Fresh From The Field: Simon Lewis Wards – By Studio South

Fresh from the Field: Studio South shatters glass artist’s expectations by strengthening brand assets and increasing online revenue.  The brief Simon Lewis Wards is an established New Zealand glass artist, and sculptor. His works are well known for representing Aotearoa New Zealand candy nostalgia, along with fine art pieces that include Twisted Glass, and the […]

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Creative Journeys with Mark Easterbrook, Independent Copywriter & Creative Director

The Creative Journeys series, powered by Squarespace, delves into the experiences of five self-employed creatives – Evie Kemp, Becca O’shea, Mark Easterbrook and Hannah & Nick Ippolito – exploring their creative pathways. Find out how Mark has crafted a livelihood aligned to his values in the article below and watch his candid conversation with the […]

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Fresh From The Field: Novated Lease Australia — By Onfire Design

Replacing unfriendly and generic with simplicity and a memorable ‘n’ monogram. Onfire Design take us behind their rebrand work for Novated Lease Australia The Brief Car leasing for Australian professionals offers the opportunity to save them a lot of money over the car’s lifetime. Called Novated Lease, the principle is based upon a lease agreement […]

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Creative Journeys with Hannah & Nick Ippolito, Founders of SquareKicker

The Creative Journeys series, powered by Squarespace, delves into the experiences of five self-employed creatives – Evie Kemp, Becca O’shea, Mark Easterbrook and Hannah & Nick Ippolito – exploring their creative pathways. Find out how Hannah and Nick haves crafted a livelihood aligned to their values in the article below and watch their candid conversation […]

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Fresh From The Field — Bad Baker – By Dow Goodfolk

The Bad Baker team knew something wasn’t working and it was up to Dow Goodfolk to figure out what that was.

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Creative Journeys with Becca O’shea, Freelance Multidisciplinary Designer & Illustrator

The Creative Journeys series, powered by Squarespace, delves into the experiences of five self-employed creatives – Evie Kemp, Becca O’shea, Mark Easterbrook and Hannah & Nick Ippolito – exploring their creative pathways. Find out how Becca has crafted a livelihood aligned to her values in the article below and watch her candid conversation with the […]

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Creative Journeys with Evie Kemp, Independent Designer & Artist

The Creative Journeys series, powered by Squarespace, delves into the experiences of five self-employed creatives – Evie Kemp, Becca O’shea, Mark Easterbrook and Hannah & Nick Ippolito – exploring their creative pathways. Find out how Evie has crafted a livelihood aligned to her values in the article below and watch her candid conversation with the […]

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Between the Pages Edu Series: Examples of different binding styles

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 the binding styles on offer and the pros and cons of each. Key Takeaways: Keen for more book printing tips? Check out our previous articles […]

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Fresh from the Field – Puna Kōrero – by Unitec School of Creative Industries

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community.  Connecting the local community to the whenua and puna of Te […]

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Introducing Creative Journeys, powered by Squarespace

We are thrilled to announce “Creative Journeys”, powered by Squarespace, a free, in-person event taking place on 20 August in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. In this event and article series we delve into the experiences of five self-employed creatives – Evie Kemp, Becca O’Shea, Mark Easterbrook, and Hannah & Nick Ippolito – exploring each of their different […]

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Fresh From The Field — L&P Kia Pai Te Raumati – By Ira

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community.  Inviting people to answer “e haere ana koe ki hea?” Where […]

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Under the Hood with Jade Kake | Design & Te Ao Māori

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community. Ahead of our Under the Hood Design & Te Ao Māori online event happening […]

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Under the hood with Te Kani Price | Design & Te Ao Māori

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community. Ahead of our Under the Hood Design & Te Ao Māori online event […]

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Fresh from the Field – Te Pū Oranga Whenua – Threaded

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community.  Designing a tohu to represent a proudly wāhine-led collective in the […]

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5 mins with Aroha Tamihana: How language sparked the journey from Designer to Entrepreneur

Design Assembly loves to profile the breadth and depth of design practice in Aotearoa and this month we’re celebrating Māori design and designers. In today’s interview Aroha Tamihana shares a bit of her entrepreneurial Design journey that lead to founding Maimoa Creative. He uri au o ngā iwi Ngāti Raukawa rāua ko Ngāti Ranginui. Ko Maungatautari […]

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Fresh From The Field — Ngā tauira whai a Matariki (The string patterns of Matariki) – By RUN Aotearoa

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community.  Drawing inspiration from the game of Whai, Run Aotearoa walk us […]

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The Power of Te Taiao (Nature) as a Metaphor for Design 

Design Assembly loves to profile the breadth and depth of design practice in Aotearoa. This month we’re celebrating Design & Te Ao Māori with interviews, projects features , and thought leadership articles from and by Māori designers Nature and te ao Māori are words which feel relatively indistinguishable from one another, te ao Māori always […]

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Fresh From The Field — Toi Kai Rawa – By Taputapu Toi

For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the Aotearoa NZ Design community.  Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh […]

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Māori troublemakers disrupting design for good.

By Karl Wixon.  Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Moriori, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Pākehā. Co-Chair Ngā Aho Inc.  Kaiārahi & Managing Director ARAHIA pathfinders. For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought […]

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Fresh From The Field — Mānawatia a Matariki – By Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori – featuring interviews with Māori designers, project features spotlighting their work & design processes, to thought leadership articles that inspire and challenge the […]

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5 mins with Rachel Knight: the path that led to design & reconnecting with whakapapa.

Design Assembly loves to profile the breadth and depth of design practice in Aotearoa and this month we’re celebrating Māori design and designers. In today’s interview Rachel shares her journey of reconnecting with her whakapapa and the path that led her to pursue a career in Design. Ko Maukatere te mauka Ko Rakahuri te awa […]

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Design & Te Ao Māori

You may have noticed this year’s theme of ‘Design &…’ across Design Assembly. From Design & Women, Design & Planet, Design & Business and now as we move into the topic of Design & Te Ao Māori. For June & July we are focusing on Design & Te Ao Māori on the Design Assembly website – […]

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Fresh From The Field — Tohorā – By Daylight

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Aotearoa Design Assembly community. Creating a legacy for Sustainable Seas, Daylight walk us through their work for Tohorā – Aotearoa’s first public AI-powered research tool in the science sector. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The […]

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Exploring Vietnamese orthography, folk art, and family traditions through type | 5 mins with Abbey Luong

HUONG DISPLAY
by Abbey Luong has recently won an award at the Type Directors Club Young Ones Student Competition. Originally created as the final year project for Communication Design degree at AUT’s School of Art and Design, Huong Display explores Vietnamese orthography, folk art, as well as Abbey’s own family traditions. Abbey can you tell us […]

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Type Here: A call for Aotearoa’s best typography

Celebrating personal stories expressed through language, culture, and typography; Type Here is an Aotearoa typography poster competition, focussed on contemporary and expressive typography. ‘Following the unprecedented interest in the TDC Aotearoa exhibition over the past five years, we wanted to establish a creative competition, focussed solely on our own incredibly talented local designers’ – Lloyd […]

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