Tag Archives: Graphic Design

Alt Wins a Mil­lion Awards

August 26th, 2010
Or maybe it was seven… but seven may as well be a mil­lion if you’re count­ing red dots in front of your eyes. In 2009 Alt Group took home four Red Dot awards and then later went on to win the supreme Red Dot Grand Prix for com­mu­nic­a­tion design. This year it has taken home seven Red [...]
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Butcher, Baker, Alpha­bet Maker

July 12th, 2010
Jes­sica His­che is one of the most eagerly anti­cip­ated speak­ers at Semi-Permanent 2010. Sam Eichblatt tracked her down in New York. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. It’s a decept­ively simple idea, but a stroke of genius when it comes to self-promotion. A young Brooklyn-based type designer leaves her day job to go freel­ance in Septem­ber 2009, and [...]
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Soul Man (long form)

July 9th, 2010
Alt Group’s
 Clem Dev­ine recently inter­viewed graphic designer and author Adrian Shaugh­nessy — a speaker at Semi-Permanent 2010. The inter­view prin­ted in ProDesign 107 was abridged, so here’s the full deal, with some more examples Shaughnessy’s work. So I sup­pose we start at the begin­ning — I note you’re a self taught designer, why graphic design, where did this interest come from? [...]
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Houses Magazine Redesigned

June 10th, 2010
Houses magazine, which is from the same stable of magazines as ProDesign, has recently been redesigned. Magazine affi­cionadoes might be inter­ested in check­ing out the gal­lery below to get a feel­ing for the new style. Ken Leung, a London-based cre­at­ive dir­ector from design con­sultancy Mod­ern Pub­li­city, was respons­ible for the design work. Leung, who has worked on titles [...]
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Caf­feine Hits #2

May 7th, 2010
Q+A with Andy Wil­li­ams from Resn, in Wel­ling­ton. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. Resn’s work for Cof­fee Supreme has encom­passed illus­tra­tion, print ads, brand­ing, web design, e-commerce, online game devel­op­ment, brand strategy and advert­ising cre­at­ive. Some of its recent work has been on the Café Blends range (above), not­able for it’s strong typo­graphy and [...]
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Caf­feine Hits #1

May 7th, 2010
Q+A with Tom Allan, from Napier-based design agency Band about a recent rebrand­ing pro­ject for boutique cof­fee roaster Hawthorne Cof­fee. The design reas­sembles ele­ments of litho­graph illus­tra­tion in the form of a styl­ised Hawthorn bush. From ProDesign 106 with addi­tional images. Share/Save
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May 5th, 2010
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Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graphic Design­ers stu­dent awards

April 26th, 2010
ISTD win­ners from Mas­sey and Katie Taylor talk rescheduled. Nick Kapica, from Mas­sey Col­lege of Cre­at­ive Arts, repor­ted yes­ter­day that the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graphic Design­ers (ISTD) stu­dent awards took place as planned des­pite European air­space chaos caused by a cloud of vol­canic ash pre­vent­ing guest speaker Katie Taylor reach­ing Wel­ling­ton. As the Icelandic vol­cano is [...]
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Spa­tial typo­graphy pub­lic talk

April 21st, 2010
Reminder: Spa­tial Typo­graphy Pub­lic Talk / ISTD Awards Thursday 22 April 5-30pm A vol­canic ash cloud is para­lys­ing air travel across Europe, as most of you prob­ably know. Sixty-three thou­sand flights have been can­celled in four days, with mil­lions of pas­sen­gers stran­ded world­wide – and unfor­tu­nately, one of those pas­sen­gers is graphic designer Katie Taylor, who was due [...]
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Caus­ing a Disruption

March 26th, 2010
Two Kiwi design­ers are play­ing on the big stage in the US. Words: Frank Nelson The job title of “Dis­rupter” on Josh Handy’s busi­ness card is per­haps the first indic­a­tion of the edgy, slightly irrev­er­ent nature of some com­pan­ies – and some design­ers – in Cali­for­nia. “It’s about hav­ing a dis­rupt­ive product,” explains Handy, a New Zea­l­and indus­trial designer now firmly [...]
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