THE AUGUST/SEPTEMBER issue of ProDesign is out now. Here's a little bit of what you can expect — but just a little bit:

The cover image is a 'Fu Dog' – a hand-drawn stamp design by Chris Bleackley, from The Assign­ment Group in Wel­ling­ton, which was col­oured and retouched by Geoff Fran­cis. Fran­cis pre­pared a spe­cial ver­sion of this stamp espe­cially for ProDesign. Fu Dog is part of a special series of stamps designed espe­cially for the Shang­hai Expo. Inside this issue we also talk with War­ren and Mahoney archi­tect Blair John­ston, who gives us a run down on the design of the NZ Expo Pavil­ion.

Also in this issue, writer Sam Eichblatt takes a walk through The Research Agency with archi­tect Jose Guti­er­rez, and Anto Coates visits the lofty offices of lawyers Buddle Findlay, in Wellington. Also in Wellington, Govett Brewster curator Mercedes Vicente reviews typographer/artist Catherine Griffiths new sculptural installation above the Cubana Apartments on (you guessed it) Cuba Street.

This issue also features our Design Edu­ca­tion supplement: an annual review of design edu­ca­tion – where to study, what to study, words of advice from pro­spect­ive employers and a look at some of the work of recently gradu­ated students.