A public bench outside the ferry building in Devonport Auckland has been hit with a cushion and sheet for extra comfort. Someone should up this until we have leather couches in every NZ city. Gold trim anyone? Apologies for the shitty image, we only had a battling old Niokia on us at the time.
Hey this is on, it will be hotness motness, go buy some art.
Nothing makes us froth more than helping promote NZ art and design exhibitions. It’s free, cause we made it so, send us your banner yo.
It’s impressive whenever you see someone hand draw a common typeface like Helvetica in accurate proportions. It’s stunning to see the hand drawn typefaces like those on the streets of India. Dig the flare and the “no rules apply” style. Not to mention the brightness, they make some of our billboards look so dull. The word “juice” makes you thirsty.
Found Via Random Specific
We are fans of Meena Kadri, her blog Random Specific, her impressive photography and story telling of what typography, graphic design and signage is like in India. We were lucky enough to hear her speak at Design Assembly last year.
Get on your bike cart full of paint brushes and find a dusty wall.
Cut Collective and architectural graduate Jasper Middleton have combined forces to create a dramatic installation built and displayed for the Splore Festival at Tapapakanga Regional Park south of Auckland. Lucky buggers who get to ‘get on down’ for the next three days. The futuristic 2050 dress up theme night sounds crazy.
Couple of lucky staff will be there. Party on people. Nice work Cut Collective and Jasper… Street Art meets architecture… mean.
So we have been busy working with Studio Alexander designing and building the new endemicworld.com. It’s been a blast, we have lots instore for all of you. We hope you have discovered some of the new features like tags, wishlists, accounts & address books, shipping estimator in the checkout etc.
There is more coming too. We want you to have fun shopping at endemicworld.com.
Give us some feedback. Thanks for spreading the word and helping us make NZ Designers famous. The newsletter goes out tomorrow, a few changes there too!
This Saturday the weather will be perfect and the tide will be high. Which makes the Soul Sessions a must.
This is a great day for kids too.
Check out these designers using Google Maps to show off their portfolios, looks like fun. For details on how it is being done check out googlemapsmania. Who isn’t crazy about google maps?
Found via Heavy Backpack (a Friday favourite)
On 4th February, head to St Kevins Arcade, K Road for First Thursdays, a social arts gathering featuring emerging artists, live music, performance and specialty crafts.
First Thursdays offers a fresh perspective on art in a unique social atmosphere accompanied with creative individuals and overall good vibes. The St Kevins shops will be open during the event and the art walk will extend to Verona and KFM Gallery.
It runs from 6-9pm and is free to the public. Don’t miss out on this fun night! Last time there was a surprise performance.
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