March 2006
ISSN 1177-2468

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Edited and designed by Jonty Valentine and Luke Wood.

Acknowledgements:
This issue was produced with a grant from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts Harkness Fund.
We are forever in debt to all our contributors for making this first issue possible.
Special thanks to the Hailstone estate for reproduction permission.
Thanks to Jos Kattenbeld at Brebner Print, Steve Kerr for facilitating international file transfers, Lisa Grocott for life coaching, and George Clarke for a large amount of free laser printing.
Thanks also to Lisa McCormick and Anna Dean.

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Brebner Print, Auckland, New Zealand

Paper Stock:
Spicer Tudor Ivory cover (350gsm), Spicer Sapphire Laser Offset (100gsm), CPI Media Print Gloss (150gsm)

Issue
#1

Beautiful, Boring Postcards

Steve Kerr

I used to buy fake blood and “kill” myself a lot

Dylan T. ‘Phats’ Herkes interviewed by Luke Wood

Negotiating lights on / lights off

Lisa Grocott

Hot Rod Biology (August 2005)

The Rev. Holden Gunn

Index*

The Lay of the Case: Putting NZ Communication Design on the Map

Noel Waite

Go Genre Everything

Joanna Anderson

Graphic Design Needs a Distortion Pedal

Aaron Beehre

Non-rhetorical Design #1

James Maxwell

Marketplace Gratification and Suburban Sprawl

Harold Grieves

The Weight of a Document

Jonty Valentine

Design and Designers

Max Hailstone

Better by Design #1