Category — Art and Design Events

Aaron Kreisler, man of the moment, curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery and editor of Comma Dot Dogma is a finalist in the Montana NZ Book Awards, illustrative category. We wish him the best of luck (not that he needs it because he’ll win). You can buy it here and check out the art here

Our favourite New Zealand artist Rob Tucker has a new exhibition opening on Thursday the 24th of July at Smyth Galleries. I’ve had a sneak preview and it’s amazing to say the least. Go Robo. So head down to Smyth Galleries on Thursday or sometime between July 24th and August 13th. But on the other hand if you want to buy his work go to the opening. Rob’s last show almost sold out on the opening night…

Semi-Permanent 2008 (a design event) is on in Auckland during August 15th-16th. Idealog Magazine is right behind it and have a cool competition going for Rookie Designers.

If you consider yourself a rookie designer Idealog want you to submit/create a visual explosion representing Idealog. Winner is crowned Idealog Rookie Designer of the Year plus heaps of prizes worth $890. Plus they make your design into a t-shirt and tell the world about how good you are at designing. Not a bad way to kick start your designer career.

So get designing and good luck to those who enter.

African Odyssey had their first Auckland premier last night at Academy Cinema. Its on again tonight. They were also interviewed on Breakfast this morning. Click on the image above to watch the video on TVNZ ondemand.

I went to the premier last night and was blown away to say the least. Any sane human would have thought these lads were doomed to think they could ride over 20,000km across Africa on farm bikes and little experience. Not only did they succeed, but they also documented the entire 6 month trip on HD. Its epic uncut NZ adventure as good as it gets and available on DVD.

Julian Kardos sports a Kinoo t-shirt in the interview too. Nice one mate.

You can buy tickets for the Wellington premier here.

Congratulations to Rachel Young for being invited to Designboom Mart in Sydney starting July 12th. Designboom Marts are events where young international designers are invited to present their work, from real final products to concept or limited edition works. Customers, manufacturers, distributors, press and museum curators get the chance to see whats the next big thing. It’s being held at the Power House Museum.

It’s the Sydney International Design festival in August too.

I don’t really know what to say after watching this. The statistics are quite disturbing, the message is very compelling… but I posted it because of the creative way in which Chris Jordon has presented the statistics.

TED is amazing, sign up to the pod casts and you will never watch TV again…

African Odyssey is the story of four kiwi mates who rode motorbikes from Capetown to London. No corporate sponsor, no camera crew, no changing room, no expensive equipment, just raw adventure New Zealand style.

They made their trip into a documentary that premiers in their hometown of Whakatane this Saturday and Sunday (both shows have sold out). Last night their story was on nightline.

They will be showing the documentary in Wellington and Auckland in July and their DVD and t-shirts will be available on endemicworld.com soon.

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