Tag Archives: Art

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, [...]
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Tee­ing Off

May 11th, 2010
The online T-shirt mar­ket is a pretty com­pet­it­ive place, so it pays to have a point of dif­fer­ence. Stephen Richard­son, one­time con­trib­utor to last year's ProDesign/Hallensteins T-shirt ini­ti­at­ive, seems to be carving him­self an online niche. Richard­son (or Richard… son) has launched a new online pro­ject called Par­into. What sets Par­into aside from the rest seems to be [...]
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The Art of Eve

March 10th, 2010
The cover story of ProDesign 105 is all about Eve. Ham­ish Thompson takes a look back at the fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han. Words: Ham­ish Thompson. Images: Kate Coo­la­han, cour­tesy Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary (online ver­sion of story fea­tures addi­tional images). The fash­ion illus­tra­tion of Kate Coo­la­han feels uncan­nily famil­iar, though few of us would remem­ber her [...]
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Review: Super Contemporary

October 5th, 2009
Sam Eichblatt vis­its 'Super Con­tem­por­ary' at the Design Museum, and muses on the real­it­ies of the Lon­don Design Festival.
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I Must Be Dreaming

September 18th, 2009
The books of pho­to­grapher and artist Bruce Connew. By Ham­ish Thompson “When people look at my pic­tures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” 
— Robert Frank, LIFE (26 Novem­ber 1951) This com­ment from Robert Frank, the pho­to­grapher whose book The Amer­ic­ans turned pho­to­graphy and a cul­ture [...]
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