Tag Archives: Graphic Design

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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Talk­ing Shop

March 26th, 2010
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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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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From the Pic­ture Library

February 25th, 2010
World War II Posters. A few years ago Te Papa Tongarewa ran an exhib­i­tion on posters from World War II entitled "Duty Calls". The Te Papa Pic­ture Lib­rary recently gave us per­mis­sion to repro­duce a few of these posters online. Much of this col­lec­tion was amassed, dis­trib­uted and dis­played by Wel­ling­ton man­u­fac­tur­ing busi­ness­man Cecil Her­bert Andrews [...]
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Super City Logo Com­pet­i­tion 'Lost Opportunity'

February 19th, 2010
The Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and has expressed dis­ap­point­ment and con­cern that the design pro­fes­sion has not been involved in any con­sulta­tion to date about a pub­lic com­pet­i­tion to design a new logo for Auckland’s Super City. Sean McGarry, pres­id­ent of dinz, the national organ­isa­tion rep­res­ent­ing pro­fes­sional design­ers, said that the brand­ing of the Super City was [...]
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Rock On

February 18th, 2010
Self-initiated work leads to a musical break for Ratio. (ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images) Here’s a rock-related story. Peter Oxley is a rock climber. So too, as it hap­pens, is the Pix­ies’ band man­ager. In a slightly con­vo­luted chain of events, Oxley, cre­at­ive dir­ector of Christ­ch­urch design firm Ratio, who knew the band man­ager from Lon­don, got think­ing about [...]
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Mus­ings on the Decade

December 22nd, 2009
Rise, demise and acute obser­va­tion It's a ret­ro­spect­ive time of year but so far I've been res­ist­ing the urge to write a list. Thank­fully there are people out there who aren't quite as reti­cent when it comes to slap­ping down some thoughts on what's been going on. Designer Dominic Rut­ter­ford is one such person. Read his mus­ings [...]
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