Laurent Antonczak is an Emerging Technology, Visual Communication & Brand’s Strategist.
He has an international experience gained as an Art Director & Creative Director in TV, Animation, Corporate Identity, Branding and Marketing. Laurent has managed and coordinated significant communication projects in studios throughout England, France, Luxembourg and New Zealand - where he specialised in developing creative strategies and communications for companies such as Toyota, Arcelor, HSBC, Ford, Exxon Mobile, Goldman Sachs, Vodafone, the French Embassy (Wellington) and RTL (RTL Group part of Bertelsmann Group is the leading European broadcaster).
Currently Laurent lectures New Media and Visual Communication at AUT University’s School of Art & Design in Auckland, playing a key role in managing and leading the Honours and Masters students in the Graphic Strand of the postgraduate department. Laurent also coordinate, with computer scientist Andrew Ensor, CoLab 'Mobile and Locative Media' research group.
Though involved in education, Laurent still concurrently leads and manages his creative company ATZ119 Limited, founded in 1998. Offering New Technology, Graphic Design & Communication Strategies this facet of his work allows Laurent to keep his hand in his professional practice and maintain strong industry links.
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Laurent Antonczak bénéficie d'une expérience internationale en tant que directeur artistique et directeur de création dans de multiples domaines comme la télévision, de l’animation, de l’identité et le développement de marque d’entreprise et du marketing pour des agences de design situées en Angleterre, en France, au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et en Nouvelle-Zélande.
Progressivement, Laurent s’est spécialisé en création et développement de stratégies de communication (marketing & branding) ; il a notamment initié, développé et géré d’importants projets de communication pour des sociétés telles que Toyota, Arcelor, HSBC, Ford, Exxon Mobile, Goldman Sachs, Vodafone, l’ambassade de France (Wellington), RTL (Radio Télévision Luxembourg, groupe Bertelsmann)…
Actuellement, Laurent enseigne les nouveaux-médias et la communication visuelle à l’école d’Arts & de Design (université AUT, Auckland) où il est aussi en charge du développement et de la gestion du département “graphisme et nouveaux-médias” pour les étudiants de 2ème et 3ème cycles (licence et maîtrise/master). Avec Andrew Ensor, Laurent dirige le groupe de recherche 'Mobile and Locative Media' pour CoLab.
Bien qu’occupé par l’enseignement universitaire, Laurent continu à diriger et à développer sa compagnie ATZ119 limited, fondée en 1998, en créant et implémentant des stratégies de communication adaptées au besoin de ses clients via les arts graphiques & les nouvelles technologies (téléphonie, vidéo, Internet, bluetooth).
Expertise
- Exhibition Design (1)
- Marketing (1)
- 3-D (1)
- New Technology (1)
- VR Applications (1)
- Corporate Identity (1)
- Tinkering (1)
- Graphic Design (1)
- Performance (1)
- Virtual Reality (1)
- Architect (1)
- Branding (1)
- Scenographer (1)
- Robotics (2)
- Media Arts (1)
- Video (1)
- Spatial Design (1)
- Communication Strategies (1)
- Animation (1)
- Installation (1)
- TV (1)
- Gaming (1)
Expertise
Animation, Branding, Communication Strategies, Corporate Identity, Graphic Design, Marketing, New Technology, TV
Architect, Exhibition Design, Installation, Media Arts, Performance, Scenographer, Spatial Design, Video
MA (Scenography) Central St Martins, UK
Dr Roy C. Davies has been in the VR industry since the early days when the computers used were at least as big as large refrigerators and made by SGI, or if your budget didn't stretch that far, running VR applications on a PC meant a 200 Mhz Pentium running MSDOS. Starting as a Computer Scientist in Rehabilitation Robotics at Auckland University, he then spent 12 years at the University of Lund in Sweden in the department of Ergonomics, first to get a PhD in the Usability of Virtual Reality for Participatory Design and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, and then starting and running the multi-disciplinary VR centre, the Flexible Reality Centre which ties together 25 departments across the campus and has four large VR labs. On return to New Zealand Roy set up Nextspace, a collaboration between the hugely successful NZ- originated company, Right Hemisphere, and the government to build up the 3D-VR industry for New Zealand.
MindKits.co.nz was established in January 2009 by Tim Carr after working
away Sundays tinkering on his own projects. Tim decided it was time there
was a way that people could buy 'robot stuff' locally and someone was
willing to build community to allow average people to get started with
robotics and tinkering - both creatively and technically.
Tim's passionate to see new people explore robotics and to make it dead easy
for anyone to have a go at exploring the Kiwi way of 'Tinkering'.
