Monthly Archives: September 2010

Stamps: A Reader Writes

September 30th, 2010
In the last issue of ProDesign, issue 108, we pub­lished a series of small stor­ies on stamp designs (see image gal­lery below) by the Assign­ment Group, Inhouse Design and Banana­works. While we were focussed on the designs of these stamps, one reader, Paul van Herpt, from Christ­ch­urch, has writ­ten in with some notes on the func­tional [...]
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Get a Job

September 30th, 2010
AGM Pub­lish­ing, well known for its award-winning archi­tec­ture and design pub­lic­a­tions (such as, ProDesign, nat­ur­ally), is seek­ing a magazine designer on a con­tract basis until Christ­mas. Report­ing to the Art Dir­ector, the role involves work­ing across AGM's range of design, archi­tec­ture and build­ing titles. To drop into recruit­ment lan­guage tem­por­ar­ily, you'll be work­ing with a team of design­ers [...]
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The Twist Design Challenge

September 30th, 2010
Some­thing here for our archi­tec­tural read­ers; Cava­lier Brem­worth is offer­ing the chance to win an iPad, a very cool Saben leather and wool car­pet satchel, plus the chance to win a cock­tail party for 50. The Twist Design Chal­lenge is open to all New Zea­l­and registered archi­tects and interior design­ers. Just sub­mit any great look­ing res­id­en­tial or com­mer­cial [...]
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Shaken Stephen

September 24th, 2010
Christ­ch­urch designer Stephen McCarthy, former cre­at­ive dir­ector at Q Brand Agency until start­ing his own stu­dio called McCarthy has sent through a few images of what he's been work­ing on lately, includ­ing this rather cool poster of indie-folkster Joanna Newsome. McCarthy also sent through a couple of inter­est­ing earthquake-related pics (after the jump). The first depicts what used [...]
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Street View

September 24th, 2010
Earlier in the year, the artist called Com­pon­ent achieved a new level of notori­ety by sim­ul­tan­eously being arres­ted for 'tag­ging' a wall out­side TV3 while hav­ing an exhib­i­tion on at Auck­land Art Gallery. We've long been fans of this artist's con­tri­bu­tions to the local streets­cape (you could hardly say they're lower­ing the tone…), so thought it was [...]
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Let there be Light

September 24th, 2010
Jose Guti­er­rez tames the light and har­nesses the shad­ows with this sur­pris­ing fit-out for The Research Agency. Words: Sam Eichblatt. Pho­tos: Emily Andrews. From ProDesign 108, with addi­tional draw­ings and images. Guti­er­rez is a final­ist in this year's Best Awards, in the Offices and Work­place Envir­on­ments cat­egory. Check out the other final­ists here. And remem­ber, it's [...]
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Quake Poster

September 23rd, 2010
Down­load it, blow it up (to A3), stick it on your wall (if you want…) This just in from Peter Oxley at Ratio, in Christ­ch­urch. Oxley has designed this poster (pdf down­load) in remem­brance of the Christ­ch­urch quake which hit on 4 Septem­ber. A num­ber of design stu­dios in Christ­ch­urch were affected by the shakes, although Ratio [...]
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Young Guns

September 22nd, 2010
Two New Zea­l­and design­ers win at ADC's Young Guns 8 competition. Con­grat­u­la­tions to type designer Kris Sowersby and art dir­ector slash anim­a­tion dir­ector Gareth O'Brien (the LA-based O'Brien was recently back in NZ to talk at Semi-Permanent as part of Buck), who were both named amongst the win­ners of the Art Dir­ect­ors Club (ADC) Young Guns [...]
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Design Edu­ca­tion Download

September 22nd, 2010
The last issue of ProDesign incor­por­ates the annual Design Edu­ca­tion Sup­ple­ment. This is a yearly show­case of some of the best design tal­ent com­ing out of New Zealand's design schools, and also a valu­able tool for those look­ing to study design at ter­tiary level. The supplement's list­ing ser­vice provides details of almost all of New Zealand's design-related study [...]
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Lone Star

September 21st, 2010
Dur­ing the Amer­ican sum­mer of 2009, Clem Dev­ine and Sam Trus­trum rode a Mus­tang from Geor­gia to Texas and back. While in Aus­tin TX they met Pen­ta­gram design part­ner DJ Stout. From ProDesign 108 (addi­tional images cour­tesy Pen­ta­gram and Sam Trustrum). A year ago all I wanted was a pair of Tony Lama full quill ostrich skin cow­boy [...]
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