Category Archives: news

Final­ists Online

September 2nd, 2010
Best Awards final­ists are locked, loaded and ready to view over at the Best Awards web­site. The qual­ity of work is always out­stand­ing, and this year is no excep­tion. To piqué your curi­os­ity, here’s one final­ist in the spa­tial cat­egory of Offices and Work­place Envir­on­ments. To be com­pletely self-serving, this office for The Research Agency [...]
Posted in news | Tagged , | 1 Comment

The Last Six

September 2nd, 2010
Vot­ing time is upon us. The inter­me­di­ary judges of the ‘I Wrapped it My Way’ pro­mo­tion have whittled their way through 90-odd entries — and almost all, it has to be said, were of an exem­plary stand­ard — and settled upon six grand finalists. These six, which you can see above and below, are now wait­ing online for your seal [...]
Posted in news | Leave a comment

Optim­ism

August 27th, 2010
Plan­ning a trip to Oz soon? Why not time it to coin­cide with the Ico­grada– and AGDA– hos­ted ‘Optim­ism: Ico­grada Design Week Brisbane’. Optim­ism, as the short-form goes, is an inter­na­tional design con­fer­ence, the 10th AGDA National Bien­nial Awards, and site of exhib­i­tions, design trade fair, work­shops and other ‘spe­cial events’. Vis­it­ing speak­ers include Steven Heller, [...]
Posted in news | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

More Red Dots

August 27th, 2010
While we’re on the sub­ject of Red Dots, this one seems to have slipped (mostly) under the radar. Cal­vert Plastics, a Lower Hutt-based com­pany, recently picked up a Red Dot Award for Code, an acous­tic tile with, as the judges say, “a three-dimensional form [that] gives this acous­tic tile a fas­cin­at­ing appearance” We have a run down on this new [...]
Posted in news | Leave a comment

World Class Architecture

August 6th, 2010
Over at Selector, Houses NZ editor Peta Nich­ols has a wrap of the five New Zea­l­and build­ings short­l­is­ted for the 2010 World Archi­tec­ture Fest­ival, of which ProDesign’s sib­ling pub­lic­a­tion Archi­tec­ture NZ is a media part­ner. The short­l­is­ted build­ings’ archi­tects (such as Stevens Lawson, the design­ers of the house above) will now present their build­ings at the World [...]
Posted in news | Tagged | 1 Comment

Ima­gine That!

August 6th, 2010
School Journal and Mas­sey mark twelve years of illus­trator tal­ent: Ima­gine That! Stephen Olsen reports back from the open­ing night of the exhibition. Brad Gor­jas. Pro­fessor Brane­wave. Cap­tain Crinkle. Two ali­ens called Flurb and Blurf and a robot named Squeak… While not phys­ic­ally present these char­ac­ters from a sci-fi play soon to appear in the pages of [...]
Posted in news | 1 Comment

Holo­graphic Archi­tec­tural Imagery

July 29th, 2010
Fans of new tech­no­lo­gies, par­tic­u­larly those rel­ev­ant to the archi­tec­tural and design indus­tries might find this video (from Core77) on holo­graphic imagery inter­est­ing. Any­one out there doing any­thing holo­graphic in New Zea­l­and? Feel free to drop us a line. Holo­graphic Archi­tec­tural Ima­ging by Zebra from Core77 on Vimeo. Share/Save
Posted in news | 2 Comments

Show­ing Face

July 28th, 2010
The New Zea­l­and Première of Typeface, by Justine Nagan, in Wel­ling­ton on 10 August. One for type afi­cionadoes — here’s the blurb: In rural Wis­con­sin, a lone employee waits in a cav­ernous old museum for vis­it­ors to come. A few indi­vidu­als straggle in every few days and then, come Fri­day, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz [...]
Posted in news | 3 Comments

Gal­lery Watch

July 27th, 2010
Auckland-based (or those from fur­ther afield with vehicu­lar access) fans of col­lect­ive art endeav­ours should head to The Digital Dark­room on Domin­ion Road as of tomor­row (29 July) to take in a con­tem­por­ary art exhib­i­tion fea­tur­ing pho­to­graphy, art prints, graphic design and nee­dle­work (yes, the craft revival con­tin­ues unabated). If the flyer is any­thing to go by — and yes, [...]
Posted in news | Tagged | 2 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in Typography | Tagged | Leave a comment