ing together the best of the Hawkes Bay. Pho­tos: Brian Culy. Cover story from issue 106 with addi­tional images. Some wag once declared that music with din­ner is an insult both to the cook and the viol­in­ist. That’s ok, because at Opera Kit­chen the music is next door, in the big room – the refur­bished [...]
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That's Bar­camp, Not Bandcamp

May 13th, 2010
Lud­wig Wend­zich explains the his­tory of Bar­camp, com­ing soon to Auck­land. Bar­camp star­ted in Palo Alto in Amer­ica dur­ing 2005 as a spin-off of the invit­a­tion only Foocamp, organ­ised by O'Reilly Media. New Zealand's own Nat Tork­ing­ton hosts the other Foocamp in the world, Kiwi­foo, and like the ori­ginal Foocamp it's also invite only. These events [...]
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Tee­ing Off

May 11th, 2010
The online T-shirt mar­ket is a pretty com­pet­it­ive place, so it pays to have a point of dif­fer­ence. Stephen Richard­son, one­time con­trib­utor to last year's ProDesign/Hallensteins T-shirt ini­ti­at­ive, seems to be carving him­self an online niche. Richard­son (or Richard… son) has launched a new online pro­ject called Par­into. What sets Par­into aside from the rest seems to be [...]
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James Dyson Awards 2010

May 11th, 2010
Organ­isers of the 2010 James Dyson Award, now in its tenth year, are remind­ing stu­dents or gradu­ates of design study­ing in the areas of design, tech­no­logy or engin­eer­ing to sub­mit their product designs soon. Brett Avery of Dyson in New Zea­l­and, says regis­tra­tions will close on Thursday 1 July 2010. Entry details here. “We encour­age all [...]
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