The long-running James Dyson Award is now calling for ideas in product design and engineering for the 2016 competition.
In the first in a series of thought pieces designed to help business leaders and owners understand the value of brand thinking, design and
Auckland Transport is inviting Aucklanders to step into the future, with a new campaign (conceptualised by Republik and shot by Zoomslide) exploring how the
The resurgence in interest around craft-based and handmade objects is finding expression in Objectspace’s annual graduate exhibition, The Way of Matter, happening from Saturday
The World of Wearable Art Awards are still some months away, but those who just can’t get enough of designs-on-people can get their fix
A former mechanic's workshop and car park has been refitted as a new after-work-drinks spot and music venue, Underpass on Lower Hobson St.
As the flag referendum fades in favour of more pressing topics, Michael Smythe examines its entrails and extracts new meanings to expand the New
As corporations continue to recognise the importance of innovation, more and more of them begin to look outside of the box to improve their
An insatiable appetite spanning both the obscure and infamous across all genres helps to stimulate ideas for Jonathan Sagar, principal and creative director of
The advertising industry is renowned for its creative offices. And independent agency True’s new space in Auckland doesn’t disappoint.
Fisher-Price is painting the parenting of tomorrow in a rosy consumerist glow in this speculative promo released earlier this week.
It’s here! It’s finally here! Voting closes on the whole flag referendum thing today. So, in case you’re still to-ing and fro-ing on whether
The winners of the Million Metres Project #mywaterwaynz photo competition have been announced and this is they:
A new music video uses the data from an industrial scanner and an xbox (and no video) in his latest music video.
From his early days as a hungry creative in Singapore in the early 2000s, to creative director at some massive New York ad agencies
One of the most important parts of the Copyright Act for artists, software developers, designers and other creators of original works – and their
I flew back from somewhere else late yesterday afternoon and as we taxied to the gate , I gazed out the window admiring a
The finalists of the Walters Prize, considered by many to be the most prestigious contemporary art awards in the country (the Oscars of New
Max-o-matic (Ma?ximo Tuja), is a Barcelona-based “illustrator of collage and organised chaos”. He combines vintage magazine clippings, paper waves of colour, digital ltering and erratic,
Over a million words of James K. Baxter’s prose is now available online thanks to a project by Victoria University.
It’s easy to be jaded when it comes to branding. After all, what’s so noble about hawking consumer items at punters? Usually not much.
Michael Smythe risks making another contribution from the “design elite”.
Dan Gillingham – designer, traditionalist and owner of furniture retail store The Earnest Workshop – says his ultimate goal is to “sell, but not
A team of graduates from AUT fashion Design School have won a competition to open a pop-up shop in the heart of the CBD.
Beyond the smell of faeces on the streets, the presence of myriad air-borne diseases and a cruel and unusual legal system, stepping a few
Leather tanning is an age old craft, dating back to the beginning of human time. Today, Beau Tanner and Corey Paiva, founders of Southern