5 minutes with Kahira Shepherd

Ahead of Autumn Conversations: Design & Discovery in Pōneke on 1 May, we sat down with one of our featured speakers, Kahira Shepherd. Register for your ticket to attend the […]

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5 minutes with Emma Kaniuk

Ahead of Autumn Conversations: Design & Discovery in Tāmaki Makaurau on 1 May, we sat down with one of our featured speakers, Emma Kaniuk. Register for your ticket to attend the […]

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5 minutes with Gray Buchanan

Ahead of Autumn Conversations: Design & Discovery in Pōneke on 1 May, we sat down with one of our featured speakers, Gray Buchanan, of Genre. Register for your ticket here. This […]

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Fresh From The Field: Fish & Chip Shop – By Perks Design

Few things feel as quintessentially Kiwi as unwrapping a bundle of fish and chips by the beach. When Perks Design was tasked with creating the identity for Takapuna Beach Café’s pop up fish & chip shop, the challenge was to capture a nostalgic identity and food concept with elevated moments.

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Autumn Conversations: Design & Discovery 

Our annual Autumn Conversations events are just around the corner, taking place in Pōneke Wellington, Ōtautahi Christchurch, and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in May.

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Five Minutes with Nicholas Walker

Members of Design Assembly make up a network of Friends working together to build a thriving design scene in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our ‘Five Minutes’ series profiles the breadth and depth of design practice in our network–today we spend five minutes with Nicholas Walker, Senior Designer at Spruik.

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Creative Journeys: Design Academy with Nicole Macdonald of January Made

Ahead of Creative Journeys: Design Academy Ōtautahi, we chat with Nicole Macdonald on her journey as a self-employed creative and how she’s diversified her business.

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Fresh From The Field: Basis — By Studio South

Basis wanted their brand to be simple, practical and memorable. Studio South’s brand idea was ‘Harmony with Energy’.

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Announcing Creative Journeys: Design Academy, powered by Squarespace

Creative Journyes: Design Academy is a series of free, in-person and online events taking place across Aotearoa New Zealand for 2025.

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Five Minutes with … Issie Loseby

Issie Loseby, visual storyteller extraordinaire at Scribbee, made a graphic recording of Women in Design Day 2025. Learn about her creative practice.

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Fresh From The Field: Abel Fragrance — By Studio Almond

Studio Almond works with ecommerce brands to create solutions the drive innovation, autonomy, andscale. In this edition of Fresh from the Field we discover how Studio Almond distilled Abel Fragrance’s identity into a digital experience and the strategies they implemented to bridge a sensory gap.

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Women in Design . . . Aakifa Chida

Today we are chatting with Aakifa Chida, Communication Designer and Lecturer, AUT School of Art and Design. Aakifa is joining the Decades of Design session.

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Women in Design . . . Cat van der Werff

Today we are chatting with Cat van der Werff, Executive Creative Director at Canva, who is headlining Women in Design Day 2025 with a keynote address, 

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Women in Design . . . Dr Sarah Baker

Today we are chatting with Associate Professor Dr Sarah Baker, a design strategist, researcher, and educator at Media Design School in Auckland. At Women in Design Day, Sarah will be facilitating a Gender & Design workshop that will explore gender inequality in design and offer practical strategies for designers to make a change.

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2025 Australian Good Design Awards Open for Entry

Be Part of Defining Better Design: Enter the 2025 Australian Good Design Awards.

Great design deserves great recognition. Enter the 2025 Australian Good Design Awards and showcase your work to the world!

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Fresh From The Field: Remifemin Brand Positioning and Development — By Spruik

Spruik creates a brand identity inspired by the principles and aesthetics of the Bauhaus design movement.

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Women in Design . . . Donna Maxwell

The Studio Relay: Passing the Leadership Baton in Design is written by Donna Maxwell, an independent consultant with a mixed background in marketing, design, and management.

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Women in Design . . . Rosie Holt

In the lead up to Women In Design Day we are chatting with our workshop facilitators.
Rosie Holt is a high-performance business coach who will facilitate the workshop “From Concept to Clicks: Marketing for Designers”. Click to learn more!

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Special Announcement: We Are Joining Forces with CX Collective!

We are delighted to reveal that we are joining forces with CX Collective for 2025! 

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Under the Hood: Women in Design with Helen Milner

Ahead of our Under the Hood: Women in Design webinar we learnt more about one of our speakers, Helen is an independent brand strategist and creative practitioner based in Te Whanganui a Tara – Wellington, with a passion for raising the reputation of her clients and Aotearoa through branding.

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Women in Design . . . Alice Murray

A graphic designer passionate about visual communication, Alice was an Associate Partner at Pentagram London for the last seven years. She is now freelancing in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Women in Design . . . Kim Pick

Kim Pick, Group Executive Creative Director, VML New Zealand tells us what makes her passionate about the creative industry and what she hopes for the future of design in Aotearoa.

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Fresh From The Field: Arrowtown Golf Club — By Studio South

Studio South has designed an unique set of logos and collectible souvenir emblems inspired by local heritage architecture and gold mining typography.

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Under the Hood: Women in Design with Becca O’Shea

Ahead of our Under the Hood: Women in Design webinar we learnt more about one of our speakers, Becca O’Shea a freelance multidisciplinary designer and illustrator based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.

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Women in Design . . . Annie Dow

Today we are chatting with Annie Dow the founder and owner of Dow Goodfolk and Brother Design and a passionate and vocal expert on the value of branding and believes creative and strategic excellence transforms brands, her mantra of ‘Design Delivers Value’ is legendary within the industry.

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