Share your quintessential Kiwi flavour, win pass to Taste of New Zealand
10Today's the last day to secure earlybird tickets for Taste of New Zealand, and we've got two general passes to give away. Get in quick More …
Infrastructure
Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway design in animation
7Last week we featured a story about the proposed designs for a pedestrian and cycling pathway on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. But while the pictures included in the story gave a basic visual understanding of the design, the folks at ... More …
Architecture
Patrick Reynolds unmasks architects at We Can Create
“Photography, like architecture, desires the ideal but confronts the mundane,” revealed architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to the audience at We Can Create over the weekend. There was no trickery, just his process laid bare, says Emma Parnell, who offers this ... More …
Pouty lips earn Maybelline Yahoo! NZ’s Digital Strategy Award
Universal McCann’s Maybelline Baby Lips campaign has taken out the second quarter of Yahoo! New Zealand’s Digital Strategy Award. More …
Public opinion reigns as People’s Choice Netguide Awards announced
1Internet users from around New Zealand, over 278,000 of them in fact, have been busy singling out their favourite websites as part of the 2011 People’s Choice NetGuide Web Awards. More …
Energy
Government ignores fossil fuel opposition with release of oil-heavy energy strategies
2When a draft copies of the government’s New Zealand Energy Strategy and New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy were leaked earlier this year, they were met with a barrage of criticism for what some groups deemed to be ... More …
‘Genetically engineering’ startups for success
HyperStart aims to overcome gaps in the Kiwi ecosystem with a hands-on course for lean startups. More …
CSR
Bad tuna, bad. Sealord’s new logo gets complimented in one breath while its fishing practices get butchered in another
1When Sealord unveiled its new logo in May this year, feedback wasn’t overly kind, with more than a few comments suggesting the company should instead focus on improving its sustainability credentials. Fastforward to July and the company was busy ... More …
Awards
Multi-coloured palette earns Jasmax top colour award
It may only be a couple of years old, but the Jasmax-designed Albany Senior High School in Auckland has taken out top honours in the Resene Total Colour Awards for its neutral tonal canvas with splashes of colour. But Jasmax ... More …
Sustainability
Design firm puts in an environmental repeat performance at colour awards
Multidisciplinary design firm Stephenson & Turner looks to be getting good at this sustainable design stuff, winning the Total Colour Sustainable System Award for the second year running at this years Resene Total Colour Awards. The firm picked up its award ... More …
Mining
Criticism cast on decision to grant controversial resource consent for West Coast mine
1Bathurst Resources, an Australian company backed by Chinese money, has secured consents for an Escarpment mine on the Denniston plateau near Westport, with numerous groups outraged by the decision and Green Party climate change campaigner Kennedy Graham calling it “the ... More …
Sustainability
Is there gold in going green?
5A case study of how sustainable business methods have worked for a small Kiwi wine producer. More …
Product Innovation
Barefoot and fanciful design takes out Kiwi James Dyson Award
It was a genuinely shocked and very stoked former Massey University student who took out this year’s New Zealand James Dyson Award at a ceremony in Auckland’s new Viaduct Events Centre. Nicholas Couch’s recyclable shoe designed for ... More …
Animation
Dan Pink in animation: does money motivate?
1Fresh back from We Can Create, here’s one video that really stood out to us. The rather tall Tomas Roope, digital practitioner at the UK’s The Rumpus Room, shared this video with the audience as part of his ... More …