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 …
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 …
If you’ve recently taken a stroll through Auckland International Airport’s departure lounge you’d struggle to not to be impressed by the revamp. The spruce up seems to have caught the eyes of judges at the recent Red ... More …
Being allocated only 48 hours in which to redesign a part of Christchurch’s central city may not seem like enough time, but it was enough to earn NZ Wood the title of supreme winner for the 48 Hour Design ... More …
To say the Auckland Council doesn’t always get it right when it comes to protecting our heritage buildings isn’t presumptuous. You need only look at the furore that broke out earlier this year when Turua Street’s Spanish ... More …
Wanted: high-flying emerging designers to feature on Emirates' marketing material. More …
Kiwi designer Helen Andreae has come up with a prototype for a mechanised toy designed to teach autistic children positive play behaviours. More …
Air New Zealand's long-haul redesign, a springless trampoline and a more efficient sheep drencher have scored at the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards. More …
Local brand and marketing company Tuskany Agency last week unveiled its new vision and strategy for downtown Tauranga, including a new logo (which at first glance seems reminiscent of the Microsoft logo) and the positioning statement: “Locals. Love it!”. But ... More …
Somewhere out there, making it’s way slowly but surely, are bits and pieces of a house that, when reassembled in the US, could earn its creators some pretty prestigious notoriety. In their latest blog, the First Light team detail ... More …
It looks to be business as usual for multidisciplinary design company Alt Group as it continues to rake in awards from New Zealand and abroad. The latest accolades come after three of its pieces were selected as winners in New ... More …
Idealog's Design Daily just turned one year old—hoorah. In the last year we’ve grown to over 3000 subscribers and posted, as you know, quite a few stories (720 to be exact). So clearly it’s time for ... More …
They say it’s better to work with nature than against, and sculptural designer Janet Echelman seems to have got the technique down to a fine art as these flowing, sky-bound pieces show. More …
How Christchurch can be rebuilt so as to have greater resistance to potential future shocks has been the question on many a mind, and now an information paper just released by the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) hopes to ... More …