Monthly Archives: July 2010

Sus­tain­able at Heart

July 16th, 2010
With Jas­max dir­ector Tim Hoo­son par­ti­cip­at­ing in a spe­cial CoreNet Pecha Kucha next week, now seems like a good time to post this story from ProDesign 107, about the archi­tec­tural firm's move to a new Par­nell base. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. ‘Art is never fin­ished, only aban­doned’, goes the pithy (yet slightly cyn­ical) one liner. Would that [...]
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Fix­ing Wool

July 14th, 2010
New Zea­l­and wool is in lux­ury yachts, private planes, the White House, Air Force One and, para­dox­ic­ally, the doldrums. Brian R Richards is work­ing to reverse farm­ing fortunes. Brian Richards may have a long ped­i­gree in the brand­ing busi­ness but his New­mar­ket offices exude a clean, white, con­tem­por­ary feel. Here, the hos­pit­al­ity is gen­er­ous, green tea flows like [...]
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Rock, Paper, Scissors

July 13th, 2010
In the best interests of doing our bit for the pro­mo­tion of visual cul­ture in New Zea­l­and, or some­thing like that but less gran­di­ose sound­ing, we're happy to point out that Illus­trator and anim­ator Mardo El-Noor has his latest short film Rock Paper Scis­sors play­ing at the New Zea­l­and Film Fest­ival on 22 and 23 July. [...]
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Gal­lery: Kat­rin Sonnleitner

July 13th, 2010
While we're on the build up to Semi-Permanent, it's worth men­tion­ing the works of Ger­man fur­niture designer Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner. They are, you'd have to agree, quite some­thing else — a clever mix­ture of humour with light fancy — and worthy of a gal­lery spot in their own right. I'll spare you Sonnleitner's bio­graphy (you can read that here); let's just enjoy [...]
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Dyson Final­ists Announced

July 13th, 2010
Final­ists for the New Zea­l­and round of the Dyson Awards have been announced and you can check them out online. Look­ing at the pop­ular­ity of the items online is always inter­est­ing exer­cise. As a point of interest, here are the three products that have proved most pop­u­lar with read­ers thus far: Mul­ti­cul­tural din­ing exper­i­ence — Port­able hot pot com­bined with [...]
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Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

July 12th, 2010
Jes­sica His­che is one of the most eagerly anti­cip­ated speak­ers at Semi-Permanent 2010. Sam Eichblatt tracked her down in New York. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. It’s a decept­ively simple idea, but a stroke of genius when it comes to self-promotion. A young Brooklyn-based type designer leaves her day job to go freel­ance in Septem­ber 2009, and [...]
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Soul Man (long form)

July 9th, 2010
Alt Group’s
 Clem Dev­ine recently inter­viewed graphic designer and author Adrian Shaugh­nessy — a speaker at Semi-Permanent 2010. The inter­view prin­ted in ProDesign 107 was abridged, so here's the full deal, with some more examples Shaughnessy's work. So I sup­pose we start at the begin­ning — I note you’re a self taught designer, why graphic design, where did this interest come from? [...]
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Last Drinks at the Last Chance Saloon

July 9th, 2010
That's right, today, at 5pm to be exact, is the final day for entries in the Best Awards. Actu­ally that's not quite cor­rect, entries will be accep­ted up until 5pm Wed­nes­day, 14 July — but it'll cost you an extra $50. In other Best Awards news, there are a few new things on the hori­zon, includ­ing a revised bestawards.co.nz web­site, [...]
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Birds will Fly

July 8th, 2010
Mis­sion Hall’s quirky work for Two Birds fea­tures mem­or­able visual cues. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. Two Birds take lit­er­al­ism to new heights, if you’ll par­don us one pun in what could be, if we allowed it, a smör­gås­bord of word games based on the iden­tity of this line pro­duc­tion company.
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