Tag Archives: Typography

Middle East Design

July 19th, 2010
COCA Visual Com­mu­nic­a­tion Lec­ture Series — Al Nafizah. Diane Mikhael, a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graph­ers, and fel­low assist­ant pro­fessor at VCU Qatar, Law Alsobrook are on the way to Wel­ling­ton to talk about visual com­mu­nic­a­tion in the Middle East. The two design­ers have extens­ive know­ledge of design in the Gulf and the Middle East, includ­ing [...]
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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? [...]
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Birds will Fly

July 8th, 2010
Mis­sion Hall’s quirky work for Two Birds fea­tures mem­or­able visual cues. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. Two Birds take lit­er­al­ism to new heights, if you’ll par­don us one pun in what could be, if we allowed it, a smör­gås­bord of word games based on the iden­tity of this line pro­duc­tion company.
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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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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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News: Type Awards for Alt

February 2nd, 2010
Auckland-based design­ers con­tinue search for big­ger trophy cabinet. Alt Group has star­ted off the new year where it left off the last – with a swag of awards. The latest gongs are three Cer­ti­fic­ates of Typo­graphic Excel­lence in the Type Dir­ect­ors Club TDC56 com­pet­i­tion in New York. The firm received two awards for its work on the Vign­eron – a pro­ject [...]
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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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Graphic Design: Posters of The Inter­na­tional Office

September 30th, 2009
A Few Posters… Fol­low­ing an over­whelm­ingly pos­it­ive response to our latest cover image (a poster for Kris Sowersby's AGDA speak­ing tour) designed by The Inter­na­tional Office, ProDesign returned to the Wellington-based graphic design duo to check out what other work it has done in the poster format. Here is the res­ult, with cap­tion inform­a­tion provided [...]
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