New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers Incorporated | |
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| Abbreviation | NZSID |
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| Predecessor | Design Guild |
| Successor | Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) |
| Formation | 21 May 1959 |
| Founders | Peter Parsons John Crichton Hugh Johansen Jolyon Saunders Robert Ellis James Turkington A. Thompson T. Oldfield Beck |
| Founded at | Johansen Studio 26a Albert Street, Auckland |
| Dissolved | 11 August 2000 |
| Type | Learned society |
| Registration no. | 223468 |
| Legal status | Incorporated Society |
| Headquarters | Auckland |
| Location | |
| Affiliations | ICSID (1965–76)[1] Icograda[2] |
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
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]