AUT Communication & Interaction Design

AD25 | FO(U)R Design This 2025 exhibition marks a special milestone for our graduating Communication and Interaction Design students at AUT. This collection embodies a range of disciplines and the innovation of a new generation of designers. We invite you to celebrate this significant accomplishment, the journey of creation, individuality, and designing for purpose. This is for us, this is for you and this is for the future of design. Opening Night: Thursday, 13th November, 5-9pm Open: Fri 14th + Sat 15th 10am–4pm 27 St Paul Street WE building (Level 5) Art + Design, AUT

Industry Week 2025 | Year 3 Communication & Interaction Design Twenty-four leading New Zealand designers joined us to engage with student capstone projects — a vital exchange bridging academic inquiry and professional practice, sharpening the work of emerging designers as they prepare to enter the field. These enduring partnerships with Aotearoa’s design community foster excellence and impact. Our graduates and alumni continue to shape the design landscape — locally and globally — through creative, ethical, and research-informed practice. CD & ID Industry Week affirms what we stand for: designers who are industry-ready, critically engaged, and prepared to navigate a world in flux. Ngā mihi nui to our amazing guests for your time, expertise, and encouragement: @altgroup – Tim Gomez & Rei Konza @milknz – Ben Reid & Anthony Hos @special_group – Clem Devine & Heath Lowe @previously.unavailable – Phoebe Devine & Phoebe Smith @watermark_creative – Dave & Bettina Way @journey_digital – Ryan Campbell & Michelle Kim @monolith.nz – Alistair McCready @guardians_ahiauaha – Anzac Tasker @wearefuman – Karolina Konarkowska @osborneshiwan – Shabnam Shiwan @daylight_nz – Billy Baxter @marxdesign.co.nz – Tristan O'Shannessy @seven_akl – Gideon Keith @thecornerstorecollective – Sarah Parkinson-Howe @editiongroup_ – Jodie Kennedy @curative_nz – Kaan Hiini And Jodine Bell --- @autartanddesign #AUTCommunicationDesign #AUTInteractionDesign #IndustryWeek #DesignEducation #AUTDesign #StudentDesigners #CreativeIndustries #DesignCommunity #IndustryReady #DesignFuture

An information session and an overview of the Master of Design degree here at @autartanddesign Please come along if you’re interested in pursuing your postgraduate degree in Design . The session will briefly overview the programme and research proposal requirements. You will also have the chance to have one-on-one conversations . Wednesday, 15 October, WF711 4pm-5pm. #nzdesign #postgrad #studynz #mdes #studydesign

Kicking off our 2024 Silver Best Awards recipients we have St by Billie Fee 🩶 St explores the relationship between letterforms and place. It embraces the romanticism historically associated with ruins as liminal spaces. St is a creative response to the ruin, centred around letterforms which emphasise the eerie through the interplay of negative and positive space. #bestawards2024

@peterittithamawat won Bronze for “Feast or Famine” at the 2024 Best Awards !!! 🎊 This is a practice-led research project that aims to help bring light to the issue while educating readers of the multifaceted nature of food inequality, both globally and in Aotearoa, exploring its causes, consequences, and the efforts made to address this issue; through the method of photography, image making and typography.

Swipe for more details! 👉🏼 . Another Paper Jam 💥 a curated exhibition of publications from emergent @autuni design students @autartanddesign . Opening on Sept 11, at Gallery 3 @ngutukaakaa coinciding with @typehere.aotearoa and BIND25 @abcnzinc 🙌🏼 . Thanks @joelpotter_design @mattwgh.design for the design and all the help… along with @l__eft and @danielleheystek 🎉

Have a look at this Best Awards Bronze for waha o Tāne by @l__eft !! 😍 The aim of this publication was to represent the characteristics of endemic birdlife in Aotearoa—to celebrate their individuality while also valuing their collective voice. The publication embodies the value of the whakataukī, “E koekoe te tūī, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kereru”, through the design—reflecting the importance of both individual and collective voice. ‘waha o Tāne’ is also an expression of my voice as a designer, here in Aotearoa. #bestawards2024

Huge congratulations to @markerrdesign for this project that won Bronze at the 2024 Best Awards! 🥳 Embracing Imperfections offers a tactile representation of its designer’s creative process, printed on the work that embodies experimentation, guiding the reader through the influences that shape the making of the publication. As the experiments unfold, they reveal the fundamental connections between the imperfections of the creative process and the liberation from perfection. 🌟🧡

We had an inspiring visit to the Auckland City Library @auckland_libs and looked through some amazing books in the Special Collections! Thank you Zoe, Jane, Ian, and Andrew for having us around 🙌🏼🤩🙏 . #inprint

Thank you everyone for coming to the show! 🤩 TDC70 is officially open. Creative agency Osborne Shiwan is bringing TDC to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2025. The annual Type Directors Club awards recognises design excellence and typographic innovation, with the exhibition traveling to cities across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Over 2,000 entries from 63 countries were judged by a diverse jury of leading designers. Hosted by AUT’s Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery and sponsored by Osborne Shiwan and Klim Type Foundry, TDC70 Aotearoa brings together hundreds of pieces from entrants including Apple, Base Design, Extended Whānau, Foreign Policy Design Group, Landor, Pentagram, Studio Dumbar, The New York Times, and WolffOlins. This year’s campaign is ‘Typography Shifted’. It represents the ever-shifting nature of typography in design as well as the new Tāmaki Makaurau location. Lloyd Osborne, TDC Advisory Board Member and Strategy Director at Osborne Shiwan: “AUT hosted the very first TDC exhibition in Tamaki Makarau so we’re pleased to be working with Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery and AUT again. As part of the 70th anniversary, we’re also bringing back a few past winners including work from Alt Group, Designworks, Klim, Monolith, Seachange, and Seven, as well as entries for Atamira Dance Company and Deadly Ponies. Opening night is 21 August at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT, 5pm. Finery Cocktails from TDC winner Onfire Design will be served. When: 22 August to 13 September Where: Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT About the @typedirectors Founded in 1946 by the industry’s leading design practitioners, the Type Directors Club, based in New York, is an international organisation whose purpose is to build a creative community through public events and platforms, support the growth of students and early-career professionals, and recognise excellence in type design across the world. Thank you @klim_type_foundry and @ngutukaakaa for helping us bring this show to Tāmaki Makaurau. Thanks to @finerycocktails 🍸

TDC70 Opens tomorrow at 5 pm ✨ Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery AUT 40 St Paul Street Tāmaki Makaurau

TDC70 Aotearoa: Typography Shifted exhibited in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Creative agency Osborne Shiwan is bringing TDC to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2025. The annual Type Directors Club awards recognises design excellence and typographic innovation, with the exhibition traveling to cities across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Over 2,000 entries from 63 countries were judged by a diverse jury of leading designers. Hosted by AUT’s Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery and sponsored by Osborne Shiwan and Klim Type Foundry, TDC70 Aotearoa brings together hundreds of pieces from entrants including Apple, Base Design, Extended Whānau, Foreign Policy Design Group, Landor, Pentagram, Studio Dumbar, The New York Times, and WolffOlins. This year’s campaign is ‘Typography Shifted’. It represents the ever-shifting nature of typography in design as well as the new Tāmaki Makaurau location. Lloyd Osborne, TDC Advisory Board Member and Strategy Director at Osborne Shiwan: “AUT hosted the very first TDC exhibition in Tamaki Makarau so we’re pleased to be working with Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery and AUT again. As part of the 70th anniversary, we’re also bringing back a few past winners including work from Alt Group, Designworks, Klim, Monolith, Seachange, and Seven, as well as entries for Atamira Dance Company and Deadly Ponies. Opening night is 21 August at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT, 5pm. Finery Cocktails from TDC winner Onfire Design will be served. When: 22 August to 13 September Where: Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, AUT About the Type Directors Club Founded in 1946 by the industry’s leading design practitioners, the Type Directors Club, based in New York, is an international organisation whose purpose is to build a creative community through public events and platforms, support the growth of students and early-career professionals, and recognise excellence in type design across the world.