May 2010 Events

Wednesday 5 May

DINZ Designers Speak - Katie Taylor - Designers losing discipline - Auckland

One studio. Blurred boundaries. The creative consequences

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Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 May

Balance - a design symposium

Balance will reveal the ideas and strategies that have shaped the careers of leading Australian and New Zealand designers. Multi-disciplinary in approach, Balance will explore the different connections between design, craft and production.

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Wednesday 12 - Thursday 13 May

John Marshall Roberts - Igniting Inspiration: A seminar for Visionaries Wellington/Auckland

What could your organization accomplish if cynicism and apathy were banished? What extra value and goodwill could your brand generate if it instilled a deeper sense of meaning and purpose with stakeholders?

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Thursday 13 May

Dialogues with Tomorrow - Climate Spin - Victoria University

The cultural critic and media theorist Judith Williamson will interrogate the ways in which images, particularly those created by the media and advertising industries, perpetuate what she calls the ‘deknowing’ of climate change.

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Saturday 15 May - Saturday 26 June

Opening of Quotidian: Finding inspiration in everyday design

Featuring works chosen and designed by Alt Group, Nat Cheshire, Formway Design, Adrian Hailwood, Peter Haythornthwaite, Guy Hohmann, Jamie McLellan, Jonty Valentine, Matthew von Sturmer, Katy Wallace and Cybèle Wirren.

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Tuesday 18 May

DINZ Design Business Series - May/June – delivered by WHK Business Growth

This series is aimed at building management capability and developing strategies that provide businesses with the momentum to become a more profitable.

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Wednesday 19 - Friday 28 May

Victoria University of Wellington - 2009 Graduates Exhibition

The School of Design invites you to visit an exhibition celebrating the achievements of our 2009 graduating class.

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Wednesday 26 May

DINZ Designers Speak - This & That - Auckland

A bit of this and a bit of that is like picking through the chocolate box to find the delicious and different.

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Sunday 30 May

somewhat different. Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention.

An international touring exhibition prepared by the Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and curator Volker Albus, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.

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