Separated at birth?

I wonder if by chance these two are related?

NBR article: "New Telecom logo divides customers"
Stuff: "Take Telecom's new logo as you like"


Bit wait. . . there's more. . .

Back to Surreality

Just returned from a week in Melbourne. The Dali show (Liquid Desire) at NGV is absolutely brilliant. It's on till beginning of October. Definitely worth a look if you are in Melbourne. Amazing to see the fine detail and use of light in his work when you see the originals.

My favourites were the beautiful etchings & jewellery.


Next stop, the Dali museum in Figueres to see the beating ruby heart in real life.

So much cool stuff to see besides melting clocks.



Anyway, back into it here at Blondini Gang. Need to upgrade website & logo. . . . AND do real work.

Exhibition Open!

We had a very successful opening for the Sunday Printmakers exhibition last night at the Odlin Gallery in Lower Hutt. A big crowd attended and enjoyed the work and the wine & the nibbles provided by Sarah.

Hutt City Councillor, Barbara Branch officially opened the exhibition and spoke about the important place facilities such as the Hutt Art Society hold in the community. She thought that these sorts of facilities will become even more valuable in times when funds for Community Education are being cut.

The work looks good — well framed and well displayed. Some sales were made, which is great.
Check out the show when you get a chance — it is open 10 am til 4pm until the 16th August at the Odlin Gallery in Lower Hutt.

Sunday Printmakers Exhibition

The Sunday Printmakers Exhibition opens at the Odlin Gallery, Hutt Art Society in Lower Hutt this Wednesday (5th August) at 6.30pm. It runs till the 16th of August, 10.00am to 4.00pm.

It is an exhibition of woodcuts, linocuts, etchings and screen prints by a small group of us (printmakers) who work out of the print studio at the Hutt Art Society. We meet on the first Sunday of every month.

E-learning webinars coralled

eLearning Technology has brought together in one place, a list of free webinars for learning professionals.

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Colour in Venice

Colourlovers.com have a cool posting: Color From The Venice Biennale which features Francis Upritchard’s installation.

Venice Biennale 2009

The 2009 Venice Biennale is on. It officially opened on June 7th. New Zealand is represented by two artists : Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard.

There is a list of published articles about the Biennale here at Creative New Zealand’s New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009 site.

The Press has Chris Moore reporting from Venice.

Also you can read the NZ at Venice blog which has a lot of cool images from the Biennale.

The main Biennale site is here.

DINZ Designers Speak PLURALS Series: Design Teams — Collaborative Projects

Looks like an interesting session.
Wednesday 24th June in Wellington.

Presentation ONE
Design Team: Dean Poole, Alt Group and Ed Burak, Formway Furniture
Collaborative Project: HUM - Minds at Work

Presentation TWO
Design Team: Hayden Vink, DNA and Simon Coley, Powershop
Collaborative Project: Power to the People

Presentation THREE
Design Team: Arch McDonnell, Inhouse Design and Andy Pickering, Pilot Magazine
Collaborative Project: Pilot

Presentation FOUR
Design Team: Peter Mitchell from SPA and Dan Males from Isthmus, with client: Wellington Waterfront, Andrew Howie
Collaborative Project: Kumutoto
More info

To Whom It May Concern

I'm a City Girrl now!

Blondini Gang Design has been here now for 3 weeks. It's cool.

View My Saved Places in a larger map

The Big Move

Well Blondini Gang is moving from Petone to the Big Smoke.

We are moving into Wellington this weekend and will be open for business in Wakefield Street from Monday, May 11th.

It's exciting, but a bit scary to be moving into the big city — even the trees are dangerous!

It wasn't us occifer!

(We were in LA)



The Blondini Gang tore through Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery yesterday, 28 years after their first visit . . . more

LOL

Today's JOT (Joy of Tech)
(Should have really blogged this on Purrgatory. . .)

DIY Website

Find out how here: Build your own website for free: A comedy in 5 easy steps.

Bushfire Appeal

Help Sitepoint help the Australian bushfire appeal. Buy 5 of their books for only $US29.00.

Titles include:

• The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques
• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
• The Ultimate CSS Reference

A Mighty Wind

Unbelievable! Link

Found Art

Look at this cool thing found & photographed by Art is My Life.



Godzone on the footpath!

TwitterFry

Stephen Fry's Twitter suggestions. He has 100,000 followers! I have 54 . . . a fair percentage of whom appear to be 14 year old boys . . .

Cool Tees on sale

Last day for Threadless sale!

Warning -- Will Robinson!

Creative Tech has Twittered this Font Haiku (at Boing Boing).

Papyarus or Comic Sans, anyone?

So TODAY!

Web design trends and more web design trends at Smashing Magazine.
Lots of inspiration & cool ideas.

The Man with the Golden Voice

The Leonard Cohen concert was just so good.

And did I mention I was sitting in the front row?



If he's playing anywhere you — just go.

As Simon Sweetman (DomPost critic) says here: "It is hard work having to put this concert in to words so I'll just say something I have never said in a review before and will never say again: this was the best show I have ever seen."

We also quote this LC poem:

"I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door."


I took a photo & a v short video before my camera got shut down. Will post anon.

Turning Green

Ecofont. Uses less ink! Free to download.

Styley Typography

Some interesting examples of print-based typography here at Spoonfed Design (11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography).

All I want for Christmas. . .

Well it's too late for this Xmas — but next. . .