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Card Tricks

February 3rd, 2011
Unlike a magi­cian who never reveals his secrets, sculptor and designer Fletcher Vaughan is more than happy to share details of the visual trick­ery behind his giant castle of cards. The appro­pri­ately named Col­lapse is part of Head­land, Sculp­ture on the Gulf. If you want to learn how to make one of these at home head on [...]
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Go Some­where

February 3rd, 2011
A gentle reminder of a comp that Spicers Paper is run­ning at the mo… I'll spare you the details (you can find them here instead) and focus instead on the prize: $5000 dol­lars of world travel. Time for a post-holiday holiday?
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Best in Show 2011

February 1st, 2011
Objectspace's Best in Show exhib­i­tion (on from 29 Janu­ary 2011 — 24 Feb­ru­ary 2011) has become an annual fix­ture. Inaug­ur­ated in 2005, its aim is to show­case a cur­ated selec­tion of tal­ent emer­ging from ter­tiary insti­tu­tions around New Zea­l­and. Areas of prac­tice covered in 2011 include graphic design, digital design, tex­tiles, ceram­ics, con­tem­por­ary jew­ellery and fur­niture. Object­space dir­ector Philip [...]
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Car­son Returns

January 24th, 2011
Graphic design after print: A day with David Carson. The Image Col­lege founder Gary Hew­lett is on a mis­sion to provide pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment oppor­tun­it­ies for visual cre­at­ive pro­fes­sion­als in New Zea­l­and. His aim is to use the world's finest expo­nents in each field as speak­ers, and insist that each presenter talks about a spe­cific area for which they [...]
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Yikes! 2011 Brit Insur­ance Design Awards

January 19th, 2011
Short­l­ist for Brit­ish Design Awards includes YikeBike. Show­cas­ing a year in design, the fourth annual Brit Insur­ance Design Awards fea­tures an inter­na­tional short­l­ist of innov­at­ive and enga­ging designs from around the world and across seven cat­egor­ies (archi­tec­ture, fash­ion, fur­niture, graph­ics, inter­act­ive, product and trans­port). Final­ists include Yves Behar’s Swarovski Chan­deliers, con­crete Emer­gency Shel­ters designed in Wales, [...]
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Recon­struc­ted Furniture

December 10th, 2010
There they go, again… mak­ing an exhib­i­tion of themselves… Fans of recon­struc­ted fur­niture pieces with and objet d'art will be happy to hear that the Boiler Room crew is back with what looks to be another superb col­lec­tion of one-off indus­trial cre­ations. There's a taster below of pieces being exhib­ited at Shed 9 (90 Welles­ley Street, Auck­land,entrance [...]
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Grad Show Madness

November 22nd, 2010
Grad show silly sea­son con­tin­ues apace with Unitec present­ing its stu­dent exhib­i­tions from Thursday 25 until Sat­urday 27 November. Hun­dreds of stu­dents from Unitec Insti­tute of Technology’s Fac­ulty of Cre­at­ive Indus­tries and Busi­ness will exhibit their work at the show. The Unitec Grad Show has tra­di­tion­ally been a col­lab­or­a­tion between the cre­at­ive arts depart­ments of archi­tec­ture, land­scape [...]
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It'll be a Blast

November 3rd, 2010
A high­light of the upcom­ing Blow Fest­ival at Mas­sey University's Col­lege of Cre­at­ive Arts is sure to be Blast. Here's the blurb from Massey: John Wal­ters (UK) from Eye magazine joins a selec­tion of New Zea­l­and design's 'unusual sus­pects' to explore col­lab­or­a­tion and the dis­solv­ing of design dis­cip­lines. Blast brings together design­ers work­ing across the fields of [...]
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F**k Avatar

October 15th, 2010
Pho­to­grapher Matt Grace cap­tures Storm Thorgerson's fruity zeit­geist. It could be yours… for 80 slides. Attendees within spit­ting dis­tance (yes I know, that's so totally punk) of the stage at Semi-Permanent 2010 might have noticed Matt Grace, pho­to­grapher, mov­ing svel­tely between aisles, stairs and speak­ers, doc­u­ment­ing the vari­ous going-ons that we here at ProDesign Towers have [...]
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Down to the Wire

October 14th, 2010
Web­site of the day, week, month… ah whatever, just a great website. The inter­net – tend to take it a bit for gran­ted these days, don't we? If you're here now, read­ing this, then you've obvi­ously got it figured out, which is why you should head over to down­tothewire, a trib­ute to the the inter­net in New Zea­l­and (which is now [...]
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