Win a Semi-Permanent Ticket + a Pre-order of Ed.19
We've teamed up with our good friends at Semi-Permanent to offer a free ticket to our loyal readers! There are some incredible creatives talking at Semi-Permanent in Wellington on November 17 2015.
What you win: 1 x professional 1-day pass to Semi-Permanent Wellington, 1 x copy of our upcoming issue Ed.19 (released Mid December). Total value of $210!!
Some of the digital powerhouse speakers include Michael Lebowtiz from Big Spaceship, the globally recognised marketing agency with a “crack team of digital inventors”, according to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list; Simon Rogers who is an editor of the Trends team at Google and has previously worked at Twitter – as well as creating The Guardian’s online data section.
Controversial artist and creative director Ryder Ripps will also be joining them – the man who went from being praised as “the consummate internet cool kid” by The New York Times to getting accused of making the most offensive artwork of the year (“Art Whore”); Beatrice Lartigue will often a more poetic and humanistic approach, a French new media artist and designer Lartigue enjoys designing for people regardless of their age or technological ability.
It’s a chance to be a part of change and learn how to shake things up by those who have pioneered the internet design generation. This is your invitation to come along.
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A' Design Award & Competition is the Worlds' largest annual juried design competition that honors best designers, architects, and design oriented companies worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition. The A' Design Accolades are organized and awardedinternationally in a wide array of categories ranging from industrial design to architecture. Every year, projects that focus on innovation, technology, design and creativity are awarded with the A' Award to push them further for success.
A' Design Award & Competition is open to submissions from entries in 110 categories. Each category has a distinct evaluation and submission criteria. Submissions can be made to Furniture Design, Interiors, Electronic Devices, Architecture, Packaging, Graphic Design, Ready-Made, Jewelry Design, Interfaces, Web Sites, Transportation, Yacht Design and others. View a list of all design award categories and requirements.
We've teamed up with our Partner ACG Yoobee to bring this opportunity to students/graduates/professionals worldwide!
What you Win! Win an online or short course at ACG Yoobee, worth $500! Plus a copy of the issue your masthead will adorn.
Eligibility Anyone from anywhere in the world can enter this competition.
How to Enter 1. Download the masthead template and create your design for the masthead of the next issue of Threaded.
2. Submit via Twitter or Facebook or Email. Submit it by tweeting/posting to our Twitter or Facebook with the hashtag #ED19MASTHEAD. Emails accepted also.
Deadline All submissions close by 31 October 2015.
Curiosity. Who cares what it did to the cat? These days, more than ever, a sense of curiosity is the ultimate self-starter kit, for not only every designer but every sentient human being. It’s like an action pack that no knowledge-acquisitive superhero can go without. Without curiosity to set you off, these days, you really are lost. Like it or not, the days of the clock puncher are numbered. Machines will do all the heavy lifting in no time, and the feather-dusting too for that matter. Therefore, in a sense, we must all be in the self-improvement business, whatever other business we happen to be in. Education has gone buzzword holistic. It’s everywhere you are and everything you do, or as close as it can be. Well, learning is certainly no longer the preserve of the athenaeum, the academy, the lecture room, the ivory tower, the Ivy league or even the studio – and certainly not the privileged few.
Well it’s hot and revolutionary stuff. But, however flexible and mobile a designer’s educational options may be in these heady days, the first requirement remains the same. An insatiable degree of curiosity may be the most valuable trait that any designer, artist or, again, just sentient human being, can wish to possess. After all, each of us, these days, has a world of information at our fingertips, but do we know which questions are worth asking? Of course, there’s only one way to find that out and that’s the curious thing…
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
M35 - Bringing clarity to the complex [Sydney, Australia, Multimedia Agency]
Gemma O'Brien - The master of textual conversations [Australia, Artist & Designer]
Anna Crichton - A day on the life of a cartoonist [New Zealand illustrator]
Fraser Muggeridge - Prioritizing content over a signature style [London, Design Studio]
Holli McEntegart - Intersectioning the real and imagined [New York Artist]
Let us begin by introducing Threaded Apparel - a new addition to our Threaded tribe of ‘T’ shaped people and projects. It’s been a natural evolution; the work we have been doing in Threaded Studio and Threaded Magazine has inspired and fed our first collection, ‘Sweet Disorder’. You may notice that our apparel range pays homage to an edition of Threaded magazine and that we have created ‘Sweet Disorder’, in pursuit of imagination, experimentation and freedom.
We avow our contempt for the shackles of convention, especially the dreary limitations of maturity; creative or otherwise. All attempts to recapture lost innocence are not permitted, but encouraged, hence we'll be wearing beanies and sweatshirts from here on in.
Stated simply, Threaded Apparel will use what we find. Stated surrealistically, glued together bagpipes are walrus shavings on a Velcro covered floor. But no. We believe in found objects, thoughts, dreams, furniture, spare parts – everything found. Its no longer just the pages of each edition of Threaded that shall be filled with the lost and found. The lost shall find a home, the found will be set on their way. Threaded Apparel will have its day. We run amok to create Sweet Disorder!
Every detail of the Sweet Disorder collection has been carefully considered with diverse layers of print placements, techniques and embroidery challenging the status quo with every thread.
The range will make it's debut at the Auckland Fair (14th June). Those who can't make it, we've made these available to pre-order here. All Orders ship June 16th.
