Category Archives: Graphic Design

Stamps: A Reader Writes

September 30th, 2010
In the last issue of ProDesign, issue 108, we pub­lished a series of small stor­ies on stamp designs (see image gal­lery below) by the Assign­ment Group, Inhouse Design and Banana­works. While we were focussed on the designs of these stamps, one reader, Paul van Herpt, from Christ­ch­urch, has writ­ten in with some notes on the func­tional [...]
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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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Quake Poster

September 23rd, 2010
Down­load it, blow it up (to A3), stick it on your wall (if you want…) This just in from Peter Oxley at Ratio, in Christ­ch­urch. Oxley has designed this poster (pdf down­load) in remem­brance of the Christ­ch­urch quake which hit on 4 Septem­ber. A num­ber of design stu­dios in Christ­ch­urch were affected by the shakes, although Ratio [...]
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Lone Star

September 21st, 2010
Dur­ing the Amer­ican sum­mer of 2009, Clem Dev­ine and Sam Trus­trum rode a Mus­tang from Geor­gia to Texas and back. While in Aus­tin TX they met Pen­ta­gram design part­ner DJ Stout. From ProDesign 108 (addi­tional images cour­tesy Pen­ta­gram and Sam Trustrum). A year ago all I wanted was a pair of Tony Lama full quill ostrich skin cow­boy [...]
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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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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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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.”
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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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