No files in the cloud?
3Taking Word and Excel files away from the average office worker and replacing them with some sort of online representation would be like taking guns away from Charlton Heston's "cold dead hands". More …
Massey’s first innovator-in-residence spreads Toyota’s ‘learning-first’ gospel
1Massey University has appointed its first ever Innovator-in-Residence, who will work with a range of local companies to amp up their innovation processes and boost quality and productivity. More …
Events
Wellington wins bid to host Digital Earth Summit
Wellington has won an international bid to host the 2012 Digital Earth Summit, which mayor Celia Wade-Brown says ties in perfectly with the city's bid to be recognised as a ‘creative digital capital’. More …
An oasis in the desert: Leadership lessons from Burning Man
1Think the annual arts fest in the Nevada desert is nothing more than a week-long bacchanal? Think again – Fast Company's E.B. Boyd explains what we can learn from its execution. More …
Mentoring, markets and business models
The New Zealand market may be smaller than you think More …
We Can Create
Join us at We Can Create tomorrow
We Can Create kicks off tomorrow bringing you two days of creative inspiration by way of graphics, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography and sound design (and that's just for starters). If you haven't managed to buy a ... More …
Offshore
Environmental legislation to govern offshore mineral exploration gains mixed reaction
News the government has introduced new environmental legislation governing offshore mineral exploration and extraction in the exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf has failed to find favour with some groups, while others have said it provides needed certainty over ... More …
Infrastructure
K’Road unveils its artful shelter
6Bus shelters aren’t ordinarily much to look at, but the new additions to K’ Road, unveiled earlier this week at a dawn ceremony, offer up a bit of an artistic twist. The original 1970s shelters have been replaced by ... More …
Christchurch
New green rebuild tool takes a collaborative and locally inspired approach
When Christchurch City Council released its draft Central City Plan a couple of weeks back, sustainability was revealed as a core component in the rebuild and in a follow-on to that pledge, the New Zealand Green Building Council has announced ... More …
Appointment
Sustainability coordinator joins the University of Waikato staff roster
As far as universities go, the University of Waikato has been making a determined effort to adopt more sustainable measures. Last year its student centre became only the second educational building in New Zealand to receive a 5 Green Star ... More …
Stats on the slopes
Snow enthusiasts: how would real-time detailed stats on your ski and board runs help you sharpen those moves? More …
Design
Paint, sketch work and sculpture feature in top three cover design nominations for NZ Music Awards
The 46th Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards may be a while away yet, but finalists for the Best Album Cover category have already been announced, with three very different designs in contention, incorporating everything from paint to sketch work to ... More …
Design
Alt Group’s Dean Poole joins famed design club
In an interview with last year’s Best Awards Black Pin winner Dean Poole of Alt Group, he said the design agency could be huge but instead it just wants to be “small, nimble and do good work for a ... More …
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A message to Idealog subscribers: due to a technical error involving humans and the planet Mars, your copy of the magazine is running late and will reach you later this week. Apologies for the wait...
We Can Create
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1There’s only three days to go until art, design and creative technologies mega event We Can Create kicks off and because we love our Design Daily readers so much, we want to give you another chance to win a ... More …