Tag Archives: Brogen Averill

Diary Note

Design­ers Speak — The Big Sell March 23 Auckland A retail theme for the next in the Designer's Speak series: War­ren and Mahoney: Gareth Hus­ton Title: Bright knits, a big idea and the art of retail Space Stu­dio: Vee Smit Title: Lingerie for the masses – design­ing for cul­tural diversity in remote loc­a­tions Sound­bite: Design­ing lingerie stores for inter­na­tional rol­lout [...]
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Made Some­thing

A short report on Make Some­thing, a col­lab­or­at­ive art and design pro­ject organ­ised by graphic designer Bevan Tonks. One never knows what to expect with art pro­jects, but it's always nice to have one's expect­a­tions well and truly exceeded. Thus it was with the Bevan Tonks-organised Make Some­thing, which was on show in the dying stages of [...]
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Make Some­thing on Friday

Make Some­thing, a "col­lec­tion of col­lab­or­a­tion" based in down­town Auck­land kicks off with an open­ing party Thursday even­ing (invite only, I believe) and then exhib­i­tion proper from Friday. And it's shap­ing up to be a pretty inter­est­ing event, with some top notch design­ers and artists join­ing forces for some cross-disciplinary, non-commercial collaboration. This year’s par­ti­cipants are Bro­gen [...]
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Talk­ing Shop

A new depart­ment store receives a period-influenced iden­tity from Bro­gen Aver­ill. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images. Auckland’s latest des­tin­a­tion shop­ping exper­i­ence harks back to the golden age of shop­ping, when things were a bit more soph­ist­ic­ated than a trip down to the mall. Straight­for­wardly named, The Depart­ment Store is posi­tioned at the higher end of the mar­ket, [...]
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