{"id":883,"date":"2008-09-02T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=883"},"modified":"2018-11-12T04:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:31:44","slug":"new-zealand-living-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/new-zealand-living-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8230; living on the edge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/ca_nz_graphic.jpg\" alt=\"ca_nz_graphic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Auckland, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The September\/October 2008 (#363 <em>Interactive Annual<\/em>) issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Communication Arts<\/em><\/a> magazine contains a feature article entitled \u201cLiving on the Edge: Visual Communication Design in New Zealand\u201d written by Circle\u2019s principal, Robert L. Peters. The in-depth piece investigates New Zealand\u2019s unique attributes, history, culture, and current realities in relation to visual communication\u2014the feature is accompanied by a selection of contemporary works by Kiwi designers drawn in large part from recent winners of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinz.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">DINZ<\/a> awards shows (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinz.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Designers Institute of New Zealand<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Peters visited New Zealand in late 2007, touring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=193\" target=\"_blank\">design offices<\/a> in Auckland and Wellington (in conjunction with DINZ lectures in both cities) and acting as an external moderator for students graduating from the Wanganui School of Design. He has been contributing foreign feature articles to <em>Communication Arts<\/em> magazine since 1994, including pieces on design and design events in Russia, Portugal, Uruguay, Australia, Korea, Japan, Brazil, China, Denmark, and Cuba. Copies of <em>CA<\/em> issue #363 are available at book stores and major news outlets around the world and may be purchased online from the <em>Communication Arts<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo foreigners, New Zealand is an exotically bucolic, clean green land of extraordinary natural beauty\u2014a pristine playground-destination for thrill-seekers, and a place apart from the rest of the world\u2014a view effectively reinforced by the tourism slogan \u201c100% Pure New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the country\u2019s quietly self-reliant inhabitants, New Zealand offers a peaceful, friendly, egalitarian and multi-cultural haven for individualists who find themselves surrounded by a moat known as the Pacific Ocean. Blessed with a temperate climate, the island nation enjoys a relaxed lifestyle imbued with a love of the outdoors and the waters surrounding it, and an enviable quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Less known abroad (under the radar, some might quip) is the wellspring of talent, innovation and design prowess emerging from the NZ creative community\u2014it\u2019s at the forefront of this wave that the candidly fresh and vibrant vernacular of New Zealand\u2019s visual communication design finds itself\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more of the article (with full creative credits for works shown) or download the entire <em>CA<\/em> New Zealand design feature <a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CA_NewZealand.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (1.2 MB).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Note: this feature article from the <\/em>Communication Arts<em> magazine September\/October 2008 Interactive Annual appears with permission from <\/em>Communication Arts<em> \u00a92008 Coyne &amp; Blanchard, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland, New Zealand The September\/October 2008 (#363 Interactive Annual) issue of Communication Arts magazine contains a feature article entitled \u201cLiving on the Edge: Visual Communication Design in New Zealand\u201d written by Circle\u2019s principal, Robert L. Peters. The in-depth piece investigates New Zealand\u2019s unique attributes, history, culture, and current realities in relation to visual communication\u2014the feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16791,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/16791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}