Tag Archives: Posters

Nice Poster

May 5th, 2010
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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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Graphic Design: Tivoli, oh Tivoli

December 4th, 2009
20 Years of Rock­ing Posters Words: Stephen Olsen This year has been a festival-based ‘com­ing out’ year for impor­ted Dutch designer Ger­brand van Melle. In Feb­ru­ary he took part in TypeSHED11, the inter­na­tional typo­graphy event held on Wellington’s water­front, fol­lowed in Novem­ber by a one-man-exhibition for one night only at this Mas­sey University’s BLOW cre­at­ive arts festival. [...]
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Shang­hai to Ohakune

November 19th, 2009
Some of the life and times of illus­trator Den­nis Beytagh Words: Ham­ish Thompson My first encounter with Den­nis Beytagh was a poster all blue and green and busy – pro­mot­ing New Zealand’s tour­ist delights to weary Lon­don com­muters in the 1960s. The design cap­tiv­ated me, with its feel-alive mix of good humour and acute obser­va­tion. It turned out [...]
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K is for Kris (Aug/Sept cover story)

September 23rd, 2009
…and K is for Klim and koru. Kris Sowersby’s AGDA Inter­na­tional Speaker Tour poster. Share/Save
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