Category Archives: Web article

Planes, trains and automobiles

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Amusingly, with the launch of the new Herald sustainability magazine Element, I seem to be getting all the car and transport gigs. (Well, it’s funny to me as I have neither a car nor a work commute, though I guess no-one would actually know that. I don’t think the editor does.) More….

Well, that’s the last time they ask for my opinion…

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A rambling column written on deadline and captured for posterity in print and now online. This is what happens when you have too little time, an open brief and too many ideas jostling for attention, and end up overshooting your word quota by oh, about 1,000.

Idealog

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A couple of links here from my recent stint covering the deputy editor’s job on Idealog magazine.

First, a short feature on John Gow, a very cool philanthropist doing great things with public art. And secondly, the story of Nathan Goldsworthy’s recent re-brand and his new self-assembled furniture, including The Adjutant desk, which will feature in my dream study, once I can afford it. Once I can afford a study, actually.

Regarding working in an office again, despite my fears about returning to a 9-5 routine after a year of early mornings and weekend work — and 3pm breaks for a swim or a nap, in case I’m misrepresenting the freelance lifestyle in any way — it was pretty invigorating to be part of a highly creative, and often also highly amusing, team again. Big ups to the new art director, Charlie McKay (ex-Metro), whose hilarious re-takes on cover lines caused me to accidentally snort-drink my coffee on more than one occasion. (Would Liz Lemon called that “sninking”? I’d like to think so.)

Make Something

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Indesignlive is running a short piece I wrote on the recent Make Something exhibition in Auckland.

New site for ProDesign

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Great to see the new ProDesign website up and running – and that they’ve got one of my New York stories, here.

Jamie McLellan

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A short piece for Indesignlive on one heck of a clever designer, Jamie McLellan.

Andrew Gordon, Pixar

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Five minutes with Andrew Gordon, senior animator at Pixar, with some cool insights into the company’s enviable work culture.

Super Contemporary review

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On a short trip to London in 2009, I reviewed the Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition for the ProDesign website (shortly before jet-lag and over-stimulation set in).

Chris Jackson profile

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This man made a home aluminium smelter out of a flowerpot and is one of the most thoughtful speakers on sustainable design I’ve interviewed. See the full profile at Indesignlive.com

Simple Space

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Short interview with Eqo Leung, who won the 2009 Architecture Medal for his beautifully designed Wilson School, at Idealog.co.nz