Urbanism 26 Nov: Bob Steiner giveaway
Audi Drives Urbis Design Day 
Urbis is proud to introduce Audi New Zealand as its premium sponsor for Urbis Designday 2010. The luxury vehicle manufacturer has an award-winning design history, with progressive and sleek design values being at the heart of its success in the New Zealand market.
“Urbis Designday and Audi are a perfect fit,” says Dane Fisher, General Manager of Audi NZ. “Both are a celebration of the power of pure design.” Audi will present a new vehicle as part of the partnership. “We’ve got an exciting new model, due for release in February 2010, that was developed with the creative professional in mind. It’s a vehicle that makes a design statement and stands up in terms of both functionality and performance,” says Fisher.
>> Visit Urbis magazineBob Steiner Giveaway 
Bob Steiner is perhaps best known for his small, brightly coloured ceramic fantails, but produces a range of beautiful pieces inspired by native flora and fauna. He recently moved his business to a larger studio in Auckland’s Avondale to cope with the still-growing demand for his work and to celebrate, is giving away a set of three ceramic flowers (RRP $225). Pictured are one Star Whiteywood and two Ruapehu Mahoe flowers, each measuring 160mm in diameter and 60mm in depth.
Email sam.eichblatt@agm.co.nz with the address of Steiner’s new studio, with ‘Bob Steiner giveaway’ in the subject line. Entries close 9 December.
>> Visit Steiner CeramicsLight Up the Dark 
Finally, a plan to celebrate the Rugby World Cup in 2011 we can get behind. Pattersons Associates were joint winners of the open section of the Cavalier Bremworth Award for unbuilt architecture last week, with a plan to transform Auckland’s harbour bridge with new technology lighting. We like the idea of achieving a grand impact with minimal environmental interference. We also like that it highlights the engineering scope of one of the city’s finest architectural features. Sorry, are we gushing? NZ Transport, we demand you make it happen…
>> Watch the practice’s short film here(We should also mention the open section joint winner OH.NO.SUMO’s design for the Cupcake Pavilion, a temporary kiosk made of cardboard, as seen at Auckland Architecture Week last month. Cute, smart, digitally fabricated and fit-for-purpose? We can’t decide between them either.)
>> Visit OH.NO.SUMOTake Your Time 
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson captured the UK public’s imagination in 2003 with The Weather Project, which took a subject close to the heart of every Englishman and created a hazy landscape in the Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall, lit by a giant sun-like shape. Visitors, a reported 2 million of them, reacted by lying on their backs underneath it, waving their arms and legs at the reflective ceiling like stunned ants. Clearly not a man who thinks on a small scale, in 2008 Eliasson created the four giant man-made New York City Waterfalls along the East River at a cost of USD$15.5 million of privately raised funds. And now he’s coming to Sydney. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, will open at the MCA in Sydney on 10 December and runs until 11 April next year.
>> Visit Museum of Contemporary ArtSensitive Boyfriend 
We recently discovered this pop-up shop (yes, another one) inside independent Auckland gallery-cum-shop-cum-venue The High Seas. Creator, writer and designer Drus Dryden worked in New York, London and Amsterdam, where he managed to obtain an internship with magazine-of-the-moment Fantastic Man, before returning to New Zealand. His creations, from ‘Teamwork’ plates with ‘wash’ and ‘dry’ printed on them, Trauma mix tapes and a giant Apology Cookie (baked by Dryden and presented in a pizza box), have just the right touch of whimsy, awkwardness and well, sensitivity.
>> See Sensitive Boyfriend or enter the Bad Relationships writing competition at SB’s Facebook pageTake Three: Design-led Exhibitions
OFFSHORE 
One of our favourite furniture and product designers, Jamie McLellan, is having an exhibition at Objectspace until the 19 December. On show is design classic in the making, the Twig coat stand, along with other fancy stuff from McLellan’s days with Tom Dixon and more recent New Zealand endeavours.
THE BOILER ROOM 
The Boiler Room creates one-off pieces of furniture and art made from restored industrial and institutional cast-offs. See its online gallery here or in the flesh at Shed 8, 90 Wellesley Street, Auckland, from November 29th. Our top pick? This brilliant ‘Thames Chairs’ set from the Thames Town Hall.
PAINT YOUR HEART OUT 
Ruby Boutique has teamed up with three local illustrators to offer a run of limited edition prints. Henrietta Harris, Shayna Quinn and Kelly Thompson have each created original signed and dated pieces to be sold in the Auckland and Wellington branches of Ruby. Only 30 of each will be produced, so be in quick. The exhibition runs from 27 November in Ruby’s Auckland shops (Teed St, Newmarket, and High Street, Central Auckland).
NEW Urbis On Sale 30 November 
The summer issue of Urbis will be in stores next Monday, 30 November. Kick back in style with features on top holiday houses from around the country, discover designer Paris, and take a look at the latest in fashion. All readers can go in the draw to win $6000 of designer luxury and style with the Urbis summer prize pack which includes a weekend with an Audi S5 Cab, his and her travel bags from Coast, Tom Ford and Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, a Sony X-Series Walkman, a Leica D-Lux4 camera, and his and hers Issey Miyaki perfumes.
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