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.

Bringing people together is rarely an easy thing – even if everyone involved stands to gain from the experience. Initial enthusiasm expressed within the community can quickly become eroded as demands on time and resources increase, or the context that originally galvanised people into coming together shifts and makes collective thinking less urgent or relevant.

A big thanks to everyone that attended the Design Assembly End of Year Wrap Party last Wednesday night, a great night had by all! And a special thanks to The Biz Dojo for the awesome venue, Philip Kelly [...]

The New Zealand launch of website DesignCrowd has given rise to some debate in the local design community. It joins the likes of similar websites such as Bootb, 99designs, crowdSPRING, Hatchwise, as well as New Zealand based Logo Sauce and [...]

The Best Design Awards were held at a black tie event in Auckland last Friday night, at the stylish new Viaduct Events Centre. The awards, organised by the Designers Institute of New Zealand, showcase the best graphic, interactive, product and [...]

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.

As we all slowly come down from the high of We Can Create lets take a minute to sit back and enjoy the newly released Studio Magazine. Previously I laid out my aspirations for the new offering with [...]

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 [...]

Somehow, a room without a bookshelf seems a little incomplete to me. A bookshelf is a beautiful thing. Strips of colour lined up in a proud display of vibrant organization. You can probably glean from this I am [...]

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

From previous comments on posts on the new Auckland Council logo there didn’t seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for the final product, nor for the process that lead it being chosen as the identity for council.

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 [...]

Just because the work is free doesn’t mean it should be viewed as “cheap”.

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.