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Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol.4.
September 20th, 2010
The last installment in our post-Semi-Permanent wind back. Emma Parnell recounts the legend of Storm Thorgerson… When Pink Floyd commissioned Storm Thorgerson to design the Dark Side of the Moon album cover, they did so with the words “We don’t want another picture, we’re bored of your pictures, we want a cool graphic.” Storm’s reply? “Don’t [...]
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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 [...]
Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 2.
September 8th, 2010
In part two in of our Semi-Permanent 2010 retrospective, Emma Parnell recalls the youthful exuberance and undeniable talent of illustrator Jessica Hische. For a girl who owns the URL ‘iamobsessedwithmycats.com’ (it redirects to her website) and describes her life as “a solitary existence where nobody showers and you get covered in cat hair”, Jessica Hische is [...]
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Musings on Semi-Permanent, vol. 1.
September 7th, 2010
The dust generated by the hooves of an inspiration-hungry horde is now well-settled on the tundra — but there's always time for some well-considered reflection. In this series of reviews, Auckland-based designer Emma Parnell shares her thoughts on Semi-Permanent 2010. First up, German 'object' designer Katrin Sonnleitner. Katrin Sonnleitner finds ways to make the mundane seem interesting [...]
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? [...]
Semi-Permanent: on the way
May 24th, 2010
You might not have realised – yesterday's rain was quite distracting – but Semi-Permanent tickets have gone on sale. The line-up thus far is looking good – confirmed so far are the intriguingly named Light Surgeons, New York-based typographer, illustrator and designer Jessica Hische (those are her dropcaps below), graphic designer Adrian Shaugnessy from London, and New Zealand's own father and son [...]
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