Category Archives: Graphic Design

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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Soul Man (long form)

July 9th, 2010
Alt Group’s
 Clem Dev­ine recently inter­viewed graphic designer and author Adrian Shaugh­nessy — a speaker at Semi-Permanent 2010. The inter­view prin­ted in ProDesign 107 was abridged, so here's the full deal, with some more examples Shaughnessy's work. So I sup­pose we start at the begin­ning — I note you’re a self taught designer, why graphic design, where did this interest come from? [...]
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Birds will Fly

July 8th, 2010
Mis­sion Hall’s quirky work for Two Birds fea­tures mem­or­able visual cues. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. Two Birds take lit­er­al­ism to new heights, if you’ll par­don us one pun in what could be, if we allowed it, a smör­gås­bord of word games based on the iden­tity of this line pro­duc­tion company.
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Houses Magazine Redesigned

June 10th, 2010
Houses magazine, which is from the same stable of magazines as ProDesign, has recently been redesigned. Magazine affi­cionadoes might be inter­ested in check­ing out the gal­lery below to get a feel­ing for the new style. Ken Leung, a London-based cre­at­ive dir­ector from design con­sultancy Mod­ern Pub­li­city, was respons­ible for the design work. Leung, who has worked on titles [...]
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