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A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s graduate show at Media Design School, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow running on 18 Nov from 3:00-8:00 pm. Calais Soper ‘Freckl.’ Freckles and moles can develop at any age. However, it is more common to develop them as a child, New moles, freckles and […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s Dunedin graduate show, ‘Beneath the Surface’ at Otago Polytechnic running 19-21 Nov. Hailey Cadzow  Website Project: Catch-Combat (game)  Description: In Catch-Combat the once-peaceful waterways around your island are now  infested with dangerous monsters! Fish them up and battle using real-time third person  combat. Work […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. With the use of ‘bright colours and bold design that buck the trend of craft paper and washed out earthy tones typical in the supplements sector’, Creative Jam walk us through their identity and packaging design […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

A snapshot of some of the featured students at this year’s Wellington Grad Show at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington running from 4-21 Nov. Interaction Design | Hoahoa ā-Pāhekoheko Student: Guadalupe Taboada Course: IXXN 331 Project: Check App Project blurb: Check is an app designed for self-breast-examinations and education, to provide tools, support and […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

The ‘In motion with’ series shines a light on some of the people who breathe life and action into design, Aotearoa NZ’s motion designers.  This week we sat down with Alexander Okhlopkov, Motion Designer and Art Director at Bunker.  From high tech rocket launch videos to founding an animation studio focused on preserving Arctic indigenous […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Special Group walk us through their new brand identity work for Wimp to Warrior which reframed global perceptions of MMA fitness. The resulting brand identity, Alta, champions authenticity over the grandiose, encompassing real people with real […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

‘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 the daily 9am coffees at their inhouse café to working on a variety of both internal and co-branded projects, the creative team at KPMG give us a peak […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Studio Almond walk us through their recent design work Becuming, an online adult store that fills its customers with confidence by normalising conversations about sex and encouraging exploration. Want to submit your own work to Fresh […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Our 5 mins with series interviews designers around Aotearoa on how they got to where they are now and takes a look at their day-to-day lives in the studio. This week we caught up with Mimi Seagar, a brand designer at Jasmax, who shares with us her career journey and what it’s like to work […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Utilising wacky, miniature puppets and some of the most highly debated Australia/New Zealand cultural references, the team at Pixelpush share their design thinking behind the 20 second title sequence created for Patriot Brains. Want to submit […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

‘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 from Tanker Creative to learn more about their studio team, culture, and mission to support ambitious creative professionals and organisations. Kia ora Nicola! […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Fox & Co share with us their design thinking behind the project, ‘You All Good?’, a 2D animated video for The Ministry of Youth Development NZ with the aim of motivating young Māori and Pasifika New […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

In this interview series we sit down with Rocketspark Design Partners to explore their work and how the Rocketspark platform and partnership program has helped grow their design businesses. This week we chatted with Jessica Morrissey from Swea Design on her recent work with Wild at Heart. The brief: Wild at Heart came about as an in-house project for […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

‘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 StudioC Design who shared with us their deep passion for co-design and gave us a peak into what a day in their work […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. Special Group take us behind their rebranding work for The New Zealand AIDS Foundation. The new brand, Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, honours the legacy of the past while also reflecting the spirit and vitality of the diverse […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

In the lead up to Semi Permanent this year we sat down for a cheeky interview with two of this year’s featured speakers, Wade and Leta. Semi Permanent is taking place 19-21st Oct, purchase your tickets and check out this year’s line up of speakers here . Kia ora Wade & Leta! Can you share […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

In our ‘Aotearoa Photographers’ series we sit down with NZ based photographers to learn more about their photographic practice and how their photography career got started. This week we chat with photographer, Koa Thomas, on creative influences and career journey. He shares with us what steps led to his first commercial gigs and how shooting […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. By using colour as the primary spokesperson along with elements of surrealism, Richards Partners developed a unique suite of brand photography for Skyzer which works hard to introduce a surprise-factor — tones of the unexpected. […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

By Day, By Night is an interview series that profiles graphic design tutors from design schools throughout New Zealand. We learn about their role as a teacher and their own personal design practice. Today we chat with Don Chooi, Senior Lecturer for the Bachelor of Media Design and Graduate Diploma of Creative Technologies at Media […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Following the on-going success of Juno’s Blank Canvas competitions in 2021 and 2022, Juno Gin are now seeking artist submissions for their 2023 Seasonal Gin Releases.  Each Artist Series bottle featured original artwork by four artists from across New Zealand, selected from Juno’s inaugural Blank Canvas call out, which invited local artists and designers to […]

2 years ago by Louise Kellerman

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. This week Ira walk us through their recent work helping to develop the first ever set of Māori principles adopted by Auckland Transport as brand values. Inspired by waka navigation, the carefully co-designed taurapa artwork expresses […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

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 […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Fresh from the Field is a weekly article series sharing the fresh and inspiring work of our Design Assembly community. This week Designerbloom shared with us their recent product design work for a herbal tincture brand, Aetheria, which conjures up an ethereal otherworldly aesthetic, in a Witchy-but-Modern way. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Design For Everybody will invite 3 local creatives, (or creative adjacent individuals) to engage in an authentic discussion and Q&A about inclusion in the creative industry; What does it mean to be inclusive in design? What is ‘lived experience’ and how does it affect our work? How can we collectively make better design for everyone? […]

2 years ago by Jess Lowcher

Andy Wright shares with us some of the takeaways from this year’s Hard Refresh session, ‘Can your business have a moral compass’. During this session Tom Tapper, Nice and Serious’s CEO, lets us in on how Moral Compass has changed the way they do business. Proudly sponsored by Streamtime What if your team made the […]

2 years ago by Andy Wright