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September 27, 2024
Bold design wins tohu for Extended Whānau
Gideon Porter
Posted On September 27, 2024
Download AudioThe founder of award-winning graphic design company Extended Whānau says good design is a collective effort.
Extended Whānau has won the Type Directors Club award for its work on a book about the late Rewi Thompson, an innovative architect who forged an international career.
Tyrone Ohia, of Ngāti Pūkenga and Ngāi Te Rangi, says the parameters of the design were set by authors Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen and Thompson’s daughter Lucy, who had spent years gathering together the korero.
“When it arrived it was less of an architecture book and more about a portrait of this incredible, creative, Māori and he just so happened to try to express te ao Māori through architecture. We found some scans of his handwriting and thought let’s just have him write his name – having his name Rewi on the cover felt like enough and it really stands out,” he says.
The colour scheme on the award-winning cover of bright pink on blue is a nod to one of Thompson’s first student projects – a bright pink bach.
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