Awards
Waitomo’s Trans-Tasman victor
Adding to its treasure trove of wins, the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves is at it gain, this time taking out an award at the inaugural Trans-Tasman Timber Design Awards—the only Kiwi building to do so. More …
Design
Design agency achieves industry-first
A commitment to environmental responsibility has seen small Auckland-based strategy and design agency Black Robin Design become the first business in its sector to achieve carboNZero ‘small enterprise’ certification. More …
Web Design
Good Onya ya clever web designers
Enzed's top web designers and developers have been narrowed down to a precious few with announcement of the 2011 ONYA Awards finalists. The ONYA Awards, held as part of the impending 2011 Webstock extravaganza, celebrate those who design, develop ... More …
Design
The sinking of the love-love boat
Here’ s a novel design to start your week off as you look for distractions in the countdown to Christmas. French artist Julien Berthier has designed this fully functional boat that by all appearances appears to be sinking. More …
Architecture/Design
Weekly Chew: Once an Olympic snowboarder and now a prefab enthusiast, Pamela Bell reckons she’d found the Holy Grail of design and construction
Having dabbled in more than a few extraordinary career ventures (Olympic snowboarder, clothing label creator to a Master of Architecture), Pamela Bell now has her sights firmly set on prefabricated building in New Zealand. But why exactly does she think ... More …
Art/Design
WIN an awesome interactive artwork for some offbeat Photoshop action
22A bit of tinkering can lead to some pretty awesome creations, as the Magma series of interactive artworks by designer and artist Turi Park illustrate. And now, thanks to the generous Magma crew, we’re giving you the chance to ... More …
Design
Take 50,000 bulbs and make them dance
1No one quite does Christmas light overexuberance like the Americans. But in this lighting display, at least it’s for a good cause. Using 160 channels of computer controlled lighting and over 6,500 feet of extension cord, see what ... More …
Design
Kiwi diagonal design tops influential packaging design list
3A crafty piece of packaging by Designworks has topped the ‘Latest Top 10 Package Designs’ list of influential packaging design website The Dieline. The recent rebrand of the Hellers meat range (read story HERE) also snuck into the list at ... More …
Infrastructure
Arrested development
4There’s no shortage of opinion about new developments in our cities—letters to the editor are filled with condemnation for new buildings and vitriol for the planning system. What I find most frustrating are buildings—both commercial and residential ... More …
Advertising
What happens when you blend art with empty retail space? Free food for starters…
When public art programme ‘Letting Space’ commissioned Kim Paton to create an art project in an empty retail space—themed around artists exploring the commercial environment—she struck upon a free supermarket idea, bringing together community groups, artists, schools, the ... More …
Design
The one discipline we all share: Memory Studies
What stimulates your memory, or your understanding of what memory is? How does the motivation to create and contain memory co-exist within the expression of your design work, your architecture, your photography or art? Wellington was the place to be ... More …
Design
Odd shapes and colours of creativity
Never underestimate what a spot of tinkering can lead to. When Kiwi designer and artists Turi Park was tinkering with abstract shapes and colours in his Wellington family home and studio back in 2002, he struck upon a bright and ... More …
Innovation/Design
What’s the best material to recreate a 2000-year-old computer with?
If you’re Andrew Carol, it’s Lego. In his spare time, the Apple software engineer has taken to recreating a complex computer that originates from 100 BC. Back in the day, the highly intelligent mechanical computer was built by ... More …
Infrastructure
New centre seeks to bolster Enzed’s infrastructure through greater access to emerging technologies
Auckland University’s Centre for Infrastructure Research (CIR)—created to improve infrastructure decision-making and management through research, training and policy development—was launched yesterday in Wellington at a function held at Parliament. More …
Architecture
Practice makes perfect
In their latest blog entry, the First Light team tell us why they’re assembling their solar bach on Wellington’s waterfront in the lead-up to the US Solar Decathlon competition. And just exactly how much Wellington wind will the ... More …