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RSA and

Lindsay Yee — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:19:03 +0000

The New Zealand Returned and Services Association was looking to refresh it's brand and head into a new direction. In November last year, at the Annual RSA conference in Wellington a new logo was launched along with a press release.

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Lindsay Yee — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:34:57 +0000

Having just opened it's doors on Saturday, the Auckland Art Gallery has plenty of new parts to it, one of those is a new logo. The branding was handled by perennial award winner Alt Group.

The National Grid #7 Launch

Lindsay Yee — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:17:07 +0000

On Friday the 12th of August, The National Grid Launched their latest issue at the Split Fountain on Karangahape Road.

Farewell ProDesign

Lindsay Yee — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:49:37 +0000

A hole in New Zealand’s Design publication landscape has been made with AGM’s decision to stop publishing ProDesign. Covering a wide variety of design disciplines, ProDesign featured news, reviews, profiles and work of New Zealand Designers / Illustrators [...]

Covering the bases

Lindsay Yee — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:42:19 +0000

Many of you should now be in the possession of this years new Yellow and White Pages. If you bothered to open the bag, you would have noticed the new covers, designed by Alt who worked with Colenso.

Laboured Ligature?

Lindsay Yee — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:05:16 +0000

In an election year many things change in the political landscape. Recently the New Zealand Labour Party changed its logo and website.

Interview: Bret De Thier

Lindsay Yee — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:57:07 +0000

While looking at the below posters I thought these could constitute a post on a historical look at the poster series designed by Bret De Thier. Following a few quick emails, I thought an interview would be more interesting.

From theirs to ours

Lindsay Yee — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:02:02 +0000

Dow Design has been behind a number of notably New Zealand brand and packaging changes recently from DB Export, Pam's to Fresh'n'Fruity to name a few.

Update: Auckland City Council Logo

Lindsay Yee — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:50:15 +0000

Back in April we were shown the winning entry for the Auckland City Council logo. Jim Dean, a retired commercial Artist, came up with the icon and was ‘tidied up’ by Redworks. Unveiled last month [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011

Lindsay Yee — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:58:39 +0000

Like my previous post this, this one will also be looking at a large scale sporting competition in New Zealand, focusing on the design associated with the event. Many of the below design elements were released two years ago, but with the event approaching I thought it would be nice to look over all the elements.

NZ Design Icons: 1974 Commonwealth Games

Lindsay Yee — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:38:11 +0000

We marvel at foreign design, look back in history to the Swiss modernist, Russian Constructivist's, American Post Modernist's and everything in between but rarely do we look back at New Zealand graphic design

New Graduates Exhibitions

Lindsay Yee — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:36 +0000

It's that time of year for the new batch of Graduates to showcase their work. Late nights in the classroom for an opening and gallery like exhibition of work.

Countdown to W?

Lindsay Yee — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:46:56 +0000

Progressive enterprises is to phase out it's Woolworths and Foodtown Supermarkets in New Zealand over the next five years and put in place a 'new generation Countdown'. So an update of the Countdown brand was in order.

Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design since 1870

Lindsay Yee — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:57:19 +0000

This exhibition celebrates the work of New Zealand typeface designers in an exquisite collection of large scale typographic posters.

Semi Permanent 09 Review

Lindsay Yee — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:12:07 +0000

The Church put on another great Semi Permanent event, featuring great speakers.

Who’s the other guy?

Lindsay Yee — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:31:03 +0000

You’re obviously the wrong person to ask... you’re part of a community of designers who actually want to learn and discuss design. But do the majority of New Zealand designers take an interest in Graphic Design in terms of wanting discussions about design theory, changes in design - or is it just something they do?