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Tag Archives: Graphic Design
Best Design Awards 2010: Black and Purple Pins
October 1st, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in news | Also tagged Alt Group, Best Design Awards 2010, Dean Poole, Hackman, Interactive Design, Interiors, Jasmax, Product Design, Sons & Co., Studio Alexander, Tim Hooson, Yike Bike | 2 Comments
Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol.3.
September 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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.
Carson Returns