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Category Archives: Typography
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.”
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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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 [...]
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.
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