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Culturally Authentic Creative Practice and Process Grow your cultural understanding for how to shape great brands, design, creative and storytelling through culturally authentic co-design process and practice. Experience & Benefits […]

5 months ago by Iris Kalff

Cultural Intelligence for Strategic Thinkers & Change Makers Learn how to influence the creation of strategy, organizational culture, communications and storytelling through culturally intelligent processes that deliver authentic and impactful […]

5 months ago by Iris Kalff

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

1 year ago by Jess Lowcher

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.

1 year ago by Design Assembly

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.

1 year ago by Donna Maxwell

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

2 years ago by Design Assembly

Kia ora Friends! We’re back from the summer holidays feeling fresh and excited for what’s in store this year for our Design Assembly community. Here’s the events and workshops we […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Design Assembly is thrilled to invite expressions of interest from passionate individuals to join us in nurturing and inspiring Aotearoa New Zealand’s design community through our 2024 workshop program. At […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

The ‘Discover your Designer DNA’ workshop series with Leadership Performance Coach, Jason Biggs, is happening in March 2023 this year across Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. In this workshop individuals will […]

3 years ago by Jess Lowcher

The ‘Discover your Designer DNA’ workshop series with Leadership Performance Coach, Jason Biggs, is happening in March 2023 this year across Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. In this workshop individuals will […]

4 years ago by Jess Lowcher

This week we sat down with our friends over at Springload to learn a little more about their upcoming workshops and trainings in Content and UX. Whether you’re a career […]

4 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Join Louise Kellerman from Design Assembly and Andy Wright from Streamtime as they walk you through what to expect from their Stronger Better Happier Studio Program. Louise and Andy will […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our June 16 Workshop: No signal found – creating great campaigns without TV in Wellington we asked facilitator Chrissie Malloch to share a recent campaign Strategy Wellington was […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our June 16 Workshop: No signal found – creating great campaigns without TV in Wellington we spoke with facilitator Chrissie Malloch to learn about her background, common campaign […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our upcoming Te Ao Māori and Designing a Culturally Authentic Aotearoa events in Auckland and Wellington, we invited workshop facilitator Johnson Mckay, to share some recent mahi. Manatū […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Today, in collaboration with our partners Streamtime we are delighted to announce the launch of a hybrid online course for agency owners. Titled Stronger, Better, Happier, the program helps agency […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Who are these workshops for? This course has been designed to help studios large or small with continuous improvement of the things that keep an agency running well – clear […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

In today’s 5 minutes with… we are excited to introduce one of our favourite writers Mark Easterbrook. Mark collaborated with DA on the 2020 field guide, our most recent Be […]

5 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of his Wellington workshop on Friday 25th September 2020, we spoke to Raul Sarrot about The Value of Strategy in times of flux and disruption, staying ahead of the […]

6 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our Auckland DA Workshop: Building Digital Design Capabilities we caught up with our workshop facilitator Matthew Gould. Matt is the Auckland director of Lushai, co-founder of UX Gym and […]

6 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our Auckland DA Workshop: Writing and Presenting for Designers we caught up with Jo Hanson senior account director at Principals, who has created a unique hybrid role for […]

6 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our Auckland: Planet Centric Design workshop, we spoke with the facilitator (& Circularity founder) Louise Nash about her journey from linear to closed-loop, disruptive bravery, and what participants can expect from […]

7 years ago by Louise Kellerman

The Circular Economy rethinks a linear take-make-dispose model of business, closing the loop, so resources are continuously repurposed. Circular systems are restorative and regenerative by design. They enable businesses to […]

7 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of our 31 August Auckland DA Workshop: ‘Keeping the pipeline filled: sales for creatives‘, our workshop facilitator – Sarah Ritchie – shares valuable intelligence on appreciating the real cost of […]

7 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Ahead of his upcoming UX gym workshops on Design Thinking and Service Design, we spoke with facilitator Richard Shed. Richard is a design lead with over 18 years of experience […]

7 years ago by Louise Kellerman