2012-05-25 09:23:27 // StopPress Team
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DraftFCB's golden run continues: following up from the last two years' efforts, it can now boast a trio of Best in Show titles thanks to its work on the Electricity Authority’s What’s My Number? campaign at the CAANZ Media Awards.
2012-05-24 09:04:40 // Idealog
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Supreme EECA award winner Air New Zealand is delivering for NZ Inc, judges say, clocking up energy savings worth more than $540 million since starting its eco drive in 2005,
2012-05-22 09:12:13 // Idealog
Kiwi cleantech company LanzaTech has been named in the TiE50 as a leader in entrepreneurship, innovation, and management excellence for the second year in a row.
2012-05-14 10:24:53 // Esther Goh
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Its technology helps sort the best of our product for export, and with a massive new deal in California, the night belonged to Compac Sorting Equipment at Friday's NZ Hi-Tech Awards.
2012-05-14 09:56:53 // Idealog
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Beer, porn and students emerged the supreme winners at the annual PRINZ awards over the weekend in the form of the the Student Volunteer Army and the WilliamsWarn (the best beer porn you’ll see all day).
2012-05-11 12:00:25 // Esther Goh
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Know of an outstanding entrepreneur deserving of recognition? Or think you have the chops to pass muster?
2012-05-08 10:53:27 // StopPress Team
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Yahoo! New Zealand has announced a new awards baby, Digital Stars, which will set out to find and reward the best young media planners and buyers in New Zealand.
2012-05-04 12:32:15 // Idealog
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Websites for boutique beer brand Moa and fashion designer Collette Dinnigan have been judged among the best in the world, helping Auckland digital creative agency Gladeye earn a total of five Communicator Awards.
2012-05-03 14:03:16 // Idealog
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Alt Group has taken away a silver from the 2012 Clio Awards in New York for its work on Fisher & Paykel's Social Kitchen at last year's Urbis Designday.
2012-05-02 16:18:13 // Design Daily Team
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Now's your chance to show off your retail design nous – entries for the annual Red Awards are open until July 6 with 11 project categories up for the taking.
2012-04-30 10:00:49 // Ben Fahy
Cars, clothing and pharmacies are top of the customer satisfaction charts with utilities and banks hovering at the bottom, according to Roy Morgan.
2012-04-26 13:31:13 // Ben Fahy
The Webby Awards aim to honour general internet awesomeness, and fighting it out for gongs with big global beasts like Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest are local hopes Shift for Tourism New Zealand, Resn for Toyota’s Camry Effect, Xero and DDB/Rapp Tribal for McDonald’s. And they need your votes.
2012-04-23 11:29:08 // Idealog
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Icebreaker's Jeremy Moon and Douglas Pharmaceuticals' Sir Graeme Douglas are among this year's winners of the World Class New Zealand Awards.
2012-04-20 09:25:01 // Ben Fahy
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The TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards turn 21 this year, and to celebrate this milestone, it’s received an oversized key, downed a yardie, taken a good hard look at itself and emerged into adulthood with a snazzy new ’Everything Marketing‘ brand and eight new categories.
2012-04-18 10:58:52 // Idealog
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A gelato maker, antifungal skincare and sustainable casket manufacturer – these are just some of the many and varied finalists in this year's Wellington Gold Awards.
2012-04-16 17:38:22 // Idealog
PopAR books, which use New Zealand-made software, have taken the grand prize at this year's American International Toy Fair.
2012-04-11 11:19:41 // Esther Goh
Kiwi company ArcActive Limited has unveiled its new green battery technology at the recent CleanEquity Monaco awards, where it picked up a prize for excellence in environmental technology research.
2012-04-10 14:14:28 // Idealog
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New Zealand’s most innovative energy-saving and renewable energy projects have been revealed, and they include an ambitious scheme to insulate the entire township of Foxton; the largest coal to wood pellet conversion in the southern hemisphere; a truck running on landfill biogas; a family-run hydro electricity scheme built on an old Otago gold mine cut; and a bank which reduced electricity use by 23 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent.
2012-04-04 16:24:32 // Idealog
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Yealands Estate has been named runner-up in the Sustainability Award of the Year category at the 2012 Drinks Business Green Awards.
2012-04-03 15:51:27 // Idealog
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Westpac’s Richie McCaw Chopper Challenge picked up Campaign of the Year last week at the Asia-Pacific PR Awards in Hong Kong, with the bank the only Kiwi organisation shortlisted.
2012-04-03 15:29:37 // Idealog
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For the first time New Zealand women have the chance to apply for a National Fellowship programme to support a career in science.
2012-04-02 11:19:35 // Idealog
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Kiwi business Manuka Doctor has nabbed a finalists' spot in the annual Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) UK Beauty Awards for its purified bee venom products.
2012-03-27 22:59:10 // Idealog
Turning a profit despite the GFC, breaking new markets, creating new technologies - it's all part of the hunt to find the best of the best in bioscience, and this year the mantle of NZBIO's Company of the Year was bestowed on Douglas Pharmaceuticals.
2012-03-23 09:23:49 // Idealog
Multiple companies from Cambridge, Palmerston North and Dunedin joined well over 30 finalists from the three main centres in this year's Hi-Tech Awards in what trust chairman Wayne Norrie is calling a true spread of New Zealand's high-technology industries.
2012-03-21 22:00:51 // Idealog
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Orion Health – described by judges as an IT “megastar” – was the supreme winner at tonight's New Zealand International Business Awards.
2012-03-20 19:15:45 // Cath Winks
DDB New Zealand was among the few to win gold at this year’s Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (ADFEST 2012) Lotus Awards thanks to its work on Steinlager ‘Believe’ - and it also brought home a Silver Press Lotus for Campaign for Best of Social Engagements for Coastguard New Zealand’s Mayday Appeal.
2012-03-19 16:04:09 // Idealog
Cookie Time Limited has been voted best New Zealand-owned business by the Grocery Retailers' Association and taken out gold for best small business for the fourth year running.
2012-03-16 10:06:00 // Idealog
Telecom, Air New Zealand, Auckland Council and Bank of New Zealand are all celebrating wins after the New Zealand CFO Awards last night.
2012-03-14 11:33:01 // Idealog
DDB – the most consistent and "buttoned-down" shop in town – got the nod from judges last night as the 2012 Fairfax AdMedia Supreme Agency of the Year.
2012-03-12 10:18:05 // Idealog
Even the staid profession of banking can get its innovation on, as demonstrated by the annual CANSTAR CANNEX innovation award.
2012-03-01 08:30:01 // Esther Goh
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Self-confessed filmhead Ant Timpson was last night named the inaugural ART Creative Entrepreneur of 2012 for his contributions to the industry.
2012-02-29 15:21:42 // Idealog
Christchurch-based Arc Innovations has taken home two awards at the Smart Metering Australia and New Zealand Summit, holding its on in a field of international competitors.
2012-02-29 09:58:27 // Esther Goh
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Wang Shu has been named as the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the industry's highest honour.
2012-02-27 10:19:20 // Ben Fahy
DraftFCB's cup runneth over on Friday, what with being told it had won the Vodafone account, then going on to win the Grand Prix at the RSVP and Nexus Awards for the Electricity Authority’s What’s My Number? campaign.
2012-02-23 14:33:52 // Idealog
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Powershop last night picked up its prize as the top Kiwi contender in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific index.
2012-02-21 09:20:56 // Siobhan Leathley
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Sick of having to wrestle with mounds of plastic to unwrap your meat or veges? Finding there’s more plastic in Barbie’s wrapping than the doll itself? Having to stuff your pockets with wrappings after enjoying a prune or two?
2012-02-16 17:16:42 // Siobhan Leathley
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Prime minister John Key and Air New Zealand head Rob Fyfe are among the judges of a new business award scheme launched this week.
2012-02-13 14:30:28 // Idealog
The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) has opened its annual awards competition by announcing that its student prize will be named after long-standing chief executive, Paul Dryden, who passed away in March.
2012-02-13 09:24:09 // Idealog
Kent Gardner has been named the UK New Zealander of the Year 2012 at the New Zealand Society’s annual Waitangi Day Charity Dinner in London.
2012-02-09 17:14:47 // Design Daily Team
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2012 registrations for the long-running James Dyson Award open today, with both fame and fortune part of the dangling carrot.
2012-02-08 13:55:35 // Siobhan Leathley
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Xero has beaten corporate giants Nike+ and Windows Phone 7 to take out the “best in class for global interaction design” award at the Google-sponsored IxDA Interaction Design Awards.
2012-02-03 10:20:58 // Siobhan Leathley
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Six emerging leaders are being sought by the Sir Peter Blake Trust in its annual hunt for worthy recipients of its leadership awards.
2012-01-27 12:28:05 // Idealog
A trio of Kiwis who all helped raise funds for the Canterbury earthquake appeal are the finalists for the UK New Zealander of the Year Award 2012.
2012-01-23 09:22:07 // Siobhan Leathley
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Local company Panprint has scored not one but two prizes at the World Label Awards for the Totara Sauvignon Blanc 2010 and Full Circle Sauvignon Blanc 2010.
2012-01-20 15:40:14 // Siobhan Leathley
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New Zealand’s own Saint Clair and Brancott Estate labels have been awarded the title of Top White Wine in the "new world", sharing the spot with one South African wine.
2012-01-20 13:57:02 // Siobhan Leathley
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Six finalists are in the running to win $10,000 as part of BNZ’s Start-Up Alley, recognising new and innovative web ventures in New Zealand.
2012-01-12 12:09:39 // Idealog
Colenso BBDO Auckland has been picked as the fifth best agency in the world, as well as best direct agency with the best ECD.
2012-01-10 11:19:09 // Siobhan Leathley
New Zealand has some of the best filmmakers, rugby players and seafood in the world, and now according to Air Transport World, we've also got one of the best airlines.
2012-01-09 10:56:38 // Siobhan Leathley
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Arran Boote, director of accounting firm William Buck, has picked up a Success Story Award from the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) for his work in developing trade relations between New Zealand and Hong Kong.
2011-12-16 11:00:11 // Kate Beecroft
The Prime Minister’s Science Prizes, which deal in both glory and cold hard cash from a pool of $1 million, have been presented in Auckland today.
2011-12-08 10:22:59 // Esther Goh
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The NZ Hi-Tech Awards are branching out, with two new categories recognising the growing agritech sector and the contribution that companies based outside of New Zealand make to the local market. Fittingly for a technology competition, entrants will also now be able to lodge their entries online.
2011-12-07 10:34:10 // Esther Goh
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Five years ago, Time magazine broke with tradition and named "You" its Person of the Year.
And now TED is making history by awarding its 2012 TED Prize not to an individual but to an idea – the City 2.0.
2011-12-06 15:54:23 // Design Daily Team
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Victoria University student Roger Wilson has emerged victorious in the NZIA Graphisoft Student Design Awards, a design competition contested by the top four final year students from each of New Zealand’s three architecture schools at the University of Auckland, Unitec, and Victoria.
2011-12-05 13:57:19 // Design Daily Team
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Kiwi architects, designers and students who aren't afraid to play it safe will get the chance to show off their prowess at the 2012 Dulux Colour Awards.
2011-12-01 09:55:29 // Esther Goh
IRL research engineer Marcus King has been named the 2011 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards Engineering Innovator of the Year for his work in developing rehabilitation technologies.
2011-11-30 18:22:03 // Idealog
The designers behind Kiwi fashion label Nyne have been bestowed with the DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship for 2011, after making an unsuccessful bid last year.
2011-11-30 09:33:33 // Design Daily Team
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Ten prestigious awards totalling $360,000 were presented this week to New Zealand artists at the inaugural Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards.
2011-11-25 11:44:08
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Twenty promising Kiwis shook hands with Governor-General Jerry Mateparae as the National, Study Start and People’s Choice AMP Scholarships were handed out last night.
2011-11-17 10:15:20 // Design Daily Team
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Having picked up multiple Best Awards awards in every shade this year — Gold, Silver and Bronze – Stevens and Corban expand on the very collaborative approach undertaken to create the hugely successful Fisher & Paykel Social Kitchen.
2011-11-17 09:37:55 // Idealog
Christchurch biochemist Professor Christine Winterbourn last night became the first woman ever to receive the country's highest science and technology honour – the Rutherford Medal.
2011-11-15 09:45:32 // Esther Goh
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Kiwi tech firm GeoOP has topped off a massive year with a win at the 2011 Consensus Software Awards, which reward the most innovative software in Australia and New Zealand.
2011-11-14 10:20:52 // Idealog
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In an age of unprecedented corporate spin and technical gobbledygook, organisations keeping it real are few and far between. But they are out there, as Statistics New Zealand's win in the Plain English Awards proves.
2011-11-11 09:41:01 // Idealog
Brent Robinson, CEO and CTO of crystal manufacturer Rakon, has been named the 13th recipient of the Tait Radio Communications Flying Kiwi Award, joining a hall of fame that includes Sir Woolf Fisher and Maurice Paykel, Bill Gallagher, Trevor Eagle, Sir Gil Simpson, and Rod Drury.
2011-11-10 09:54:44 // Esther Goh
We may have come away from the Maggies empty-handed, but we're still celebrating at Idealog HQ: our sister mag Good’s December/January 2011 issue took the awards by storm and beat out competition from across all five categories to emerge as Magazine Cover of the Year.
2011-11-07 11:32:08 // Design Daily Team
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This year's entry numbers for the Wellington Architecture Awards may have been down, but the architecture which was "reassuringly high". All up 16 projects were bestowed with an award, among them the 1950s-designed Lower Hutt Civic Precinct and the already award-laden Wellington Airport international passenger terminal.
2011-11-04 13:07:13 // Sarah Robson
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A super high-tech business, Magritek exports its products all over the world, selling to a niche market – higher education, research, industry – and bringing profits back home.
2011-11-03 12:47:01 // Sarah Robson
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Christchurch-based Ena Solar has weathered the region's earthquakes and has its eye firmly on the UK and Europe.
2011-11-01 11:20:47 // Esther Goh
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Howick College's head of junior science Steve Martin believes students today aren't fully challenged in school. The Virtual Lesson project changes that.
2011-10-31 08:27:56 // Deirdre Robert
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As much as vinyl records offer a warm nostalgic touch, if you’re a DJ, lugging them around is far from convenient.
2011-10-28 15:13:21 // Hazel Phillips
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New Zealand has the second highest rate of depression in the developed world, and in spite of successful marketing campaigns to help cure it, more than 73 percent of sufferers don’t seek medical help.
2011-10-28 11:09:52 // Design Daily Team
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Next up in our interview series from the Best Awards, Kate and Sam from Studio Alexander discuss their Rotoroa Island Identity project, which picked up both a Silver and Gold Pin at this year’s awards. Winning aside, Kate also discusses why she was disappointed in this year’s judging process.
2011-10-28 09:58:08 // Ben Fahy
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Common sense prevailed at this week's Fair Go Ad Awards, with DDB, Lotto and The Sweet Shop’s ‘Lucky Dog’ epic taking out Best Ad and ‘Kerrrazeee Lily Salter’ from Big Save Furniture fronting up to accept Worst Ad honours.
2011-10-27 15:05:52 // Deirdre Robert
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With petrol prices already on the sharp incline, coupled with a growing awareness of climate change, there’s no denying electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid alternatives are surging in popularity.
2011-10-21 15:56:41 // Idealog
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The best and brightest of Enzed turned out in force at the 2011 NZ Innovators Awards at one of Auckland's finest new venues: the HP/Intel Winter Garden.
2011-10-21 11:22:47 // Esther Goh
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Vend has proven itself somewhat of an overachiever in the burgeoning Kiwi SaaS (software as a service) space.
2011-10-20 23:00:21 // Idealog
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Cameras flashed, glasses clinked and pink paperclip trophies were dished out tonight as 250-plus gathered for the 2011 NZ Innovators Awards ceremony at the HP/Intel Winter Garden in Wynyard Quarter.
2011-10-20 13:20:10
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Fraser Gardyne reckons he won his Black Pin for Outstanding Achievement because when it comes to the design industry in New Zealand, he simply “won’t go away”. That and he’s an “old fart”. In our latest video interview from the Best Awards, the principal of graphic design company gardyneHOLT explains why the gratification he felt in his earlier days of design — days when he used to design books — is completely different to the feeling you get these days when you’re designing brands and working with different media like the web. He also tells us why he thinks the Kiwi design industry is "absolutely stunning", in spite of a difficult last few years.
2011-10-18 12:56:13 // Idealog
Kiwi cleantech firm LanzaTech has not just held onto its spot in the prestigious Global Cleantech Top 100 but been named “Company of the Year Asia Pacific” for 2011 to boot.
The clean energy technology company has also been judged to have shown the “Best Innovation by an SME” in the global ICIS Innovations Awards.
2011-10-17 11:22:48 // Idealog
The stuff.co.nz mobile team has triumphed at the 2011 W3 Awards in Los Angeles, bringing home not one but two commendations from a pool of 3,000-plus entries.
2011-10-14 10:10:59 // Design Daily Team
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If you were a winner at the recent 2011 Best Awards and want to relive the glory, or you couldn’t be at the event but fancy having a nosey at what happened, here’s your chance. In the first of our videos from the event, we check out highlights from the night and also feature an interview with Auckland Mayor Len Brown. He tells us why Auckland is a design-led city and why the creative sector has the best ability to help redefine the city.
2011-10-13 13:15:45 // Deirdre Robert
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Auckland’s Art Gallery was the star of the show in more ways than one at last night’s Auckland Architecture Awards. As well as playing host to the packed crowd that attended the awards, the redeveloped gallery took home two awards — one for heritage and another for public architecture. But it of course was only one of many winners in an awards ceremony that saw a record number of awards dished out.
2011-10-07 23:01:40 // Design Daily Team
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While there'll be a few people holding their heads in despair, it's all on for the winners at tonight's 2011 Best Awards. Over 600 designers attended the DINZ event, held this year at the swanky new Auckland Viaduct Events Centre. This year set a record for entries, with 812 received in total — the highest in the 23-year history of the event. A multitude of Gold, Silver and Bronze pins were handed out, with four winners picking up the most coveted pin of all, the Purple Pin, representing supreme design within each category.
2011-10-07 09:18:52 // Ben Fahy
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DraftFCB and the Ministry of Health are a pretty bloody good team, going by the numerous awards the duo has won in recent years – and, as of last night, taking out a fair swag of the big gongs at this year’s Effies.
2011-10-06 11:49:47 // Deirdre Robert
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By now you designers must well and truly be starting to sweat in anticipation of tomorrow night’s Best Awards. One of the biggest events on the designer social calendar, the awards honour design in every shape and form, from graphic to interactive, spatial to product. Over 800 entries were received this year, so the competition will inevitably be tough, but all the more satisfying for those lucky enough to take home gold and purple pins, or the highly sought after John Britten Black Pin. For those who can’t make it and want to see who’s managed to snag a pin, we’ll have all the results online tomorrow night following the ceremony. Even better, we’ll be at the awards with camera in hand, so keep an eye out on our website over the next few weeks for interviews with the winners.
2011-10-04 13:49:05 // Sustain Team
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Having paid homage to businesses in the North last month, the latest round of Sustainable Business Network Awards heaped accolades on businesses in the Central and South of the country, with cycling and childhood education businesses among the winners.
2011-09-29 12:09:25 // Idealog
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Keen to rub shoulders with some of New Zealand’s top innovators and to hear guest speaker Chris Liddell? Of course you do, and you'll get your chance at the New Zealand Innovators Awards cocktail event next month.
2011-09-27 14:57:38 // Idealog
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The Innovators Awards need you! Get voting and let us know who deserves the title of New Zealand's most innovative person, product or organisation.
2011-09-22 12:57:59 // Design Daily Team
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Last year it was a coffee cup concoction from Daniel Marshall Architects that took home the top award at the AAA (Auckland Architecture Association) Cavalier Bremworth Unbuilt Architecture Awards. With entries for the 2011 round of awards open, organisers have announced that for the first time in the history of the awards, entries can now be received online.
2011-09-19 11:29:56 // Esther Goh
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Educating the generation of the future – what more noble pursuit can there be? But while the teaching profession too often flies under the radar, the hunt is now on for New Zealand’s most innovative school teacher, with a professional development package worth more than $5,000 at stake for the recipients.
2011-09-13 12:10:52 // Esther Goh
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Business ideas from nanofibres to bio-pesticides and magnetic resonance have been named the best that Kiwi ingenuity has to offer as finalists in the 2011 New Zealand Innovators Awards.
2011-09-12 10:33:36 // StopPress Team
The 2011 RSVP and Nexus Awards have officially opened for business, and marketing gurus are once again being encouraged to showcase shining examples of the campaigns and projects they’ve created.
2011-08-16 09:46:33 // Idealog
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Entries for the Innovators Awards may have closed, but the fun is only just beginning. Now for the People's Choice!
2011-07-26 12:53:38 // Idealog
New Zealand fine food manufacturer has scored quite a haul at the prestigious 2011 Great Taste Awards in London, coming away with seven medals in total.
2011-07-14 13:34:29
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The New Zealand Innovators Awards reveals its adjudicators to be not just intelligent and fine-looking, but powerful too
2011-07-05 10:23:13 // Idealog
Turns out the average pleb can do all sorts of things on the web these days, and if you've done anything particularly cool lately to enhance the online experience for fellow Kiwis (and Aussies) here's your chance to reap the rewards.
2011-07-04 13:52:44 // Sarah Robson
Recognising and rewarding outstanding leadership was the name of the game at the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards.
2011-07-01 16:03:31 // Idealog
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The 22 recipients of Fulbright NZ's Graduate awards are US-bound, flying the flag in fields as diverse as mechatronics engineering, infectious disease epidemiology, indigenous law, pharmaceutical policy and operatic directing.
2011-05-05 10:27:06 // Design Daily Team
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Awards season is at hand and the Property Council Rider Levett Bucknall Awards, celebrating the most prestigious commercial properties, are the latest to announce finalists. There’s a few award-winning repeat offenders, like the Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre and the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Wellington, but the list is extensive, and also features the likes of Eden Park and Telecom Place in Auckland.
2011-04-28 11:55:10 // Design Daily Team
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In just over one month's time, excitable web enthusiasts from around the world will gather to celebrate excellence on the Internet as part of The Webby Awards, and two Kiwi design companies have risen to the occasion from a pool of over 10,000 global entries submitted. New Zealand based design studio Supply has been nominated in the IT Hardware/Software category, meanwhile Alt Group has received the next best thing after an award nomination—selection as an Official Honoree in the Fashion category, the distinction of which is only awarded to the top 10 percent of all work entered.
2011-04-12 15:29:08 // Design Daily Team
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When you hear the term ICT, or information and communication technologies, creativity might not be the first descriptive word that springs to mind. But creativity in ICT, along with innovation, are the exact areas the upcoming World Summit Awards (WSA) are honing in on. And springing from the wealth of innovation is a contingent of eight New Zealand projects that have been confirmed as the New Zealand finalists for the global event. In fact, the projects are being scutinised right now, with 36 expert jurors meeting from April 8 to 14 to select the winners in each category. Although the awards honour excellence in new media and e-content creation, extra kudos is heaped on projects that show the benefits of information and communication technology for the development of society at large.
2011-03-28 12:32:29 // Design Daily Team
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The awards may be Australian, but there’s no love lost between our neighbours out west when it comes to eligibility in the upcoming 2011 Australian International Design Awards. Designers, manufacturers and distributors of professionally designed products and services available on the Australian market are eligible to enter the awards, but you’d better be quick with entries closing this Thursday 31 March. And if you've already entered, here are the scrutinous eyes under which your product will fall under.
2010-12-01 10:35:17
// Idealog #30: now
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2010-11-05 14:38:52 // Design Daily Team
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In what proved to be an exceptionally popular competition (over 90 entries), unashamedly "grungy" streetwise apartments, the City Gallery, the Zoo Hospital and the new Supreme Court are among designs celebrated at last night's 2010 Wellington Architecture Awards.
2010-10-21 22:01:40 // Design Daily Team
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What do a stadium and shed have in common? Clearly it’s not size, but an eye for clever design and construction detailing saw both take out awards at tonight’s Canterbury Architecture Awards. It was clean, clear palettes and no-fuss designs that found favour with the judges at this year’s ceremony.
2010-10-12 16:49:23 // Design Daily Team
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Before they ventured to the bar, Vincent Heeringa managed to sneak a moment with the young and old of Sons & Co—winners of the Purple Pin in the interactive design category at this years Best Design Awards, for their website design for Christchurch Art Gallery. Charged with presenting over 5700 artworks, 500 multimedia files and 900 archived exhibitions on the one site, they tell us which poor soul was left with the task of scanning the works and also give us their take on the design industry heading forward.
2010-10-12 16:17:29 // Design Daily Team
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It's regional architecture awards season—a time when the discerning eyes of judges scan the Enzed landscape for examples of architectural excellence. And if the results of the recent Nelson Marlborough Architecture Awards are anything to go by, we're off to a bumper season of design.
2010-10-12 09:32:10 // Design Daily Team
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Ah, packaging. You‘ve gotta love it for its all-carrying practicality and convenience. But add a splash of stylistic flare to it and you soon discover that practicality is only a tiny part of the packaging puzzle, as these winners from the 2010 Pentawards illustrate. The awards are dedicated exclusively to the best packaging design in the world, and this year three Kiwi entries snagged some top awards, including a precious Gold.
2010-10-04 15:27:38 // Design Daily Team
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Celebrating the best in architecture across the country, the 2010 local architecture awards—organised by the NZIA—are getting set to take place over the next two months, beginning with the Nelson Marlborough awards this Wednesday...
2010-07-19 14:57:31 // Design Daily Team
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The colourfully gifted among us are set to be honoured next week when the winners of the inaugural Resene Total Colour programme are announced.
2010-06-23 16:30:35 // Vicki Holder
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Mark Gascoigne trumped this year’s 2010 RED (Retail Design) Awards winning 8 of the 18 categories. How has he cornered this neck of the design woods so neatly?
2010-06-21 16:00:00 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
A hefty 750 people celebrated the country’s best commercial buildings last night in Auckland at the annual Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards, and three properties in particular set new standards for mixing design with sustainability.
2009-07-01 08:57:45 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
The inaugural Onya Awards will celebrate the achievements of our best-is-yet-to-come web luminaries.
