Tag Archives: Graphic Design

Car­son Returns

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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Best Design Awards 2010: Black and Purple Pins

A post-match report from the Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and Best Design Awards, with details and images of Black and Purple Pin-winning pro­jects. By Michael Bar­rett. The format for this year's awards shif­ted from last year. Gone were the Stringer Awards for over­all excel­lence in par­tic­u­lar design genres (graphic, spa­tial, product and, new this year, [...]
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Mus­ings on Semi-Permanent, vol.3.

Accord­ing to Nich­olas Roope of Poke Lon­don, in today’s ever-changing media hungry soci­ety, you have to be “more than just inter­est­ing”. Luck­ily, Roope him­self was, says Emma Par­nell, in part 3 of her Semi-Permanent 2010 retrospective. There is actu­ally more to this “inter­est­ing” the­ory, which Roope high­lighted in his 50 minute talk around inter­act­ive design. He pro­posed that [...]
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Alt Wins a Mil­lion Awards

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

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)

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

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

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

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.
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