Stories by
Luke Wood
Luke Wood is an Associate Professor in graphic design at the University of Canterbury’s ‘Ilam’ School of Fine Arts. Luke’s work oscillates between design, music, and writing. He started The National Grid with Jonty Valentine in 2005, and revived it again with a larger editorial team in 2025.
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Well Made New Zealand: A Century of New Zealand Trademarks (1987)
What a rare early example of New Zealand graphic design history reveals about the symbols that businesses, corporations, and institutions used. -
For-and-about: The National Grid’s school years
Luke Wood, original co-founder of the revived graphic design journal, traces the publication’s evolution from a historical anomaly – the graphic design department at Ilam late last century.