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The Pā

by Architectus, Jasmax and Design Tribe

This project brings together a wharenui (ceremonial meeting house), the vice-chancellor’s office, a student hub and faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies under one roof at the University of Waikato’s Hamilton campus.

Photograph: Simon Devitt

Clem Devine - Jasmax

·       Designers are good with ambiguity and uncertainty and finding ways to solve it

·       Still don’t always know what you're doing

·       Design is persistently not knowing and finding out by learning with others

·       Les Mason

o   Work with the best people that you can

o   Make international work

·       Allan Derrick

o   Treat your staff the same

·       Neil Pardington

o   Eyework design and production

o   Design can be Art

o   Find your mentors

o   Go to the market, find who you really love, seek them out

o   Remain calm at all times

·       Dean Poole

o   Design is an idea

o   Buy shares in your clients businesses

·       Ben Corban

o   Take a long term view, design for 30 years

o   Building a practice

o   Create a safe place for design to thrive

o   Forget your mentors - sometimes you need to do this as the things they tell you might not be relevant anymore

·       Sam Trustrum & Zoe Ikin

o   Find your own opportunities

o   Be friends with designers you admire

·       Brian Richards

o   Design is BU$INE$$

·       Needs to have value attached to it so clients will pay

·       Will have a valuable impact on client's business too

o   Manage up and manage yourself

·       Helena Charleson

o   Clients that say thank you are the best clients

o   Work for clients you like and that like you

One of the great things as a visual communicator is that you can talk about your ideas in an easy way

·       Nick Moyes

o   Pick you team carefully, you have to like working with them

o   Stay relevant

o   Work with different desciplines is hard, but you become a better designer

o   Design is politics, play it fair

o   Influence is better than control

o   The only thing you can control is yourself

o   Pick the best from everyonr you've worked with and forget the rest

o   Make regular hours

o   Make things that last a long time

o   Find a subject that you're really interested in

·       What are the kind of metrics to gage that your design will last?

o   Wayfinding

o   Marketing

o   When you make something like that most likely they will last because of cost, work so well they become like normal

·       What stage would you say that the business side became apparent to you?

o   If you're not turning a profit then its really difficult to spend time on cool and exciting projects

·       Recession is a challenging time for business as well as graduates. In terms of breaking into a studio, what would you say are they key things that stick out for people who might be hiring?

o   Reach out to the people you like

o   Sometimes just go for a chat, don't always go looking for the job

o   Strategy Design

o   Xero

Max walks around at night when he can’t sleep. He meets Jasper and they bond over their mutual hatred for Camp Camp. Jasper doesn’t want to scare away the only person in a long time that he can talk to so he pretends that he’s from “Ghost Camp.” (wow very subtle)

Max: Huh, I didn’t know that there was a “Ghost Camp” around here.

Jasper: Haha uh yeah we like to keep under the radar, I guess. What about your camp?

Max: I’m in that fucking piece of shit “Camp Campbell.”

Jasper: Ugh, gag me with a spoon that camp is grody to the max.

Max: Not sure what that means but I agree.