New Zealand Design Review was the journal of the Architectural Centre, Inc., Wellington. The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre have digitised issues from 1948-53 on-line. It’s a nice snapshot of some classic Kiwi design, both architectural and graphic (look at those covers!). New Zealand Design Review | NZETC The Wellington
OK, so the European Car of the Year has a somewhat dubious history but I found this old feature online and was surprised to have owned nearly all Fiat's winners up to the Bravo. I was only 1 when the 124 was COTY, definitely wasn't driving,
Don't worry, this hasn't changed into a film review blog but MAN ON WIRE deserves a special mention. Although Slumdog Millionaire got most of the glory, and I liked Burn After Reading , this Oscar win...
I'm going to be writing about some "recently ribboned" applications in the next few weeks, some better than others. Before that I have decided to set out how I feel about a variety of "already ribbone...
A few weeks ago I blogged about the design related displays in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market Street - their San Francisco Customer and Technology Showcase. That is just one aspect of the space. T...
Having seen "The Gallery", on Scott's Labs Blog , I was keen to visit and delighted to find it was the location for the AutoCAD 2010 Backstage Pass Event . When I arrived much of the display area was...
Last week I flew about 22,000km in a Boeing 747 for the AutoCAD 2010 Launch Event . I didn't realise, until today, that the 747 celebrated forty years of flight while we were in the air on the flight...
I never really liked the Bangle era BMW's, except maybe the 5 Series, but must admit they had to do something radical. After decades of refining design themes established by the 1970 Bertone BMW Garmisch 2002Ti concept their "language" had become very predictable. Not an accusation
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After zipping along the Embarcadero to see Six Apart I headed back towards Golden Gate Bridge again. I wanted to visit a special building I'd seen in on Extreme Engineering - one of those "mega build" shows - on Discovery Channel. The day was another stunner
Recently I was clearing out a closet and found what was, a long time ago, my design tool box: + + + An A3 board, mechanical/architectural templates plus a handful of drawing instruments meant I...
I think there is a direct link from the brilliant work of Tony Hart to the work I do today and my preference for visual tools (click to view the map). Thanks Tony, from a big kid who watched your tele...
BD Online's great weekly news email led me to this interesting TED Talk from Greg Lynn. He discusses calculus in architecture and the use of generative components. The talk is from 2005 and Greg shows Bentley software in use. Given the direction Autodesk is heading it's
