New_Zealand_Society_of_Industrial_Designers

New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers

New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers

New Zealand professional organisation for designers

The New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers, known as NZSID, formed in 1959, was a professional body for designers in New Zealand. Its membership was multi-disciplinary, representing designers in all branches of design for industry—interior, product, furniture, graphic, packaging, exhibition, apparel, design education, design management...[3][2] It was rebranded New Zealand Society of Designers (NZSD) and reconstituted on 28 May 1988 with a full-time office, the Designers Secretariat, from 1 August, and The Best New Zealand Graphic Design Awards scheme from 1 October.[4]: 286–287 

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The Society merged with the New Zealand Association of Interior Designers (NZAID) to form a new society, the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ), in April 1991, which was incorporated on 23 August 1991.[4]: 288  NZSID and NZAID were formally dissolved as incorporated societies on 11 August and 10 October 2000 respectively.[5]

Publications

  • Jackson, Gifford (1972). The Industrial Designer in Practice. Auckland: New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers Incorporated.
  • SID Scene (1970–). Nos. 1–. Christchurch: New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers Inc.; Designprint Press Ltd. Bi-monthly membership newsletter.
  • Designz (November 1973–November December 1985). Original series nos. 1–39. Auckland: New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers Inc. – via Auckland Libraries; National Library of New Zealand.
  • Designz: Magazine of the New Zealand Society of Designers Inc. (September 1988–December 1990). New series nos. 1–7. New Zealand Society of Designers Inc. ISSN: 1170-6686 – via Auckland Libraries; National Library of New Zealand.

References

  1. [1]
    New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers Inc (1976), Minutes of a Council meeting held at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, at 7:45 pm on Tuesday 21 September 1976.
  2. [2]
    Heath, Douglas (November 1965). "Letters: All Embracing". Design. No. 203. London: Council of Industrial Design. p. 73 – via VADS.
  3. [3]
    Parsons, Peter (1 October 1965). "The Postwar Development of Industrial Design in New Zealand". New Zealand Manufacturer. Vol. 18, no. ID65. New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation (Inc.).
  4. [4]
    Smythe, Michael (2011). New Zealand by Design: A History of New Zealand Product Design. Auckland: Random House.
  5. [5]
    "Incorporated Societies". New Zealand Business Registers. New Zealand Companies Office.

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