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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Mag Award Wins
June 25th, 2010
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
Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
June 18th, 2010
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 [...]
She'll Be Right, M8
June 11th, 2010
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
June 10th, 2010
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
June 9th, 2010
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 [...]
Retail Design Award Highlights
June 9th, 2010
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).
Young Designers Shortlisted for Award
June 3rd, 2010
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 [...]
Phillip Simpson: Portraits
June 2nd, 2010
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, [...]




International Award for Kumutoto