Field Guide — How to get a job
Brought to you by DA’s partners Portfolio Recruitment We’ve put together a few tips and thoughts for design graduates, based on our experience dealing with design agencies and with grads. […]
5 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Design Project Management: Is a cost blowout redeemable?
Ahead of our upcoming Auckland DA Workshop: Running a successful project: on time, on budget, and on brief. Our workshop facilitator Sarah Ritchie shares valuable intelligence on time and cost blowouts […]
5 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Field Guide — Future Directions By Kerryn Smith
As any freshly graduated design student can tell you the first challenge you will face out in the real world is finding work in your chosen profession. It can be […]
5 years ago by Louise Kellerman
5 Minutes with… Sarah Ritchie
Ahead of Design Assembly’s upcoming half-day workshop on “how to run a profitable, successful design business” on Wednesday 20th February 2019 in Christchurch, we spoke with design and advertising account management […]
5 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Summer Reading — Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018
Written by Lana Lopesi Aotearoa Design Thinking has been somewhat of a two year experiment here at Design Assembly testing our ability to write and appetite to read deeper thinking […]
5 years ago by Lana Lopesi
How to work with clients who micro-manage
Written by Sarah Ritchie You’ve created a masterpiece of an event poster for your client. Your client asks you to make the headline bigger, move an item from the bottom […]
5 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Saving money on print
Written by Sarah Ritchie Your client has come to you saying they have to cut back their print budget, and can you help them? Without a moment’s hesitation you should […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Alternative Routes: An Interview with Katie Kerr
Written by Lana Lopesi Supported by Creative New Zealand Lana Lopesi is the editor of Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Ideas on Diversity
Written by Lana Lopesi Supported by Creative New Zealand Lana Lopesi is the editor of Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
A Few Choice Voices: Different Ways of Talking About Design
Written by K. Emma Ng Supported by Creative New Zealand Emma Ng is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
The emergence of Modernism: an etymology of beauty, harmony, excellent and good.
Written by Kelly Gilchrist. Starting with the term beauty, this four part series, explores the use and interpretation of the terms beauty, harmony, excellent and good. With a focus on […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Showing, Sharing, and Beyond: Design Exhibitions in Aotearoa
Written by K. Emma Ng Supported by Creative New Zealand Emma Ng is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Hot air: A Monthly Rotating Roundtable — What is Aotearoa New Zealand design?
Hot Air: A Monthly Rotating Roundtable, is a new monthly series where a number of designers take on big design conversations. To kick it off we start at the only place […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Censoring Colors: Did the New Zealand government stop a famous image of Queen Elizabeth from being published?
Written by Emma Rogan Supported by Creative New Zealand Emma Rogan is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and funded […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Looking Back: BackStory the Journal of New Zealand Art, Media & Design History
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture The lack of written local design history is one constant […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Puncturing Mythology: Looking beyond the shiny myths that distract from the complexity in design in Aotearoa
Written by K. Emma Ng Supported by Creative New Zealand Emma Ng is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2018, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Baby Steps: Building the Aotearoa Conversation
Coming into the design world as a trained critical thinker and writer, I was struck by how young and non-existent critical conversations were. In my own critical writing practice, I […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Broadsheet, New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine Goes Digital
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture Covers of Broadsheet Issues 1 – 15 “…I became pregnant […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Aotearoa Design Thinking: an opportunity to revisit 2017
Created by Lana Lopesi Supported by Creative New Zealand In 2017 Design Assembly introduced Aotearoa Design Thinking — a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly […]
6 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Summer Reading
Summer holidays are the perfect time to catch up on your reading… Here are some top picks from some of our DA Friends to help you brush up on your […]
6 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Being Human: Notes and Reflection from Xin Cheng
Written by Layla Tweedie-Cullen Supported by Creative New Zealand Layla Tweedie-Cullen is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2017, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and funded […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
On this Wednesday: DA film event: Helvetica 10th Anniversary Screening, Hastings
Rachel and Jason Juno will be hosting the first ever Design Assembly event in the Hawkes Bay region with a screening of Helvetica on Wednesday, October 18th. It’s been 10 […]
7 years ago by Louise Kellerman
Civic Lessons
Written by K. Emma Ng Supported by Creative New Zealand Emma Ng is a contributor to Aotearoa Design Thinking 2017, a series of commissioned critical design essays published by Design Assembly and […]
7 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Finding a mentor
Written by Sarah Ritchie The most successful agency people are those who care about developing their career, and who want to become the best possible version of themselves. One way […]
7 years ago by Sarah Ritchie
DA Conversations Podcast with Grant Alexander, September 2017
Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work.
In this episode I spoke to Grant Alexander. Grant is currently the Design Director at Onfire Design in Auckland. He started his career in 1969 at Designscape magazine, co-founded Designworks with Ray Labone in 1982 and in 2000 formed a partnership with daughter Kate to create Studio Alexander.
7 years ago by Louise Kellerman