Monthly Archives: June 2010

Inter­na­tional Award for Kumutoto

It's only just come to my atten­tion, but the Kumutoto pro­ject on Wellington’s water­front, which was a col­lab­or­a­tion between Stu­dio Pacific Archi­tec­ture and land­scape archi­tec­ture firm Isth­mus recently won an Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Land­scape Archi­tects award. Kumutoto was one of four Land­scape Design pro­jects from around the Asia Pacific Region awar­ded by a jury of seven [...]
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Mag Award Wins

Last night's Magazine Awards played out at that hulk­ing great Auck­land behemoth called the Ren­dez­vous Hotel. ProDesign fea­tured amongst the award win­ners, with editor Michael Bar­rett pick­ing up Editor of the Year in the Trade/Professional cat­egory. Andre Kini, designer of Urbis, sis­ter pub­lic­a­tion to ProDesign, also picked up a highly com­men­ded for his fine work. — ProDesign staff
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Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair

Unless it's design-related, we don't gen­er­ally get into event pro­mo­tion here at ProDesign Towers. Of course, one shouldn't get stuck in a bubble, espe­cially when inter­est­ing promo shots such as these fall across your desk. If the Auck­land and Wel­ling­ton ver­sions of Verdi's Macbeth, by Opera North, look half as good as these pho­tos then even I might [...]
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She'll Be Right, M8

Howard Wright wins top Aus­tralian Inter­na­tional Design Award with M8 med­ical bed. Howard Wright’s M8 crit­ical care med­ical bed has won its fourth design award by win­ning the top award at the Aus­tralian Inter­na­tional Design Awards on Fri­day, June 4. To date, the M8 has also won the pres­ti­gi­ous inter­na­tional iF design award, a Red Dot design award [...]
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Houses Magazine Redesigned

Houses magazine, which is from the same stable of magazines as ProDesign, has recently been redesigned. Magazine affi­cionadoes might be inter­ested in check­ing out the gal­lery below to get a feel­ing for the new style. Ken Leung, a London-based cre­at­ive dir­ector from design con­sultancy Mod­ern Pub­li­city, was respons­ible for the design work. Leung, who has worked on titles [...]
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Selector Blog and Resources

Some of you may have noticed from the ban­ner ads on this site that AGM Pub­lish­ing has a new product design tool called Selector. That tool now has two accom­pani­ments, the Selector Blog and Selector Resources. Visit the blog for the latest inform­a­tion from the worlds of fur­niture design, archi­tec­ture and build­ing. Selector Resources is an [...]
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Retail Design Award Highlights

He might not have won the Supreme Award at the Red Awards – that hon­our went to Christchurch's Redesign Interior Archi­tec­ture for the res­taur­ant Poppy Thai – but Mark Gascoigne was cer­tainly the big win­ner at the retail design awards, pick­ing up eight awards (out of 18 on offer).
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Young Design­ers Short­l­is­ted for Award

Graphic design­ers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jack­son and Keely O’Shannessy make up this year’s Publisher's Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and (PANZ) Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award short­l­ist. To enter the awards, design­ers under 35 years of age present a port­fo­lio of book designs. These are judged on artistic merit, innov­a­tion of form and appro­pri­ate­ness to the [...]
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Phil­lip Simpson: Portraits

We like a good por­trait here at ProDesign, and over the past dec­ade or so Phil­lip Simpson has shot more than his fair share. Simpson is a pro­fes­sional pho­to­grapher who gained much of his inter­na­tional exper­i­ence in the UK, before return­ing to NZ in 2006. He says he's per­haps best known for cre­at­ing "con­tem­por­ary images of people, [...]
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