Earlier this year New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo held a competition to design a gig poster for the Flight of the Conchords US tour. Each poster relates to a different city on the tour. The competition attracted entries from some of America’s most talented poster artists and the band themselves [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
HelloVon / Immerse your soul in love
We featured the super talented HelloVon in Pilot issue #1 as the Grand Visual Narrative. Von’s fluid illustrations blur the line between art and design in the most elegant and delightful way. I thought it timely to direct you to Von’s current exhibitions. Firstly, if you’re in London check out Cocoon, a small oasis in London’s [...]
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Bret Easton Ellis loves The Hills
The new issue of Fantastic Man features one of my favourite authors Bret Easton Ellis on the cover, with a revealing interview inside. I especially enjoyed it as it reveals 2 new insights about the enigmatic Mr Ellis that I strongly relate to. Ellis recently relocated to L.A. from New York, and like most authors [...]
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Design Geek / part 2
About a month ago I mentioned a Design event in Auckland that featured 4 presentations on Collaborative Design Projects. The intention of the event was to show design collaboration on projects, and give different design disciplines some insight into the way other disciplines work. Myself and Arch MacDonnell of Inhouse Design gave one of 4 presentations. [...]
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I heart James Jean
So The Church have just released the line-up for this year’s Semi Permanent design event and I must say they have a very impressive line-up. Proudly presented by The Church, Semi Permanent returns to Auckland on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 August 2009. Details here www.semipermanent.com/newzealand The one artist coming this year that I am most [...]
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NZ Top Model Go-Sees
Have been doing some model castings for an upcoming fashion story in the next issue of PILOT. It was great to meet Laura and Hosanna this morning, you’ll recall they were second and third placed in NZ’s Next Top Model. Both lovely girls, Hosanna was especially stunning in person – beautiful face and smile and [...]
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Boom Boom Pow…
Call me a jammy bastard but I’m writing this from the British Airways Business Class Lounge at Heathrow… Very nice it is to. Complimentary food and drinks, about 30 computer terminals and some nice runway views… there must be about 35 people in here but it is quieter than a library even – must [...]
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The World Is Yours
It’s been a hectic 4 days in London. Anyone who has spent time with my host Vee will relate no doubt. We went out on Friday night to The World Is Yours exhibition for photographer Lawrence Watson. The World is Yours is a hardback retrospective of Lawrence’s iconic images. Launched in conjunction with Adidas as [...]
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