We love thecoolist for pointing us to this Kiwi&Pom-designed chair Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine in late 2009, the multi-coloured chair features 200 metres of electroluminescent wire and a pulse setting for the all-important disco vérité experience. More …
Bottles, and cans. That's what you'll find, unsurprisingly, at weshootbottles.com and weshootcans.com. More …
A function room – but not as we know it…….The newly updated Southern Cross Bar on the corner of Wellington’s Abel Smith and Cuba Streets is not so much a corporate function room and bar; more a nostalgic lounge ... More …
This is cool. The Blind Project helps women who have escaped the sex trade in Southeast Asia by selling t-shirts with designs inspired by survivor stories, and funnels profits back to the women involved. The project is currently calling for ... More …
Creating trust ought to be the leading task of designers right now - trust in products, trust in people and trust in the idea that change is for the better More …
New Zealand is becoming known as much for its Hobbits and hairy directors as it is for post-production work. And it's not all from Weta either More …
Review: A Way Beyond Creative Industries sums up 20 years of thinking about making money from creativity More …
Forget all the new fancy high-tech car models – this classic 1940’s is in a domain of its own! The curvaceous 1948 Buick Streamliner by Norman E has been brought up to speed (so to speak) with 2010, thanks to ... More …
If you’re an Apple fan, there’s a brand-spanking new event you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. Introducing CreativeTech. More …
The most striking thing about Core 77’s interview with Apple design supremo Jonathan Ive is how much he sounds like an engineer. Get away from that CAD render and get into the factory. “When an object's materials, the materials' processes and the form are all perfectly aligned, that object has a very real resonance on lots of levels. People recognise that object as authentic and real in a very particular way.”
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 …