Category Archives: Graphic Design

Illus­tra­tion of the Day

February 17th, 2011
We don't know a heck of a lot about illus­trator Kieran Ryn­hart – except that that he was recently selec­ted as one of Luerzers Archive's best 200 illus­trat­ors – but what we do see we like a lot. Inter­na­tional Res­cue just sent us through this image, St Brendan, and we thought it too good not to share.
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Fash­ion Fri­day: Take 2

February 4th, 2011
Nadee­sha Goda­munne is another fash­ion illus­trator doing inter­est­ing things in New Zea­l­and. Writer Sam Eichblatt pro­filed her in ProDesign 110, and noted her dis­tinct­ive style and also the devel­op­ment from her trompe l'oeil move into satir­ical illus­tra­tion – a move that comes through quite clearly in the series of images below. She’s only just gradu­ated from AUT’s mas­ters pro­gramme [...]
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Fash­ion Friday

February 4th, 2011
In the last issue of ProDesign we took a quick look at a couple of fash­ion illus­trat­ors that are pro­du­cing great work. We had a lot of images left over, so thought it best to whack them all up here, gal­lery style. First up, the eph­em­eral illus­tra­tions of Kelly Thompson and, in par­tic­u­lar, some of her work for [...]
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John & Eye

February 4th, 2011
Inter­na­tional graphic design magazine Eye is much-loved by its read­er­ship, so much so that you might say it puts the cult into cul­ture. Artist and designer Cath­er­ine Grif­fiths recently caught up with music-loving Eye editor John L Wal­ters before, and dur­ing, his recent visit to Wel­ling­ton. Por­traits: Bruce Con­new. From ProDesign 110. John L Wal­ters rolls up [...]
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Made Some­thing

December 8th, 2010
A short report on Make Some­thing, a col­lab­or­at­ive art and design pro­ject organ­ised by graphic designer Bevan Tonks. One never knows what to expect with art pro­jects, but it's always nice to have one's expect­a­tions well and truly exceeded. Thus it was with the Bevan Tonks-organised Make Some­thing, which was on show in the dying stages of [...]
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Bean There: Adven­tures in Infographics

November 29th, 2010
I enjoy a good infographic as much as the next per­son, but this one, obtained from Stephen Richard­son, of Par­into t-shirt fame, almost slipped under the radar (there's noth­ing like a com­puter upgrade to spur on some re-organisation of slack mater­ial fil­ing tendencies). Richard­son says the poster, below (and a lim­ited edi­tion t-shirt run), was designed in con­junc­tion [...]
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Grafitti Archi­tec­ture

November 27th, 2010
Graf­fiti archi­tec­ture — "grungy and streetwise" — was how the New Zea­l­and Insti­tute of Archi­tects summed up the slender Perry Architects-designed apart­ment build­ing on Cuba Street. Here at ProDesign, how­ever, we tend to think that the building's refine­ment is accen­tu­ated by another form of letter-based adorn­ment — in this case comes a typo­graph­ical slash sound sculp­ture by Cath­er­ine Griffiths. ProDesign pub­lished a review on [...]
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The Big Picture

November 26th, 2010
There's been a lot of interest in the last ProDesign cover, so for those inter­ested, here's the full ver­sion of the image sup­plied to us by Apro­pos, which was part of a cam­paign for Post-it called Love My Mum. Check out the vid below to see the Post-it mosaic being cre­ated on the win­dow of Whit­coulls, Queen St.
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Showreel Fri­day

November 26th, 2010
Couple of free Fri­day minutes on your hands today? Well, take a trip down whimsy lane cour­tesy of National Park. Showreels can some­times be a bit more miss than hit, but National Park has nailed this one. Charm­ing, hon­est and hand-made indeed. National Parker Stef­fen Kreft was recently one of the many well-received par­ti­cipants at the Blast sym­posium [...]
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Make Some­thing on Friday

November 23rd, 2010
Make Some­thing, a "col­lec­tion of col­lab­or­a­tion" based in down­town Auck­land kicks off with an open­ing party Thursday even­ing (invite only, I believe) and then exhib­i­tion proper from Friday. And it's shap­ing up to be a pretty inter­est­ing event, with some top notch design­ers and artists join­ing forces for some cross-disciplinary, non-commercial collaboration. This year’s par­ti­cipants are Bro­gen [...]
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