Upcoming Events — 2025

The Best of the Best Designers Speak®️ series represent the highest calibre of design craft and provides the opportunity to kōrero - sharing knowledge that uplifts and connects our community.

Talking to the values - Whakamana Te Toi, Whakamana Te Tiriti, Whakamana Te Ao, Whakamana Te Tangata.

This event is brought to you by Resene

Extended Whānau; Lucy Thompson; Jeremy Hansen & Jade Kake

Purple Pin & Black Pin

Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere - Tyrone Ohia, FDINZ, Extended Whānau; Lucy Thompson; Jeremy Hansen & Jade Kake.

A tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa), a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration of people and place.

Rewi, the book brings together a breathtaking range of his projects, from conceptual dreamscapes to one-of-a-kind homes. Rewi is one of our foremost contemporary Māori architects, but he is often overlooked. 

Designworks & The Guardians

Gold Pin

Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka - Jef Wong, FDINZ, & Mike Pepper, DINZ, Designworks; Anzac Tasker, FDINZ, The Guardians.

Tuakiritaka. Restoring pride in identity, and pride in Ōtākou as a place of many firsts.

Alongside mana whenua and The University of Otago, Designworks set out to co-design an identity and brand that would speak to the present, be sensitive to and honour the true past, and provide clear momentum to navigate a path into the future.

DDMMYY & Klim Type Foundry

Gold Pin

American Grotesk - Kelvin Soh, FDINZ, DDMMYY; Kris Sowersby, FDINZ, Klim Type Foundry.

A campaign for the launch of American Grotesk®, a reprisal of Franklin Gothic, which has staked its place as a key part of American graphic vernacular history, notably in persuasive communication.

Like Bollywood in relation to Hollywood, this is an America seen from a non-American perspective, an outsider's cocktail of cultural deconstruction and satire — commentary and comedy — inspired by Colors magazine, Adbusters and S.N.L.

The Tuesday Club

Gold Pin

Mānuka Health New Zealand Rebrand - Nick Worthington, The Tuesday Club. 

Honeybees see in UV. It was this revelation that provided a unique and distinctive visual language and perspective for the Mānuka Health New Zealand rebrand.

Journey & Ryman Healthcare

Gold Pin

Resident App | Design Solutions that Enhance Lives - Amanda Stonex, Journey; Emily Underwood, Ryman Healthcare. 

Enhancing lives with an accessible, engaging, and impactful digital solution for Ryman village residents and staff.