Take one giant log, insert a flying axe and what do you get? This very cool bench courtesy of David Long and Antoine Morris. The duo approached the concept of this one-off piece by setting up a series of parameters ... More …
Suddenly, our startup doesn’t sound like a fairytale. More …
There are any number of measures out there today to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings. But ever heard of a smog-eating, self-cleaning building? Sounds intriguing. US-based Aluminium company Alcoa has just unveiled its oil-coated architectural panel that it ... More …
New York designer Naomie Ross reckons the letterpress process might be going though a bit of a resurgence and, in this short and sweet video, she beautifully shows the process in action. More …
From wristbands to t-shirts, concerts to text donations, there’s been a bunch of generous and creative fundraising initiatives in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake. But a project led by Christchurch graphic design company Ratio is only just coming ... More …
If you’re a builder, architect, interior designer, engineer or trady, here’s an event you might like to check out. This year the biennial BuildNZ Trade Exhibition and the Registered Master Builders Federation have joined forces to create buildnz ... More …
It pays to think about what you really enjoy. There’s even a formula to help you. More …
These days most of the people I talk to think just their idea alone is worth more like a million dollars. This is crazy. More …
Mark Lee, the founder and principal of Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee, is headed for Christchurch this Thursday to offer some inspiring ideas and fresh perspectives on architecture as part of a free public lecture titled Too Young to ... More …
Massey University spatial design student, Ana McGowan, has won a prestigious international competition as part of international design exhibition, the Prague Quadrennial on Performance Design and Space. McGowan came out tops in the theatre architecture competition for her work titled ... More …
Market research always does its best to enter every facet of our lives, but Christchurch mobile feedback start up company Texsys has taken it to a whole new level, asking Christchurch residents what they think of the recovery effort—while ... More …
Like every other overnight success, Trade Me was years in the making. More …
Rebranding exercises tend to receive a lot of heat when they’re finally made public, and this couldn’t be more true of Z Energy, the new petrol stations being unveiled across the country in place of the old branded ... More …
The Church may have opened its first office in Australia earlier last month, but it’s taken a while for it to hunt down a general manager to head the new Australian office. But the hunt is over with the ... More …
Of the many things we could say about American artist Tony Orrico, one has to be that he sure has stamina. Orrico has been dubbed by some “a human spirograph” and uses the span of his arms in bilateral movements ... More …