Urbanism 28 January: design denmark and Urbis Designday giveaways
Urbis Designday is back 
Online registrations to Urbis Designday go live tomorrow. Once you register, you’ll receive your Urbis Designday Pass for entry to the showrooms and complimentary transport on the day.
Plus, register for Urbis Designday before 1 March and go into the draw to win a fabulous VIP Audi experience for you and three guests. Enjoy a champagne breakfast and an exclusive Designday tour accompanied by your own personal chauffeur!
>> Visit Urbis.magazine.com and follow the link to the Urbis Designday registration page. A registration fee of $20 is payable online when you register.Plus: Subscribe now to win…
A reminder for those who are thinking of picking up the current issue or subscribing to Urbis magazine for the new year: entries to our $6,000 summer luxury design pack competition close at the end of this month, so there are just three more days to enter. Go to the new competitions tab on our website www.urbismagazine.com/competitions
>> Go to the new competitions tab on our website to subscribe and enter.design denmark Giveaway 
This simple, almost childlike Plane with its cheerful colours and wooden body was designed by Danish artist, typographer and designer Ole Søndergaard for Normann Copenhagen. A modern design object in its own right, the Plane uses a minimalist, almost symbolic approach to product design to appeal to children of all ages.
We have one large Plane (RRP $252) to give away. Just email sam.eichblatt@agm.co.nz with the three colours in which the Plane is available at design denmark, with ‘Plane’ in the subject line. Entries close 10 February.
>> Visit design denmarkDesigning Out Disaster 
SEED is a project by a group of Clemson University (South Carolina) architecture professors to provide temporary shelter for victims of natural disasters. Initiated after Hurricane Katrina, SEEd was fast-tracked after Haiti suffered its devastating earthquakes. The project takes used shipping containers – a plentiful resource in the Caribbean, where imports far outstrip exports – and turns them into safe, sustainable instant homes.
>> Read more at Cool Hunting
In related news, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) has called for designers to get involved with international aid organisations to assist with disaster relief and rehabilitation in Haiti and elsewhere.
>> See the ICSID website for details on getting involved.
Artist to Chair Design Awards 
Antony Gormley’s sculptural work has had a huge impact on the UK’s cultural landscape. The Angel of the North, that towering vision off the A1 near Gateshead, was lauded for instilling new pride in an area suffering terminal decline, while Another Place (1997, pictured), an installation of 100 cast iron figures facing out to sea across a 3km stretch of beach near Liverpool, recently became a permanent fixture after lobbying by local residents. Given the Turner Prize-winner’s knack for a visual language that engages public and critics alike, the recent announcement that Gormley will be the Chair of Jury for the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 makes sense, in an interesting, lateral thinking kind of way.
>> For more on the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 go to Designs of the Year
For more on Anthony Gormley, see the February issue of Urbis where we preview his latest foray into design in the NZ International Arts Festival.
Heads Up 
You may be married to Twitter and not missing the days of paper-based communication a jot, but these letterheads from last century are undeniably beautiful pieces of craft, as well as a record of early branding exercises in a time before big business was conducted by faceless conglomerates. Pictured, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s personal notepaper.
>> See Letterheady
The Outlook for Thursday 
Some of you might have noticed that, beyond the office walls, summer is here. There’s also a new outdoor furniture range in store at Studio Italia to make the most of those weekends and long evenings. This lounger, is from the Ayty range by South American manufacturer Saccaro, marking Studio Italia’s first move into products from outside Italy.
>> Visit Studio Italia
New photography exhibition, Whanganui 
Architectural and landscape photographer Simon Devitt has shot for a broad range of magazines, books and corporate commissions over the years, including our own titles Architecture NZ and Urbis. His new exhibition, I see you there, starts at the McNamara Gallery in Whanganui on 5 February.
[Image from ‘I See You There’, Simon Devitt’s upcoming exhibition at the McNamara Gallery]
>> Visit McNamara Gallery
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