Designer In Residence

Ex Unitec student Christine Hobbs will be taking up as 'designer in residence' in the Generator. She will be with us until the end of 2008. Having Christine with us offers a great opportunity for the residents to ask questions and see how Christine runs her business.

Having completed a Bachelor of Product Design at Unitec, graduating in 2005, Christine Hobbs is now engaged in running a small business called Nuzilla which she set up with Cris de Groot. As well as running Nuzilla, Christine also consults to various other small businesses in such areas as quality management systems, proof reading and design. Christine was the retail manager for Hells Gate in Rotarua.

For more information see http://nuzilla.co.nz or click on the title of this post.

Welcome Christine.

Webbs 3D Contemporary Art/Design Auction

Work by Scott Facer and Guy Hohomann is going under the Webbs hammer this week. If you are thinking of getting into collecting designed products from some of the best up and coming New Zealand designers get yourself along to Webbs this week and make a bid.

Evening Preview:
Wednesday, 15th October 2008, 6 ‑ 8pm.
On view daily from Wednesday, 15th October until the day of sale. Monday ‑ Friday 9am ‑

5.30pm; Saturday & Sunday 11am ‑ 3pm.
See www.webbs.co.nz for full viewing times.
3D Catalogue now online. Click on blog title to view and then online 3D Contemporary Art/Design Catalogue

The October Contemporary Art and Design catalogue offers something a little different to the discerning collector. It provides an overview of current practice across the multiple genres that constitute today's creative landscapes; contemporary art, contemporary and modern design, glass, ceramics and objects presented within a single session.

Josh Williams +64 9 524 6804 or jwilliams@webbs.co.nz

Grace Cochrane Drops into the Generator

Design and the handmade: new options and opportunities - Wednesday 8 October
Grace Cochrane has been in Auckland to discuss the changing relationship between design and the handmade and the choices some Australian and NZ designers and makers, who are experienced in making one-off works, are making in relation to new options regarding material, processes and technologies, in putting their work into production. She poses the question: ‘What does it mean for those interested in the crafts, in these changing times?' and notes that it isn't the first time the crafts have been at this kind of turning point, in a changing society, and it's not the first time craftspeople have been close to the heart of changes in values - of materials and processes, and of functions and forms.
Grace dropped into the Generator to see what we are upto and to discuss the issues described in the above paragraph. During our discussions a number of interesting opportunities surfaced and I will continue the dialogue with Grace so see how we might progress them further.

Dr Grace Cochrane was in New Zealand as the 2008 Portage Ceramics Award Judge. She is the Curator/Editor of Smart Works: Design and the Handmade at the Powerhouse Museum in 2007 and was formerly Senior Curator of Decorative arts and design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. (Source: Object Space)