Thursday provided a Semi Permanent preview for a fortunate gathering, with workshops from Hi-ReS!, Industrial Light and Magic, and some paper engineering from Benja Harney.

SouthSouthWest will be speaking at Semi-Permanent this year in Auckland on 18 and 19 May.
In a round of quick fire questions, we get to know Andy Sargent a little better before the main event…
Win a ticket to Semi-Permanent, Auckland by answering a question about the interview!

Special Group will be speaking at Semi-Permanent this year in Auckland on 18 and 19 May.
In a round of quick fire questions, we get to know them a little better before the main event…
Win a ticket to Semi-Permanent, Auckland by answering a question about the interview!

Split/fountain celebrated a move to new premises over the weekend with a long opening, featuring an installation by Auckland artisits Michael Parr & Blaine Western, and a reading and radio project by LA based artist Fiona Connor and Copenhagen/New York based [...]

Last Wednesday Design Assembly hosted an exclusive screening of The Visual Language of Herbert Matter at Auckland’s Academy Cinema. A full house was treated to an in-depth look into the influential  Swiss designer’s life and his incredibly large and diverse [...]

Images & Text by Kaan Hiini & Laura Cibilich

Urbis Designday returned for it’s seventh year on Saturday, celebrating and showcasing some of New Zealands top creative talent. Twelve collaborations scattered about Auckland, spanning the design worlds [...]

Last night Auckland’s Natcoll hosted an exhibition for the students of their Diploma of Graphic Design. The works on display, the results of the intensive short course offered by the school, demonstrated clear strengths in packaging, illustration and print publication.

Notably, [...]

Just over three years ago New York based designer Tina Roth Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss launched Creative Mornings, a monthly morning lecture series for creative types. What started with a humble audience of 50 at a joint workspace in [...]

Given absolute free reign, who would you choose to work with and what would the results of this mash-up be? Make Something, a group exhibition currently running at the Saatchi & Saatchi building, asks a selection of designers just that, purely for [...]

The AUT Raw Festival launched on Wednesday, showcasing the work of the school’s Art & Design students. Covering Fashion, Textile, Digital, Graphic, Product and Spatial Design, alongside an impressive array of fine arts work, the exhibition runs till Saturday the [...]

Bookshop/design studio/exhibition venue/niche publishing house/multi-purpose creative outlet split/fountain launched its newspaper(section 1) Thursday night as part of the We Can Create side events schedule.

The publication, with contributions from Henry Babbage, Emmet Byrne, James Goggin, Fiona Jack, Narrow Gauge, Richard Reid, onne [...]

Tuesday signalled the start of a period of intense creative inspiration curated by the Church as part of the inaugural We Can Create. First off the blocks was the launch of Sara Blakes mini exhibition at K Rd’s [...]

With the Best Awards Nominations fresh for our perusal, and the fast approaching one- two combo of NZ Fashion Week and We Can Create (not to mention its plethora of side events), we’re being [...]