Monthly Archives: August 2010

Optim­ism

August 27th, 2010
Plan­ning a trip to Oz soon? Why not time it to coin­cide with the Ico­grada– and AGDA– hos­ted 'Optim­ism: Ico­grada Design Week Brisbane'. Optim­ism, as the short-form goes, is an inter­na­tional design con­fer­ence, the 10th AGDA National Bien­nial Awards, and site of exhib­i­tions, design trade fair, work­shops and other 'spe­cial events'. Vis­it­ing speak­ers include Steven Heller, [...]
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More Red Dots

August 27th, 2010
While we're on the sub­ject of Red Dots, this one seems to have slipped (mostly) under the radar. Cal­vert Plastics, a Lower Hutt-based com­pany, recently picked up a Red Dot Award for Code, an acous­tic tile with, as the judges say, "a three-dimensional form [that] gives this acous­tic tile a fas­cin­at­ing appearance" We have a run down on this new [...]
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Alt Wins a Mil­lion Awards

August 26th, 2010
Or maybe it was seven… but seven may as well be a mil­lion if you're count­ing red dots in front of your eyes. In 2009 Alt Group took home four Red Dot awards and then later went on to win the supreme Red Dot Grand Prix for com­mu­nic­a­tion design. This year it has taken home seven Red [...]
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Blog Roll to Hit London

August 26th, 2010
Wel­ling­ton designer Josh Barr has work chosen for Anti Design Fest­ival in London. Barr’s work, Blog Roll, is a sculp­tural piece that chal­lenges the notion of graphic design as two-dimensional and ques­tions the value of digital com­mu­nic­a­tion or, as he puts it, “In essence, the work pro­vokes debate about the value of what pub­lish­ing is.”
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Week­end Her­ald Revamp

August 14th, 2010
The Sat­urday morn­ing stumble back from your let­ter­box may have today been a little more inter­est­ing. The Week­end Her­ald has been given a shake-up cour­tesy Aus­tralian print design spe­cial­ists De Luxe & Asso­ci­ates. De Luxe did a nice job improv­ing the Sunday News a while back, and the firm has quite a port­fo­lio of top shelf cli­ents on its web­site. [...]
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Live Fast, Die Trying

August 11th, 2010
Per­haps unfairly, pro­mo­tional mater­ial for bank­ing insti­tu­tions doesn't often register highly on this site. But then again, the pro­mo­tional mater­ial for bank­ing insti­tu­tions isn't gen­er­ally as typo­graph­ic­ally inter­est­ing as this item pro­duced for an Aus­tralian entity called uBank. Don't des­pair, there's a Kiwi con­nec­tion: the multi-talented designer, col­our­ist and image retoucher Geoff Fran­cis was inolved, as [...]
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World Class Architecture

August 6th, 2010
Over at Selector, Houses NZ editor Peta Nich­ols has a wrap of the five New Zea­l­and build­ings short­l­is­ted for the 2010 World Archi­tec­ture Fest­ival, of which ProDesign's sib­ling pub­lic­a­tion Archi­tec­ture NZ is a media part­ner. The short­l­is­ted build­ings' archi­tects (such as Stevens Lawson, the design­ers of the house above) will now present their build­ings at the World [...]
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Ima­gine That!

August 6th, 2010
School Journal and Mas­sey mark twelve years of illus­trator tal­ent: Ima­gine That! Stephen Olsen reports back from the open­ing night of the exhibition. Brad Gor­jas. Pro­fessor Brane­wave. Cap­tain Crinkle. Two ali­ens called Flurb and Blurf and a robot named Squeak… While not phys­ic­ally present these char­ac­ters from a sci-fi play soon to appear in the pages of [...]
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