2011-11-08 16:03:34 // Deirdre Robert
// The Idealog Blog
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News that Australian company DesignCrowd had launched in New Zealand didn’t go down too well with our readers a few weeks back. But its presence in the Kiwi market and beyond has been given a booster by way of a $3 million investment from Australian VC firm Starfish Ventures. DesignCrowd chief executive Alec Lynch said the money would be used to enhance the company’s service in Australia, New Zealand and beyond. And after a chat on the phone, he was also quick to defend crowd sourcing, describing it as an “opportunity, not a threat” to existing design agencies.
2011-10-19 15:30:07 // Deirdre Robert
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The online domain has created a whole new portal when it comes to the dissemination of ideas and creativity. Crowdsourcing is one of the trends to ride on the back of web-induced capabilities, but in the design domain, it has proved controversial. With companies using it as a way to source, among other things, new logos, some designers complain that it undermines the expertise of qualified designers and design companies. But, like it or hate it, it looks set to stay and in New Zealand, it’s just received a boost with DesignCrowd launching a New Zealand crowdsourcing site.
2011-03-18 10:37:18 // Kris Herbert
// Idealog #32: features
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Christchurch’s chocolate-box facade has
cracked. The city will never be the same—
but what will it choose to become? Kris
Herbert meets the Cantabrians who are
reinventing their city
