DINZ Designers Speak - Three's Company

DINZ Designers Speak - Three's Company

Culture isn’t just something that grows in a petri dish. Three design studios share insights on what makes them tick.   

Speak One:

Design Team: Resn
Title: Good Time Online Design
Soundbite: Resn will expand your immersionariation and realign your pixcillary preconceptions as it dabbles in the digital diatribes

Speak Two:

Design Team: Catherine Griffiths & Bruce Connew
Title:  Together, Alone
Soundbite: Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew talk about their collaborations 

Speak Three:

Design Team: Alt Group
Title: do disturb
Soundbite: Creativity is a sport without an umpire. So who determines the rules?

Presenters

Steve Le Marquand - Resn

After gaining a Diploma of Design in 1999 Steve had the best intentions for further education at Victoria University’s School of Design, but instead founded a very successful interactive agency Boygirlboy Motion Media in 2000. After 4 years leading the way for the New Zealand interactive advertising industry, he formed Resn with business partner Rikki Campbell and furthered his hunger to produce truly exceptional digital brand experiences. Steve is proud to have Resn nominated 3 years running for Best Digital Agency at the Australasian Hot Shop awards, winning the award in 2009.

Steve has been instrumental in winning Resn a string of highly sought after awards including 5 FWA’s, 3 years consecutively with the Pixel Awards & South by South West (SXSW), merits for the Webby Awards & One Show, as well as consistently featuring as judge, winner & runner-up in the New Zealand BeST Design Awards over the past 9 years. Steve has been featured and published in many international industry publications and books. Resn has just been awarded as the #1 Digital Production agency in Australasia by the Campaign brief Hot+Cold chart.

Catherine Griffiths & Bruce Connew

Catherine Griffiths is an independent designer with a passion for typography. Bruce Connew is a zocial/political artist and photographer. Based in Wellington and Paris, they work opposite each other in their disciplines, frequently crossing over, occasionally throwing up a challenge.

Catherine’s trajectory is ‘intuition with a stab of strategic thinking’,
culminating in a mix of book, exhibition and visual communication design, while working with typography in public spaces, architecture and the landscape. In addition to the Wellington Writers’ Walk concrete text sculptures and TypeSHED11, a five-day international typography symposium held in New Zealand, her most recent public artwork is a five metre high
typo/sound installation, A E I O U. Meanwhile, Bruce’s practice is characterised by a driving interest in social issues, particularly
conflict, dissent, emancipation and struggle. Key projects of his oeuvre have shown as solo exhibitions in most of the major public art galleries in New Zealand. His artist books, including Muttonbirds – part of a story, I Saw You and I Must Behave have slowly become recognised as genre-bending extensions of his art practice, as his late-career work continues to develop apace. Together, the pair formed Vapour Momenta Books, their pocket-sized publishing arm, in a bid to support and promote their own projects.

photo credit: Pat Shepherd

 Artist book, I Must Behave, Bruce Connew

Dean Poole MDINZ - Alt Group

Dean Poole is Creative Director at Alt Group, a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Auckland.

Alt Group combines a core of creative people with a rich diversity of design, business backgrounds and experience. This intermix of viewpoints, combined with a multi-disciplinary approach, creates innovative results for a diverse range of projects. As Creative Director, one of Dean's roles is to foster an innovation culture within Alt and to meet every project as a problem to be solved.

Alt's work has many forms including brand development, promotional campaigns, interactive design, research studies, and innovation programmes for companies.

Alt works with retailers, global fashion designers, national and local government agencies, lawyers, wine makers, academic institutions, architects, artists, dancers, filmmakers, furniture designers, energy providers, and restauranteurs. Alt has helped conceptualise and deliver on a number of national interest projects including the 'Better by Design' initiative and the New Zealand New Thinking brand.

Alt's work has won numerous International awards including the Black Book Annual Report Awards (New York), the ARC Awards (New York), SEGD Awards (Washington) the Australian Graphic Design Awards (Sydney), and the Best Design Awards (New Zealand). Their work for fashion clients is held in the collections of the Musée Galliera, Paris and the Auckland Museum.
Dean graduated from Elam Art School in 1993. He is a professional member of the Design Management Institute (Boston) the Australian Graphic Designers Association, American Institute of Graphic Arts (New York) and the Designers' Institute of New Zealand. Dean is currently developing material for a collaborative publication about innovation and design thinking.

Sponsors

Dunedin City Council

Applied Design Research Centre at Otago Insititute of Otago (ADRC - OiD)

Venue Partners

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

CoCa Gallery - Christchurch

City Gallery Wellington

Posted on: February 18, 2010