DINZ Designers Speak - This & That - Auckland

DINZ Designers Speak - This & That - Auckland
(Wellington 2nd June)

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

ANIMATION
Brotown - "Pop Island Culture" aka Ali Cowley Illustrations
Title: Brown in the Arts
Soundbite: My experience as Animation Director on Bro'town.

ARCHITECTURE
OH.NO.SUMO 
Title: Paper Planes
Soundbite: Believe the hype! OH.NO.SUMO. are coming to Designers Speak! Fresh from Urbis Design Day’s Paper Sky and Architecture Week’s Cupcake Pavilion, the rag-tag bunch of misfits are ready to reveal the secrets of their designs.

FASHION + DESIGN
NO.Magazine - Delaney Tabron
Title: Yes No Maybe
Soundbite: No is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the documentation of people, fashion and popular culture. No collaborates, inspires and conspires with some of the world’s most talented artists and agitators. No represents the vanguard of local and international style culture and captures the spirit of a generation through their consumption of fashion, film, photography, literature, art, music, street culture and philosophy.

GRAFFITI TO FASHION
Flox - Hayley King
Title: Flox, Art In the Real World
Soundbite:

BESPOKE TYPOGRAPHY
Sarah Maxey Design - Sarah Maxey
Title: "Don't get me started: Bespoke handlettered typography"
Soundbite: Graphic artist Sarah Maxey will discuss her influences and preoccupations around handlettering, sharing samples from her collection of found handlettering, recent work, and will preview an upcoming project.

Presenters

Animation - "Pop Island Culture" aka Ali Cowley Illustrations

Freelance Animation Director/Artist specialising in character and concept designs for animation Bro’town’s Animation Director, Ali Cowley, initially trained with Freelance Animation School. He studied there for two years, then worked in the Freelance studio and shortly afterwards became one of the school’s tutors. Following this, Ali did a year long stint at Flux Animation, gaining experience on various projects. He then joined ‘Slightly Off Beat’ Productions to work on Warner Bros and Disney assignments. When ‘Slightly Off Beat’ changed hands, Ali remained at the studio which was to be re-named Anim8. Ali was responsible for instigating Anim8’s student programme in association with Auckland base South Seas Animation School.
Ali Cowley started working on the first series of Bro’town as a Key Clena Up Artist and Animator. He was quickly promoted to Assistant Director on the second series, and received a credit for independently directing episode 2.1 ‘Zeelander’ from Series 2. Ali Cowley was appointed Animation Director on Bro’town Series 3 and has continued in this role on Bro’town Series 4 and 5.
Continued relationship with CMDHB as well as designing a range of street apparel under the label “Pop Island Culture”. At the moment Ali is Directing/Animating music video for local Hip Hop Artist Dei Hamo. The music video is a collaboration with former Head of Bro’town’s digital department 3D Artist Murray Starkey.

  
Architecture - OH.NO.SUMO
Sarosh Mulla / Katherine O'Shaughnessy / Patrick Loo

OH.NO.SUMO. is a design collective made up of Sarosh Mulla, James Pearce, Katherine O’Shaughnessy and Patrick Loo. OH.NO.SUMO. aims to produce work outside of the usual architectural conventions and is focused on realising projects that act as provocations or test sites for ideas. With an interest in the alternative architectural materials and geometric formations the collective works on all spatial scales. Often branching out into graphic and event work to provide a holistic experience for the user, projects aim to breakdown the barriers between designers and the general public. 

FASHION + DESIGN - NO Magazine - Delaney Tabron

Delaney Tabron was born on a Tuesday. She started her career as an art director for a well-known advertising agency. What followed was a number of years finding new and creative ways to sell Coca Cola to kids and wrinkle cream to aging house wives. After a drunken conversation at a fashion show in 2004 she escaped the evil clutches of the advertising industry to work as the art director of Pavement magazine. Three years and eleven issues later Delaney decided to move on to a position teaching design and typography at Auckland Institute of Technology. In 2007 with the help of cofounder Fraser McGregor and a huge team of creative collaborators she published the first issue of No magazine. A magazine with no name. A magazine that celebrates people, the things they create, their successes, their loves, their vices, their mistakes, their compromises and the ways they connect. She has never looked back.

Graffiti to Fashion - Flox - Hayley King

Flox is currently one of the leading female stencil-based artists in New Zealand today.  She is a clothing designer, painter, mural contract worker, business operator, and a mum.  Flox is a member of  the Cut Collective,  a group of artists who paint interior and exterior mural jobs, exhibit together and run their own individual businesses from CCHQ,  Poynton Terrace Auckland CBD.

Flox is a self confessed workaholic and is very dedicated to making a living out of what she is passionate about.  “I knew it was going to be hard, if not impossible to make a living out of my art, but I was not prepared to push it aside in favour of a nine to fiver.  So in 2005 I started up my own clothing line.  It was my intention to have the two disciplines working in sync with one another, so both my art and the clothing could promote each other and be branded under the one umbrella.”  And she has done just that.  You can find Flox’s wares at the new City Designer’s Market on High Street in Auckland CBD, and at various stockists throughout New Zealand.  Check out her latest paintings, prints and merchandise at the new Cut Collective HQ any day of the week.

Sarah Maxey - Sarah Maxey Design 

Sarah Maxey is a graphic artist based in Wellington. Since 1991, she has designed for publishing companies in NZ and abroad, including 2 years designing and art directing for Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK. On her return to NZ in 1996, she established her own studio providing thoughtful design solutions for the arts publishing sector, winning many awards for her book design in the process. She was guest presenter at the Typeshed11 Typography Symposium in 2009 and her work was showcased in the 4th series of The Gravy, the TVNZ arts programme. Recent commissions include typographical drawings for clients as diverse as The New York Times and City Gallery Wellington and a large hand-lettered wall installation for a group show at the Hirschfeld Gallery. Her fourth solo show of typographical work will open in late May 2010 at Bowen Galleries, Wellington.

Posted on: April 15, 2010