Urbis - Issue 50 on sale now!

In store now, the latest issue of Urbis reports on the Milan Furniture Fair. The biggest design event of the year, the Fair sets the key themes and trends for furniture and interior design making it an important touchstone for the design world. Keeping with the Milan theme, we also have searched out a glittering apartment in a formerly grungy, industrial suburb of Milan. We then look local with an Auckland apartment designed by Simon Twose that has just won a New Zealand architecture award, we visit the design-savvy town Dunedin, drive to Queenstown, and survey the best designers, products, and spaces throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Designday 09 - Celebrating Original Design

Nine of New Zealand’s top fashion designers collaborate with leading Auckland design showrooms to create unforgettable installations. We take a look at the results.

Designday says it all. It’s a day for design. While in the pages of Urbis we can show you stunning designs, those pictures...

Blonde Ambition

A striking renovation of a commercial building in auckland by architect simon twose has resulted in a jostling, buckled faÇade sheltering a curving creamy apartment.

This is one of the more peculiar spaces I’ve been in for a...

Graphic Text

After a stint in Paris, graphic designer Brogen Averill has returned to New Zealand to set up shop.

Brogen is an interesting name. 
Is it traditional, or do you have fantastically eccentric parents?
I have eccentric parents who decided the best place to look for...

Outward Bound

From limited edition typeset masterpieces and hand-drawn type to vibrant computer graphics, these four designers show the varied beauty of books.

Eighteen years ago, American author and columnist Anna Quindlan wrote, “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who...