A clever little piece of packaging by Puma may have stolen the show at the recent The Dieline Awards 2011, but Kiwi design studio Supply also has cause for celebration after it picked up an award, making it the only ... More …
Let’s face it. Hybrid cars aren’t ordinarily designed to look crash hot—or resemble the epitome of speed. But if any manufacturer was to have a go at making a hybrid car that drives as fast as it ... More …
Farmers occupy a strange position, writes Jacqueline Rowarth: recognised for their key role in the economy, yet blamed for rising food prices and environmental impacts. More …
Finally, a pair of mind-reading glasses! Well, not quite, but Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab has developed a pair of “social X-ray glasses” that are designed to decipher emotions via facial expressions and could change the way we ... More …
The next Envisage presentation series focuses on developments and opportunities in designing for virtual worlds. Guest speaker is Science & Technology Academy Award winner Sebastian Marino. Marino will be joined by Images & sound general manager Melanie Langlotz and InGame Director and ... More …
Rock it Suda is a novel (to put it mildly) hotel located on the outskirts of Jeongseon in South Korea. Throwing away any notion of convention, Korean architect Hoon Moon has created these guest houses made up of six separately ... More …
'Fast Company’s' Rae Ann Fera delves into the mind of creativity and innovation thinker Sir Ken Robinson and discovers why ”creative industries” is a dirty word. More …
For the second year in a row Countdown, Foodtown and Woolworths stores are taking a bilingual approach to advertising in support of Maori language week, something Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Maori Language Commission) says is perhaps ... More …
A nationwide environmental education programme is supporting student-led sustainability initiatives, and one tiny area school in Northland has just received one of its top awards for their whole-school approach. More …
Well, where would we be without a weekly dose of novel design? This particular art piece was created for the city of Roanoke in the US. The bike stand was designed by Knowhow Shop LA and it weighs 181 kgs. More …
The agency that brought us Goldstein is now pushing another American - this time an Aussie, pretending to be an American, telling us about an Aussie bank. Confused? More …
As milk powder prices peak, the TradeMe founder finds a new trick: dairying in Brazil. Que? More …
An organic leadership structure conducive to students has seen the president of the Student Volunteer Army in Christchurch receive the Sir Peter Blake Special Leadership Award. At only 22, Sam Johnson may be leading an army, but there’s no ... More …
Today uni kids scour the Internet for the latest beats, read online reviews and share their latest musical finds on all manner of social networking sites. But in Dunedin in the 80s, things were different. New Zealand music was relatively ... More …
When the 2010 call to entries was made for the Outlook for Someday film competition last year, project director David Jacobs was feeling mighty optimistic about the competition for young people, saying it had become “part of New Zealand’s ... More …