Monthly Archives: September 2010

Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol.4.

September 20th, 2010
The last install­ment in our post-Semi-Permanent wind back. Emma Par­nell recounts the legend of Storm Thorgerson… When Pink Floyd com­mis­sioned Storm Thor­ger­son to design the Dark Side of the Moon album cover, they did so with the words “We don’t want another pic­ture, we’re bored of your pic­tures, we want a cool graphic.” Storm’s reply? “Don’t [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol.3.

September 15th, 2010
Accord­ing to Nich­olas Roope of Poke Lon­don, in today’s ever-changing media hungry soci­ety, you have to be “more than just inter­est­ing”. Luck­ily, Roope him­self was, says Emma Par­nell, in part 3 of her Semi-Permanent 2010 retrospective. There is actu­ally more to this “inter­est­ing” the­ory, which Roope high­lighted in his 50 minute talk around inter­act­ive design. He pro­posed that [...]
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Free Font

September 10th, 2010
It's almost becom­ing a post a day on the Anti-Design Fest, which kicks off in Lon­don next week. Auck­landers have a there own taste of the fest­ival via a set of bill­boards designed by Philip Kelly (the designs will also fea­ture at the fest­ival, and Design­works designer Josh Barr is rep­res­ent­ing there. Any­way, fans of guns and typefaces (or irony; [...]
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Pavil­ions of the World

September 10th, 2010
A gal­lery of Shang­hai Expo 2010 pavil­ion images by Dawnfinder's Tina Hart. Dawn­finder is a multi award-winning design team (con­sist­ing mostly of Kim Jar­rett and Tina Hart) spe­cial­ising in land­scapes, themed envir­on­ments and pro­duc­tion design. Those who have vis­ited New Zealand's pavil­ion in Shang­hai will already be famil­iar with the firm's handi­work – they designed an elab­or­ate micro­cosm of [...]
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Against Type

September 9th, 2010
London's Anti-Design Fest­ival Auck­land Outpost Fol­low­ing on from our pre­vi­ous post on Wel­ling­ton designer Josh Barr, his Blogroll and the Anti-Design Fest (ADF) in Lon­don, we're happy to announce that Anti-Design has another local connection. Newly returned from NYC, New Zea­l­and designer Philip Kelly has, in con­junc­tion with the ADF, erec­ted three text/type bill­boards to be [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 2.

September 8th, 2010
In part two in of our Semi-Permanent 2010 ret­ro­spect­ive, Emma Par­nell recalls the youth­ful exuber­ance and undeni­able tal­ent of illus­trator Jes­sica Hische. For a girl who owns the URL ‘iamobsessedwithmycats.com’ (it redir­ects to her web­site) and describes her life as “a sol­it­ary exist­ence where nobody showers and you get covered in cat hair”, Jes­sica His­che is [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 1.

September 7th, 2010
The dust gen­er­ated by the hooves of an inspiration-hungry horde is now well-settled on the tun­dra — but there's always time for some well-considered reflec­tion. In this series of reviews, Auckland-based designer Emma Par­nell shares her thoughts on Semi-Permanent 2010. First up, Ger­man 'object' designer Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner. Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner finds ways to make the mundane seem inter­est­ing [...]
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Final­ists Online

September 2nd, 2010
Best Awards final­ists are locked, loaded and ready to view over at the Best Awards web­site. The qual­ity of work is always out­stand­ing, and this year is no excep­tion. To piqué your curi­os­ity, here's one final­ist in the spa­tial cat­egory of Offices and Work­place Envir­on­ments. To be com­pletely self-serving, this office for The Research Agency [...]
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The Last Six

September 2nd, 2010
Vot­ing time is upon us. The inter­me­di­ary judges of the ‘I Wrapped it My Way’ pro­mo­tion have whittled their way through 90-odd entries — and almost all, it has to be said, were of an exem­plary stand­ard — and settled upon six grand finalists. These six, which you can see above and below, are now wait­ing online for your seal [...]
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