Design Assembly Conversations

Kia ora and welcome to the DA Field Guide 2020 Podcast series. This is a special limited edition podcast series of four interviews commissioned by Creative New Zealand as a part of the DA Field Guide 2020 - An exploration of NZ’s post Covid design practice. In this special series we’ll hear from leaders in the NZ design community and further our discourse around the creative and economic wellbeing of our community, identify opportunites for positive change, speculate on the future of our practice and critically examine the post Covid design landscape in Aotearoa. Tēnā koutou I’m Louise, Design Assembly Founder and Director and today I’m talking to Raul Sarrot. Raul is a designer, strategist and coach that specialises in helping transform organisations and brands to align and connect with their internal and external audiences. Raul’s international trajectory has been forged over 27 years working alongside a wide range of commercial and not-for-profit clients in the Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe. H

Kia ora and welcome to the DA Field Guide 2020 Podcast series. This is a special limited edition podcast series of four interviews commissioned by Creative New Zealand as a part of the DA Field Guide 2020 - An exploration of NZ’s post Covid design practice. In this special series we’ll hear from leaders in the NZ design community and further our discourse around the creative and economic wellbeing of our community, identify opportunites for positive change, speculate on the future of our practice and critically examine the post Covid design landscape in Aotearoa. Tēnā koutou I’m Louise, Design Assembly Founder and Director and today I’m talking to Jef Wong. Jef Wong is the Executive Creative Director at Designworks where he has worked for over 20 years. He is responsible for driving and maintaining the overall creative vision and quality standards of the studio. His work has received numerous awards and he is the 2020 Convenor of Judges - Graphics for The New Zealand Best Design Awards and has judged 2 tim

Kia ora and welcome to the DA Field Guide 2020 Podcast series. This is a special limited edition podcast series of four interviews commissioned by Creative New Zealand as a part of the DA Field Guide 2020 - An exploration of NZ’s post Covid design practice. In this special series we’ll hear from leaders in the NZ design community and further our discourse around the creative and economic wellbeing of our community, identify opportunites for positive change, speculate on the future of our practice and critically examine the post Covid design landscape in Aotearoa. Tēnā koutou I’m Louise, Design Assembly Founder and Director and today I’m talking to Eddy Royal. Eddy is the director of Curative - a creative agency inspiring social change. Founded in 2012 Curative has been committed to finding interesting new ways to inspire change since day one. Leading an experienced team of creative thinkers, who are passionate about creating beautiful work that makes real impact. Eddy draws on her years of commercial exper

Kia ora and welcome to the DA Field Guide 2020 Podcast series. This is a special limited edition podcast series of four interviews commissioned by Creative New Zealand as a part of the DA Field Guide 2020 - An exploration of NZ’s post Covid design practice. In this special series we’ll hear from leaders in the NZ design community and further our discourse around the creative and economic wellbeing of our community, identify opportunites for positive change, speculate on the future of our practice and critically examine the post Covid design landscape in Aotearoa. Tēnā koutou I’m Louise, Design Assembly Founder and Director and today I’m talking to Karl Wixon. Karl is the director of Arahia in which he works as a Māori co-design facilitator to weave together complex collaborations spanning cultures, sectors, entities and interests to develop shared visions, find direction, and co-design solutions. Karl has held a number of leadership roles in the past - president of the Designers Institute of NZ, a founder

Kia ora and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to NZ designers, hear their stories and celebrate their work. I’m Louise and today I’m talking to Emma Kaniuk and Tana Mitchell from Akin. Emma and Tana co-founded Akin in 2015, a strategic design studio focused on creating engaging, seductive and effective brand solutions that grab people’s attention and hearts. Previous to starting Akin, they both spent time at Designworks. Emma has also worked at Special Group in Auckand and Sydney and Tana has worked at studios in Auckland, Wellington and overseas in New York and Berlin. They have been awarded for their work at the Best Awards with purple pins and overseas in the AGDA awards, D&AD and Designweek awards amongst others. (It is important to place this conversation in context of being in the middle of an uncertain landscape and challenges brought about by Covid-19. The virus arrived in New Zealand in February and on the 25 March 2020, we went into Level 4 lock-down. This podca

Kia Ora and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to Aotearoa NZ designers, hear their stories and celebrate their work. I’m DA founder Louise Kellerman and in this episode I spoke with Brian Richards. In 1987 Brian founded Richards Partners - a design and strategy studio based in Auckland and today he continues to lead the team. He's been recognised as one of NZ's foremost brand strategists, has helped to found NZ's first masters of design management at Unitec and in 2007 he received the black pin award from the Designers Institute of NZ. Brian and I sat down to record this conversation at the end of 2019. We were both looking forward to 2020 and all that it would bring. It is important to place the conversation in context of being prior to the uncertain landscape and challenges brought about by Covid-19. The virus arrived in New Zealand in February and on the 25 March 2020, we went into Level 4 lock-down. This podcast is released on the 28th of April 2020 as we transition int

In this episode I spoke to Stephen Richardson. Stephen works as Pastel City, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Auckland. He provides the full-range of creative and design services and some of his latest projects include the refresh of the Citta Design Store branding and the art direction of the Huffer 2017 brand campaign. Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work.

In this episode I spoke to Grant Alexander. Grant is currently the Design Director at Onfire Design in Auckland. He started his career in 1969 at Designscape magazine, co-founded Designworks with Ray Labone in 1982 and in 2000 formed a partnership with daughter Kate to create Studio Alexander. Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work.

In this episode I spoke to Nicole Arnett Phillips. Nicole is a designer, typographer, publisher and print-maker. Orginally from NZ, she currently lives in Brisbine. She divides her working week between client work and her own practice of publishing, typographic and printmaking pursuits AKA Typograp.HER Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work.

In this episode I spoke to Pete Montgomery. Pete is currently the Creative Director at Xero in Wellington. Xero is a NZ based company that develops cloud-based accounting software.

In this episode I spoke to Chris Flack, Design Director at Strategy Creative in Christchurch. Strategy Creative is a proudly independent full service design led advertising agency, with studios in Christchurch, Wellington, Sydney and Tokyo.

Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work. Bren and Luis form Make Bardo - a creative design studio based in Queenstown that practices contemporary visual communication. Specialising in packaging design , brand strategy and signage systems for national and international clients.

Welcome back to Design Assembly Conversations for 2017. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work. I’m Louise, and today I’m talking to Johnson Witehira. Johnson is an artist and graphic designer from Wellington. Currently he has his own graphic design practice and teaches at AUT University in Auckland.

Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work. I'm Louise, and today I'm talking to Jonathan. Jonathan is the executive creative director of Voice Brand Agency with studios in Auckland and Melbourne. Welcome Jonathan.

DA Conversations November 2016 with Kelvin Soh by Design Assembly

Welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. In this series we talk to New Zealand graphic designers, hear their stories, and celebrate their work. I'm Louise, and today I'm talking to Annie Dow. Annie started and runs Dow Design, which has for over 21 years been a leading New Zealand design studio. Annie, can you start by telling us where you've come from? Well, actually, I'm a pommie, to be honest. I'm UK-born, but I would never really call myself that, because I've been here since the age of four. So my family immigrated way back in the early '60s. Sadly, my father missed out on the $10 boat trip and he had to pay full fare, but he was still committed to coming down to New Zealand. So, yeah, that's where my roots are, but I do call myself Kiwi, because I've been here forever.

Hello, and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations. An interview series with New Zealand graphic designers. Design assembly seeks to hear the stories of New Zealand graphic designers, get to know who we are, and celebrate New Zealand graphic design. Hi, I'm Louise, founder of Design Assembly. Today I'm speaking to Kate Alexander. Kate Alexander started, runs, and is the Creative Director of Places & Graces, an interior styling company. Kate started Graces & Places after 15 years as a graphic designer, running the brand strategy and design business, Studio Alexander - which she co-founded with her father, Grant Alexander. Kate has won many best awards, and is a fellow of the Designers Institute of New Zealand. Welcome Kate.

Hello, and welcome to Design Assembly Conversations, an interview series with New Zealand designers. Design Assembly seeks to hear the stories of New Zealand designers, get to know who we are, and celebrate New Zealand design. Hi, I'm Louise, founder of Design Assembly. Today I'm speaking to Welby Ings. Welby Ings is a professor at the Auckland University of Technology in the Graphic Design department. He also writes and directs his own films. To date, he has produced two short films: Boy and Munted. In 2006, Boy was nominated for an Academy Award. Currently, he is working on his third short film, Sparrow.