Blue Baths by Ryan Romanes Design
Blue Baths is a renovated bath house originally opened in 1933 and located in Government Gardens, Rotorua, New Zealand. Blue Baths features geothermal heated pools and art deco detail, and has the distinction of being one of the first places in the country to have offered mixed sex bathing. The venue is open to the public and hosts private functions including...
Carin Wilson by Studio Alexander
Carin Wilson is a renowned furniture maker, sculptor, design educator and leader of the New Zealand craft movement throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. As well as precisely crafted functional furniture, Carin also creates pieces that look to explore narrative through alternative form — check out his work Royal Pain in the Arse — and are influenced by his Maori heritage. Carin Wilson’s...
Triumph & Disaster – On The Road by DDMMYY
Triumph & Disaster (T&D) is a male skincare and accessory brand that appropriates the traditional grooming experience associated with the past and fuses it with the high quality, natural and scientifically formulated expectations of today’s market. T&D’s packaging, created by New Zealand based design studio DDMMYY, references and confidently brings the type-heavy, heraldic detail, and traditional structural and material choices of the past into the...
Seafarers & Ostro by Inhouse
Seafarers is a recently rejuvenated seven floor habour front building located in Auckland’s Britomart precinct that will house, over two floors, Michelin starred chef Josh Emett’s flagship restaurant, due to open in stages throughout 2014, as well as brasserie and bar Ostro. The brand identity for the building, restaurant and brasserie, developed by Inhouse, draws on the rich history of the space—once known as...
F. Whitlock & Sons by Marx
F. Whitlock & Sons is a New Zealand based producer of pickles and sauces with a heritage that dates back to 1877, a heritage that over the last century had disappeared from the packaging. Design studio Marx, in collaboration with running with scissors, sort to bring back and celebrate this with a mix of copywriting wit and illustrative authenticity based around Fred Whitlock’s love of...