2012-01-25 16:20:09 // Siobhan Leathley
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The first Designers Speak event of the year is fast coming up and the guest of honour at Calligraffiti will be Amsterdam's Niels Shoe Meulman.
2012-01-13 12:56:42 // Siobhan Leathley
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The new year is off to a bad start for Auckland-based artist Martin Selman, whose Carrara marble sculpture was stolen on Wednesday from Sanderson Contemporary Art in Parnell.
2011-12-16 15:36:12 // Design Daily Team
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Just in time for Christmas, Toys – an exhibition of weird, sinister and some-times creepy childhood relics – is swooping into Auckland.
2011-08-26 11:14:03 // Hamish Coney
// Idealog #34: workshop
The backdrop to this presentation is yet another round of power struggles between left and right to control the margins and, under MMP, potentially the centre of the New Zealand political scene and ultimately the purse strings of New Zealand Inc.
2011-08-09 09:28:12 // David Trubridge
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Even the press have moved on from the once-edgy atmosphere at Milan's Zona Tortona.
2011-08-02 09:07:27 // Sarah Robson
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Combining dancing with strangers and painting, Noise Ink was an interactive installation commissioned for the Auckland Arts Festival.
2011-07-20 14:16:17 // Deirdre Robert
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We talk to New York-based illustrator, designer and art director Sara Blake about her imminent visit to our shores.
2011-07-15 14:27:31 // Idealog
Police quake heroes have been honoured with street art in Christchurch, in a bold move that aims to promote work in the police force to the younger crowd.
2010-12-09 19:53:17 // Mitchell Hall
// Idealog #30: features
Middle management in a large Connecticut bakery wasn't Helen Klisser During's dream job, but she knew what she was doing—priming for her return to Godzone and her parent's company, Vogel's. But when Vogel's was suddenly sold, she reinvented her future as curator and art advisor to New York's elite. By Mitchell Hall.
2010-12-09 09:56:01 // Deirdre Robert
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Earlier this year at Semi Permanent Design Daily spoke with Dick Frizzell (see video HERE), who gave a taster of what he had planned by way of designs for 2011 Rugby World Cup. Now that the designs have finally been unveiled, a "stoked" Frizzell explains the inspiration behind the designs, including one his son Otis refers to as the "son of the Four Square man".
2010-12-08 09:06:41 // Deirdre Robert
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Earlier this year at Semi Permanent Design Daily spoke with Dick Frizzell (see video HERE), who gave a taster of what he had planned by way of designs for 2011 Rugby World Cup. Now that the designs have finally been unveiled, a "stoked" Frizzell explains the inspiration behind the designs, including one his son Otis refers to as the "son of the Four Square man".
2010-12-03 16:05:33 // Design Daily Team
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Here’s your chance to swim in an ocean of creativity. WWF-New Zealand has launched a competition that seeks to harvest the creative juices of New Zealanders in a way that demonstrates a passion for Enzed’s mighty oceans. The competition—‘Ocean:Views’—is calling for people to submit creative works celebrating New Zealand's oceans and our connection with them, through creative works in any of the following four categories—music, creative writing, short film, and visual art (including, but not limited to, photography, illustration, graphic design and multimedia).
2010-12-01 16:24:56 // Design Daily Team
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Take a look at this painting by Christchurch artist Lisa Wisse, paying tribute to the 29 Pike River coal miners. The painting has been handed over to Grey district mayor Tony Kokshoorn as a homage to the miners and those affected by the Pike river mining disaster.
2010-11-12 11:26:44 // Design Daily Team
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The last PechaKucha event of the year looks to be a goodie, full of educational and inspirational design offerings for your listening and viewing pleasure.
2010-11-05 11:39:56 // Design Daily Team
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Today marks the launch of Auckland’s Art Week (5-14 November), giving you the chance to pick and choose from 80 events and exhibitions taking place across three inner-city neighbourhoods. Better yet, many of the events are free. You can even get in amongst a spot of speed dating...
2010-11-03 09:47:36 // Design Daily Team
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He’s a well-known and respected Pop artist—but not in the conventional music playing ways. Peter Mars, leader of the avant-garde Pop Art movement for the past 20 years, has been described as one of the greatest living pop artists of our day. And as of tomorrow—and if you happen to be in Auckland—you can view his extensive collection for yourself with an exhibition at the Lonely Dog Gallery.
2010-11-01 09:46:53 // Design Daily Team
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Here’s a chance to catch some of the best up and coming Kiwi talent in design. AUT University’s School of Art + Design are launching the new AD10 (Art + Design) Festival, giving you the chance to see, feel, touch and watch a variety of student work.
2010-10-26 10:19:25 // Design Daily Team
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It might have had to take a momentary step aside in light of the Christchurch earthquake, but the good news is Christchurch’s PechaKucha night is all good to go. So good to go in fact, it’s happening tomorrow night. Here's the lineup for tomorrow's creative feast.
2010-10-13 17:01:37 // Design Daily Team
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Fancy having a piece of Hollie Smith permanently in your home? How about a Riki Gooch? Well—you could—as part of the Art for Artists Sake charity auction, in which sixteen Kiwi artists have applied their dab hand at art in support of Youthline. So get your bidding arm warmed up and head along this Sunday.
2010-10-11 09:26:32 // Design Daily Team
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This coming Friday Auckland’s Western Park is set to light up with creative ideas as part of the inaugural Art in the Dark event, aimed at exploring and exploding the ideas of ‘Community, Environment and Utopias.’
2010-09-27 15:56:06 // Design Daily Team
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When campaigning for Councillor, why settle for having your photo plastered all over billboards when you can instead have your portrait painted on a billboard, by none other than iconic Kiwi artist Dick Frizzell? At least you’ll get a vote in the creativity stakes. As part of Alex Swney's campaign to run as Councillor for the Waitemata/Gulf Ward, Frizzell painted Swney's likeness onto this board at Ponsonby's Western Park.
2010-09-22 12:15:49 // Design Daily Team
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Perhaps if more public transport was transformed into a work of art like this, more people would be encouraged to take a ride on the greener side. Dutch designers Million Dollar Design have given an Amsterdam subway carriage quite the artistic makeover as part of a competition by Amsterdam Public Transport Company GVB.
2010-09-13 11:18:45 // Design Daily Team
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While the organisers of Christchurch's Pecha Kucha night had all the good intentions to progress with the event as planned, the decision has been made to postpone this Thursday's event.
2010-09-13 10:38:28 // Vicki Holder
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Walking down Rhubarb Lane, the vibrant urban village planned for the Victoria Quarter of Auckland, visitors will face the unusual façade of ‘Tattoo’, the latest release within the Rhubarb Lane development due for completion in 2012.
2010-09-08 13:53:35 // Design Daily Team
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Being commissioned to design a wine label is a great opportunity in and of itself, but having the wine named after you is even better. And Wellington artist Richard Thurston is set to receive the best of both worlds as part of an initiative by online wine retailer Winesale.co.nz.
2010-09-06 12:55:17
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Don’t go recycling your plastic waste, give it to Eve Armstrong instead. The artist is on a mission to build a massive public sculpture comprised of the plastic wrapping that surrounds our daily lives. Aptly titled Taking Stock, the sculpture will be a retail display landscape made up of what is usually thrown away, and will turn the mirror back on the shopper. It's all part of the Letting Space public art series, which runs in vacant commercial sites in Wellington and seeks to transform the relationship between artists, property developers and their city.
2010-08-27 15:22:36 // Design Daily Team
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How do you beautify ugly scaffolding? You could try taking 130 hollowed-out yellow balls, fill them with lights, attach them to various posts of scaffolding and then fill with birds to create a series of ‘Urban Nests’.
2010-08-21 18:28:58 // Design Daily Team
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After sharing the stage and banter with his son Otis, Dick took a moment to speak with us before he jetted off home. He tells us why he's converted to Facebook and discusses his artful inflection into the Rugby World Cup branding.
2010-08-13 09:35:19 // Design Daily Team
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Rotorua is set to go a little creatively crazy next week when it hosts its fifth annual artsMAD (art, media, architecture and design) event. The free event is put on by the Rotorua District Council (RDC) and brings artists, architects and designers together to share their inspirations with the community.
2010-08-11 15:50:37 // Design Daily Team
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Arthouse Architecture is calling for artists to submit designs for installations in their office building as part of a new project. The installation space is available to two artists annually, with prize money of $4,000 each.
2010-08-11 10:38:56 // Simon Todd
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Hot on the heels of its Bledisloe Way Light Boxes, Auckland City Council has unleashed another public arts venture called Micro Sites. The 15 locations on the Micro Sites trail are superbly nestled in and around world-class Albert Park. Design Daily's man on the street Simon Todd takes an artistic stroll through the park.
2010-08-09 18:14:24 // Design Daily Team
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Auckland Museum is seeking your input to help guide its Gallery Renewal Plan at a public forum at the end of this month.
2010-07-28 09:56:41 // Simon Todd
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Design Daily readers, we’d like you to meet our man on the street, Simon Todd. Simon will be offering up regular quirky updates on what’s happening on the urban design-scape of the mean streets of Auckland, in a segment we like to call, ‘Auckland’s urban beat from our man on the street.’
To kick it all off, Simon takes a stroll though the latest offering from Auckland City Council’s Art in Public Places project - the Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes.
2010-07-26 10:58:46 // Design Daily Team
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Freshly squeezed onto the design scene is Foxes shop of design and wonderment, an on-line based store selling New Zealand made, contemporary design and handmade pieces. The site launched yesterday and features handpicked pieces from site creator Jessica Whiting, who aims to give independent artists the chance to “really make a go of their chosen craft”.
2010-07-22 10:52:37 // Design Daily Team
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If you think purple and orange just don’t go together, think again. Lauren Willhite is a graphic designer who’s out to illustrate that purple and orange can indeed be visually symbiotic, and so can any number of colour combinations.
2010-07-15 12:10:57 // Amanda Cropp
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Talk about turning the corner: a major illness turned hairdresser Rebecca Herring into an artist and then a fashion designer. By Amanda Cropp.
2010-07-12 12:58:41 // Design Daily Team
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Steven Rodrig is a Cuban- born “inventive and environmentally conscious artist” who transforms e-waste into anything from insects to flowers to cityscapes. He refers to his work as “PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Mixed Media”.
2010-07-02 15:35:01 // Design Daily Team
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Ocean Design are asking you to put your design goggles on and scour through the archive of New Zealand International Film Festival posters and vote for your favourite poster design.
2010-07-02 10:54:02 // Design Daily Team
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Jenny Holzer has been plastering cities with all kinds of words - truisms, snippets of poetry, even declassified Abu Ghraib documents - for nearly 40 years. She started papering New York city with posters in the '70s, and since then has moved on to LED art and xenon projections onto landmarks and buildings all over the world.
2010-06-25 13:39:24 // Michael Johnson
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In his thought of the week, Michael Johnson, creative director of design company Johnson Banks, talks about the transition over the years from a silo system of design to the modern day DIY designer. And as he explains, the creative outlets are vast.
2010-04-01 07:43:05 // Ben Corban & Dean Poole
// Idealog #26: features
As Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot by watching.” Dean Poole and Ben Corban, co-founders of Alt Group, would agree. On a European jaunt to pick up a coveted grand prix prize at the red dot design awards, they kept a detailed travelogue. Here are their top five observations and predictions for the year ahead.
2010-01-19 08:57:00 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #25: features
Designer Katie Taylor has done it her way from the beginning of her career, whether it’s design in the Middle East or acrobatics in Russia. She tells Sam Eichblatt about tenacity, life away from home and surviving London in a recession
2010-01-13 12:39:00 // Hamish Coney
// Idealog #25: workshop
Neil Pardington’s exhibition The Vault explores those parts of museums that usually remain unseen
2009-10-30 11:02:42 // David MacGregor
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This must be Dick Frizzell’s year. His Four Square guy is everywhere, his wine won gold at the 2009 New Zealand International Wine Show, and his book, Dick Frizzell: The Painter, has been released to wide acclaim. Nobody blends the creative and the commercial quite like Frizzell, but where does he draw the line?
2009-08-21 11:00:05 // Felicity Monk
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Ben King and Adam Bryce are on a mission to democratise art. With a beer budget and a billionaire’s contact book, they dream of kick-starting a new street culture scene in Auckland. Felicity Monk meets the founders of Plaything Gallery. Plus bring the noise
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
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Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
2009-08-17 08:45:00 // Deirdre Robert
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No one proposed to him when he was signing books—much to his disappointment. He had the audience and fellow speakers in awe, and it’s got nothing to do with his catchy name and youthful looks! We spoke with a modest James about his incredible body of work and why he’s, er, aging backwards.
2009-08-17 08:40:18 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. We talk with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby
2009-08-17 08:35:01 // Deirdre Robert
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We can’t help but love Alexia Sinclair’s stunning work. We discussed childhood loves and her plans for world domination.
2009-08-16 22:29:27 // Deirdre Robert
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Paul Soong from The Church talks about the permanence of Semi-Permanent and why it’s important to nurture upcoming creative Kiwis
2009-08-15 08:49:26 // David MacGregor
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A slightly surreal experience with an advertising guy who acts like an artist … or should that be an artist who acts like an advertising guy?
2009-08-15 08:44:49 // David MacGregor
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An audience with Australia's next representative at the Venice Bienalle who dodges and burns the line between fine art and pop culture.
2009-07-02 08:48:31 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Alexia Sinclair’s digital art is part fashion, part montage, part tribute and totally original. Whether her subject is an artistic depiction of Cleopatra or a commission for Canon, the Sydney-based artist combines her unique artistic eye with virtuoso digital skills. And in mid-August she’ll be in Auckland for Semi-Permanent ’09.
2009-06-18 16:21:52 // Stephen Jewell
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Author Cory Doctorow is a merciless critic of the mega-corporations that seek to control creative content—and he’s happy to give his own work away for free
2009-05-13 12:20:22 // Lauren Bartlett
// Idealog #21: workshop
If you too wondered about Neil Finn’s pie preferences, wonder no more—B>side has the scoop
2009-05-05 10:38:35 // Matt Cooney
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I'm really enjoying the daily updates from Urban Logic, an online magazine (some would call it a blog) about creative ideas in “the built environment”—architecture, urban design and planning, landscapes, public art and so on. If you like the awesome BLDGBLOG, definitely take a look at Urban Logic. It’s searching out some of the most interesting building trends around the planet—such as the green areas being created in Singapore rooftops—and it’s all being done from Auckland, New Zealand. Perhaps it’ll help inspire some of our local developers and planners.
2008-06-30 08:59:54 // Vincent Heeringa
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Nick Konings mixes photography, speech, psychology, software and art to create a new definition of the portrait
2008-05-30 11:30:00 // Hamish Coney
// Idealog #15: now
While most eyes turn to the Olympics, Dane Mitchell will be competing in Switzerland at the ‘Olympics of the art world’
2008-04-11 12:22:40 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #14: features
Drop out of fifth form art, get accepted into Elam, then decide to give it a miss. Pay no attention to art other than your own and paint whatever takes your fancy—all in old-fashioned oils. This, reports Gena Tuffery, is the Sofia Minson shortcut
2008-01-17 09:43:43 // Amokura Panoho
// Idealog #13: features
Take three brothers: one clued-up in IT, one with a business background, and another who creates 21st-century Maori art. It took a family loss to bring them together but now they’re reinventing the business of indigenous art. Amokura Panoho meets the Murray men of Imagenation
2007-11-09 11:28:20 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #12: now
Hats off to The New Dowse, which is demonstrating its multi-discipline exhibition policy with a show of millinery
2007-11-08 05:56:31 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #12: now
Leonardo da Vinci had one. So did Raphael. Now our own Kelcy Taratoa is flourishing under the creatively liberating breeze of the patron’s dollar
2006-07-06 00:00:00 // Eleanor Black
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Tanya Thompson’s transformation from ‘waif-like graffiti artist to mini-corporate’ has some predicting that it’s just a matter of time until she has her own fashion empire. Thompson—better known as Misery—is turning her cute-but-creepy creations into a global business. By Eleanor Black
