2012-05-23 17:26:10 // Esther Goh
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It was hard to leave Semi-Permanent and not feel full to bursting with creative awe and inspiration.
2012-05-17 14:00:59 // Esther Goh
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Kyra Clarke is the driving force behind international art and design publication Threaded Magazine, now in its seventh year. We caught up with her just as the smoke was clearing and Threaded XII went to print (it's scheduled for release on May 25).
2012-05-03 15:23:21 // Esther Goh
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Tim de Jardine brings a bit of psychology into the design process, and winds up, ideally, with the optimal blend of functionality and beauty.
2012-04-20 11:53:39 // Esther Goh
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Yuveel Rughoonandan and Javier Egusquiza of up-and-coming label FortyThieves love their skateboards and social networks.
2012-04-19 15:55:53
// Idealog #38: now
Fancy making your creative self jealous? Here are two artists making waves in the world of all things imagination, creativity and design. Eat yo' heart out.
2012-04-19 15:26:45 // Design Daily Team
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There's just one month to go till Semi-Permanent 2012 is upon us – and organisers have just confirmed the final speaker, New York-based artist and self-proclaimed tinkerer, Kelli Anderson.
2012-04-05 09:32:59 // Esther Goh
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IDEO's Tim Brown could be considered the 'father' of design thinking. Rethinking design, however, was his key message at this year's Better by Design CEO summit.
2012-04-03 13:53:36 // Esther Goh
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For years, artist Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books and television. And he'll be gracing Semi-Permanent with his presence, at Auckland's Aotea Centre from 18-19 May.
2012-04-03 12:12:33 // Design Daily Team
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Getting creative with data: this animated map visualises the intricacies of windflow over the US in real time.
2012-03-30 11:15:49 // Esther Goh
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Blogs are a huge source of inspiration for US transplant Liora Saad, who describes her work as colourful, clever and cute.
2012-03-13 14:49:38 // Design Daily Team
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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.
2012-03-09 13:37:42
// Idealog #38: now
One of the faces behind Telecom's 'smart network', Adam Bryce, cut his teeth on the Karl Lagerfeld school of aesthetics.
2012-03-01 12:25:53 // Esther Goh
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“Ideas worth spreading” is the TED ethos, and now the organisation has picked out 10 ads worth spreading to the masses, including a cinema-loving bear for Canal+, a powerful call to voting action in Tunisia, topless guys in a breast cancer campaign, an egg travelling down a massive outdoor xylophone and a whole lot of long-form first-person narratives.
2012-02-29 12:50:58 // Esther Goh
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Oregon's Bamboo Sushi, the first certified, sustainable sushi restaurant in the world, has released a beautifully shot, lovingly told short film that tells the tale of Japan's most famous dish and envisions a world where sustainability underpins the industry.
2012-02-17 12:17:29 // Design Daily Team
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The Samoan art forms of Tatau (tattoo) and Tapa (bark cloth) have gone all 2.0 in the hands of Vaimaila Urale, who has created a unique set of digital patterns using basic keyboard characters, motifs and symbols.
2012-01-25 13:07:53 // Esther Goh
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In celebration of ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide's 75th anniversary, studio Lobo created this animated version of a famous speech delivered by Burnett in the sixties on creativity, making moolah and leaving a legacy.
2011-10-19 16:10:18 // Idealog
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Telecom is upping its creative cred with a new online collaboration with an eclectic group of Kiwis including Huffer founder Steve Dunstan, internationally acclaimed hairstylist Richard Kavanagh and up-and-coming musicians Junica and Zowie.
2011-10-19 13:25:35 // Sarah Robson
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Father-and-son team Lance and James Morcan have been pretty busy of late – they’ve just had two of their co-written novels published and two of their feature films released offshore – but creative roadblocks have stymied their "passion project".
2011-10-17 16:19:32 // Idealog
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Ex-advertising man Linds Redding is documenting his battle with cancer in words and images.
2011-08-17 11:14:43 // Esther Goh
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Malcolm Gladwell reckons it takes 10,000 hours to master, well, anything. And according to US broadcaster Ira Glass, creativity, too, takes time to hone.
2011-08-09 09:28:12 // David Trubridge
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Even the press have moved on from the once-edgy atmosphere at Milan's Zona Tortona.
2011-02-17 12:29:08 // Rebekah White
// Idealog #31: features
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The long summer days, the idle time,
friends, a change of pace—it’s the perfect
time to think up new ideas for the New Year.
To get you started, we talk with some of
New Zealand’s most serially creative ideas
people. By Rebekah White
2010-09-24 06:00:00 // Ulrika Hedquist
// Idealog #29: features
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Glenn Jones’ t-shirt designs are designed in Auckland, printed in Texas and popular all over the internet. Ulrika Hedquist tracks the success of Glennz Tees.
2010-08-12 12:53:35 // Design Daily Team
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We've got a pass to the upcoming CreativeTech forum and we want to give it away - to you. CreativeTech is a new technology forum offering a broad mix of talks and presentations on design, developing, movie making, photography, audio engineering and more. Not only are we giving away a pass to the event, valued at $120, the winner will also snag for themselves an Adobe Photoshop Elements pack valued at $200.
2009-12-11 11:09:23 // Andy Kenworthy
// Idealog #25: guide
Why is a low-end Lexus more sought after than a top-of-the-line Toyota, given they are made by the same people? Why do you feel all international and summery when you drink Sol and staunch when you drink Lion Red? It’s because everybody judges a book by its cover.
