Category Archives: Typography

Rock On

February 18th, 2010
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

December 4th, 2009
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. Share/Save
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Graphic Design: Posters of The Inter­na­tional Office

September 30th, 2009
A Few Posters… Fol­low­ing an over­whelm­ingly pos­it­ive response to our latest cover image (a poster for Kris Sowersby’s AGDA speak­ing tour) designed by The Inter­na­tional Office, ProDesign returned to the Wellington-based graphic design duo to check out what other work it has done in the poster format. Here is the res­ult, with cap­tion inform­a­tion provided by [...]
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Graphic Design: Italian Posters

September 30th, 2009
Gal­lery – the graphic iden­tity of Cosmit Graphic design­ers, and fans of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, might be inter­ested in this gal­lery of posters that charts the visual his­tory of the annual fur­niture show­case. What’s inter­est­ing is the vari­ance in styles from dec­ade to dec­ade, and of course from designer to designer. It looks a bit like the [...]
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K is for Kris (Aug/Sept cover story)

September 23rd, 2009
…and K is for Klim and koru. Kris Sowersby’s AGDA Inter­na­tional Speaker Tour poster. Share/Save
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