Articles

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.

9 months ago by Jess Lowcher

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.

10 months ago by Design Assembly

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.

10 months ago by Jess Lowcher

Take a journey through time and space with Ātea Nuku Paihia, an innovative and engaging way to discover and experience the rich heritage of Paihia.

11 months ago by Design Assembly

How do you create a design-centric brand for an IT company so it doesn’t feel like an IT company? Read on to find out.

1 year ago by Design Assembly

The Design& New Horizons theme explores that which exists beyond our line of sight – past the immediate and the obvious. Ahead of our Under the Hood: Design& New Horizons […]

1 year ago by Design Assembly

Ahead of our final Lunch & Learn webinar happening on 29 August, we caught up with our speaker Kyoko Locussol, Senior Experience Designer at AKQA.

1 year ago by Design Assembly

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. PHQ Studios walk us through their recent work creating Diamond […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

For the month of May we’re putting a focus on Design &…Business with featured thought leadership articles, events & workshops, and design projects from and for our community. You can check out more […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

For the month of May we’re putting a focus on Design &…Business with featured thought leadership articles, events & workshops, and design projects from and for our community. You can check out more […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Halloween gets special treatment at PHQ. Each year they create […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Each summer 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, […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Breathing life into the organisation’s work and outreach in a […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. With an entirely new brand redesign and digital design system […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

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 Lahiru […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

‘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 […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. With the development of bespoke webGl shaders and 3D interactivity, […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

This article was written by Lauren Skogstad | Head of Experience | Ngāti Raukawa who presented on this topic at Design Assembly’s Design & AI Autumn conversations event in Pōneke […]

3 years ago by Lauren Skogstad

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 […]

3 years ago by Alice Thompson

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, […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

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 […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

‘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 […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

In our ‘From The Edges’ series we feature Aotearoa NZ Academic Design Projects. Our practice as designers can be seen to be explored, pushed and perhaps become something entirely new […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

For designers, artists, and illustrators interested in dipping their toes into the NFT art world the NFT XFKTR art competition may be a good place to start. Entrants are free […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Comfort in web design is a wonderful thing. As a visitor, comfort makes it easy and enjoyable to experience the website. The biggest threat to comfort in website design is […]

3 years ago by Rocketspark