Project Glow on the Runway

A few weeks ago we pre­viewed the gar­ments and accessor­ies cre­ated for Pro­ject Glow, a fash­ion com­pet­i­tion for reflect­ive gear. Last Sat­urday even­ing we atten­ded the Wel­ling­ton show (the Auck­land show is on Sat­urday 26th, tick­ets here). Right now it’s hard to com­pete with all those lus­cious bur­ger pho­tos here on The Wel­ling­tonista, so we think we […]

Preview: Project Glow

At a pos­sibly not-that-secret loc­a­tion in the heart of Te Aro, The Wel­ling­tonista was invited to pre­view the entrants for this year’s Pro­ject Glow. We had to tap on the win­dow to gain entrance, and while there only man­aged to take the blur­ri­est of pho­tos. That’s because the judges were busy at work; and we […]

Semi-Permanent 2015

Semi-Per­­­man­ent, the exclus­ive inclus­ive digit­al sym­posi­um returns to Wel­ling­ton on Novem­ber 17th.  The Embassy Theatre plays host to speak­ers from around the globe shar­ing their per­son­al exper­i­ences, insights and expert­ise in the design, anim­a­tion, advert­ising, graph­ic and illus­tra­tion worlds. It’s great for stu­dents of design, fans of design and people who just want to expand […]

Wanted: great T‑shirt designs

wanted - great t-shirt designers

All you bud­ding young clothes design­ers out there should be get­ting whatever it is you use to design clothes ready for The Hini­ti­at­ive and Wel­ling­ton City Mis­sion T‑Shirt design con­test that kicked off this week.

Open to all Wel­ling­ton high school stu­dents, entries will be judged by a pan­el that includes Wel­ling­ton fash­ion design­er, Robyn Math­ieson, cloth­ing stores Fusion Surf & Skate and Rex Roy­ale, and The Church design com­pany. The first place win­ner takes home $300 in store vouch­ers. Second, third also get store vouch­ers, but not quite so many. In addi­tion, all four final­ists will have their win­ning designs pro­duced into t‑shirts by The Hini­ti­at­ive and sold by selec­ted stores in Wel­ling­ton to help bene­fit Wel­ling­ton City Mis­sion.

Do good, and look good doing it.

More info at the Hini­ti­at­ive web­site, and here’s a dir­ect link to the design brief. Con­test dead­line is Sat­urday 11 August.