Monthly Archives: May 2010

My Design Life

May 11th, 2010
Pub­lic lec­ture at Uni­ver­sity of Auck­land by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham from KDa, Japan. Archi­tects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham archi­tec­ture (KDa), one of Japan’s most excit­ing young design firms, will visit The Uni­ver­sity of Auck­land this month for a pub­lic lec­ture. They will be here as part of the School of Archi­tec­ture [...]
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Caf­feine Hits #2

May 7th, 2010
Q+A with Andy Wil­li­ams from Resn, in Wel­ling­ton. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. Resn’s work for Cof­fee Supreme has encom­passed illus­tra­tion, print ads, brand­ing, web design, e-commerce, online game devel­op­ment, brand strategy and advert­ising cre­at­ive. Some of its recent work has been on the Café Blends range (above), not­able for it’s strong typo­graphy and [...]
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Caf­feine Hits #1

May 7th, 2010
Q+A with Tom Allan, from Napier-based design agency Band about a recent rebrand­ing pro­ject for boutique cof­fee roaster Hawthorne Cof­fee. The design reas­sembles ele­ments of litho­graph illus­tra­tion in the form of a styl­ised Hawthorn bush. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images.
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Super Sync Me

May 7th, 2010
Inter­ested in devel­op­ing an app? Mar­cus Radich is here to start you off. From ProDesign 106. The Apple AppStore is a place of won­der and excite­ment for many iPhone and iPod touch users, but iPad applic­a­tions are now show­ing up for those with the “next” port­able com­puter (more later). New Zea­l­and has a num­ber of applic­a­tion developers for [...]
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Gal­lery – Book Award Finalists

May 7th, 2010
Final­ists in the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation New Zea­l­and Book Design Awards were recently announced. It's always inter­est­ing to see what our book design­ers have come up over the course of a year, so for your view­ing pleas­ure here's a gal­lery of short­l­is­ted books (cov­ers only), and some addi­tional inform­a­tion sup­plied by the awards convenors.
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Alt Group – Greatest Hits

May 6th, 2010
The awards flow so thick and fast for design agency Alt Group that it's hard to keep up. There's a tend­ency to become a little laissez-faire about this suc­cess, to expect it even… but the suc­cess is hard earned, so let's cel­eb­rate it while we can…
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Nice Poster

May 5th, 2010
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Feel­ing Cheeky?

May 4th, 2010
Cats, wolves, butts and beer… and Lady­hawke… and T-shirts for Haiti. Illus­trator Sarah Lar­nach shares some thoughts on her pro­fes­sion. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. ProDesign \\ Sarah, how did you get into illus­tra­tion? Sarah Lar­nach \\ Two years ago I found myself sim­ul­tan­eously mak­ing ‘fan art’ por­traits for a book by Amanda Max­well, and embark­ing [...]
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On Record

May 4th, 2010
Quick­fire ques­tions with (soon-to-be) LA-based art dir­ector Jeff Docherty. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. ProDesign\\ The bio­graph­ical info on your web­site reads a little like this: Christ­ch­urch, Mel­bourne, New York. What’s the best place you’ve worked at as an art director? Jeff Docherty\\ I’d have to say New York, the city is filled with so [...]
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Awards for Salted Herring

May 3rd, 2010
Cre­at­ive digital agency Salted Her­ring picks up two inter­na­tional web awards, com­pet­ing and win­ning on the world stage in a com­pet­it­ive market. The quirky, enga­ging, and dir­ect web­site the Wellington-based agency cre­ated for eco-toy com­pany Wish­bone Design won the Favour­ite Web­site Award (FWA) Site of the Day, and has also been chosen as a Webpick of the [...]
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