Best of the Best Designers Speak 2012 - March 7th 2012 - Auckland - Supported by Dulux.

Best of the Best Designers Speak - Supported by Dulux. 

 

Alt Group + Fisher & Paykel -  Dean Poole & Mark Elmore 

Title: The Social Kitchen.

Strategy Design and Advertising - Guy Pask 

Title: Share an Idea.

Special Group - Heath Lowe

Title: Four.

Soundbite: Launching a new TV channel. With a duck. Meet FOUR.

 

SPEAKERS:

Mark Elmore:

Dean Poole:

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.

Guy Pask:

Guy Pask is the founding partner of Strategy Design & Advertising Christchurch. As Group Creative Director, he is best known for developing intelligent and effective solutions for our clients. Guy developed his design skills while working in the industry in Sydney. Upon his return to New Zealand, he set up Strategy with the vision of producing award winning, world-class design from a Christchurch base. Over the years, Guy's creative direction has received considerable recognition both at home and overseas. Awards include Clio, the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the One Show, AWARD, AGDA, MAPDA, Graphis Poster, NZ Poster Art, ProDesign, Urbis, Desktop, Unlimited and the New Zealand Best Design Awards (winner large and small scale identity '03, '05 and '06). Guy is currently Chairman of CPIT's Bachelor of Design course advisory, a trustee of the Christchurch Art Gallery and a former council member of the Designers Institute of New Zealand. He has been a judge for the New Zealand Best Design Awards and AWARD.

Heath Lowe:

Heath Lowe is co-founder and design director of Auckland based Special Group, a long way and nearly 20 years from the beginning of his career in Portland, Oregon. Special is a multi-disciplined creative agency set up to facilitate our clients' journeys from design through consumer advertising and anywhere in between. Recognised in the US and Europe for his work on Miller Brewing Co. and Nike, as well as adidas, Heath now focuses on growing New Zealand brands with a desire for global domination. ecostore, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Gravity coffee and FOUR currently occupy his energies.

 

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ATEED - Better by Design - BJ Ball Group - Idealog Magazine - Inzide Commercial - Massey University - PMP Limited.

 

Posted on: December 13, 2011