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 will still lack that tangible element where you are able to sit in the chairs or touch the fabrics. Designday is how we get design out of the pages of the magazine and into the real world. Designday visitors have the opportunity to see phenomenal creative concepts, dreamt up by...
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 an original name for their son was in the White Pages. They got as far as ‘B’ and thought Brogan was aptly odd enough then decided that in order to add further difficulty to my life they’d change the spelling. So for the last 35 years nobody’s been able to...
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 think decorating consists mainly of building enough bookshelves.” Whether her children’s interiors now comprise walls of artfully arranged literature is unknown but there is indubitably something about the aesthetic of books that invites display. We surround ourselves with them; lines of spines on shelves and a whole category of books...