Typefaces in Exhibition Spaces: There is no such thing as a New Zealand typeface at Objectspace
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture Curated by Wendy Kaplan and direct from Los Angeles County […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Floppy Disks, Flash and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How is Technology Changing Design?
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
Come Together: Design Societies, Professional Associations, Conferences, and Coworking
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
A Brush with Design: 10 Designers Dish on Their First Design Encounter — Shaun Lee
In the lead up to DA’s 10th birthday celebrations in March 2019, A Brush With Design asks 10 designers who have been involved with DA at various times to nostalgically recount their […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Visual Communication, Way Finding and Universities
Written by Professor Guy Littlefair Professor Guy Littlefair The Dean of the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT questions what role the university should have within design education […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
MāoriGrl, Kōwhai and Ngā Tohu o Te Kawerau a Maki: Some Things to See This Matariki
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture Every year in mid-winter Matariki rises into the sky, providing […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Permission to be Creative: 7 things I learned from 7 years of the 100 Days Project
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 […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
A Brush with Design: 10 Designers Dish on Their First Design Encounter — Abhi Topiwala
In the lead up to DA’s 10th birthday celebrations in March 2019, A Brush With Design asks 10 designers who have been involved with DA at various times to nostalgically […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
Our Wahine, Are we there yet? And WANTOK: Celebrating Women during Suffrage 125
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture This year marks 125 years since New Zealand were “vigorously […]
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
“looking into the rear-view mirror”: Peter Haythornthwaite, Design Generation
Written by Lana Lopesi Graphic Matters is a monthly column on issues and ideas related to New Zealand Design Culture We’re in the last few weeks of Peter Haythornthwaite: Design […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
A Brush with Design: 10 Designers Dish on Their First Design Encounter — Becca O’Shea
In the lead up to DA’s 10th birthday celebrations in March 2019, A Brush With Design asks 10 designers who have been involved with DA at various times to nostalgically […]
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
Collaborative approaches breaking tradition in art and design: In conversation with Photographer Mark Purdom and Designer Alan Deare
Written by Holly Russell Design strategies and a to-and-fro approach towards collaboration saw Photographer Mark Purdom and Designer Alan Deare produce Mimetic, an award winning entry to this years’ New […]
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
A Brush with Design: 10 Designers Dish on Their First Design Encounter — Louise Kellerman
In the lead up to DA’s 10th birthday celebrations in March 2019, A Brush With Design asks 10 designers who have been involved with DA at various times to nostalgically […]
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
From The Archives: Battling billboards
Late 2016 Michael Smythe explored the inescapable electoral design of street hoardings. Written by Michael Smythe What? Who? Why? Our eyeballs are assaulted. Our streetscapes are cluttered. There must be […]
6 years ago by Lana Lopesi
From The Archives: Making Matariki Multicultural
In 2016 Michael Smythe looked at the idea of making Matariki multicultural. Written by Michael Smythe Would developing Matariki as a cross-cultural Kiwi festival be yet another act of patronising […]
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