Urbis Designday 2011

Bringing the best creative practitioners from the worlds of fashion, art, music and architecture together with Auckland's leading design showrooms and creating 13 unique and inspiring installations.

This year's collaborators are:

* Halo NZ and Trelise Cooper Interiors
* design denmark / Sylvia Sanford
* Häfele / Esther Diamond
* Poggenpohl / Make Something
* Automation Associates / Matter
* ECC / Scrap Wall
* Antipodes Design Store / Luxaflex / Taylor Boutique
* Kohler / Salasai
* Essenze / NZ Design Collective (Te Rongo Kirkwood, David Trubridge, Anzac Tasker, Peter Collis and Brogen Avril)
* Furniture Lab / Dulux / We Love Inc
* Fisher & Paykel / The Alt Group
* Media Design School / HP Future Designers at MINI Garage
* Designer Rugs / Corporate Culture / Nathan Goldsworthy curating the Kiwi Icons rug range from (Dick Frizzell, Boh Runga, Kevin Roberts, Zambesi, Max Gimblett, Kate Sylvester and Codi Design)

These creative partnerships will transform the showrooms into a riot of colour, light and imagination. Why not join the 2011 Urbis Designday tour with fellow design lovers? Be transported from showroom to showroom to see the creativity up close. You could be drinking a cocktail with fashion stars one moment and watching an audio-visual creation the next.

It's a truly exciting and unique day of creativity, style and inspiration in Auckland City!

Buy your tickets for New Zealand's premier design event before the 1st March and be in the draw to win a luxury getaway valued at over $3000. You and three friends will be staying at the seriously stylish Millar Road retreat in the Hawke's bay. To make sure your arrival is just as stylish, the prize includes your very own MINI for the weekend. See Urbis website for terms & conditions.

Passes will be sent within the two weeks prior to Designday. You will need to bring this pass along on the day to secure transport and entry.

Visit: http://Urbismagazine.com and subscribe to Urbanism Urbis's fortnightly newsletter.

Location/venue: 

Participating design show rooms in Ponsonby, Parnell and Newmarket

Date: 
19 Mar 2011
Cost: 
$30.00 General Admission; $50.00 Double pass General Admission
Contact details: 

PR Representative, Paul Blomfield: 021 970 871, paul@paulblomfield.com or
Alisha Chhima, Event Manager AGM Publishing: Alisha.chhima@agm.co.nz

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    Paul Blomfield

    Paul Blomfield is a well known fashion industry advocate, PR practitioner and event manager. Together with his wife Jill, he runs his company Paul Blomfield PR and Paul Blomfield Showroom from Nelson Street Auckland, working on many of New Zealand's big events and iconic brands.
    The company has a well respected and experienced event PR team, a fashion showroom space and showroom manager, plus they're founders of the ever popular Designer Garage Sale.

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