2010-10-20 09:47:28 // Design Daily Team
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Having won several Gold awards in the past, this year’s Best Design Awards resulted in a first for Studio Alexander, with the team taking home the overall graphics award for their three-dimensional safety installation for Fletcher Construction. The secret to their winning success? Well for starters, it helps to have a young and talented team, and a courageous client who’s open to new ideas. But, as Grant and Kate Alexander tell us, the challenges of the project extended beyond the realms of design.
2010-10-14 12:58:10 // Design Daily Team
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Possessor of the “best job in the world”, Cathy Veninga talks to Vincent Heeringa (it’s almost poetic) about why this years Best Design Awards are “rad” and shares her favourite moment of the night.
2010-10-01 23:09:20 // Design Daily Team
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It’s the Oscars of the New Zealand design world, where discerning designers don their best black tie ensembles and rock nervously back and forth as they wait to (hopefully) hear their name called as one of the winning entries in the Best Design Awards. The awards, organised by the Designers Institute of New Zealand, have literally just wrapped up and the eclectic—and often electric—list of winners is out. An electric bike described as the extraordinary lovechild of a Segway and a Penny Farthing; an electric fence that unfolds like a clothesline; a New York loft conversion and a stage set that resembles a 1970s space mission control room, were among the high profile winners at tonight’s event...
