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Recently I presented at the Wellington Web Meetup, a monthly user-group for local professional web creatives or front-end web devs. My presentation was on the VCD Process I use for design. I was interested in presenting the process I go through to allow others to share their techniques and experiences.
The presentation went through the stages involved in the process, finishing with explaining the benefit of a process to assist a design and sharing some of the places to draw upon inspiration. I’ve uploaded it onto Slideshare to allow others to engage in the discussion and share their places of inspiration.
Whilst the amount of places to gather inspiration from is constantly growing, we all have our favourite haunts we like to return too. Here are a few of mine…
FFFFOUND.com – an image bookmarking site where you navigate by clicking on images. A great method of stumbling across a great assortment of visual goodness!
But does it float? – draws on a wide range of fascinating sources too.
Are there any similar links others find they keep returning too?
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Recently I attended Pecha Kucha at Downstage Gallery in Wellington, this is a global discussion which I have tried to get to whenever it’s on. Always worth the effort and always in great venues.
While each presentation offered something different I found a few which particularly fascinated me. Ralph Johns, a Wellington landscape architect, discussed some projects he had worked on around the waterfront redevelopment along Wellington Harbour near Wagamama and the Meridian Energy building. His slides presented the approach to the design and concept for the two works.
The other work on the National War Memorial had some great slides showing the process from sketches and ideas through to the finished architectural plans. The concept of a blanket draped over the land and some of the metaphors that flowed from that single idea, had been carried through to the plans presented as a birds-eye perspective. The visual suggestion of a giant grass and concrete blanket covering all displayed a rich and sensitive concept that I feel really added a symbolic message to such an important and national landmark.
Downstage was a great venue for it and it is almost a shame that Pecha Kucha moves around each time, as Downstage really lent itself to the event. There was a large state-of-the-art screen, thanks to the show that is on there at the moment.
The best speakers were the ones that offered the audience something to think about and didn’t use the 6 minutes 40 as a blatant advertisement for their newest endeavour. That being said, Pecha Kucha is a great platform to get people interested and involved in projects and for networking.
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A year has passed and it is with strong anticipation that we await the reopening of City Gallery in Civic Square Sunday 27th of September.
Already it has been prepared for a lovely reopening with Yayoi Kusama, a japanese artist, as the key attraction. The Gallery website has further information on the exhibition.
Already the exterior has been prepared with polka dots for the exhibition. City Gallery re-opens with a party in Civic Square starting at 12pm this Sunday. Hosted by Jo Randerson and featuring local bands, Little Bushman, Rosy Tin Teacaddy and the Hardy Ha Ha’s quite a lovely afternoon is assured.
The extension consists of the new Adam Auditorium, and on the first floor the new Roderick and Gillian Deane Gallery of Maori and Pacific art and the new reading room/AV space. Shots of the new City Gallery extension show further details.
It will interesting to see how the new Auditorium is utilised but I’m sure the summer ahead will be full of creative surprises.
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