Letter Man: Joseph Churchward’s world of type | The Ilott Room, Te Papa | FREE | until 16.02.09
Joseph
Churchward is a Samoan-born graphic designer whose fonts are used the
world over. You’ve probably encountered his work through opticians’ eye
charts, which his hand-lettering skills helped to create. Through
pencil sketches, print negatives, photographs, and newspaper clippings,
this new, eye-opening exhibition in the Ilott Room, Level 4 brings the
intricacies of Churchward’s art into public view for the first time ... www.tepapa.govt.nz
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Webstock 09 | New Zealand’s web-industry conference | 16-20.02.2009, Wellington
Hot on the heels of TypeSHED11, is the much anticipated third season of Webstock . . . 5 full-on days, 8 hands-on workshops, 23 kick ass speakers, 26 must see presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration. Check it out! www.webstock.org.nz
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Common Ground - Via Grafik (Germany) meets Cut Collective (Aotearoa) | 13.02.09 - 17.05.09 at TheNewDowse | FREE | In co-operation with Goethe-Institut and supported by ZM
Street Art: some see it as a way of reclaiming public space, to others it’s reckless vandalism. German design group Via Grafik and Auckland street artists Cut Collective bring street art inside, creating wall paintings, graphics and sculptural installations in a gallery collaboration. The artists walk the line between art and vandalism, creation and disruption - and they share a common belief that “if the wall is kept grey, the mind will follow.” The show is supported by Board Art 08, a collection of 40 skate deck designs from Coca Gallery, as well as two ‘Hit the Wall’ sites. Public programmes include Sunday Scratch Sessions with Secret Level DJs, board design workshops, graphics competition and a public debate on graf art as a legitimate artform. www.newdowse.org.nz
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Lasertag | 13.02.09, 8-11pm | Inside/Outside TheNewDowse | FREE
Join the next generation of street artists and spray the outside walls of TheNewDowse... with lasers! Created as open source technology by New York’s Graffiti Research Lab, LASERTAG is an explosive new artform that gives you a chance to shout out in an urban space increasingly dominated by advertising and commercial messages. Throw up live legal building tags with Germany’s Via Grafik and Aotearoa’s Cut Collective, with twin sound stages featuring Olmecha Soundsystem’s legendary MC Imon Star and King Homeboy (NZ beatbox champion) supported by Mighty Asterix and Secret Level DJs. Thanks to AVS and Red Bull. www.newdowse.org.nz/lasertag
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Wellington Writers’ Walk text sculpture, 2000–2004, by Catherine Griffiths (commissioned by the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors) The Walk is a series of 15 large-scale, three dimensional concrete text sculptures honouring significant New Zealand writers who have strong associations with Wellington. Sited along the city’s urban waterfront each sculpture is positioned unexpectedly: suspended in water, lying on grass, perched on the rocks, as if washed up by the sea.
photograph: Bruce Connew
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