Apple-y Ever After: Ben & Jerry’s backs gay marriage
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's in the UK has renamed its apple pie-flavored ice cream Apple-y Ever After. Why? To raise awareness about the importance of marriage equality, of course. More …
Business
Hayley King and the business of art
3Hayley King has pulled together business and art in creating her all-encompassing design label Flox. More …
Renalldoors boosts manufacturing capacity, tapping into the sustainable design movement
Renalldoors has just dropped $1.5 million on a state-of-the-art manufacturing gizmo, the first in New Zealand, and plans to tap into a growing market for timber, following trends in Europe, particularly as the Christchurch rebuild gains momentum. More …
Design
New life for ghost town Denniston in forward-thinking design proposal
Former mining town Denniston - home to just six people - could find itself a leading light in design. More …
Architecture/Structural Design
Mountainous monuments dominate skyscraper contest
Mountainous skyscrapers! City landfills! Floating metropolises! All of the above were submissions to the 2012 eVolo Skyscraper competition, which is always full of cutting-edge, sometimes wacky ideas on the use of new technologies, materials, aesthetics, and spatial organisations. More …
When art and pop culture collide
Russian artist Rinat Shingareev inhabits a curious world, if his work is anything to go by – one saturated with rich, vibrant colour and plugged into the biggest celebs and memes pop culture today has to offer. More …
Film
An exercise in filmmaking democracy
1A group of Melbourne indie filmmakers is developing a sci-fi/fantasy series to be released in 2013. But will it be a case of democracy winning, or too many cooks? More …
Scrabble for font lovers
Last year Andrew Capener designed a rather lovely Scrabble set with a sleek walnut board and assorted fonts on the tiles with the goal of exciting people about typography. He succeeded. More …
Award-winning German stools we’d happily park our behinds on
1We rather like these solid oak Faber stools – they're elegant, simple and most definitely something we could see finding a place at home or being used in a favourite funky cafe. More …
Question Time
A quick word with … Adam Bryce
One of the faces behind Telecom's 'smart network', Adam Bryce, cut his teeth on the Karl Lagerfeld school of aesthetics. More …
The evolution of the animated GIF
1From their first incarnations, drawing on video game culture, to Tumblr memes and beyond, the animated GIF has become almost an art form in its own right. More …
Architect’s house pulls in $900k over valuation
2An architecturally-designed Grey Lynn house has sold for nearly a million buckaroos over its valuation – demonstrating the worth of good design, according to Richard Naish. More …
A novel way to create your own book
2New Zealand-based PQ Blackwell is set to launch a website that will make it possible for anybody to create a tailor-made book – be it a life story, photo book or an ambitious art album. More …
UPDATED: Massive Auckland waterfront expansion hits speed bump
3Plans for a major expansion of the Auckland port into the Waitemata Harbour have hit a road bump – the council has voted to review the role of Ports of Auckland before going any further. More …
Adidas staff ditch business cards for shoelaces
These days, it's almost a constant competition to see who can come up with the zaniest idea for a business card. More …
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