Category Archives: Graphic Design

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.” Share/Save
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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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Wrap and Roll

July 26th, 2010
Plenty of designs for the ProDesign (and friend’s) iwrap­ped­it­my­way com­pet­i­tion are rolling in. For your view­ing pleas­ure, here’s a gal­lery of some of the latest entries. For those that haven’t entered yet, please do. It’s not hard work; it’s fun! And if you win you could be driv­ing around in your own cus­tom­ised Mini for four [...]
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Book Awards Winners

July 23rd, 2010
The Life & Love of Trees has scooped the supreme Ger­ard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Ser­vices at the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and Book Design Awards. Designer Cameron Gibb was applauded at last night’s cere­mony for a design that judge Peter Gilder­dale said is of ‘the highest qual­ity, and the judges [...]
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Middle East Design

July 19th, 2010
COCA Visual Com­mu­nic­a­tion Lec­ture Series — Al Nafizah. Diane Mikhael, a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graph­ers, and fel­low assist­ant pro­fessor at VCU Qatar, Law Alsobrook are on the way to Wel­ling­ton to talk about visual com­mu­nic­a­tion in the Middle East. The two design­ers have extens­ive know­ledge of design in the Gulf and the Middle East, includ­ing [...]
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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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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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