Category Archives: Art

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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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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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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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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