“When I embarked on this post for NZ Music Month, I posed the question to various musicophiles (?) “What is your favourite NZ album cover and why?”. I was amazed by the depth and detail of the majority of replies I got, which perhaps reflects the passion the respondents have for their music collections.”
“Entering the exhibition space, the lights dim, is like walking into a place of worship. In this case, it is a temple to botanical art and more generally a homage to the printed book.”
“Crowdfunding seems to have had a lot of publicity lately, with PledgeMe reaching its own goal of $500,000 in funding and The Arts Foundation’s launch and imminent release of Boosted. I have talked to two New Zealanders who have had a go at this method of raising money…”
“With the increasing ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, netbooks and cheap, widescreen, overgrown desktop monitors, designing websites has become a whole lot more complicated.”
“When I discovered I would be in the UK at the same time the second Ampersand Conference was happening, I booked straight away. Subtitled “the web typography conference”, I thought the subject was probably too niche to warrant a full conference in little old NZ, but I was keen to meet some other web/type nerds and to see how an international design conference compares to ones I have been to at home.”
“Stop thinking that WordPress is a blogging platform – 63% of the top million websites that use a CMS use WordPress and approximately 15% of the web is powered by WordPress. It’s not going away any time soon.”
Written for Natcoll Publishing, DTTR Level 1 is a teacher resource to help with effective delivery of design and technology curriculum in a classroom at the first year of senior high school. It is available via Natcollʻs website.
