University of Auckland | reDesign Graduate Showcase 2024
Please join University of Auckland to celebrate the future of design at their annual graduate exhibition. On public display for one day only!
reDesign Graduate Showcase 2024
Wednesday 23 October, 10am-6pm
Venue: University of Auckland Engineering Atrium, Level 3, Building 401.
Main entry via 5 Grafton Road and alternative entrance via 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City. Paid parking is available across the road at the Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road. More parking info.
Inspiring a new generation of purpose-led designers
The Design Programme at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland challenges traditionally siloed design disciplines, exploring the power of design thinking across various industries. Design is one of the only disciplines that bridges many fields, and it is at this intersection that great things are possible.
The reDesign Graduate Showcase features work by our graduating students. It is a key opportunity for the public to view students’ investigations into various social, environmental and political issues.
You can visit the online portfolio of work and research from graduating Design students, reDesign. The digital platform supports our graduates and includes design projects from our 2022-2023 graduating students.
Design without Limits – SquareKicker Masterclass | Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland | DA x Squarespace
You’re invited to Creative Journeys: Design Without Limits. A SquareKicker masterclass powered by Squarespace and Design Assembly.
Join the SquareKicker team for an immersive masterclass on harnessing custom design to elevate your website’s impact.
SquareKicker is renowned for its no-code solutions, empowering professional designers on Squarespace with tools created right here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bring your laptop for a hands-on experience, using the tools live and gaining insights directly from the team behind SquareKicker.
Creative Journeys | Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland | DA x Squarespace
You’re invited to Creative Journeys: How Aotearoa NZ Designers & Creatives are crafting their own livelihoods powered by Squarespace and Design Assembly.
A live and FREE in-person event for the Aotearoa NZ creative community.
Our panel discussion will showcase five, self-employed Aotearoa NZ creatives and we’ll be exploring each of their different creative pathways, how they’ve navigated crafting a livelihood aligned with their values, digital tools for maintaining productivity, and the challenges that have shaped where they are today.
Panel Speakers:
- Evie Kemp | Independent Designer & Artist
- Becca O’shea | Freelance Multidisciplinary Designer & Illustrator
- Hannah & Nick Ippolito | Founders of Squarekicker
- Mark Easterbrook | Independent Copywriter & Creative Director
Light refreshments will be served.
T&Cs – by attending this event, you give permission for Squarespace to contact you
WORKSHOP: Elevating Design Leadership – From Maker to Mentor
WORKSHOP TĀMAKI MAKAURAU
Elevating Design Leadership: From Maker to Mentor
Do you manage people or lead a team in your role?
Design Assembly presents a workshop to support you to navigate the challenges and opportunities you face leading people in your work. We all can remember the best and the worst boss we ever had. If your job is only as good as your boss, how do we give our leaders the right skills to support their people well?
In a profession that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of creativity, your role goes beyond just being a manager of people. It’s about becoming a coach, a mentor, and a catalyst for growth. If people grow, studios and the work grows. The ability to lead, inspire, and guide your people can make all the difference.
In this workshop, we will focus on practical strategies to help you transition from being a manager to a mentor and coach by giving you essential skills such as;
- Setting Clear Expectations: Establish clear and actionable expectations for your team.
- Mastering Key Coaching Conversations: Discover three key coaching conversations to drive alignment and performance.
- Having Productive Coaching Conversations: Learn a model for conducting productive coaching conversations and transform from a boss to a coach.
- Practical Strategies to Drive Engagement: Only 22% of staff are engaged in NZ, learn how to make your team hum.
- Adjusting Leadership and Communication: Adapt your leadership and communication style to meet your team members’ needs, enhancing results and creativity.
- Enhancing Team Initiative and Responsibility: Learn strategies to lift your team’s initiative, freeing you up to work on your business rather than in it.
Who is the workshop for?
Anyone who has a direct report.
Creative leads, senior designers, design directors, creative directors, studio managers, account managers and studio owners
What You Will Get
- A Coaching Framework and Toolkit: Receive an easy-to-use coaching framework, conversation guide, and toolkit to enhance your management and coaching capabilities.
- Practical Application: Gain hands-on experience with coaching techniques and tools in a workshop setting, ready to apply with your team. This is not just theory; it’s the practical application of tools used in organisations worldwide.
- Comprehensive Notes and Tips: Take away detailed notes and actionable tips developed from 20+ years of leadership and coaching experience.
Previous workshops’ feedback from the DA community:
“I found the example coaching questions included very helpful and will try to incorporate them in to my catch-ups with my team. I would be keen on my team also doing the questionnaire for themselves as I found there were helpful insights in my report and was surprised by some of them.” – Mary Adams, Pōneke workshop attendee
“Smaller group, workshopping with different partners, Jase kept it very work-related. It was very encouraging and motivating.” – Camilla Lau, Pōneke workshop attendee
Cost of Workshop
Non-member $350+gst+bf
Member: $250+gst+bf (with access code)
FREE for Design Assembly PLUS Friends (with access code)
Meet your facilitator: Nigel King Kotuku High-Performance Coaching
Human Growth Igniter & Business Coach.
Nigel helps business owners and leaders get out of the weeds, reignite their passion for their profession, and build their capability to drive growth. With over 20 years of expertise in building high-performance teams, leadership development, sales and marketing, and business strategy, he brings a wealth of real-world knowledge and experience to his coaching.
As a Human Growth Igniter and business coach, Nigel leverages his extensive background in senior leadership roles locally and globally with companies such as Fonterra, KraftHeinz, Ziwi, Lion, and Comvita. A Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths coach, he is passionate about helping owners and management teams get unstuck, become better leaders, and build more engaged and productive teams. He has coached businesses and individuals across various industries, including design & advertising, FMCG, manufacturing & sales, law, and process engineering.
Not a DA Friend? Sign-up to help DA help you! We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA PLUS friend and would like to attend this workshop, email us for your access code.
reDesign seminar series: AI in Creative Industries Conference
The reDesign seminar series is a platform for experts and industry leaders from the fields of design, technology and social entrepreneurship to reveal insights into their work and ways of working.
These experts discuss topics that seek to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborative problem-solving. Find out about talks coming up and save your spot
DA Workshop | The Business of Design with Laura Feavearyear | Tāmaki Makaurau
Stepping out on your own can be daunting for even the most experienced designer, running a business calls for many hats to be worn every day along with doing the work. This course is designed to give you ideas and inspiration to get a head start into freelancing, with lessons and tricks I’ve learned along the way.
What do you get?
Practical first hand knowledge of running a successful business.
Worksheets to create and take home your own design process and generate leads.
Confidently put your best self out there to work with clients.
Who is this workshop for?
Anyone considering freelancing, whether you are junior or leaving agency life, looking to work from home, or fit work in around children.
Course outline
- Finding a niche | defining your ideal client
- Creating clear systems and processes
- How to build healthy relationships with clients
- Creating a killer lead magnet
- Selling value not time
Why should you learn from me?
I started my first design business 13 years ago to prove my eye disability was no barrier to doing design work and score me a job. Since that point I’ve always had my own clients, some I still have to this day. I’ve been fortunate to design a number of well known FMCG brands and much of that was due to my clear processes and knowing how to speak to people and build relationships.
Just being good at design is only half the equation when it comes to working for yourself. Balancing working in and on the biz is tricky and much of it can’t be taught at uni. It’s an on the job experience with plenty of ups and downs.
I now run a busy well known FMCG creative agency and I’d love to be able to pass on the learnings of a lifetime to other great creative brains in a fun collaborative environment.
See you there!
Laura
Costs for this workshop
DA Friend | Member $250.00 (plus gst + bf)
Non-member | $350.00 (plus gst + bf)
Not a DA Friend? Sign-up to help DA help you! We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA Friend and would like to attend this workshop, email info@designassembly.org.nz for your access code.
Want to see this workshop in your region?
Register your interest for early 2024, email kate@designassembly.org.nz with name, location, how many of your team are interested and if you are a DA Friend member or not.
Streamtime and DBC Happier, Healthier Business Canvas Workshop | Tāmaki Makaurau
The Happier, Healthier Business Canvas is a tool developed by Streamtime CEO Andy Wright and Design Business Council’s Carol Mackay and Greg Branson.
Following years of creative agency business management and consulting and building on more recent research and accreditation in workplace wellbeing, Carol, Greg and Andy have joined forces to create a diagnostic tool to help manage happier, healthier creative businesses.
While there are many ‘tools’ and ‘business models’ out in the world, the team recognised that a holistic profitability and wellbeing canvas with relevance for the nuances of creative businesses – was missing.
In this workshop, Andy will share the use cases for the canvas.
You will learn:
- The principles behind running a business making a healthy profit with happy people.
- Where to start when addressing the challenges in your business, what questions to ask, what data to interrogate and what to do next.
- Example scenarios including: how to manage an underperforming junior designer, how to address being busier than ever without the profit to show for it, how to work out if you can afford to expand the team.
- How to use the canvas and ‘workshop’ a specific problem relating to your current business challenges.
- How others are tackling their challenges, in a confidential, not outside these walls space.
All attendees will receive a PDF copy of the canvas along with qualifying questions and context for each element.
This workshop is for:
- Creative industry business owners
- All management and leadership levels
- People with direct reports
- The canvas covers the balance between individual leader strengths, business models AND team strengths, motivations and areas for development. If these (or some of) fall under your remit, then this workshop is for you.
This workshop will be followed by the Tāmaki Makaurau edition of the DA LUNCH CLUB. Book them back-to-back here for an immersive day out working on yourself and / or your business.
See this link to the DA Lunch Club event.
Costs for this workshop
DA Friend | Member $350.00 (plus gst + bf)
Non-member | $450.00 (plus gst + bf)
Not a DA Friend Member?
Sign-up to help DA help you. We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA Friend and would like to attend this workshop, email info@designassembly.org.nz for your access code.
Want to see this workshop in your region?
Register your interest for 2025, email kate@designassembly.org.nz with name, location, how many of your team are interested and if you are a DA Friend member or not.
DA Lunch Club 2024 with Never Not Creative | Tāmaki Makaurau
Join your creative and design industry peers for the 2024 edition of the DA Lunch Club brought to you by Never Not Creative.
You will get:
You’ll be fed a delicious lunch, meet and connect with like-minded people and continue your life-long learning on the topic of Design &…Business from two established practitioners in the field.
Event Talk and Discussion Outline:
Founded in 2018, Never Not Creative is dedicated to improving the mental wellbeing of people working in creative businesses, teams, and alongside the creative industry.
This year’s edition of the DA Club centres around the question:
“How do we create psychological safety in our industry and our workplaces?”
Never Not Creative has been investigating the mental wellbeing of the creative, media and marketing industries since 2018. While improvements in understanding and stigma have been observed, there’s still plenty of work to do.
Andy Wright, founder of Never Not Creative will be sharing early insights into the latest Mentally-Healthy 2024 research.
You will learn about topics such as:
- How workplace culture and role design affects wellbeing
- The stressors that contribute to anxiety and depression levels
- What a mentally-healthy culture and ways of working look like in 2024
Following the insights, Andy will be joined by Donna Maxwell from RunningMate and together they will facilitate a discussion with the room on initial reactions to the findings, sharing of good and bad practices and next steps from here.
This event is for:
- Designers and creatives interested in healthier cultures, accessibility, inclusion and opportunities.
- Creative and design business owners (and future business owners)
- People in management and leadership roles
- People with direct reports
This lunch event follows directly on from Andy’s morning workshop – The Happier, Healthier Business Canvas. Book them back-to-back here for an immersive day out working on yourself and / or your business.
Speakers:
Andy Wright, Never Not Creative – https://www.nevernotcreative.org/
Donna Maxwell, RunningMate – https://www.runningmate.co.nz/
DA Lunch Club costs
DA Friend | Member $69.00 (plus gst + bf)
Non-member | $99.00 (plus gst + bf)
Not a DA Friend Member?
Sign-up to help DA help you. We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA Friend and would like to attend this workshop, email info@designassembly.org.nz for your access code.
**Please note: By registering for this event, you give Never Not Creative and Streamtime permission to contact you via email. You will have the ability to opt out.
Want to see this event in your region?
Register your interest for 2025, email kate@designassembly.org.nz with name, location, how many of your team are interested and if you are a DA Friend member or not.
Additional Event Partners:
DA Workshop | Redesigning Aotearoa with Johnson McKay, Raukura Huata & Sarai Morris Tāmaki Makaurau
Design Assembly presents the 2024 module of Johnson McKay’s ever-popular Te Ao Māori workshops.
Johnson has updated the content for this year’s full-day workshop to keep it current and make it relevant to everyone; whether you are just starting out on your Te Ao Māori journey or have attended his workshops in the past.
You will enjoy the inspirational and hospitable surroundings of the amazing Te Noho Kōtahitanga Marae at Unitec’s Mt Albert Campus and come away with new insights and knowledge about incorporating Te Ao Māori into your design practice.
Feedback from previous workshops
“Really loved the workshop. I wish I had been able to do the second day. I feel like it was a great day, and really want to do more now. Will be looking out for more workshops to attend. I would definitely recommend it to others.”
“The best course or workshop I’ve been to in 10 years. Informed, engaging and hyper-authentic presenters in Johnson and Sarai.”
Here is the outline for Redesigning Aotearoa 2024
Ira workshops are a space devoted to dynamic exchange of insights and expertise for delivering brands, products, service and experiences through a te ao Māori lens. Delivered by Ira, a leading strategic brand and creative agency, Redesigning Aotearoa helps build a vibrant knowledge community, inspired by the wisdom and creativity of te ao Māori.
By 2050 1/3 young people in New Zealand will be Māori. Our systems and institutions presently cater to a non-Māori majority, which have historically excluded Māori. Brave organisations are going through transformation to better serve and engage the future leaders of Aotearoa. This workshop explores key case studies and principles in how to support this cultural transformation through:
– Best practice in culturally-meaningful brand strategy that respects the role of indigenous rights and Māori as strategic partners.
– Building strong work cultures and experiences to harness the potential of diverse people to deliver better together.
– Culturally authentic inclusion of Māori visual language, te reo Māori and storytelling to better express an inclusive Aotearoa and engage Māori audiences.
– The role of tikanga Māori in the co-design and delivery of culturally impactful and authentic work.
– How to create processes that protect against cultural appropriation and safe protection of cultural taonga.
An overview of the workshop
We are fortunate to host you in the beautiful Unitec Marae – Te Noho Kōtahitanga, in which you will receive a traditional welcome and cultural practices throughout the day.
If you wish to, please bring a small snack to share for morning tea as part of the cultural practices of the day.
8.45am Pōwhiri | Welcome
9am Historical Context, Future Thinking
10-10:15 am Morning Tea
10:15am Te Ao Māori Cultural Practices
12-12:30 pm Lunch
12:30pm Cultural Strategy & Co-Design Principles
1:15pm Engaging Māori Audiences
2-4 pm Storytelling & Cultural Creativity
Meet our Workshop Facilitators
Redesigning Aotearoa is presented by three of Ira’s team, bringing diverse perspectives on delivering quality work alongside Māori co-design partners, communities, government and business.
Johnson McKay: Head of Strategy & Culture | Ira
Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Mahuta
Johnson has led the Ira team for 20 years, developing the models and strategies that enable the development of meaningful and lasting outcomes for many of New Zealand’s most loved and trusted brands.
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Raukura Huata: Engagement Strategist | Ira
Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Arawa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Porou
Raukura Huata has a dedicated career across the public and business sector, designing and delivering engagement strategies, aligning audiences, channels and content to deliver better outcomes for target audiences and communities.
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Sarai Morris: Co-Design & Deliver Lead | Ira
Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Mahanga
Sarai brings expertise in developing co-design models, bringing hapū, iwi and organisations together to define and deliver outcomes together.
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Costs for this workshop
DA Friend | Member $495.00 (plus gst + bf)
Non-member | $695.00 (plus gst + bf)
Not a DA Friend? Sign-up to help DA help you! We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA Friend and would like to attend this workshop, email info@designassembly.org.nz for your access code.
Want to see this workshop in your region?
Register your interest for early 2024, email kate@designassembly.org.nz with name, location, how many of your team are interested and if you are a DA Friend/member or not.
DA Event | Women in Design DAY | Design and You
Design Assembly is excited to introduce the inaugural DA Women in Design Day (Design and You) 2024 — an annual event dedicated to fostering community, celebration, and education among women in the design industry in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The talks will explore the theme ‘The personal is political: How has your background, life experiences and values shaped your design practice to live a life in design?
Featuring women in design;
- Sarah Baker | Media Design School
- Laura Cibilich | Founder/Design Director at RUN
- Zoe Ikin | Experience Design Director at ASB Bank
- Desna Whaanga-Schollum | Mātauranga Māori / SciComm / Mahi Toi
The four talks will be followed by a panel and Q&A session led by Louise Kellerman (Founder and Creative Director of Design Assembly)
The day promises a dynamic exchange of ideas, with talks and discussions, followed by lunch and optional activities.
All food and activities included in the ticket price.
DA Women in Design Day aims to connect individuals, providing a platform for sharing inspiration, information, and ideas plus space to pause and reflect on your own practice.
Costs for Women in Design Day
DA Member price per person | $250.00 (save $100 with access code)
Non-member price per person | $350.00
DA Member | Half table of 4 people | $850.00 (save $150 with access code)
Non-member | Half table of 4 people | $1250.00 (save $150)
DA Member | Whole table of 8 people | $1650.00 (save $350 with access code)
Non-member | Whole table of 8 people | $2450.00 (save $350)
Return coach transfers from a central Auckland city location to Bracu are available for $40 per person.
Please purchase your coach ticket at the same time as buying your event ticket.
Stay tuned for the full event schedule.
This event is for all who identify as female. We look forward to seeing you on the day!
Thanks for our social media partners ‘Likeable Lab’
If you have any questions or are a DA member and would like to receive your access code, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing kate@designassembly.org.nz
If you would like to sign up as a Design Assembly member then please visit https://designassembly.org.nz/friends or email info@designassembly.org.nz
Design for Health Symposium 2023
This year, AUT’s D4H symposium will explore how designers work with communities to bring their solutions to life, with a specific focus on rangatahi as the leaders of the future.
Date & Location:
Wednesday 6th December, 9am to 5.30pm (registration opens at 8.30am.)
WG308, The Wave Room, AUT City Campus, 55 Wellesley St East, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Tickets:
$50 Academics/Professionals
$20 Community/NGOs
$10 Students
Get tickets at the Good Health Design website
Unitec | DCA Gradshow
The Unitec Graduate Showcase is being held 23-25 November with the opening night held on 23 Nov.
ReDesign | University of Auckland Graduate Showcase
The Design Programme at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland challenges traditionally siloed design disciplines, exploring the power of design thinking across various industries. Design is one of the only disciplines that bridges many fields, and it is at this intersection that great things are possible.
The ReDesign Graduate Show exhibition features work by University of Auckland’s graduating students. It is a key opportunity for the public to view their students’ investigations into various social, environmental and political issues.
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 November 2023
Design Studios, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City.
Open daily from 10am to 4pm.
Free admission, all welcome.
SPRING CONVERSATIONS: Design & New Horizons | Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Join us at Spring Conversations: Design & New Horizons to explore that which exists beyond our line of sight – past the immediate and the obvious.
Together, we will examine, discuss and expand our individual and collective ideas about design – What is it? What could it be? Where does its value lie now, and next?
This season, we’re shaking Spring Conversations up with dynamic workshop formats, designed to give you a chance to chat, debate and connect with your local design community and explore fresh ideas that will shape the future of design.
Why should you attend our Spring Conversations?
Inspiration: Hear from others as they provoke, interrogate and engage with their interpretation of the future of design.
Active Participation: Engage in a hands-on workshop where you’ll collaborate with fellow designers to envision the future of design.
Collective Insight: We’ll reconvene to share insights, ideas, and possibilities, considering what steps we can take together as a community.
Our speakers:
Karl Wixon: A founder and award-winning leader who designs futures and makes shift happen.
James Walton: A managing director who loves to challenge convention and explore innovative pathways for the future.
Billy Baxter: A well-travelled, passionate and multi-awarded crafter and design director.
Raul Sarrot: A multi-disciplinary designer, strategist, educator and design coach.
Event Schedule:
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Arrival and networking
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Welcome and inspiring conversations
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Workshop the future
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm: Collective discoveries and closing
Ticket Prices:
Members: $20 (+GST and BF)
Non-Members: $45 (+GST and BF)
Light refreshments included
Spring into action now to book your spot. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
AUTUMN CONVERSATIONS | Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
DA Autumn Conversations is all about connecting people to people and people to ideas.
We will explore this year’s theme of “Design and Planet” through discussions around planet-centered design and educating clients about sustainable practices.
The format for the evening will include talks from our 3 featured speakers followed by a Q&A with all of the speakers.
Featured Speakers:
- Antonia Estall, Creatives for Climate | Talk title: Global perspectives on the design industry as a force for Climate impact | As the Asia-Pacific Lead for Creatives for Climate and a Textile Designer, Antonia is deeply committed to climate advocacy. Antonia brings a unique blend of skills to her work. Her passion for driving change through creative climate action is fueled by her diverse heritage from Cook Island and her Irish roots. Antonia’s mission is to approach climate justice with an intersectional lens, making a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change
- Kyoko Locussol | Talk Title: Green Code of Conduct: How to be sustainable in the digital world | Kyoko is a Senior Experience Designer at AKQA. Over the past 7+ years, Kyoko has developed extensive skills in user research, with a focus on empathy, collaboration and insights. In recent years, she has developed a new passion for digital sustainability after discovering the impact the digital world has on the environment. She is determined to create awareness around the topic, and set new design standards that place people and the planet at the heart of the solution.
- Bryce Groves | Talk Title: Who speaks up for nature? Crafting insight into awareness campaign | Bryce is a Creative Director focused on amplifying changemaking projects with best-practice creative. He is a convenor of the Kiwis in Climate network, and recently completed a 1.5-year contract at Greenpeace Aotearoa.
- Raul Sarrot | Convenor | Raul Sarrot is a multi-disciplinary designer, strategist, educator and design coach who specialises in helping enterprises incorporate meaningful design into all areas of their organisations. His international experience has been forged over 30 years working alongside a wide range of commercial and not-for-profit clients in South America, Europe and the Pacific. Raul is the Founder and Director of Freshfish, a boutique studio specialising in strategy, branding and innovation and is a part-time Senior Lecturer in a variety of design-related papers at AUT. After hours, Raul is a multi-instrumentalist musician, an experimental pizzaiolo chef and a proud father of three ‘wild on Waiheke’ grown-up teenagers!
Event Schedule:
- 5:30pm – Doors open
- 6pm – Talks start followed by Q&A session
- 7.30pm – Event concludes
Join us to be inspired, learn new things and be challenged by fresh ideas.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ticket costs
DA Friends | $20+gst+fees
Non-members | $40+gst+fees
Not a DA Friend? Sign-up to help DA help you! We’ve got options for everyone.
If you’re a DA Friend and would like to attend this event, email info@designassembly.org.nz for your access code.
Thanks to BJ Ball for keeping everyone fed!
Whitecliffe Graduate Showcase | GD23
Whitecliffe Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphic Design) Graduate Exhibition.
Opening: Tuesday 5 December 2023, 5pm to 7.30pm
Open day: Wednesday 6 December 2023, 10am to 3pm
Open day: Thursday 7 December 2023, 10am to 3pm
Address: Whitecliffe, Form Gallery, 67 Symonds St, Grafton
*GD23 poster design by Briea Bentham and James Parker
MDS XXV | 2023 Graduate Show
Join Media Design School in commemorating this milestone of innovation and artistic brilliance, acknowledging not only their soon-to-be graduates but also over two decades of excellence in creative education. Come and mark this historic moment with them and their students to celebrate all the things our community have done, as we look ahead to all of the opportunities that the next 25 years hold!
Friday 17th November; 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm
This year’s Graduate Show will take place on MDS campus across three floors and incorporate exhibitions across our three main degree offerings:
Ground Floor & Level 1:
Bachelor of Media Design & GDCT
Level 4:
Game Development
Māori Alumni Hui
Come and mark this historic moment with us and our students to celebrate all the things our community have done, as we look ahead to all of the opportunities that the next 25 years hold!
RSVP: https://www.mediadesignschool.com/events/mds-xxv-2023-graduate-show
MDS Showcase: https://www.mdsshowcase.com
AUT Art & Design Graduate Showcase
Come along to view and celebrate the work of the graduating students from AUT’s School of Art and Design – Kura Toi a Hoahoa.
The student work represents the culmination of an educational experience, exploring a range of art and design topics, issues, approaches, and technologies.
Opening night: Thursday 16 November
WE & WM Buildings, AUT City Campus
27 & 40 St Paul St, Auckland CBD
Animation, Visual Effects and Game Design
WE Level 6
Opening hours: Thu 6pm-8pm / Fri 10am-5pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 7.30pm
Communication Design
WE531, WE504, WE505
Opening hours: Thu 5.30pm-8pm / Fri 10am-4pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 6pm
Fashion Design
Gallery 3
Opening hours: Thu 6pm-8pm / Fri 10am-5pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 7.30pm
Industrial Design
WM601C
Opening hours: Thu 6pm-8pm / Fri 11am-3pm / Sat 11am-3pm
Awards: 16 November, 7pm
Interaction Design
WE531, WE502, WE533
Opening hours: Thu 5.30pm-8pm / Fri 10am-4pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 6pm
Spatial Design
Gallery 2
Opening hours: Thu 6pm-8pm / Fri 10am-5pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 7pm.
Visual Arts
Gallery 1 / WM Level 4 / WM Level 5
Opening hours: Thu 6pm-8pm / Fri 10am-5pm / Sat 10am-4pm
Awards: 16 November, 6.30pm
DA Workshop Tāmaki Makaurau | Elevating Design Leadership: From Manager to Coach
DA WORKSHOP TĀMAKI MAKAURAU
Elevating Design Leadership: From Manager to Coach
Do you manage people or lead a team in your role?
Design Assembly presents a workshop to support you to navigate the challenges and opportunities you face leading people in your work. We all can remember the best and the worst boss we ever had. If your job is as only as good as your boss, how do we give our leaders the right skills to support their people well?
In a profession that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of creativity, your role goes beyond just being a manager of people. It’s about becoming a coach, a mentor, and a catalyst for growth. If people grow, studios and the work grows. The ability to lead, inspire, and guide your people can make all the difference.
In this workshop, we will focus on practical strategies to help you transition from being a manager to a coach by giving you essential skills such as;
- Setting clear expectations
- Briefing designers effectively to get great results
- Supporting your team with sensitivity. How do adapt your style to theirs to get the best from them
- Tackling potential sticking points and overcoming problems
- How to give constructive feedback to allow the design process and project to keep moving forward. The best managers set individualized expectations and give individualized feedback
- Discover how to align your leadership approach with your team’s needs and aspirations, ensuring that you not only get the results you desire but also nurture a culture of growth and creativity
Join us on this transformation and get ready to unleash the true potential of your design leadership skill set.
Who is the workshop for?
Anyone who has a direct report.
Creative leads, senior designers, design directors, creative directors, studio managers, account managers and studio owners
What you will get?
- Practice of the coaching techniques and tools in a workshop environment to then take back directly to your day to day role. This is not conceptual or theory, but practical application The three coaching conversations and the questions to ask your team
- Comprehensive reference notes built from 10 years of coaching leaders, of the tips and tricks to move from Manager to Coach
- A profile tool to help understand yours and your team’s learning, appreciation and communication styles to give you guides on how to adapt your coaching approach to the needs of your team
Previous workshops’ feedback from the DA community:
“I found the example coaching questions included very helpful and will try to incorporate them in to my catch-ups with my team. I would be keen on my team also doing the questionnaire for themselves as I found there were helpful insights in my report and was surprised by some of them.” – Mary Adams, Pōneke workshop attendee
“Smaller group, workshopping with different partners, Jase kept it very work-related. It was very encouraging and motivating.” – Camilla Lau, Pōneke workshop attendee
Cost of Workshop
Professional | Non-member $450+gst
DA Friend $350+gst (with access code)
Venue | Studio One Toi Tū, 1 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
Meet your facilitator: Jason Biggs — The Strengths Collective
Jason helps workplaces and their people hum through coaching, workshops and self-sustaining tools that help you short circuit the process and DIY. His method helps to identify and play to yours, your teams’ and your organisation’s strengths, have better, regular and more impactful coaching conversations, and focus on the important stuff. Jason has worked in the corporate sector for over 20 years, marketing brands like NESCAFE, KLEENEX and HUGGIES. He thrives helping people understand why they do what they do and to leverage this to get what they want. He’s a commercial guy at heart so that means delivering good business outcomes. In the last ten years he’s coached hundreds of people either as individuals or teams and worked with organisations such as Spark, Nestle, Freightways, New Zealand Blood Service, Chapman Tripp, Downer, Fonterra, Kiwicare, The Tile Depot.
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Thanks to our Design Assembly Partners BookPrint, mychillybin, Portfolio, Rocketspark and Streamtime.
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Brunch by the Bay
Come together at Brunch by the Bay in Auckland to connect with other local designers, hear from Laura Feaveryear about her design journey, and get practical advice from a panel of successful freelancers. Plus, enjoy some tasty brunch snacks alongside your fellow creatives. Use discount code DAFRIEND to get a discounted ticket
Featured Speaker:
Laura Feaveryear, Creative Jam
Panellists:
Ruth Lever, Rule Design
Sarah Marshall, Ahoy Studio
Harry Burt, Previously Unavailable
What you’ll get out of Brunch by the Bay:
More business confidence. Gain valuable insights from experienced freelancers and learn practical tips and strategies for managing your design business. Build your confidence and take control to achieve the profitability need for the life you want.
Connect with other freelance designers. Join us and take your business to the next level with the support of a community that understands your struggles and can help you succeed.
Inspiration. With Laura, you’ll gain fresh perspectives on processes and best practices in design. Design upskilling is a constant in the industry and as your skills grow, so too will your business.
Round table discussions
Skip the small talk with meaningful round table conversations at set place settings. Dive into topics that resonate with you, led by table hosts who understand the freelance design journey.
Doing Design Differently Auckland: Panel with George Aye
CoDesignCo, in collaboration with the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, presents the “Doing Design Differently Auckland: Panel with George Aye,” which critically examines the evolving landscape of social design in Australia and Aotearoa, emphasising ethical considerations.
George Aye, co-founder of Greater Good Studio, will be joined by panellists Cecelia Faumuina, Kaan Hiini, and Dr. Diana Albarrán González to discuss the challenges and opportunities of ethical design in the region.
AUCKLAND: User Interface (UI) Design Workshop
This workshop is hosted by our friends at UX Gym.
Learn how to design a user interface (UI) by learning how people understand and make decisions when using screen-based interfaces, and how to respond to this when making your own design decisions. In this course you put everything you learn into practice by creating your own interface design in professional design software.
How does it work?
This is an experiential course. You learn by doing. Our teaching methodology is built on giving you three building blocks for everything we cover:
1. Principles
You get the foundational theory behind the methods you learn – why we work the way we do. This is to give you a basis for further study or self-development and helps you judge how appropriate any method is for a given challenge, enabling you to alter a method as required or to develop your own methods as needed.
2. Methods
You get common design methods that make up a typical human-centred design process. These are practical ways of working that you can take away and start applying immediately.
3. Practice
You apply the principles and methods you learn on a project. This practical component is essential in making sure you can apply what you learn in the course to real life human behaviour and design problems.
Course outcomes
On completing the course you will:
- Have enough knowledge of UI design software to start designing an interface
- Have an understanding of how people understand and make decisions when using screen-based interfaces
- Understand the basic principles of good interaction design
- Be able to design a solid accessible and usable screen-based interface
- Understand the basics of how user interfaces are implemented
- Be able to document a UI design
In addition you receive:
- A certificate of completion if you attend the whole course and complete all the practical and theory portions of the course.
- Access to full online notes for the course and access to our community Slack channel to tap into the expertise and experience of our course alumni and facilitators.
What do you need?
You will need a laptop with the Chrome web browser installed. We provide all other necessary materials for this course.
On the day
We start at 9:30am and wrap up at 4:30pm with an hour for lunch at 12:30pm. Lunch is not provided, but we do provide coffee and healthy snacks.
Who is it for?
All are welcome and no prior design or coding knowledge is required to do this course. However, the course is primarily aimed at:
Non-UI designers and design graduates
Traditional designers who want to add UI design to their skill set or learn how to work better with their UI colleagues.
UX Designers
UX designers who want to expand into UI design or better understand UI considerations when doing digital design projects.
Strategists and analysts
Senior practitioners who want more insight into UI considerations when doing digital design projects.
Developers
Developers who want to build their UI design skills or learn how to work better with their UX and UI colleagues.
Product owners and project managers
Product owners and project managers who want a better understanding of UI design in order to collaborate with and manage their UI colleagues better or to get better outcomes for their digital products and projects.
AUCKLAND: Design Research Workshop
Our friends at UX Gym are hosting this Design Research workshop
A practical introduction to user or customer research. Learn the theory and practise the methods of modern design research as you design a research project from scratch, implement it, analyse the findings, and communicate the insights you discover.
How does it work?
This is an experiential course. You learn by doing. Our teaching methodology is built on giving you three building blocks for everything we cover:
1. Principles
You get the foundational theory behind the methods you learn – why we work the way we do. This is to give you a basis for further study or self-development and helps you judge how appropriate any method is for a given challenge, enabling you to alter a method as required or to develop your own methods as needed.
2. Methods
You get common design methods that make up a typical human-centred design process. These are practical ways of working that you can take away and start applying immediately.
3. Practice
You apply the principles and methods you learn on a project. This practical component is essential in making sure you can apply what you learn in the course to real life human behaviour and design problems.
Course outcomes
On completing the course you will:
- Have a good grasp of basic design research principles
- Be able to identify research needs and design a programme of work to meet those needs
- Be able to conduct observational and semi-structured interview-based field work
- Be able to analyse the data collected from your field work
- Be able to present those findings in the manner most appropriate for their intended use and audience
In addition you receive:
- A certificate of completion if you attend the whole course and complete all the practical and theory portions of the course.
- Access to full online notes for the course and access to our community Slack channel to tap into the expertise and experience of our course alumni and facilitators.
What do you need?
All materials are provided. This course is process focused, not tool focused, so you don’t need to bring a laptop or other device, although you are welcome to do so if you wish. All you need to bring is your attention and enthusiasm!
On the day
We start at 9:30am and wrap up at 4:30pm with an hour for lunch at 12:30pm. Lunch is not provided, but we do provide coffee and healthy snacks.
Who is it for?
All are welcome and no prior knowledge is required to do this course. However, the course is primarily aimed at:
Decision makers
Anyone involved in making decisions for product, UX, or service design who wants to learn how to generate reliable evidence-based insights to inform those decisions.
Designers and design graduates
Product, service, and UX designers who want to add research to their skill set.
Strategists and analysts
Senior practitioners who want to gain an understanding of generating user or customer insights.
Product owners and project managers
Product owners and project managers who want a better understanding of how research decisions are made.
People exploring career transition
People from other professional backgrounds who want to explore transitioning into user or customer research.
AUCKLAND: UX Crash Course
Our friends at UX Gym are hosting this UX Crash Course workshop in both Auckland and Wellington.
Get hands-on experience of a human-centred approach to UX design in this intensive one-day course. This course gives you a solid grounding in the principles and theories behind a modern, user-centred design process and practical experience taking a UX project from initial research to design to usability testing.
How does it work?
This is an experiential course. You learn by doing. Our teaching methodology is built on giving you three building blocks for everything we cover:
1. Principles
You get the foundational theory behind the methods you learn – why we work the way we do. This is to give you a basis for further study or self-development and helps you judge how appropriate any method is for a given challenge, enabling you to alter a method as required or to develop your own methods as needed.
2. Methods
You get common design methods that make up a typical human-centred design process. These are practical ways of working that you can take away and start applying immediately.
3. Practice
You apply the principles and methods you learn on a project. This practical component is essential in making sure you can apply what you learn in the course to real life human behaviour and design problems.
Course outcomes
On completing the course you will:
- Have a firm grasp on the principles behind user experience design to use as a base for further study
- Be able to identify if a project needs research
- Be able to design and conduct semi-structured user/customer interviews
- Have a solid grounding in basic information architecture and user interface design principles
- Be able to design and run basic usability tests
In addition you receive:
- A certificate of completion if you attend the whole course and complete all the practical and theory portions of the course.
- Access to full online notes for the course and access to our community Slack channel to tap into the expertise and experience of our course alumni and facilitators.
What do you need?
All materials are provided. This course is process focused, not tool focused, so you don’t need to bring a laptop or other device, although you are welcome to do so if you wish. All you need to bring is your attention and enthusiasm!
On the day
We start at 9:00am and wrap up at 4:30pm with an hour for lunch at 12:30pm. Lunch is not provided, but we do provide coffee and healthy snacks.
Who is it for?
All are welcome and no prior knowledge is required to do this course. However, the course is primarily aimed at:
Digital designers
Web, interaction, and UX designers who want to build on their UX skills, put into practice approaches they have read about, adopt a user-centred design approach, or better their understanding of the principles behind common UX design methods.
Graphic designers and design graduates
Traditional designers who want to transition into digital design or learn how to work better with their UX colleagues.
Strategists and analysts
Senior practitioners who want to gain an understanding of the principles of user experience design and experience how those principles are practised on the ground.
Developers
Developers who want to build on their UX skills or learn how to work better with their UX colleagues.
Product owners and project managers
Product owners and project managers who want a better understanding of how a user experience design approach can get them better outcomes on their products and projects.
People exploring career transition
People from other professional backgrounds who want to explore transitioning into human-centred or user experience design.
Auckland | DA Lunch Club
This winter edition of the DA Lunch Club is for all those who work in management and leadership roles within Aotearoa NZ creative businesses.
Join us for a delicious meal while we connect with leaders in the creative industry and learn from our featured speakers who’ll be sharing and discussing what healthy creative businesses look like.
Special Guests:
Andy Wright, CEO of Streamtime will be our keynote speaker all the way from Sydney. Andy is the creator of the Never Not Creative community and co-chair of the creative, media and marketing industry Mentally-Healthy Change Group. Never Not Creative runs mental health support groups for creatives, mentoring initiatives, events a podcast, and the Never Not International Women’s Day platform. He’s been working in the creative industry for many years. From running the local offices of global agencies like Interbrand and R/GA, he was also an original co-founder of For The People in Sydney.
He’s run successful and award-winning projects for GOMA, Australia Post, Telstra and Streamtime. It’s the latter where Andy now spends his time as CEO of the project management software business, with a mission to create healthier creative businesses.When not doing any of the above, you might find him somewhere in Scandinavia chasing the Aurora Borealis and a bit of peace and quiet.
Eddy Royal, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Curative. After a decade in advertising, Eddy Royal founded Curative in 2012 knowing that stories, well told, can be a powerful force for change. She guides, focuses and inspires the team to find creative solutions for complex social issues, and nurtures the brave partnerships that allow Curative to push creative boundaries. Eddy does all this while also being a founding board member for the newly established D*List – (an online culture magazine by and for disabled people in Aotearoa), and counts her most important role as māmā to her beautiful little girl Luka.
Keynote Talk with Andy Wright:
What does a happy, healthy creative business look like? There are many metrics for understanding what makes our businesses profitable.
We look at utilisation, productivity, awards won, client profitability.
These metrics tell half the story, but what about the other half? The health and happiness of our people? The capacity of our managers and leaders to lead? The systems and processes that contribute to healthy and not unhealthy outcomes.
Join Andy Wright, CEO of Streamtime and Founder of Never Not Creative, as he unpacks learnings from research partnerships with mental health leaders, conversations with creative business leaders and collaboration with The Centre For Transformative Work Design.
Tickets:
- DA Studio Friends and Individual friends – $50 per person (Friends: use the special access link to get access to this ticket price )
- Professionals / Non-Members – $70 per person
**Please note: By registering for this event, you give Streamtime permission to contact you via email and you will have the ability to opt out.