Buoyed by fleeting objects of desire, nomadic child turned architect JAMES WARREN toys with the idea of producing enduring designs that have lifetime guarantees. We chat to the man who has found his feet designing for the built environment. More …
What are the top 10 typefaces of the decade? While that may be open to debate, Paul Shaw reckons he’s got the best 10 pinned dow More …
Are you guilty of using unnecessary—and pretentious—business jargon? It doesn't make you seem any cleverer, you know, but some of us just can't help it: paradigm, mindshare, blue-sky thinking, granularity, calendarise, and even stupid expressions like ... More …
Ever wondered what a city operating entirely on artificial intelligence would look like? Richard Hardy, a Bartlett School of Architecture graduate, created this stunning Transcendant City movie as a reaction to a society that is currently not responding effectively to ... More …
Finding plastic a little boring, designer Leva Kaleja opted for a more delicate paper approach in creating these “bride” pendant, table and floor lamps. More …
This is compact travelling like you’ve never seen before. And, thanks to a creative vision and some clever software, German designer Cornelius Comanns has brought his bachelor thesis in Industrial Design to life, transforming a Piaggio APE 50 tricycle ... More …
Dina Krunic is from “everywhere and nowhere.” The Belgrade-born architect is ordinarily based in Los Angeles, but has recently been enjoying a brief stay in Auckland as a guest lecturer at Unitec. Her internationally oriented lifestyle seems to parallel her ... More …
We’re not saying anything about the hygiene habits of men, but this new fixture by designer Yeongwoo Kim aims to quash any excuse for abstaining from post-bathroom hand washing. The all-in-one fixture features a urinal with a built in ... More …
How do you raise public awareness of some critically important international development issues? The United Nations answered this question by launching the UN Ads Against Poverty Competition, aimed at boosting awareness of its eight Millennium Development Goals. Some 2036 entries ... More …
How do you beautify ugly scaffolding? You could try taking 130 hollowed-out yellow balls, fill them with lights, attach them to various posts of scaffolding and then fill with birds to create a series of ‘Urban Nests’. More …
A young Wellingtonian designer’s sculptural piece, which provokes the debate on the value of publishing, has been selected for show at the upcoming Anti Design Festival in London. Titled ‘Blog Roll’, Josh Barr’s piece challenges the notion of ... More …
While many car park building designs in Chicago have a tradition of disguising themselves as office buildings with false façades, a U.S-based architectural and engineering design firm has attempted to break from that model and deliver an entirely new ... More …
Tribu Design is a website that, as it name might suggest, pays tribute to the best in furniture and product design — with a twist. Rather than settling for the hippest and smartest contemporary design, the site allows you to search ... More …
One Kiwi company has fared particularly well at the recent red dot awards, which honour top design trendsetters from around the world, across a broad range of cartegories. Auckland based multidisciplinary design company, Alt Group, swept up seven ‘red dot ... More …
National and international groups are getting behind a group of four Victoria University students aiming to build a solar powered Kiwi bach in the United States. The team will be designing and building the house in Washington D.C. next ... More …
