2023 Hot New Things: Fiona Brady, Victoria University Wellington – Te Herenga Waka

Each summer DA profiles a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. We welcome these talented emerging professionals to our industry, learn about their passions, final projects, developing creative confidence and ambitions for the future. Today we speak with Fiona Brady who studied Bachelor of Design Innovation majoring in Communication […]

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2023 Hot New Things: Loura Limjoco, Wintec, Spatial Design

Each summer DA profiles a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. We welcome these talented emerging professionals to our industry, learn about their passions, final projects, developing creative confidence and ambitions for the future. Today we speak with Loura Limjoco from Wintec. You can find out more about Aotearoa […]

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2023 Hot New Things: Eli Kingi, Victoria University Wellington – Te Herenga Waka

Each summer DA profiles a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. We welcome these talented emerging professionals to our industry, learn about their passions, final projects, developing creative confidence and ambitions for the future. Today we speak with Eli Kingi who studied Master of Design Innovation at Victoria University […]

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2023 Hot New Things: Audrea Ridwan, Media Design School

Each summer DA profiles a selection of the top design graduates coming out of our tertiary institutions. We welcome these talented emerging professionals to our industry, learn about their passions, final projects, developing creative confidence and ambitions for the future. Today we speak with Audrea Ridwan from Media Design School. You can find out more […]

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Meri Kirihimete!

Holiday mode engaged! The out of office emails are up and the DA HQ is now on break from 16 Dec – 16 Jan, so it’ll be quiet on here for the next few weeks while we dive into the holiday treats, detach from our computers, and spend some time in R&R mode. ☀️ Summer […]

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Fresh From The Field — ITM – By Strategy Creative

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Using real miniature models and real DIY goods available from ITM Kaikōura, the team at Strategy Creative walk us through their recent work on the clever campaign for ITM, ‘The stuff Kaikōura is made of’. Want […]

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Fresh From The Field — The Spinoff Covered – By Daylight

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. From artwork covering stolen hams to wealth inequality, Daylight Creative walk us through the creative campaign, The Spinoff Covers. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out the FFTF form here. The […]

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2022 year in review: Design content highlights from our Design Assembly community.

As we come to a close on 2022 we took a trip down memory lane. Here’s a 2022 snapshot highlighting some of the design work, interviews, and connection with our Aotearoa NZ design community this year . . . Join the community, get access to discounted events and workshops, and share your work by becoming […]

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2022 Grad Show Recaps

Check out some our partner school’s 2022 featured graduates and their work showcased at the EOY exhibitions around Aotearoa. 2022 Grad Show Preview – Media Design School’s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s graduate show at Media Design School, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow. Calais Soper: ‘Freckl’ […]

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Fresh From The Field — Downlow BBQ – By Daymark

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Borrowing from classic ‘Americana’ barbecue joint branding, our friends over at Daymark inject a heaping helping of personality and playful attitude into their recent strategy, naming, and brand development for Downlow BBQ. The brief The client […]

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2022 Grad Show Preview – “Pitch”Ara Graduate Show

A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s Ara graduate show, ‘Pitch‘ Tamara Camlek As a young Slovenian immigrant, growing up in 21st century Aotearoa, I experienced first-hand that being a bilingual individual in a predominantly monolingual society can be extremely challenging and confusing. A place where you belong explores the concept […]

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2022 Grad Show Preview – “Kaleidoscope” – Yoobee Creative Digital Design Students Exhibition

A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s graduate show a Yoobee’s Creative Digital Design Student Exhibition, Kaleidoscope, running on 8 Dec from 6:00-8:00 pm. Kat Urquhart Unmasking ADHD Neouro divesities are all around us yet many of us dont even know what they are. In discovering my own neurodiversity, my whole world has […]

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🔊 DA Conversations Podcast with Heath Lowe

‘Kia ora and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to Aotearoa NZ designers, hear their stories and celebrate their work.’ Heath Lowe is Executive Design Director and a founding partner of Special in New Zealand, now with offices in Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. Hailing from America’s Midwest, his […]

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RECAP: Type as Monument Event with Alistair McCready

Last Thursday, the Society of Experiential Design (SEGD), Isthmus Group and Design Assembly teamed up to host typographer and designer Alistair McCready. He shared his reflections from his book Type as Monument–taking us through his creative journey; from discovering typographic design, to how the landscape informs his practice. Alistair’s work is informed by the histories […]

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Fresh From The Field — Rockit Apple – By Special

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Special Group share their design response behind their disruptive print executions for Rockit Apple – a 2022 Best Awards finalist in Design Communication. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out […]

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Meet our friends … Daymark

‘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 Daymark to learn more about their studio team, culture, and design philosophy. After a fresh brew on the Moccamaster, you’ll find the multidisciplinary […]

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WATCH: Never Not Mentally Healthy Webinar

Andy Wright joined us to discuss the results of the 2022 Mentally Healthy Survey and see what we can do better to push our industry forward. This article is sponsored by our friends at Streamtime. The third Mentally Healthy survey set out to measure the mental health and wellbeing of the media, marketing and creative […]

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Fresh From The Field — Langbein Media website – By Flight Digital

  Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Crafted to feel like a favourite cookbook from your home collection, the team at Flight Digital developed a new brand narrative and website for Langbein Media Want to submit your own work to Fresh From […]

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Event: Born to Create – Celebrating Creative Women

Born to Create – Celebrating Creative Women is a series of inspirational talks with the purpose to give a voice to women who aspire to create a societal change and to invite women speakers who are already changing societal perceptions through their creative practice. Lucie Blaze hopes to create an inspirational series of talks from […]

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Design Careers: From Brand/Marketing to Product Design at Auror, here’s how one designer made the switch.

The idea of making a career transition can feel a bit daunting at times. That’s why we sat down with one of our DA Friends – William Lee from Auror – to chat about how he navigated making the switch and the key takeaways from his journey so far as a graphic designer turned product […]

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Fresh From The Field – Pinata Website Scene Renders – by Fox & Co Design

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Through the use of quirky, relatable objects along with a modern and minimalist approach, the team at Fox & Co share with us their design thinking behind 5 unique 3D scene renders for Pinata. Want to […]

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How creativity and design are transforming online learning

This article was written by Celeste Skachill, StudioC Co-founder and passionate co-designer.   Sitting in our little studio in the bush, a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city, I often reflect on how much easier remote work has become since the global pandemic. We’re all accustomed now to spending huge amounts of […]

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Fresh From The Field — Auckland Art Gallery membership promo video – By Pixelpush

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. From quirky geometric characters to impressionistic views of the Gallery’s space, Pixelpush take us behind their work creating a series of short videos centred around the list of membership benefits at the Auckland Art Gallery. Want […]

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From the Edges with . . . Renee Henry, Honours in Motion Graphics at Wintec

In our ‘From The Edges’ series we feature Aotearoa NZ Academic Design Projects. Our practice as designers can be seen to be explored, pushed and perhaps become something entirely new where it exists at the edges of our practice in the world of academia. Free from the constraints of commercial outcomes and clients, designers explore […]

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Meet our Friends . . . ZURU Edge

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. From playing fetch with the office pups to creating disruption in consumer goods categories, here’s what the inhouse creative team at ZURU Edge get up to during their work […]

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