Living the Freelance Life with Isobel Joy Te Aho-White

This month we’ve teamed up with Hnry to bring you fresh content every week. We’ll be covering a range of freelancing FAQs – like pricing your design work and will be going live on 30th March with a free webinar on ‘ How to thrive as a freelancer‘ – presented by Hnry’s CEO, James Fuller for our DA community. See […]

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Fly Is Changing To Ira

Our friends at Fly have had a name change, so we caught up with the team and asked a few questions about why they decided to update their brand and the story behind their new name, Ira. Why did you decide to change the name?  We’ve been Fly for 17 years and captured our passion […]

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Fresh From The Field — Makikihi Fries – By Onfire Design

Onfire was invited by chief potato scrutineer Jac to bring this story to life. Drawing on inspiration from beer brands and big, bold typography to echo Makikihi Fries’ mantra of ‘keeping things simple’. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out the FFTF form here. The brief: Makikihi, South Canterbury, 1893. […]

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Rocketspark Academy—online course for web design best practices.

For those of you in our DA community who are looking at 2022 as a year of growth and learning, our friends over at Rocketspark have launched a suite of online courses covering web design best practices to help you kickstart and grow your design business this year. This article is proudly sponsored by Rocketspark. […]

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How to Price Yourself as a Freelancer

This month we’ve teamed up with Hnry to bring you fresh content every week covering a range of freelancing FAQs. If you’re currently living the freelance life or dreaming about it some day, register here for our Free webinar on ‘ How to thrive as a freelancer ‘ – presented by Hnry’s CEO, James Fuller on […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Sophia Hornabrook, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

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 Sophia Hornabrook, one of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington creative graduates. You […]

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Fresh From The Field — Property Council New Zealand – By Attraction Studio

Property Council New Zealand engaged Attraction Studio to update their identity – to create an updated brand that is timeless and bold, shows off refreshed organisational strategy and values, and to help them launch their refreshed brand to the world. Want to submit your own work to Fresh From The Field? Fill out the FFTF form […]

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Meet Our Friends Hnry – March Content Series

This month we’ve teamed up with Hnry to bring you fresh content every week. We’ll be covering a range of freelancing FAQs – like pricing your design work, chatting with our DA friend, Isobel Joy Te Aho, on how she’s made her freelancing journey a success, and will be going live on 30th March with […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Reuben Gilchrist, Wintec

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. In this article, we talk with Reuben Gilchrist from Wintec. You can find out more […]

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Now and Then with Robyn Gough Palmer of Alt Group

Written by Annie McCulloch and brought to you by Portfolio Recruitment Now and Then is a series where we catch up with people who have been recently placed, via Portfolio Recruitment, to get their thoughts and feedback about their roles and their work. Our latest Now & Then Q&A is with Robyn Gough Palmer who joined the team […]

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Fresh From The Field – Strategy Wraps Up The Year

The creatives at Strategy have an annual, 30-year tradition, which has become a celebrated, iconic tradition, that is looked forward to by many…The annual Christmas wrapping paper brief. It is a completely open brief and challenges every designer across every studio to develop designs for the Strategy wrapping paper gift. After getting dozens of submissions […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Nayanathara K, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

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 Nayanathara K, one of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s creative graduates. You […]

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Bachelor of Digital Innovation From the Yoobee School Of Digital Innovation

Yoobee’s brand new Bachelor’s Degree lives in the future, a place where tech meets business, meets marketing, meets tomorrow. The world is changing at an exponential pace right now.  What worked a few years ago, doesn’t anymore.  We need to change the script, flip the conversation, use un-business business thinking to read the shifts and […]

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Fresh From The Field — Crane Brothers’ Brand Refresh By Voice

Voice were asked to refresh the Crane Brothers logotype, to ensure it could be continue to represent class and distinction for another 20 years to come. The brand refresh makes sure that these purveyors of fine suits, luxury casual clothing and hand-made shoes can continue to represent the pinnacle of artisanal menswear, with an easy-wearing Antipodean […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Shanai Atkinson, UCOL

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 Shanai Atkinson, one of UCOL’s creative graduates – you can find out […]

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Pulse Check Survey – February 2022

Kia Ora Aotearoa NZ, We’ve created short survey to check in with our design community – How are we doing right now? How have our businesses been affected? And what’s our advice for other designers or studios right now? It should only take about 6 minutes to fill out, plus you can let us know […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Ryan (Jung Hwan) Baek, 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 Ryan (Jung Hwan) Baek, from Media Design School. You can find out […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Ashleigh Sun, AUT

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. In this article we talk with Ashleigh Sun, from AUT. You can find out more about […]

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Fresh From The Field – Prep By White Rabbit

Prep were looking for a more professional brand identity and a clean, modern and user-friendly website, so White Rabbit were tasked with a brief to redesign their logo and developing an ecommerce website with increased usability, which was user-friendly. The end result is a well-crafted, clean and organic aesthetic, while reflecting a slight handcrafted look, […]

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Welcoming our newest DA Partner – Rocketspark 

Nau mai, haere mai to our newest DA Partner, Rocketspark, a multi award winning company founded by four kiwis in the Waikato. Through their code-free website builder and Design Partner Program, they help thousands of businesses and designers everyday worldwide. The journey to success: Like all great tech startup stories, the humble beginnings of Rocketspark […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Jarrod Dobell, Yoobee

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 Jarrod Dobell from Yoobee. You can find out more about Aotearoa NZ […]

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Yoobee Colleges City Rd Online Exhibition 2021

We’re giving you a peek at some of the graduating talent coming out of Aotearoa from 2021, and a taste of what they’ve been working on. Celebrate the future of the Creative Industry! Yoobee Auckland students have worked hard across the year to develop their skills, fine-tune their abilities and create some amazing final pieces […]

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2022 Hot New Things – William Shaw, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

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 William Shaw, one of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington creative graduates. You […]

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Fresh From The Field – Talbot Forest Cheese Co. By Onfire

Off to a red hot start to the year, Onfire has been awarded packaging design Gold at the World Brand Design Society Awards for its work on Talbot Forest Cheese Co. Bringing to life the cheesemaker’s story and the nature its inspired by, Onfire has artfully woven these together –  incorporating Kiwi flora, fauna and […]

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2022 Hot New Things: Azi MacPherson, Wintec

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. In this article, we talk with Azi MacPherson from Wintec. You can find out more about […]

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