Category Archives: Review

Design Education Download

September 22nd, 2010

The last issue of ProDesign incorporates the annual Design Education Supplement. This is a yearly showcase of some of the best design talent coming out of New Zealand's design schools, and also a valuable tool for those looking to study design at tertiary level. The supplement's listing service provides details of almost all of New Zealand's design-related study [...]

Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol.4.

September 20th, 2010

The last installment in our post-Semi-Permanent wind back. Emma Parnell recounts the legend of Storm Thorgerson… When Pink Floyd commissioned Storm Thorgerson to design the Dark Side of the Moon album cover, they did so with the words “We don’t want another picture, we’re bored of your pictures, we want a cool graphic.” Storm’s reply? “Don’t [...]

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Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol.3.

September 15th, 2010

According to Nicholas Roope of Poke London, in today’s ever-changing media hungry society, you have to be “more than just interesting”. Luckily, Roope himself was, says Emma Parnell, in part 3 of her Semi-Permanent 2010 retrospective. There is actually more to this “interesting” theory, which Roope highlighted in his 50 minute talk around interactive design. He proposed that [...]

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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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Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 1.

September 7th, 2010

The dust generated by the hooves of an inspiration-hungry horde is now well-settled on the tundra — but there's always time for some well-considered reflection. In this series of reviews, Auckland-based designer Emma Parnell shares her thoughts on Semi-Permanent 2010. First up, German 'object' designer Katrin Sonnleitner. Katrin Sonnleitner finds ways to make the mundane seem interesting [...]

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Super Sync Me

May 7th, 2010

Interested in developing an app? Marcus Radich is here to start you off. From ProDesign 106. The Apple AppStore is a place of wonder and excitement for many iPhone and iPod touch users, but iPad applications are now showing up for those with the “next” portable computer (more later). New Zealand has a number of application developers for [...]

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