Archive for ‘Uncategorized’ posts
Feb 25 2010
Auckland’s logo competition dilemna
Uncategorized - 6 months ago
Controversy surrounds the Auckland Council’s logo competition. At its heart lies the endless debate around speculative, or ‘spec’, work. Personally, my choice is not to participate in these, although unlike most designers, I’m prepared to admit that occasionally my hand is forced by not actually having a great idea.
Oct 17 2009
BeST Awards ’09
Uncategorized - 11 months ago
Alt Group had another successful night at the BeST Awards this year. Our Selecon identity took home the Stringer, and amongst others, the Hudson Gavin Martin website scored me my second silver.
Oct 2 2009
Hobsonville Point website
Uncategorized - 11 months ago
My latest website went live yesterday at www.hobsonvillepoint.co.nz. The site’s for a large government-run development at a former airbase northwest of Auckland. The site allows the CMS operator to create advanced layouts across multiple columns, and has an interactive timeline demonstrating how the development will err, develop.
Aug 15 2009
Semi-Permanent ’09
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
Another great festival, albeit slightly overshadowed by the mighty Webstock and last year’s event. Highlights for me were definitely the British contingent, most notably Allofus, Bibliothèque and Studio AKA.
Feb 22 2009
Webstock ’09
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
I flew down to Wellington on Thursday morning to attend my first Webstock and it was excellent. I made plenty of notes and in the rest of this post I will try to summarise my thoughts on the event and each of the speakers, and hopefully do them all some justice.
Jan 10 2009
Emily is one
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
It was Emily’s first birthday today, and amongst a multitude of other gifts she got this big red trike. We can’t believe it’s been a year since she was born, and it’s a such a cliché, but it’s true – it does go by too fast. She’s been so happy and easy-going, and we feel so blessed to have her. Happy birthday, gorgeous.
Nov 10 2008
UK-bound for Christmas
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
In the last few days we realised it’s now or much later before we get to visit my family in the UK again, so after a couple of days finding available seats we’re flying Air New Zealand to the UK on December 15th, returning on the January 7th. I’m no fanboy of Air NZ because the seats were so hard last time, but the air miles will come in handy for further jaunts to Oz or the South Island.
Nov 4 2008
Hudson Gavin Martin
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
My latest website design went live today, that of newly-formed Auckland intellectual property law firm Hudson Gavin Martin. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Alt Group received New Zealand’s the top graphic design award this year at the Best Awards for our work on the brand. Continuing the directness of the brand into something as complex as a website user interface was very challenging, but I am pleased with the results.
Oct 11 2008
Best Awards ’08
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
Alt had a great night at the country’s biggest design awards yesterday, taking home (amongst other things) the supreme prize, the Stringer, for Graphic Design. This was for our identity work for law firm Hudson Gavin Martin. I’ve designed their website but it is still being built. I’m hopeful we might enter it next year.
Sep 23 2008
House painting update
Uncategorized - 1 year ago
After three months of rainy weekends, I got out there last weekend and picked off the first of the three bay window frames. I did the remaining two this weekend and now, with the exception of the steps and deck, the front of the house is almost done.
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