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Newmarket Young Designer Award past winners
May 17th
Past Newmarket Young Fashion Designer winners talk about their win
Time is running out to register for 2012 Newmarket Young Fashion Designer awards. Past winners Blair Wheeler, Nicole Petra Wesseling and Paris Kirby believe the competition is well worth entering if you’re a student inspired by creativity and fashion.
Watch their discussion about this life changing competition here.
“I was really into fashion and wanted a way to prove to myself if I could do it,” said 2010 winner Blair.
“I entered the competition in 2009 and came 1st runner up, which made me even more determined to win the following year. I entered again and this time I did win!
“It was life-changing,” he said.
Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Awards: Registration Now Open!
Apr 30th
Past Newmarket Young Fashion Designer winners: Paris Kirby, Nicole Petra-Wesseling and Blair Wheeler
Aspiring young fashion designers take note; the Newmarket Young Fashion Designer of the Year competition for 2012 is now open! Registrations are now being accepted for New Zealand residents aged between 16 and 19 years of age who dream style, think texture and just love fashion.
The winner will receive a two year scholarship with the prestigious Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, an overseas fashion trip for two including accommodation and $1,000 spending money from Business World Travel and Qantas, plus a two week internship with top New Zealand designer Vicki Taylor at the Taylor design workroom.
Launched in 2009, the Newmarket Young Fashion Designer award has served to fast-track some incredible up and coming talent and helped to get their careers off to the best possible start.
Gascoigne Associates Cleans up at ‘Red’ New Zealand Retail Design Awards
Jun 28th
The exterior of the gorgeous Gascoigne designed Cocoro Restaurant in Auckland
Gascoigne Associates continued its winning streak at the Red Awards, announced at the annual awards function held at Auckland’s Maritime Museum on Saturday, 25th June. Gascoigne took away seven out of the total of 18 awards categories, bringing their awards haul for the last three years to 23. They also took out three of the Group Awards in this year’s competition against stern competition from the biggest number of entries in the award’s history – over 140 entries.
As New Zealand’s most awarded retail architects and retail transformation consultants, Gascoigne has just over 25 years in business and just around the corner is their 2000th project milestone. Mark Gascoigne, Principal and Architect, is delighted that 2011 has provided more achievements for the company.
“It is fantastic to get this recognition for my team. This has been a very tough year for retailers and they’ve been wanting every dollar spent on design to generate sales growth. We’re pleased to have had clients prepared to undertake some very brave initiatives – which have paid off – and these awards acknowledge that,” said Mark Gascoigne. More >
Urbis Designday 2011 People’s Choice Award and Best HP Future Designer winners announced
Mar 23rd
Thirteen stunning installations produced by over 50 creative practitioners from worlds of fashion, art, architecture, multimedia and design captured the imagination and attention of a record number of Urbis Designday guests last Saturday as they voted in the 2011 Urbis Designday People’s Choice Award and their favourite HP Future Designer.
A model at the Kohler installation at Urbis Designday 2011
With the votes tallied, the dynamic partnership of Kohler and Salasai walked away with the public’s vote this year. Kohler, the worldwide leader in quality, cutting edge bathroom products combined with Salasai; one of New Zealand’s fastest emerging fashion brands known for its androgynous approach to fashion.
Editor of Urbis, Nicole Stock was delighted that in 2011 the public, not the industry voted for their favorites this Urbis Designday. “Urbis Designday allows the public to see and experience the amazing creativity of designers up close; it enables us to pull all the creativity from the magazine and put it in front of a discerning and design loving audience” she says.
“The standard of the 13 installations was so high this year, and the young designers work so innovative, that it’s really set the tone and expectation for an even better 2012 Urbis Designday!” More >
Mini Countryman’s Urbis Designday Out
Mar 21st
The exciting new Mini Countryman had a fantastic outing as the official vehicle for Urbis Designday.
A Mini Countryman welcomes visitors to Poggenpohl as part of Urbis Designday (photo Kevin Robinson)
In a variety of colours and at several of the 13 Designday locations, the Mini Countryman – the first four door Mini – attracted a huge amount of interest from guests.
Meanwhile the fabulous Mini Garage on Ponsonby Road, Auckland, served as home base for the event and was visited by thousands of guests throughout the day. It also served as the home of the HP Future Designer exhibit, which displayed works by top 3D animators from Media Design School.
(picture by Kevin Robinson courtesy of Thread.co.nz)
Thread Does Urbis Designday
Mar 21st
A great item by Anya Brighouse from Thread on her Urbis designday experience last weekend as she toured the 13 participating showrooms, ate the food and viewed the art.
At The Fisher and Paykel Social Kitchen with Megan Robinson (right), her baby Lily and associate Anya Brighouse
Sounds like she had a great time!
Designday highlights
From pretentious art to the best tasting menu food and best use of nubile young models, we look at our highlights of Urbis Designday 2011 from the worthy to the downright wacky.
Over 50 creative practitioners from the worlds of art, fashion, design, multimedia and architecture created installations in 13 design showrooms, open to the public for a $30 admission ticket which included transportation around town in Mini Countryman cars.
This year, the creative brief which all partners have been challenged to interpret is ‘State of Transition.’
The “best food we may have ever tasted” award goes to Natalia Schamroth and Carl Koppenhagen from The Engine Room in their collaboration with Fisher and Paykel at The Social Kitchen… MORE
Urbis Designday On Breakfast with Alison Pugh
Mar 15th
A nice item on Breakfast this morning with Alison Pugh giving a plug for Urbis Designday and showing a bunch of great images from last year’s day.
Alison Pugh talks Urbis Designday on Breakfast
Urbis Designday powered by Mini Countryman is a real gem of an event, with 13 stops on a circuit of Auckland’s best design spaces. This year it has stepped up and is becoming a real festival of design, with evening events during the week as well as a huge day on Saturday.
For more information on Urbis Designday and how to get involved, see http://www.urbismagazine.com/designday
The home base this year is Mini Garage, in Ponsonby, Auckland, where you can register, but also see the HP Future Designer installation.
Urbis Designday runs for one single day on Saturday the 19th, from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Final design completes lower west side
Nov 2nd
Vicki Holder from DesignDaily writes about the impressive Building 6 at Rhubarb Lane by Peddle Thorpe Architects.
The final building in Auckland’s six Rhubard Lane group is the aptly named No. 6 Rhubarb Lane, by Peddle Thorp Architects.
No. 6 Rhubarb Lane by Peddle Thorpe Architects actually straddles the laneway itself.
It contains 15 aPods sized between 170 – 506m2 and much of its framework is inspired by New York loft-style apartments in the celebrated Soho district. Modern interpretations of warehouse spaces use raw materials like polished metal surfaces and exposed concrete.
A feature particularly unique to this building is the innovative “Living Bridge” that will straddle the lane, connecting the two sides of the laneway and making for impressive views over the bustling activity below. One of Peddle Thorp’s directors, Richard Goldie says “with the adjacent 90 degree angles and large amount of glass used, privacy has been carefully managed while retaining excellent natural light flow.”
To see the full article, see: http://designdaily.co.nz/blog/2010/11/final-design-completes-lower-west-side
Pip Cheshire Talks about Rhubarb Lane
Oct 19th
Authoritative online design magazine DesignFolio Update has run a great interview with Kiwi design legend Pip Cheshire on his design influences, and his part in the creation of the fabulous Rhubarb Lane urban village planned for Auckland’s Victoria Quarter.
A link to the article is here: http://designfolio.co.nz/_blog/Design_Folio_NZ/post/Architect_Pip_Cheshire_Discusses_Rhubarb_Lane/
Pip Cheshire Discusses Rhubarb Lane with DesignFolio
It’s What’s on the Inside that Counts; Eight Awards for Gascoigne Associates at the 2010 RED Retail Design Awards.
Jun 7th
Mark Gascoigne from Gascoigne Associates
Mark Gascoigne might not be a household name, but chances are Mark’s designs and those of his award winning team at Gascoigne Associates will have had a significant effect on the bank balance of thousands of households throughout the country.
With clients including fashion juggernauts Glassons, Hallensteins and Rodd & Gunn, boutique Hotel DeBrett, fresh providore Nosh, Telecom, Placemakers, Pumpkin Patch, Toyota and more, it is safe to assume that every New Zealander (and many Australians) at some point will have visited and most probably purchased a product or service from a Gascoigne designed store.
This contribution was again confirmed at the annual RED Awards (formally the Retail Design Awards), held on Saturday 29th May at the Maritime Museum in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour. Gascoigne Associates ended up walking away with eight of the 18 awards, including an Overall Winner award.
