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May 17, 2012
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Semi-Permanent is in full swing and our team of design freaks are there tweeting up a storm (hashtag #spnz), liveblogging, and shooting interviews for Idealog TV. This year’s
event is the biggest yet, with organisers The Church describing it as
“a global gathering of pure talent, new ideas, conversation and visual
splendour”. Most of the action will be over at our design blog, Design Daily, so hop over to keep up with all the latest happenings.
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After many a long day and deadlines that wouldn’t die, our next cracker issue is almost ready for public consumption. There’ll be plenty of inspiring stories to sink your teeth into, and following on from our wildly popular IP Guide to Commercialising Your Ideas, we’ll be presenting you with the next step: our Guide to Exporting Your Ideas, a step-by-step manual to selling your genius offshore. Look out for it, our 29th issue, on newsstands next week.
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If you’re not already a member of our
blog, Design Daily, sign up this week and you’ll go in the draw to win
an iPad. And if you are a member, then tell your friends and colleagues
to join up; if they win, beg them to give it to you or opt for 50/50
custody.
All we ask is that you use your real name and email address. Easy, huh? Sign up now, or forever hold your peace.
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Speaking of freebies, today’s your last chance to enter our Creative Tech giveaway. While tickets to the September conference start at $120,
we’ve got a prize pack worth $509 to give to one lucky reader. Along with a one-day pass , it includes Filemaker Bento, a Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard and a
half-day training session at Renaissance. To enter, just email us at editor@idealog.co.nz explaining which speaker you’d most like to see.
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Untouched World has won a prestigious international iF design award for its merino based cycle clothing range—no mean feat considering the collection launched less than a year ago. Since their introduction in 1953, the iF awards have been a reliable indicator of outstanding quality, and its stamp is trusted worldwide by customers today. “Having the iF logo on our garments and promotional material will be a huge bonus for the growth of our market,” says CEO Peri Drysdale. The range will be on display in the winner’s area at the Eurobike exhibition (the largest in the world) in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from September 1-4.
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School may have taught us a number of things, but it doesn’t train us to think like entrepreneurs. So if you’re considering starting a business, want to know if you’ve got what it takes, or simply want to grow your company, mark off September 20 in your diary now. Serial entrepreneur Daniel Batten is running a free seminar—How to Grow a Hi-Growth, Hi-Fun Hi-Green Startup—on the night, and promises to show you how to avoid the three most expensive mistakes for a startup, among other vital things.
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Slice of life
Sullen skateboarders. Red double-decker buses. Everyday street scenes in London are brought to life in Intersections, a three-minute short which won the 2010 British Flood Light film festival. While the subject matter may be unremarkable, beautiful framing and meticulous editing really make it pop. Intersections
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There are two spots left for presenters at PechaKucha Night Christchurch next month, and if you’re keen to put your hand up, then drop a line to vanessa@pechakucha.co.nz ASAP. Originally devised in Tokyo in 2003 as an event for young designers to
network, PechaKucha has evolved into a massive celebration, with events
in hundreds of cities around the world. It draws its name from the
Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat” and relies on a very simple
presentation format to keep things moving along: 20 images in 20 seconds. The Christchurch night is on September 16, with tickets slated to go on sale from September 1.
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Nominations are officially open for the 2010 Open Source Awards, so if you’ve worked on an open source project in the last two years, now’s the time to revisit your accomplishments. A new People’s Choice award and Open Source Use in the Arts prize bring the total number of categories to eight, reflecting trends in the New Zealand scene. Judges include Kiwiblog’s David Farrar, open.org.nz founder Nat Torkington and Open Source Society president Rachel Hamilton-Williams. Nominations (yes, you can enter yourself) are open until September 15 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Wellington come November.
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There’s love for the advertising creatives, too, with entries now open for the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association competition. The AWARD Awards will culminate in a night of festivity in Sydney in
March, celebrating and rewarding creativity and fresh thinking. Around 3000 entries are expected from Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific, and several new categories have been created for 2011. Think along the lines of music video, applications, social media, environmental design and branded content. Add to that a new award for Creative Innovation and there’s plenty of ground to fight over.
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Think before you write
Since 1950 we’ve been selling disposable plastic pens at a rate of 60 per second, nonstop. That’s a lot of needless waste, some of it potentially toxic. The DBA pen, however, is 98 per cent biodegradable, made from potato-based plastic and manufactured at a wind-powered facility. Watch
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Aliens in our midst? Nope, that’s just a futuristic concept eco-car, more and more of which seem to be cropping up lately. Russian designer Vitaly Kononov’s design consists of two-wheeled, one-person capsule, powered by electric batteries. It also
features a number of cameras that capture images and video of its
surroundings, which are then displayed on the LED screens on either side.
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