This year’s installment of the 2009 third-year graphic and digital design publication was released on the opening of their end-of-year exhibition, Friday the 27th of November. Featuring many of this year’s design graduates, it showcases up-and-coming New Zealand design talent.

This year’s third-year graphic design students all submitted poster designs to the Good 50×70 initiative. This project was part of a two-part brief given to graphic design students as part of publication class. The project in its entirety is to create a folded-poster publication; a poster that serves a dual purpose to inform as well as provide content when it is folded down. 

We are pleased to announce that out of 4168 poster entries from design and illustration professionals and students, two poster designs from Media Arts students were selected by the Good 50×70 judges. Posters from Sian Richardson and Angela Parker will be exhibited at La Triennale gallery in Milan from June the 19th to July the 12th and included in the catalogue containing all the posters selected by the jury this year.

To check out their entry and to see the other submissions, check out:  http://good50x70.org/2009/gallery/

To see a selection of other posters submitted, please see the following images.

Something new from something old.
an exhibition featuring second-year graphic design students
Type, Project One; A New Message — a project about hierarchy, content, legibility, tone, format and consistency.

A selection of the best first-project type assignments, printed onto banners.
Showcasing work by Year Two, Graphic Design Students
Ellie Hemmings, Jacqueline Belcher, Jack Daniel Gatasa-Shaw, Jennifer Flintoff, Jason Metcalfe, Jake MacArtney, Michael Pharaoh, Monica Shortt, Sam Graham, Tom Crook
// exhibition posters by Monica Shortt & Kate Muir

Luke McConnel, Sequential Composition, Ritual 
// 2008 

Andres Jenson, Sequential Composition, Rhythm
// 2008

Re-contextualising an existing packaging concept, and producing a new range of a new product.

For this assignment students create a package or packages that contain an item or items of their choice. Their packages must not contain items/objects that were originally suited for the base package structure, they use an existing structure in a new way, resurfacing it in a way that is graphically appropriate.