TDC Aotearoa: The World’s Best Typography exhibited in Tāmaki Makaurau
Creative agency Osborne Shiwan is bringing TDC to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2023. The annual Type Directors Club awards recognises design excellence and typographic innovation, with the exhibition travelling to cities […]
12 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Te Tahi Youth – By Plato Creative
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Using shape psychology to represent the individuality of youth and […]
12 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Recap: Design & AI Autumn Conversations events
We’ve just wrapped our 2023 Autumn Conversations event across the three cities – Auckland, Wellington, & Christchurch. Along with providing an opportunity for Aotearoa NZ’s design community to connect in […]
12 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Sustainable Design Processes and the AI feedback loop
Following on from our Design & AI Autumn Conversation events, Alice Thompson (Industrial and UX/UI designer) shares some thoughts with us on the AI feedback loop and its affect on […]
12 months ago by Alice Thompson
2023 Hot New Things: Zhanna Ten, Bachelor of Creative Enterprise at Unitec/Te Pūkenga
Each year DA profiles a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. We welcome these talented emerging professionals to our industry, learn about their passions, […]
12 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga website – By Tribal Aotearoa
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. With intuitive storytelling and seamless user experience, Tribal Aotearoa walk […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Between the Pages with Dialog Studio – Rheem Brand Book
In this interview series we sit down with some of the illustrators and designers behind some of Aotearoa NZ’s self published books to learn more about their illustration processes, book […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — GALAH Press – By Daylight
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Crafting a world of colour, type, and the hidden complexity […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Future State: A Festival of Radical Innovation, 11 May 2023
The first edition of Future State, brought to you by Spark for Business and Semi Permanent: 11 May. “Business is being reinvented at a pace never seen before. What do New […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Comvita Paengaroa Workplace Design – By Blur the Lines
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa New Zealand Design Assembly community. Taking a progressive hospitality design approach with a […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Meet our Friends… Choir
‘Meet our Friends’ series is where we take a moment to celebrate and share a little about the diverse studios who make up our DA Friends. Today we spoke to […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Watch: Under the Hood Women in Design, Mar 2023
For the month of March, to honour International Women’s Day, we highlighed and celebrated (as we always do) women in the design industry at our Under the Hood webinar. Each […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Metlifecare – By Choir
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. From refreshing the identity to developing a brand hierarchy system […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
In Motion With…. Timo Lenton
In this series we’re shining a light on some of the people who breathe life and action into design, Aotearoa NZ’s motion designers. This week we sat down with Timo […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh from the Field – TMNZ – by Principals
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa New Zealand Design Assembly community. Keeping it energised and structured, a rectangular patterning […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Between the Pages with Yueko
In this interview series we sit down with some of the illustrators and designers behind some of Aotearoa NZ’s self published books to learn more about their illustration processes, book […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Streamlining design processes with AI – in conversation with RUSH.
Ahead of our Autumn Conversations: ‘Design & AI’ events and workshops coming up this Mar & April, we sat down with RUSH’s Rodrigo Acevedo, Product Design Lead, and Giselle Scott, […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Nutiani – By Hula
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Working from an identity system that was restless and confident […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
DA Conversations Podcast with Celeste Skachill
Kia ora and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In our podcast series we talk to Aotearoa NZ designers, hear their stories and celebrate their work. This month across the entirety […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Meet our Friends . . . EY wavespace
‘Meet our Friends’ series is where we take a moment to celebrate and share a little about the diverse studios who make up our DA Friends. Today we spoke to […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Stolen Girlfriends Club Wellington Flagship Store – By Jasmax and Alt Group
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa New Zealand Design Assembly community. A sculptural shaping of space, art, and contemporary […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
On the side with Chris Flack
This series profiles designers and the side projects they’re working on to develop new skills, test ideas, help people and communities or just do, for the love of it. This […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Under the hood with …Christine Luiten, Senior Creative at Studio C and Katherine Rayn from Catalyst IT
Ahead of our upcoming online event, Under the Hood – Women in Design, we sat down for a quick q&a with two of our featured speakers, Christine Luiten, Senior Creative […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Women in Design . . . Laura Feavearyear
In our Aotearoa New Zealand Women in Design series, we celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand Women in Design as they share their work and processes and we learn more about their day-to-day routines, […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher
Under the Hood with Fiona Kerr, Head of Creative Content at ZURU Edge
Ahead of our upcoming online event, Under the Hood – Women in Design, we sat down for a quick q&a with one of our featured speakers, Fiona Kerr from ZURU […]
1 year ago by Jess Lowcher