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11.02.10 One-year anniversary of TypeSHED11

24.10.09 Read Prodesign blog for NZ type news

22.10.09 Follow Catherine Griffiths on twitter

16.10.09 Read Joseph Churchward wins Britten Award

18.09.09 Read �I Must Be Dreaming� by Hamish Thompson

31.08.09 View A E I O U � a typo/sound installation

16.07.09 View Marie Shannon: Love Notes, 2005

11.06.09 View �I Must Behave� by Bruce Connew

08.06.09 Get �Cover Up� by Hamish Thompson

04.06.09 Buy �Joseph Churchward� by David Bennewith

07.05.09 See TypeSHED11 on Flickr

07.05.09 Read Prodesign�s Re: TS11 view (pdf below)

14.04.09 View Le cadavre exquis at s/f

28.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Bruce Connew

26.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Masayoshi Kodaira

25.03.09 See Maxey in The New York Times magazine

25.03.09 Listen to latest Typeradio interviews

24.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Kris Sowersby

23.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Noel Waite

16.03.09 View posters by Sandra Kassenaar at s/f

12.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Karen Larsen

10.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Sarah Maxey

10.03.09 Read We Love interview Ed Benguiat

10.03.09 Read We Love interview Experimental Jetset

10.03.09 View TypeSHED11 photo-essay on Cheese on Toast

09.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Stephen Banham

04.03.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Joseph Churchward

28.02.09 Listen to Bruno Maag on This Way Up

24.02.09 Listen to Typeradio interview �The National Grid�

20.02.09 Read a review of TypeSHED11 on design.nl

14.02.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Experimental Jetset

14.02.09 Listen to Typeradio interview Bruno Maag

21.02.09 Listen to Noel Waite on This Way Up

12.02.09 Watch and listen to TypeSHED11 on Nightline, TV3

12.02.09 Listen to Stephen Banham on Nights

10.02.09 Listen to Christian Schwartz on Upbeat

08.02.09 Listen to Lynn Freeman interview Typeradio

07.02.09 Listen to Kim Hill interview Joseph Churchward

20.01.09 Read �Children of the kern� by Stephen Banham

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/ 18.11.09 / Dear friends ... TypeSHED11 = name of the venue: Shed 11. For those of you who are keen to see another (and we love your enthusiasm and suggestions), there will be no �TypeSHED12� � one reason being there is no Shed 12 available! It was always intended as a one-off event, and therefore special. One of our ambitions was to activate and encourage other organisations into providing such events for New Zealand designers, on an international scale. As a result, New Zealand is now truly on the radar � both here and internationally � as it turns out. Even though it is over, we continue to chase the ripple effect of the aftershock in an attempt to report on the myriad outcomes to our subscribers. TypeSHED11 is now a valuable online resource there for the taking. Incidentally, TypeSHED11 has been voted Best Design Event of the Year by Urbis Magazine. We are delighted. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. / Best regards, Catherine Griffiths, for TypeSHED11.
/ 24.10.09 / TypeSHED11 voted Best Design Event of the Year by Urbis Magazine. In store now, the latest issue of Urbis presents their definitive list of the Best of Design. The 2009 Design Annual rounds up the most innovative and interesting designs, people and ideas from this year to give you the ultimate design overview >> download PDF below

/ 16.09.09 / award / New Zealand

Type designer Joseph Churchward honoured with Britten Award � The Designers Institute of New Zealand�s (DINZ) gave its highest honour to type designer Joseph Churchward. The Britten, named after New Zealand mechanical engineer John Britten, who designed a world-record-setting motorcycle, is the highest recognition given by the Designers Institute to an outstanding individual for leadership, vision and achievement ... >> Read more at Prodesign

/ 07.08.09 / installation / Wellington

A E I O U: a typo/sound installation, 2009 � where the observer delivers the sound. Designer/typographer Catherine Griffiths constructs five vowels in steel rod, lightly stacked, five metres high on a first level terrace in Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand / A recording will capture the sound element of the installation, from a surprise I L O V E U to the actual sounding out of the vowels A E I O U - the ranging pronunciations a clue to the multi-lingual world we live in / This work marks the end of Catherine Griffiths�s 18 month stint organising TypeSHED11! >> view installation

/ 19.06.09 � 19.12.09 / exhibition / Wellington

Marie Shannon: Love Notes, 2005 / Courtenay Place Light Boxes / curated by Heather Galbraith, the exhibition follows on from Give Us a Sign (which coincided with TypeSHED11) / Sixteen private hand-written notes offer an unexpectedly intimate encounter within this large-scale public display. The works are a series of notes expressing love through various short-hand jottings, acronyms and more elaborate drawn compositions. Shannon�s photographs present tangible evidence of seemingly anonymous intimacy / Our thoughts are with Marie Shannon and Leo Dashper at the recent passing of Julian Dashper. Marie, Julian (1960�2009) and son Leo�s love notes to each other are depicted within this body of work / >> view at City Gallery Wellington

/ 25.07.09 � 12.09.09 / exhibition / Auckland

Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design since 1870 / Curated by Jonty Valentine / Makers: Joseph Churchward, Robert Coupland Harding, Tom Elliott, Mark Geard, Maarten Ideema, Narrow Gauge, Warren Olds, Bruce Rotherham, Shabnam Shiwan, Kris Sowersby, Luke Wood, Jack Yan / 64 page hardcover catalogue and a selection of typeface specimen posters SOLD OUT. A pdf version of the publication is available below for download >> view at Objectspace

/ 29.06.09 / exhibition opening / Brisbane

Exquisite Typography Poster Exhibition / Curated by Italian designer Leonardo Sonnoli, �NZ identity � le cadavre exquis� begins its international tour in Australia / AGDA exhibition opening >> Monday 29 June 2009, 6.15pm / Queensland College of Art Auditorium, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Brisbane / Posters by Alt NZ / Peter Bilak NL / Moana Bilsahson AO / Tony Brook UK / Catherine Griffiths NZ / Henrik Kubel UK / Paul Sahre USA / anothermountainman [Stanley Wong] HK / Leonardo Sonnoli IT / With thanks to Tanja Hall, Kate Owen and AGDA for actively promoting TypeSHED11 and it�s post-event life; and to split/fountain in Auckland, where the silver posters were exhibited in April 2009
/ 24.06.09 / Design Assembly Conversations on graphic design / Winter 2009 Event / Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 6.00pm / Room WE336, Art and Design Faculty, AUT, St Pauls Street, Auckland

/ 24.06.09 / PLURALS Series >> PLURALS2 Design Teams � Collaborative Project / book now / Wednesday 24th June / 6.00pm drinks for 6.30pm presentations / Formway Furniture Ltd, Level 1, The Exchange, 21 Allen Street, Wellington / DINZ Members $20, non Members $25
/ 15-29.06.09 / type tour / Australia / Kris Sowersby on tour in Australia / Recently featured in Eye Magazine, Spring 2009 Type Special ... �The cool allure of Modernist style refuses to die� - Nick Bell / Follow fellow NZer Kris Sowersby / book now for the AGDA International Speaker Tour / 15-29 June 2009

/ 16.06.09 Add to / start your collection with �I Must Behave� � latest artist book by Bruce Connew, published by Vapour Momenta Books, the pocket-sized publishing arm of photographer and artist Bruce Connew and designer, and typographer Catherine Griffiths, and printed by EBS in Verona, Italy

/ 08.06.09 �Cover Up� � the Art of the Book Cover in New Zealand�, by Hamish Thompson, NZ$30, now available though Vapour Momenta Books at endemicworld.com

/ 04.06.09 Don�t miss out on David Bennewith�s new book �Joseph Churchward� � purchase your copy from Clouds

/ 01.06.09 Conversations on graphic design � show your support and book your place for Design Assembly�s Winter 2009 Event, Wednesday, June 24, 2009
/ 07.05.09 prodesign has just DONE it. Thrown out Matrix and introduced Stag by Christian Schwartz, even if it is the display version used as text at 10pt! Check out the 100th issue. You can also download the review (see below) on TypeSHED11, by Stephen Banham.

/ 16.03.09 Check out Prodesign #99 Artful Words by Helen Walters ... �The worlds of art and type recently met in two projects � Le cadavre exquis and Give us a Sign � running concurrently to February�s TypeSHED11 symposium in Wellington ...�

/ 20.02.09 Dutch typography comes to New Zealand ... �TypeSHED11 was one of the best events Typeradio has visited so far. I also personally felt a sense of urgency doing the interviews with all these New Zealand designers ... Typeradio played an important role in that and we felt a sense of accomplishment afterwards.� � Donald Beekman, Typeradio >> READ the full review by Kate Dominy www.design.nl

/ 10.03.09 split/fountain is pleased to present a new project by Sandra Kassenaar - War Cries � a series of posters set in Churchward Brush � �A war cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same group to let the enemy know you�re coming and arouse aggression. Battle cries are a universal form of display behavior aiming at competitive advantage, ideally by overstating one�s own aggressive potential to a point where the enemy prefers to avoid confrontation altogether and opts to flee.� Kassenaar lives and works in Amsterdam where she runs a small graphic design studio.

/ 03.02.09 I Must Behave � a sideways glance at behaviour, an exhibition of photographs by Bruce Connew >> Mary Newton Gallery, 150 Vivian Street

/ 11.12.08 �Small, perplexed post-colonial democracy seeking in-depth typographical conversation.� Some want ads are made to go unanswered, writes Hamish Thompson for Eye magazine�s blog. But sometimes you get lucky, or you get mad and make it happen anyway >> Eye blog, and check out the latest issue of ProDesign for interviews with five of our guest speakers ...

/ 15.12.08 Give us a sign - a message, a proclamation, a warning, a proposition; a way to make things better � featuring new work by Joseph Churchward & David Bennewith, Gavin Hipkins, Sarah Maxey, Kate Newby, Stanley Nives and Jim Speers. Curated by Heather Galbraith, City Gallery Wellington, installed in the Courtenay Place Light Boxes >> 17.12.2008 � 14.06.2009

/ 10.12.08 Register for TS11 and be in to win! STUDENT designers and typographers: register for workshops and/or symposium by midnight Sunday 14 December and be in to win 1 of 5 workshops!

/ 01.11.08 Check out the latest issue of Threaded Magazine for your chance to win the Dalton Maag catalogue when you register. For more details, go to page 9 story, Locating our Feet.

/ 16.11.08 Listen to Peter Gilderdale at Design Assembly�s The November Event: From Digits to Digital and Back � thanks to Marian Bantjes, calligraphy is now almost cool again. As a calligrapher and design historian, Gilderdale will look at the question of what it means to be �hand done�. Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6�8pm at AUT, Auckland.

/ 24.09.08 The Sep/Oct 2008 issue of Communication Arts magazine contains a feature article entitled �Living on the Edge: Visual Communication Design in New Zealand� written by Circle�s principal, Robert Peters. The in-depth piece investigates New Zealand�s unique attributes, history, culture, and current realities in relation to visual communication�the feature is accompanied by a selection of contemporary works by Kiwi designers drawn in large part from recent winners of DINZ awards shows. Pictured: Moriori typeface development, and Mac�s Beer packaging.

/ 07.09.08 New Zealand is now regarded as one of their most important developing markets by Dalton Maag � they are pleased to announce that they now offer their retail library online in New Zealand dollars.

/ 05.09.08 Designed by Clemenger BBDO, Wellington, the A � Z of stamps is a quirky look at New Zealand culture, history, heritage and kiwiana, recently issued by New Zealand Post.

/ 03.08.08 �If National is New Zealand�s first homegrown sans serif,� Soskolne raved, �I�d say it�s a pretty fine start.� Sara Soskolne, designer, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, in an interview with type designer Kris Sowersby, in Sunday Magazine.

/ 15.07.08 Typographic logo for Architecture for the Nation, the new artists exhibition at Artspace in Auckland, designed by emerging New Zealand graphic designers Tiga Seagar and Sarah Gladwell.

/ 15.07.08 AisleOne interviews Elaina Hamilton and Duncan Forbes of Experimenta, a design studio in Wellington, New Zealand. Check them out.

/ 19.06.08 WORD PLAY: the art of typography New Zealand typographers and designers Warren Olds, Duncan Forbes, Kelvin Soh, Kris Sowersby and Sarah Maxey in conversation. Chaired by Catherine Griffiths. Saturday 12 July, 2-4pm, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. What inspires and informs the type designer and user? How do the artist, the type designer and the typographer develop philosophies about communicating the visual forms of type language? Collect/Project, Adam Art Gallery, 6 May�8 July 2008.

/ 01.05.08 Collect/Project, Adam Art Gallery, 6 May � 8 July 2008, features John Reynolds� 1,170-piece painting entitled �Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water�, 2007, a work that uses every Maori word and phrase listed in Harry Orsman�s Dictionary of New Zealand English. A similar work of Reynolds, that you can actually view, is Cloud, an installation at the 2007 Sydney Biennale, that offers up the verbal culture of New Zealand (land of the long white cloud) ...

/ 19.04.08 The Alaska Design Forum lecture series has just completed their latest set with final speaker, New Zealander (and one of TypeSHED11�s creators), Catherine Griffiths, who spoke on this season's theme of attachment (and detachment), at Anchorage and Fairbanks, to designers, architects, visual artists and members of the public. For more >> Alaska Design Forum

/ 25.03.08 Helvetica, the movie, is back in Wellington due to popular demand: watch the film at the World Cinema Showcase 2008, Paramount Theatre, Thursday 27 March 6.30pm, and Saturday 29 March 12.30pm | Director/producer: Gary Hustwit | Featuring Experimental Jetset, Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister ...

/ 04.03.08 National, 2007, designed by Wellington type designer Kris Sowersby, has been recognised by the internationally renowned Type Directors Club of New York in their recent TDC� 2008 competition. National is the first New Zealand typeface to be awarded a TDC� Certificate of Excellence. It was also selected as a Judge�s Choice and will appear in the front of the TDC� 2008 section of their annual publication, �Typography 29�, due out later this year. National is available exclusively from Village. For more >> Kris Sowersby