2011-08-23 11:44:00 // Deirdre Robert
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Take one quick look at the Asia Pulp & Paper website and you’ll be greeted by a company that champions its sustainability and CSR initiatives. But the global company, who also owns New Zealand-based company Cottonsoft, has been embroiled in sustainability hypocrisy as of late with claims by numerous groups it is wiping out the habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger in Indonesia. Groups including Greenpeace, the Green Party and WWF-New Zealand are all speaking out and even The Warehouse has suspended orders of Cottonsoft toilet rolls, pending further investigation into the claims. But Cottonsoft is describing the allegations as "factually inaccurate and groundless".
2010-11-23 13:30:40 // Deirdre Robert
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While iPhones and the like have burst onto the mobile scene, for those involved in designing the apps associated with the smartphone world, an explosion of app designers wouldn’t go astray. The shortage is particularly noticeable in New Zealand and for Brett Hancock—founder of digital design company Born Digital—finding designers has proved a real struggle. When the company recently put an ad on Seek for a full time iPhone developer, only one lonesome response was received over an entire month.
2010-11-19 15:18:33 // Deirdre Robert
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While iPhones and the like have burst onto the mobile scene, for those involved in designing the apps associated with the smartphone world, an explosion of app designers would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much. The shortage is particularly noticeable in New Zealand and for Brett Hancock—founder of digital design company Born Digital—finding designers has proved a real struggle. When the company recently put an ad on Seek for a full time iPhone developer, only one lonesome response was received over an entire month.
2010-08-19 12:02:35 // Design Daily Team
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With an iPad floating around the office we obviously couldn’t resist flicking through all the cool apps. One of our favourites has to be Veer’s Super‑Incredible Activity Book for Creatives.
