2012-05-25 16:00:43 // Idealog
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Stock images may get a bad rap and have many a Tumblr devoted to their ridiculousness – but companies like Getty prove there's a market for them.
2012-04-30 13:18:29 // Design Daily Team
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Hot on the heels of its recent Mishmash challenge, Getty Images is already onto the next creative competition with the launch of Grab NZ, giving photography enthusiasts the opportunity to become Getty contributors and win a share of $5,500 of Canon equipment.
2012-04-16 15:01:55 // Alex Gilks
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Instagram has tapped into something. Obviously. But what gives it aesthetic currency?
2011-01-12 11:47:11 // Deirdre Robert
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Polaroid has just unveiled its original, rather nifty and innovative new product line called Polaroid Grey Label, enlisting the help of none other than Lady Gaga who, as “creative director”, helped to create sunglasses that act as both a Polaroid camera and functional sunnies.
2010-12-03 16:05:33 // Design Daily Team
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Here’s your chance to swim in an ocean of creativity. WWF-New Zealand has launched a competition that seeks to harvest the creative juices of New Zealanders in a way that demonstrates a passion for Enzed’s mighty oceans. The competition—‘Ocean:Views’—is calling for people to submit creative works celebrating New Zealand's oceans and our connection with them, through creative works in any of the following four categories—music, creative writing, short film, and visual art (including, but not limited to, photography, illustration, graphic design and multimedia).
2010-11-05 06:00:00 // Lynda Brendish
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Online magazine Coup de Main started out as an amusement between friends. A year and a half later, it’s a thriving business.
2010-09-02 12:16:37 // Deirdre Robert
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A curious man to interview, Storm Thorgerson unleashes his childhood dream on us (sort of) — to be a romantic lead on a galeon boat. He also talks about those other talents of his — graphic design and filmmaking. And of course, the sexual behaviour of small rodents.
2010-08-30 10:47:20 // Design Daily Team
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How do you raise public awareness of some critically important international development issues? The United Nations answered this question by launching the UN Ads Against Poverty Competition, aimed at boosting awareness of its eight Millennium Development Goals. Some 2036 entries later, the judges announced a winner by way of graphic designer Stefán Einarsson for his “We are still waiting” campaign.
2010-08-13 14:21:06 // Design Daily Team
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Fancy having your design work displayed on a billboard in New York’s Time Square? That could be a reality thanks to an international competition by Tivoli Audio, who is seeking designers, illustrators, and photographers from around the world to prepare a poster to celebrate their 10th anniversary.
2010-08-13 12:19:50 // Design Daily Team
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With exactly one week to go until Semi-Permanent 2010 commences, we’re taking a look at The Light Surgeons, a collective of pioneering multimedia artists, founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. The collective functions as a media arts production company that seeks to create new cross-disciplinary audiovisual work that breaks new ground through its installation, live performance and digital film productions.
2010-07-22 10:52:37 // Design Daily Team
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If you think purple and orange just don’t go together, think again. Lauren Willhite is a graphic designer who’s out to illustrate that purple and orange can indeed be visually symbiotic, and so can any number of colour combinations.
2010-07-02 10:46:12 // Design Daily Team
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Bottles, and cans. That's what you'll find, unsurprisingly, at weshootbottles.com and weshootcans.com.
2010-07-01 12:28:27 // The Editors
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Promotion: Awarding-winning photographer Chris McLennan and HP make a world-beating combination. Here's how.
2010-07-01 09:41:33 // Design Daily Team
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If you’re an Apple fan, there’s a brand-spanking new event you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. Introducing CreativeTech.
2010-06-28 11:00:40 // Deirdre Robert
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If you’re looking for a bit of photographic inspiration, the Advertising & Illustrative Photographers Association has just the event for you this weekend - IMAGE NATION
2009-08-17 08:40:18 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. We talk with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby
2009-08-17 08:35:01 // Deirdre Robert
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We can’t help but love Alexia Sinclair’s stunning work. We discussed childhood loves and her plans for world domination.
2009-08-16 22:29:27 // Deirdre Robert
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Paul Soong from The Church talks about the permanence of Semi-Permanent and why it’s important to nurture upcoming creative Kiwis
2009-08-15 08:44:49 // David MacGregor
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An audience with Australia's next representative at the Venice Bienalle who dodges and burns the line between fine art and pop culture.
2009-07-02 08:48:31 // Matt Cooney
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Alexia Sinclair’s digital art is part fashion, part montage, part tribute and totally original. Whether her subject is an artistic depiction of Cleopatra or a commission for Canon, the Sydney-based artist combines her unique artistic eye with virtuoso digital skills. And in mid-August she’ll be in Auckland for Semi-Permanent ’09.
2009-05-28 09:19:43 // Laura Westphal
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James Madelin left investment banking to become a photographer—and found that he’s an inventor, too.
