Fresh From The Field — New Zealand Police Community Car – By Bastion Shine
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. The power of “hello” is universal. Bastion Shine walk us through their recent work with New Zealand Police to better engage with the community. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Between the Pages Edu Series: Metallic Foiling & Spotgloss
We popped by our Friends at Bookprint to see how they make and print books right here in Aotearoa NZ. In this week’s series, David shares with us some different examples of how you can use metallic foiling and spotgloss in your cover designs. Hot foiling is a great way to embellish book covers for extra […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh from the Field – Dilmah “Flavours with Impact” – Brave Digital
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Breaking convention by freeing from the Dilmah wordmark, the team at Brave Digital walk us through their recent work developing the new ‘Flavours with Impact’ identity for Dilmah. Want to submit your own work to […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Inclusive and Accessible Design: More Than Just the Wheelchair Symbol
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. Don’t miss the upcoming ‘Creating Accessible & Inclusive Digital Design‘ workshop with Anh Duong happening in Pōneke on the 12th June. In the realm of accessibility, the discourse often […]
7 months ago by Anh Duong
Meet our Friends . . . Diadem
‘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 our friends, Diadem, to learn more about their team, culture, and work. Want to be a part of the community? Be a Friend here. Where […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field — Diamond Valley – By PHQ Studios
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 Valley, a fully customised web based RPG game for Google Play Korea. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
The Freelancing Diaries: Should I operate my creative business as a sole trader or set up a company?
This year we’ve teamed up with Hnry to bring you ‘The Freelancing Diaries’, a series helping freelancing creatives navigate self-employed life and find their version of financial success. This quarterly content series is chocka with freelancing business tips to help you navigate running a creative business, as well as de-mystifying some of the barriers for […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Under the Hood with Steve Hansen & Gareth Rice, Special Group | Design & AI
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 from the Design & Business series here. Ahead of our Under the Hood Design & AI online event happening on 2 May, we briefly chatted with two of our featured […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Pulse Check Survey
Kia Ora Aotearoa NZ, We’ve created an anonymous short survey to check in with our Aotearoa NZ design community – How are we doing right now? Where are we setting our sights to this year? And what’s our advice for other designers or studios right now? It should only take about 5 minutes to fill […]
7 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Isthmus’s Boudewijn Thomas on Parametric Urbanism
This article has been reshared from isthmus.co.nz 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 from the Design & Business series here Boudewijn Thomas trained as an architect in The Netherlands, before spending seven years […]
8 months ago by Isthmus
Under the Hood with Ben Forman | Design & AI
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 from the Design & Business series here. Ahead of our Under the Hood Design & AI online event happening on 2 May, we briefly chatted with one […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From the Field – Usai – by Tomorrow
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Connecting people through tea – Tomorrow walk us through their brand identity work for Usai Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out the FFTF form here. The Brief: Our brief […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
The Freelancing Diaries: Sharing the deep tea with motion designer Fraser Munro
This year we’ve teamed up with Hnry to bring you The Freelancing Diaries: a series helping freelancing creatives navigate self-employed life. From handy resource articles, free-to-attend live webinars, to sharing some of the real and raw journeys from our creative, self-employed community – we’re tackling some of the biggest freelancing woes, what to do about […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Design & Business: Decision-making under Pressure…
Join our Design Industry leadership events and workshops coming up this month – DA Lunch Clubs ( AKL & WLG ) and Happier, Healthier Business Canvas ( AKL & WLG ), and more here. 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 […]
8 months ago by Donna Maxwell
Fresh From The Field — Nutrideer – By Onfire Design
Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Onfire create a refreshed visual toolkit, tone-of-voice, and packaging that celebrates the core New Zealand Red Deer products for Nutrideer Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out the FFTF form […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
The Freelancing Diaries: The Pros & Cons of being a sole trader vs a company
Welcome back Friends! Thank you to all who have tuned in to this series over the last year. We hope you’ve come away with some handy knowledge and are feeling motivated, informed, and capable of growing the creative businesses of your dreams. It’s time to kick off our final chapter of the Freelancing Diary series […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
The planet’s calling. Who’s answering?
Reflections on Autumn Conversations — Design and Planet. For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. In our final article of the Design & Planet series, Mark Easterbrook shares a recap of his reflections & learnings from the […]
8 months ago by Mark Easterbrook
2024 Design & Business pulse check across the creative sector for Aotearoa NZ, Australia, and the UK.
For the month of May we’re putting a focus on Design &…Business with featured thought leadership articles, events & workshops, and design projects. Join our Design Industry leadership events and workshops coming up this month – DA Lunch Clubs ( AKL & WLG ) and Happier, Healthier Business Canvas ( AKL & WLG ) Overall, […]
8 months ago by Andy Wright
Design & … Business
You may have noticed this year’s theme of ‘Design &…’ across Design Assembly. From March’s Design & Women to April’s Design & Planet and now to as we move into the topic of Design & Business. For May & June we’ve got a line up of Design & Business resources for & from our community. […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Fresh From The Field – ‘The Wool Pot’ By Seachange Studio
For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Seachange Studio walk us through their recent brand work […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
How can I design a campaign encouraging consumers to participate in waste minimisation?
For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. This article was written by one of our Ōtautahi Autumn Conversation Speakers, Welma Sykes. Kia ora, hello and goeie dag. Two years ago, I embarked on a journey across the […]
8 months ago by Welma Sykes
Fresh From The Field — Talk Nature – By Bryce Groves
For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Bryce Groves was a featured speaker at our recent Design […]
8 months ago by Jess Lowcher
Inspiring Change: Design Assembly’s Final Autumn Conversations Session for 2024
Hosted in the TSB Room at Christchurch’s Tūranga Central Library, Design Assembly’s final Design & Planet event for 2024, focused on planet-centered design, was a night of inspiration, exploration and provocation. Playing to an audience of designers, students, and Design Assembly members, multi-disciplinary designer Raul Sarrot was pulling triple duty, MCing the event, as well […]
8 months ago by Jonathan Cotton
Fresh From The Field — Openly – By Hula
For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Developing a brand that is here to fight for […]
9 months ago by Jess Lowcher
The design industry as a force for climate impact, from pollution to solution
For the month of April we’ve put a special focus on projects and discussions around Design & Planet in alignment with our 2024 Autumn Conversations events. The author of this article, Antonia Estall, will be one of our featured speakers at the upcoming Pōneke Autumn Conversations event on 9 April. Keen to learn more about Greenwashing Tactics & how you […]
9 months ago by Antonia Estall