Monthly Archives: March 2011

Link Dump

March 30th, 2011
I'm not often moved to com­pile col­lec­tions of links, but this morning's sift through the inbox dross has revealed a few gems. So, for you viewing/reading pleas­ure, here goes: Por­tuguese designer Eduardo Souto de Moura has won this year's Pritzker Prize. Jury chair­man Lord Peter Palumbo said that over the course of a three-decade career de Moura [...]
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Print Sea­son

March 28th, 2011
I've been a bit slow off the mark on the St Paul Street Gallery's Print Sea­son 2011, the best laid plans and all that, but there have been some great events and exhib­i­tions already. The next one on the sched­ule is the third exhib­i­tion sea­son 2011, by South Island artists Barry Cleavin and Jason Greig, open­ing [...]
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Designday Pho­tos

March 24th, 2011
Urbis magazine has a nice new web­site: urbismagazine.com. You should go there and check out there pics from last Saturday's Designday bon­anza. You might even see your­self, if you were one of the 2000 people who took advant­age of the oppor­tun­ity to hit the show­room circuit.
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Urbis Designday Tomorrow

March 18th, 2011
Hands up if you're going… If you're not, here's a list of all the great things you're going to miss. You can buy tick­ets on the day at the MINI Gar­age in Pon­sonby – that's Urbis HQ for the day. See you there.
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Plu­men: Design of the Year

March 16th, 2011
Brit­ish designer Samuel Wilkin­son and product design com­pany Hul­ger, have taken out the Brit Insur­ance Design of the Year 2011. The win­ning product is a redesigned low-energy light bulb, which beat out more than 90 other entries on the way to claim­ing the title. The judges said of Plu­men, that low-energy light bulbs have never been regarded [...]
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Autumn Lec­ture Series

March 15th, 2011
The Uni­ver­sity of Auckland’s School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning will launch its pop­u­lar Com­mu­niqué Autumn Lec­ture Series with a show­case of national and inter­na­tional experts that spans pro­fes­sions and disciplines. Now in its fourth year, the Com­mu­niqué pub­lic lec­ture series high­lights the breadth and depth of the National Insti­tute of Cre­at­ive Arts and Indus­tries (NICAI), widely [...]
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Diary Note

March 8th, 2011
Design­ers Speak — The Big Sell March 23 Auckland A retail theme for the next in the Designer's Speak series: War­ren and Mahoney: Gareth Hus­ton Title: Bright knits, a big idea and the art of retail Space Stu­dio: Vee Smit Title: Lingerie for the masses – design­ing for cul­tural diversity in remote loc­a­tions Sound­bite: Design­ing lingerie stores for inter­na­tional rol­lout [...]
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Col­our Awards

March 8th, 2011
The win­ners final­ists (sorry, my mis­take, you haven't won yet…) of the recent Dulux col­our awards have been announced, and it is our pleas­ure to bring you a few shots of New Zea­l­and pro­jects in this Aus­tralasian com­pet­i­tion, and, in par­tic­u­lar, those from the Com­mer­cial Exter­ior and Interior cat­egor­ies, and also the Sus­tain­able Interior category. Com­mer­cial [...]
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Intel­li­gent Mobility

March 8th, 2011
Elec­trolux has opened invit­a­tions for its Design Lab 2011, a design com­pet­i­tion for Kiwi indus­trial design stu­dents and recent gradu­ates of indus­trial design to com­pete for a six-month paid global intern­ship and cash prizes by sub­mit­ting ideas that con­sider intel­li­gent mobil­ity. This year, the com­pany says it is upping the ante for New Zea­l­and stu­dents by extend­ing [...]
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Where We Work

March 4th, 2011
AGM, pub­lisher of ProDesign, Urbis and Archi­tec­ture NZ, recently moved two floors up, for the super­lat­ive views, nat­ur­ally. If you’ve ever wondered what the interior of a mod­ern pub­lish­ing com­pany looks like, now’s the time to find out. Urbis editor Nicole Stock runs the ruler over the res­ult. Pho­tos © Jeff Brass Offices are funny, organic creatures. Staff [...]
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