Last year Design Quarterly named him one the Top Ten Australian and New Zealand Designers. His creative furniture design is known to push the boundaries between interior design, installation art, and exhibition design. We delve into the creative depths of ... More …
Jack the ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’ is now back in its natural home with the motto: “it’s back - it also comes in black and it stacks.” More …
New Zealand might not yet have the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but hopefully Whitcoulls' substitute, the Kobo, will fit these Moleskine covers. More …
You might have seen Haydn Green's blogs for us about the recent FullCodePress event - which he dubbed the 'geek Tri-Nations'. Now Jason Santa Maria, who participated in the event on the American side, has blogged about his experiences at ... More …
Marian Bantjes makes an interesting case for designing with a more personal touch in this TED talk. More …
The main title sequence, the credits at the beginning of a film, has evolved from the plain old static card to - in some cases - a dynamic piece of art in its own right. More …
David Thorne, the same guy who tried to pay a bill with a drawing of a spider, is up to no-good again and with hilarious results. More …
Running with Scissors Creative Strategist, and yMedia Challenge Judge, Friday O’Flaherty, shares his experience of working in the creative industries – tomorrow! More …
From the why-didn’t-they-do-it department, the grain edit blog has a sweet collection of scans from Power Styling, a 1964 book setting out some ideas to improve the US electricity infrastructure. Pretty cool. More …
The Designers Institute of New Zealand is holding the next of its Designers Speak series on July 7 at Ironbank, bringing in top names to discuss commercial design. More …
Despite being covered in enough paua to blend in seamlessly at the old Paua shell house, Samwoong Lee's Octopus chair is really quite elegant. More …
What day is it? That’s right, it’s World Industrial Design Day. So find something you love and let it know how you really feel about it. This year, Icsid, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, has ... More …
Ever wished you could literally 'catch' a colour? Well now you can - in paint form anyway. The iPhone and Design Daily sponsor Resene have teamed up to create the clever ColourMatch application. More …
Like diving through a waterline of clear glass into the organically seductive structural elements of a yacht, Rose & Heather’s Bailey table has nothing to hide. More …
Fans of architecture and books from 18 countries are locked in a fierce battle as they compete to crack a code that relates a “shape” to the storyline of Charles Bancroft’s London based thriller, The Architect. More …