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Our best of The Best Awards

by Corinne Smith on 26/08/2012

Here is our best of The Best Awards – picks from a few of our contributors. No doubt you’ve had a good look at the finalists and have your own thoughts. Let us know your best!

Clever brand marks of the Elephant Wrestler by Designworks and Auckland University Press by Alt Group. Nice to see some ideas based selections making an appearance in this category.
- Emma Parnell

An innovative type project executed at a professional print level, and an experiment until the very end by Tamsin Fraser.
- Gerbrand van Melle

Hardhat Design. Coffee Supreme / re-brand: Fashionable, quirky, descriptive, fun, sophisticated and informative. The redesign reflects the depth of coffee nerdiness which defines Coffee Supreme.

Alt Group. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki: Branding, typography and signage is clear, informative and strong, yet doesn’t distract from the main feature of Auckland Art Gallery: The art.

Cheshire Architects and Williams Ross Architects. Q Theatre: A flexible, usable and welcoming set of spaces, ideal for muti-disciplinary performance work and a perfect size.

And an honourable metion to:
Fearon Hay Architects. Imperial Lane: Bringing a little bit of Melbourne’s lanes to Auckland.
- Carol Green

And my own personal picks: the quirky stationery by Alt Group and The Silver Bulletin by Matthew Galloway. I had the chance to interview Galloway and found his process fascinating.

 

Check out The Best Awards Finalists and let us know your favourites!