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Actual time spent designing
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | General | 2 Comments
I came across this amusing diagram at HCGGD.com about the time breakdown of modern web design
Kowhaiwhai pattern
Friday, August 29th, 2008 | General | 1 Comment
A client has asked me to design a Kowhaiwhai pattern based on their logo. I admit I had to look up exactly what a kowhaiwhai pattern was and found a useful but ugly page that got me sussed. Also found an interesting essay snippet (below) about the development of kowhaiwhai patterns. Check it out
New Zealand has a long history of Eurocentric appropriation and assimilation that has led koru and kowhaiwhai to become signifiers both of New Zealand Art and more widely New Zealand. It began with Sydney Parkinson’s drawings of kowhaiwhai painted paddles produced during Captain Cook’s 1769 voyage and continued to the present day with an excess of koru motifs advertising logos. Since the politically engaged 1980’s this appropriation of motifs by Pakeha artists have spurned great debate in New Zealand. Pakeha artists have been seen by many to have created works using koru and kowhaiwhai problematically placing the motifs in a distorted context.
Here’s where I got to:
My first kowhaiwhai pattern
Welcome to our blog and scary client brief video
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 | General | No Comments
Hey all. I’ve been madly collecting interesting website and business resources in the teeny amounts of spare time I have between designing and wanted to share them, some tips, stories, designs and ideas with everyone.
We’ll be covering topics such as
- How to get listed in Google
- What is RSS?
- Mistakes to avoid when writing website copy
- Prevent your email newsletters from being trashed
The first one is this classic video about an experience every designer goes through at some point. Think “scope creep”, “client from hell”, “lame final design” and you’ll have a pretty good idea.
Catch you soon.
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