Monthly Archives: July 2010

Resene Total Col­our Awards

July 30th, 2010
Paul Leuschke of Leuschke Kahn Archi­tects last night picked up the first ever 'Resene Total Col­our Mas­ter – Night­in­gale Award' for his design work for Grant Thornton Account­ants, Auck­land. ProDesign ran a story on this pro­ject (Account­ing 4 Taste) in issue 100, and now online, below. Words: Anthony Coates. Pho­tos: Kal­lan MacLeod. You can find a full list of award win­ners [...]
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Holo­graphic Archi­tec­tural Imagery

July 29th, 2010
Fans of new tech­no­lo­gies, par­tic­u­larly those rel­ev­ant to the archi­tec­tural and design indus­tries might find this video (from Core77) on holo­graphic imagery inter­est­ing. Any­one out there doing any­thing holo­graphic in New Zea­l­and? Feel free to drop us a line. Holo­graphic Archi­tec­tural Ima­ging by Zebra from Core77 on Vimeo.
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Show­ing Face

July 28th, 2010
The New Zea­l­and Première of Typeface, by Justine Nagan, in Wel­ling­ton on 10 August. One for type afi­cionadoes — here's the blurb: In rural Wis­con­sin, a lone employee waits in a cav­ernous old museum for vis­it­ors to come. A few indi­vidu­als straggle in every few days and then, come Fri­day, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz [...]
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Gal­lery Watch

July 27th, 2010
Auckland-based (or those from fur­ther afield with vehicu­lar access) fans of col­lect­ive art endeav­ours should head to The Digital Dark­room on Domin­ion Road as of tomor­row (29 July) to take in a con­tem­por­ary art exhib­i­tion fea­tur­ing pho­to­graphy, art prints, graphic design and nee­dle­work (yes, the craft revival con­tin­ues unabated). If the flyer is any­thing to go by — and yes, [...]
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Wrap and Roll

July 26th, 2010
Plenty of designs for the ProDesign (and friend's) iwrap­ped­it­my­way com­pet­i­tion are rolling in. For your view­ing pleas­ure, here's a gal­lery of some of the latest entries. For those that haven't entered yet, please do. It's not hard work; it's fun! And if you win you could be driv­ing around in your own cus­tom­ised Mini for four [...]
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Book Awards Winners

July 23rd, 2010
The Life & Love of Trees has scooped the supreme Ger­ard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Ser­vices at the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and Book Design Awards. Designer Cameron Gibb was applauded at last night’s cere­mony for a design that judge Peter Gilder­dale said is of ‘the highest qual­ity, and the judges [...]
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Wake­board Bind­ing Wins Dyson

July 23rd, 2010
Julian Schloe­mer, a 23 year old indus­trial design gradu­ate from Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity, last night picked up the James Dyson Award for emer­ging product design. His inven­tion, Lucid, aims to reduce the incid­ence of wake­board­ing injur­ies, which are on ACC’s list of top ten adven­ture sport claims in New Zealand. “I’ve exper­i­enced a knee injury from wake­board­ing, which is [...]
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CoreNet 2010 Highlights

July 22nd, 2010
CoreNet (no, it's not a cult) had its annual sym­posium on Tues­day, and amongst a great line up of inter­na­tional speak­ers was Philip Ross, founder of the Cord­less Group. Ross had some great insights on the future of cit­ies, work­places and work in gen­eral, which will be writ­ten up in due course, but in the mean­time here's [...]
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Middle East Design

July 19th, 2010
COCA Visual Com­mu­nic­a­tion Lec­ture Series — Al Nafizah. Diane Mikhael, a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graph­ers, and fel­low assist­ant pro­fessor at VCU Qatar, Law Alsobrook are on the way to Wel­ling­ton to talk about visual com­mu­nic­a­tion in the Middle East. The two design­ers have extens­ive know­ledge of design in the Gulf and the Middle East, includ­ing [...]
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Fri­day Link Dump

July 16th, 2010
Mus­ing on the pos­sib­il­it­ies of a wet Fri­day after­noon? Well, there's no need to leave the safety of your com­puter for this afternoon's enter­tain­ment. We've been surf­ing the net so you don't have to. The State of Design Fest­ival kicked off last even­ing in Mel­bourne. Multi-disciplinary design firm Buro North put its think­ing cap on and came up [...]
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