Category Archives: Typography

John & Eye

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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Grafitti Archi­tec­ture

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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Against Type

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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Blog Roll to Hit London

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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Live Fast, Die Trying

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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Middle East Design

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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Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

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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Houses Magazine Redesigned

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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Rock On

Self-initiated work leads to a musical break for Ratio. (ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images) Here’s a rock-related story. Peter Oxley is a rock climber. So too, as it hap­pens, is the Pix­ies’ band man­ager. In a slightly con­vo­luted chain of events, Oxley, cre­at­ive dir­ector of Christ­ch­urch design firm Ratio, who knew the band man­ager from Lon­don, got think­ing about [...]
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Graphic Design: Tivoli, oh Tivoli

20 Years of Rock­ing Posters Words: Stephen Olsen This year has been a festival-based ‘com­ing out’ year for impor­ted Dutch designer Ger­brand van Melle. In Feb­ru­ary he took part in TypeSHED11, the inter­na­tional typo­graphy event held on Wellington’s water­front, fol­lowed in Novem­ber by a one-man-exhibition for one night only at this Mas­sey University’s BLOW cre­at­ive arts festival.
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