Urbis Designday 2010 HP Future Designer Winner

Anzac Tasker named HP Future Designer.

Anzac Tasker, left, with the other nom­in­ees for HP Future Designer: Jill­ian Round, Glenn Yung­nickel, Nadee­sha Goda­munne, Celia Har­rison. Absent: Yosop Ryoo, Stephen Reay.

Seven install­a­tions by recent AUT design gradu­ates cap­tiv­ated the ima­gin­a­tion and atten­tion of Designday guests last Sat­urday as they voted for the HP Future Designer. The votes were tal­lied and Auck­land based graphic designer Anzac Tasker walked away with the top prize – and a unique HP touch­screen laptop – one of only two in the country.

The award was announced at the Urbis Designday Wrap Party held on Wed­nes­day, 24th March at the Steel Works, Auck­land. The votes were close but it was Tasker’s unique and fun approach to typo­graphy that cap­tiv­ated the audience.

HP Future Designer install­a­tions at Simon James Design.

Bring­ing type ‘away from the com­puter and back into the craft’ was the concept behind Tasker’s install­a­tion and this was demon­strated with white pan­els and 3D type; some rotat­ing, some only mak­ing sense from cer­tain angles, but all fresh, innov­at­ive and intriguing.

Part of Tasker's installation.

Urbis Designday Wrap Party guests were unan­im­ous that the new HP Future Designer com­pet­i­tion was a great new addi­tion to the event demon­strat­ing fresh ideas across five design dis­cip­lines; fash­ion, graphic, product, spa­tial, and digital design. Other works set up at the Simon James show­room included life size fash­ion illus­tra­tions, com­pos­ite digital video, sus­pen­ded and rotat­ing gar­ments, anim­ated and futur­istic illus­tra­tions, archi­tec­tural stud­ies — even a liz­ard trap!

Anzac Tasker with Urbis editor Nicole stock, left, and HP's Jess Rangi.

Editor of Urbis, Nicole Stock, helped choose the final seven stu­dents and is proud to have the HP Future Design­ers com­pet­i­tion an integ­ral part of the day, she says “Urbis is very sup­port­ive of young design­ers and we felt Designday was a great oppor­tun­ity to show­case great young tal­ent to a dis­cern­ing and design lov­ing audi­ence. The stand­ard of the seven install­a­tions was very high and con­grat­u­la­tions to Anzac for win­ning this award.”

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