2013-04-30 14:24:49 // Idealog
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Making your business an international success story requires cut through. How can you stand out from the competition in a changing world?
2013-04-26 12:25:00 // Idealog
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Entrepreneurs of all stripes are invited along to Q Theatre next month for Inspire Auckland, a day of presentations from successful entrepreneurs delivered by World Class New Zealand and AUT University for the local business and creative communities.
2013-04-24 14:13:47 // Idealog
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Along with Y Combinator, TechStars is one of the grandaddies of startup accelerators. And next week you could get to hear Laura Reitel, former program manager at TechStars and part of the initial push to create the Global Accelerator Network, speak about what it takes to make it in an accelerator and what actually happens inside one.
2013-04-22 13:55:54 // Design Daily team
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Design always has a purpose, and thus depends on the designer having a deep understanding of their audience.
2013-04-17 13:53:29 // Idealog
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Innovation for Sustainability is the theme for the 2013 Green Living Show, returning for a third year in June.
2013-04-17 10:24:50 // Idealog
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He dishes out tough business love in every issue of Idealog, and next month you could be on the receiving end of some #realtalk from biz consultant/investor Lance Wiggs live at Auckland Startup Weekend.
2013-04-17 10:19:10 // Idealog
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After last year's event went off like a frog in a sock, selling out in under an hour, TEDxTeAro has booked in a spot for 2013 on June 29.
2013-04-03 12:16:25 // Design Daily team
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Wondering how to make your home more sustainable? How your house might fare in an earthquake? This weekend HIVE Christchurch celebrates its first year and is holding a free event with all homes open for viewing, and experts on-hand to answer your rebuild questions.
2013-03-27 14:36:28 // Design Daily Team
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The Best Awards are a major feature of the local design calendar every year. And it doesn't end there – some of last year's winners will soon be touring the country to spread the good word and offer firsthand insights into their projects.
2013-03-26 10:20:03 // Idealog
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Who needs IP protection and at what stage should you consider it? What are patents, copyrights and trade marks?
2013-03-25 09:15:27 // Idealog
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A bit of a public service announcement and trumpet blowing: Social Media Club is on Wednesday at Vodafone Auckland (click here for details) where a smarty-pants panel, including Idealog's editor, will be talking social media – what works to generate buzz, and what doesn't? They'll be covering the good, the bad, the line-crossing, the paid for, and other bits like pitching journos and Twitterati and fessing up to freebies.
2013-03-22 12:54:14 // Design Daily team
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Ready for another year and another hit of Semi-Permanent? The international festival for creatives, returns to Auckland on May 31 for its annual two-day exploration into the minds of our world’s most cutting edge creative artists and design thinkers.
2013-03-21 10:18:12 // Shaun Hendy
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If I asked you to place a value on a car, you might well go to Trade Me and see what cars of that particular make, model and year were selling for. Unfortunately, it turns out that scientific knowledge cannot can be valued this way.
2013-03-14 11:02:42 // Idealog
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The first Girl Geek Dinner in Auckland for the year kicks off this month, starring former Idealog designer Su Yin Khoo, Air NZ CIO Julia Raue and Amnesty International Aotearoa ICT/database manager Vivian Chandra.
2013-03-13 13:35:26 // Idealog
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A series of workshops for budding social entrepreneurs kicks off next week in Wellington. The Good Enterprise workshop series is being put on by the crew from Enspiral, a Wellington hub for social enterprise that's spawned the likes of Bucky Box and Loomio, and the team behind local education platform Chalkle.
2013-03-08 10:09:54 // Idealog
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From the streets of downtown Auckland to a candlelit barn dance in rural Selwyn, Kiwis across the country will be celebrating Earth Hour alongside hundreds of millions of people worldwide on March 23 at 8.30pm.
2013-03-08 09:57:34 // Idealog
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'Walking the Talk' is the theme of the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Women’s Business Conference, and indeed, there's a pretty high calibre of speakers on the bill.
2013-03-01 16:30:23 // Design Daily team
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Itching for a bit of creative stimulation? Come along to the next Design Assembly speaker evening for a drink and a chat with fellow graphic designers.
2013-02-28 12:34:42 // Idealog
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As a reader of Idealog, you know better than most that New Zealand startups are building a reputation for innovation, rapid growth and international success.
2013-02-26 16:58:36 // Design Daily team
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Design is serious business, and should be treated as such. That's why the Designers Institute is putting on Design Law 2013, a series of events next month featuring law and insurance specialists discussing important legal information for design professionals.
2013-02-25 10:07:58 // Idealog
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Non-profit Global Women is putting on a boot camp for female entrepreneurs in April and is calling for applicants from high-growth SMEs in the $1-5m range.
2013-02-13 09:49:55 // Idealog
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Celery Productions (yes, they of Art in the Dark) love Auckland. So much so they're adding another event to the local calendar for Auckland Fringe Festival.
2013-02-12 10:42:50
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So you’ve got a great idea you’ve been thinking about and you want to be part of the next generation of smart New Zealand companies going global. Sound like you?
2013-02-05 14:59:05 // Idealog
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A two-day symposium celebrating the life and work of the late Professor Sir Paul Callaghan is to be held in Wellington from February 18 to 19, organised by Victoria University and the MacDiarmid Institute.
2013-01-14 14:40:43 // Elizabeth Davies
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How does a series of events designed to inspire creative thought and action sound? I Like I Wonder is a brand new Wellington initiative focused on sharing wisdom and new insight with like-minded creatives.
2012-12-20 09:23:34 // Idealog
Registrations are now open for Energy at the Crossroads: Energy Innovation for a Sustainable Society, a two-day conference to explore new energy technologies.
2012-12-19 12:36:51 // Design Daily team
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Are you making money while doing what you love? Architectural Design NZ's first seminar of 2013 wants to equip you with the tools and inspiration to ensure you are running a profitable business while fulfilling your passion for design.
2012-12-18 12:12:25 // Idealog
Urban redevelopment, seismicity (now there's an awkward word), sustainability and productivity will be the key themes of the 2013 Green Property Summit showcasing the latest in green building practices from international and national industry leaders.
2012-12-17 09:48:01 // Idealog
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Air New Zealand’s next Social Media Breakfast will be headlined by Teddy Goff, the digital director of President Barack Obama’s 2012 election campaign.
2012-12-12 08:58:25 // Hazel Phillips
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Nerd Soiree is a collective of lady geeks who enjoy a chat and the occasional social glass of wine.
2012-12-05 12:05:38 // Kate Beecroft
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A 10-strong crew is cycling from the deep south to Auckland this week for Power Shift 2012 – New Zealand’s first youth climate change conference.
2012-11-29 15:06:17 // Design Daily team
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For a last burst of creative inspiration before we all slope off for Christmas, head along to the Best Design Awards Purple Pin exhibition. It's a showcase of top work by Kiwi designers from 2011 and 2012, on display now at Silo Park to the public.
2012-11-21 17:18:32 // Kate Beecroft
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Social entrepreneurship and social innovation was the order of the day at Festival for the Future.
2012-11-20 09:08:56 // Idealog
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Busy executives are the target of an afternoon of 'power sessions' this week at the Sustainable City Showcase, covering green marketing and communications, retrofitting and energy efficiency, sustainability reporting, building a sustainable business, and the value of green office spaces.
2012-11-19 10:13:02 // StopPress Team
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Local digital signage network Ngage is bringing together a few smart cookies at an event that aims to showcase the digital signage ecosystem and offer a glimpse into the future.
2012-11-14 16:24:07 // Design Daily team
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New Zealand's first ethical fashion show will take to the catwalk at the Sustainable City Showcase this Friday. Bringing a youthful funk to the stage, emerging new designers from NZ Fashion Tech will demonstrate how clothes destined for landfill can be upcycled into sustainable and stylish clothing.
2012-11-12 14:05:16 // Idealog
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This month marks angel investor Bill Payne's third visit to New Zealand, and he'll be taking a day to lead a workshop offering an insight into the world of startup capital, from a look at who's who in New Zealand investment, what investors are looking for, the pitching process and the fine print.
2012-11-12 12:35:58 // Idealog
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Mile High – "a cocktail of hacking, design and creativity" – is bringing together programmers and designers in a live programming competition this month in the name of aviation.
2012-11-08 09:20:36 // StopPress Team
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Every year fresh faced young'uns with dreams of creative greatness prostrate themselves in front of adland's judgemental powerbrokers and show off the year's handiwork. So get thee to the end of year show for the AUT Ad Creativity course tomorrow at the Film Construction building in Minnie St if you want to see it.
2012-11-05 12:54:47 // Idealog
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New Zealand’s first electric vehicle symposia is bringing experts from around the world together to share practical insight into the future face of New Zealand’s car fleet.
2012-10-31 14:39:25 // Dennis Kibirev
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What better way for a weathered creative soul to see in the summer than with an infusion of inspiration from some of the world’s most notorious purveyors of aesthetic goodies?
2012-10-25 14:43:28 // Design Daily team
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Architecture aficionados will be pleased to hear that top French architects and scientists are currently on tour around New Zealand to share their experiences of sustainable construction through a series of seminars.
2012-10-25 13:55:15 // Idealog
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It's active in San Fran, New York, London, Berlin, Singapore, and a slew of Australian cities. And now The Fetch is coming to Auckland.
2012-10-23 11:34:34 // Esther Goh
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Last week, creative extravaganza We Can Create dropped ticket prices to $120. And the value factor just rose approximately 100 percent with the news that Taika Waititi will be joining the lineup on Saturday.
2012-10-16 13:56:21 // Idealog
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Building or selling mobile apps? Dev? Designer? UX? Marketing? iOS coder? Web designer? Windows 8 entrepreneur? Android expert? Then you are devmob, and welcome to join the party next month at New Zealand's first conference for mobile developers of all stripes
2012-10-16 09:23:22 // Design Daily Team
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Been hemming and hawing over attending We Can Create? Well, um and ah no more – ticket prices have been slashed to just $120 ($90 for students).
2012-10-10 15:12:51 // Design Daily Team
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Former UK Design Council head David Kester is heading to New Zealand next month and will give a free public talk at Te Papa on the transformative power of design for communities and public services.
2012-10-08 15:56:09 // Design Daily team
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We're now into the home stretch for We Can Create, and it's almost time to move the countdown from weeks into days.
2012-10-03 16:44:56 // Design Daily Team
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Some of the edgiest threads around are without a doubt found at AUT University’s Rookie Fashion Show – back for 2012 and a spectacle not to be missed.
2012-10-03 15:28:41 // Idealog
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The industry’s brightest young things turned out in droves last week to kick off the inaugural event for Young Bright & Broke, a collection of young people working within the communications industry established by CAANZ.
2012-10-02 11:50:24 // Idealog
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Canterbury Software Summit organisers are stoked with the 500 registrations so far (toppling last year's record) for its October 4 conference, the South Island’s largest software industry event.
2012-10-01 14:38:55 // Design Daily Team
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Semi-Permanent Wellington has been announced and its debut will no doubt be warmly welcomed.
2012-09-17 13:22:22 // Idealog
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The spotlight is firmly on sustainable design this week, thanks to World Green Building Week, spearheaded locally by the New Zealand Green Building Council and 90 Green Building Councils.
2012-09-17 09:19:54 // Idealog
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Gender diversity will, unsurprisingly, be top of the agenda come Gender Diversity Week, and some of Australasia's most prominent women leaders in business will address the future of women in the boardroom at a summit launched by Women On Boards New Zealand (WOBNZ) on November 1.
2012-09-14 14:24:19 // Design Daily Team
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Napier, the home of art deco, is hosting the annual conference of the NSW division of the Australian Institute of Architects next month.
2012-09-14 13:52:30 // Design Daily Team
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Effective product innovation practices are key to New Zealand's capacity for global competitiveness, and as Aruna Shekar wrote recently, failing to account for user factors can lead to the development of wholly inappropriate or even downright dangerous solutions.
2012-09-10 15:07:38 // Design Daily Team
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Spring has sprung! And we're now into a new season of Design Assembly events.
2012-09-06 16:03:26 // Idealog
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TED has exploded onto the world stage in recent years, but Wellington hasn't had a chance to play in that sandpit since TEDxYouth@Wellington in 2010. This year's the year, though: come November the capital will host its very own TEDx event, and you can nominate speakers and/or volunteer now on the website.
2012-09-04 12:13:28 // Josh Martin
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New Zealand has the state equivalent of 'short man' syndrome – comparing ourselves to other countries often and regarding everything from Olympic medals to average house prices.
2012-09-03 10:19:02 // Idealog
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Data is today's currency of choice. But managing big data is something few, if any, marketers feel equipped to do.
2012-08-28 14:55:37 // Idealog
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Startup Weekend is making its way around the country, with Auckland, Wellington and Palmerston North already having had their turns for 2012. Next up is Tauranga from September 14-16, and there are still spots for sharp devs and designers with an entrepreneurial bent.
2012-08-28 14:39:47 // Idealog
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We know you've been waiting anxiously for news of the TEDxAuckland speaker lineup, and now your patience is about to be rewarded.
2012-08-28 11:11:51 // Idealog
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The one constant in business – and in life – is change. Just how fit for the future is your organisation?
2012-08-27 16:30:51 // Design Daily Team
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We Can Create is paring back for 2012, boiling it down to six speakers and securing the rather lovely Mercury Theatre as the venue of choice.
2012-08-27 14:18:38 // Idealog
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If anyone in New Zealand is qualified to speak about building a successful global technology company, Rod Drury, chief executive and founder of Xero, would surely be at the top of that list.
2012-08-27 13:56:55 // Idealog
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Global green expert Jason Jason F. McLennan is in town next month to lead a workshop on green building.
2012-08-22 15:43:46 // Idealog
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New Zealand’s first Sustainable City Showcase will pop up in November for a brief three-day stint, featuring the latest in environmentally-aware products and technology.
2012-08-21 13:05:15 // Idealog
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Preparations are underway for a mass of environmentally-aware young people to converge in Auckland in December to shape their future at Power Shift NZ-Pacific 2012.
2012-08-20 11:48:13 // Idealog
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Navigating client-agency relationships is complex territory, and partnerships don't always pan out the way we'd like them to. In a time where the average length of agency partnerships has materially reduced, advertisers need to consider what steps they are taking to make these work.
2012-08-15 12:37:24 // Idealog
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Doing more with less – it's a refrain you'll hear across businesses and industries (some things never change). And in response to the common struggle to operate on limited budgets, Collaboration, The New Black seeks to show that collaboration is more than just a trend, but a necessity.
2012-08-13 17:32:31 // Robert Bruce
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If you can afford a $400,000 fire-engine-red Ferrari you probably don’t mind showcasing your status on your wrist.
2012-08-07 15:52:28 // Idealog
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TEAR Fund is calling for Auckland businesses to step up and do their bit to raise funds for at-risk Auckland youth and children in Nepal, India and Ethiopia.
2012-07-30 09:36:48 // Idealog
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Questo came out tops at Wellington Startup Weekend last night with its educational gaming platform that aims to boost student motivation, winning a package that includes $10,000 of advertising on TradeMe, business services from MYOB, and three months at coworking space Biz Dojo.
2012-07-25 13:08:28 // Idealog
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The digital age is changing the way we live and work. And whatever your industry or interest, you're part of the wave, like it or not.
2012-07-25 12:22:40 // Design Daily Team
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Tickets for the 2012 Brancott Estate World of WearableArt Awards are nearly sold out, so if you're planning to see one of the shows, reserve your spot now.
2012-07-17 12:36:02 // Idealog
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The advertising and marketing approaches of old are, in most cases, ineffective in today’s marketplace.
2012-07-12 13:29:48 // Idealog
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New Zealand’s third TEDx event is coming to Auckland this October, though the lineup won't be revealed until next month.
2012-07-11 02:17:53 // Idealog
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Coca-Cola South Pacific, giffgaff and comparethemarket.com from the UK, KidZania from the US and Digital Alchemy from Australia arrive next week to spill the beans to New Zealand marketers on how they've harnessed modern direct marketing to take their businesses to another level.
2012-07-04 17:27:36 // Idealog
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Every organisation is good at something, be it communication, teamwork, customer service, marketing, branding, social responsibility, systems, leadership, product development, innovation, or something else entirely.
2012-07-04 09:50:35 // Idealog
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The vast majority of New Zealanders want to buy more sustainable products and services, and are more likely to evaluate products and services on ethical and environmental criteria than ever before.
2012-06-28 15:18:32 // Design Daily Team
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The eighth annual Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication is heading to New Zealand for the first time and this year has expanded to include a one-day public symposium.
2012-06-19 12:03:17 // Idealog
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Survive & Thrive 2012 is focusing on sustainability – of self, practice, communities and organisations – and explores how having a sustainable creative ecology serves the world’s communities.
2012-06-18 13:35:53 // Idealog
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Next Tuesday is the kick off of the two-part Gamification Lab - New Zealand’s first workshop on applying games psychology to your marketing.
2012-06-14 15:45:00 // Stephen Olsen
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Wellington made the most of the limelight during this week at the World Conference of the International Council of Social Business.
2012-06-07 15:28:37 // Design Daily Team
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Creativity is, in truth, only part of the whole parcel that comes with being a design professional. Being business-savvy plays an integral part, including operating within the confines of the law.
2012-05-31 16:13:45 // Design Daily Team
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Budget considerations and sustainable practices are firmly positioning themselves as the core drivers in the building and renovating process
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.
2012-05-23 12:09:12 // Esther Goh
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Pub quizzes are awesome. So are designers. Combine the two and you get an evening of epic proportions: the inaugural Design Assembly Pub Quiz, a night devoted to pure graphic design trivia and nothing else.
2012-05-21 09:32:15 // Idealog
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Keen 'Carrotmobbers' raised more than $2200 to fund a solar power system for a Pacific Island coffee farm this week.
2012-05-16 14:31:02 // Esther Goh
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New Zealand has all the basics to help businesses thrive – the challenge is to step it up a notch.
2012-05-11 11:34:11 // Josh Martin
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What is the role of youth movements in international environmental policy now and into the future, if we are to inherit that environment?
2012-05-11 09:04:51 // Idealog
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Join us next month to hear Steven Joyce (Minister of Economic Development, Science & Innovation, Tertiary Education & Skills) share his vision for an innovative economy, followed by Q&A with Idealog publisher Vincent Heeringa. JUST $49!
2012-05-09 16:35:21 // Design Daily Team
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Get ready for the second Sustain/Create event this Friday, featuring a lineup of three design and sustainability experts gathering to discuss the relationship between ecology and urban development.
2012-05-08 10:00:17 // Idealog
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Auckland Startup Weekend is back for a third year and it's slated to be hosted at the ecentre on the North Shore from June 15-17.
2012-05-03 15:37:05 // Idealog
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Change is the only constant, they say, yet change management is something few of us have a handle on.
2012-04-30 09:14:09 // Design Daily Team
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Auckland Pecha Kucha #30 is about to hit K Rd, with the spotlight on Sustainable Coastlines' Sam Judd, Celery Productions' Celia and Ella (see story in the latest Idealog), scientist Siouxsie Wiles and more.
2012-04-26 09:20:29 // Idealog
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Commercialisation professionals from around the country will be gathering in Wellington next week at the KiwiNet Commercialisation Forum to delve into the hot topic of market-led tech transfer.
2012-04-20 15:43:46 // Idealog
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Ever had one of those lightbulb moments – that split second where you're convinced your brainwave could make you a fortune?
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.
2012-04-12 15:54:30 // Esther Goh
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It's a big bad dynamic media world out there, in which it's harder than ever to make a splash and those who put a step wrong are instantly pulled up. To that end, PRINZ is hosting Our Space Our Place – reshaping communities, a conference that's all about communicating with shifting audiences on-the-ground and online.
2012-04-09 16:21:57 // Design Daily Team
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Care about the creative future of Christchurch?
Then you might be interested in a free public upcoming event, The River of Arts: creating new ways for the arts to work in Christchurch’s public spaces.
2012-04-05 14:22:51 // Idealog
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SmallWorlds, Gameloft, Grinding Gear Games, NinjaKiwi, Runaway Play, Sidhe/PikPok, Cerebral Fix.
All these and more will be at this year's New Zealand Game Developers Association Conference on May 19 with leading game makers from New Zealand and Australia.
2012-04-05 14:11:05 // Design Daily Team
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The DeSForM conference is on in Wellington this month, the first time the event has been held in the southern hemisphere.
2012-04-02 09:58:33 // Grant Jacobs
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While TED lectures are advertised as being for ‘ideas worth spreading’, some local/regional TEDx events offer what I would describe as at best questionable topics or speakers.
2012-03-30 16:02:44 // Design Daily Team
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Time for the next round of creative inspiration by way of the DINZ Designers Speak series!
2012-03-23 16:38:16 // Idealog
Some of Scotland's marine energy leaders will be visiting New Zealand next month to share their experiences as part of the Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association’s annual conference.
2012-03-19 14:51:53 // Esther Goh
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Urbis Designday will serve up a sensory feast for design lovers on Saturday when the results of collaborations between more than 50 of the country’s premiere creatives debut.
2012-03-19 14:05:52 // Idealog
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The annual Wind Energy Conference will be taking over Hamilton's Claudelands Event Centre next month, and its lineup is bulging with a mix of homegrown and international presentations.
2012-03-15 09:56:30 // Esther Goh
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Talk of the internet and how it's shaping our society never gets old. To that end, NetHui is back in 2012 – but if you can't make it, the event will also be video-streamed online.
2012-03-14 10:06:11 // Cath Winks
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To help marcomms folk avoid such epic PR fails as those of Telecom or Qantas, CAANZ Marcomms Leadership Group (MLG) is hosting a special event, Re-Imagining PR.
2012-03-07 10:57:34 // Idealog
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Indian, Australasian and European market experts will be converging in Auckland next month for this year’s Go Global conference.
2012-03-06 15:35:32 // Idealog
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The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is pulling together a bunch of brilliant and diverse experts to discuss ‘shared value’ at a forum on creating sustainable wealth later this month.
2012-03-05 12:26:56 // Ben Kepes
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SXSW is a mass extravaganza of technology, film and music. Or at least that's what the blurb says.
2012-02-24 11:16:11 // Design Daily Team
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Semi-Permanent is back with a vengeance this year with its eighth instalment after touring Sydney, Melbourne, Dubai and Singapore, as well as satellite conferences in New York and London.
2012-02-20 15:40:59 // Siobhan Leathley
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New Zealand has never been one to shy away from women’s rights, but there’s still work to be done.
2012-02-20 12:33:00 // Design Daily Team
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For the first time Reto Caduff's documentary The Visual Language of Herbert Matter is getting an airing in New Zealand, thanks to Design Assembly.
2012-02-16 14:19:11 // Siobhan Leathley
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Tauranga will stage a special Earth Hour celebration this year to commemorate the community’s effort to combat the Rena oil spill.
2012-02-08 10:00:31 // Idealog
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An all-star lineup of speakers – including top brass from Google, Facebook, Pepsico, and Saatchi & Saatchi – has been confirmed at the 2012 Entrepreneursʼ Organisation Queenstown University conference from February 22-26.
2012-02-03 13:30:17 // Siobhan Leathley
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Jason Whiteley has an enviable background, having worked with architects Herzog & de Meurons after five years in Switzerland and New York City.
2012-02-03 13:21:48 // Design Daily Team
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From the organisers of the mighty New Zealand International Film Festival comes the World Cinema Showcase, featuring films selected by NZIFF programmers that for whatever reason were not eligible for NZIFF screening. For the design-minded, there are screeds to get your teeth into.
2012-01-27 15:00:52 // Design Daily Team
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Nowhere captures the pace of global market change quite like China, where consumers and their expectations are a case study in rapid cultural shifts and their effect on design and brand communications.
2012-01-25 16:20:09 // Siobhan Leathley
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The first Designers Speak event of the year is fast coming up and the guest of honour at Calligraffiti will be Amsterdam's Niels Shoe Meulman.
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.
2012-01-19 09:34:01 // Sustain Team
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Want to help solve the climate crisis? Think you have the leadership skills to be one of the key leaders in climate change? Then read on.
2012-01-06 16:14:03 // Design Daily Team
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Who needs an excuse to throw a party? Nobody, really, but the Big Day Dowse has one in the form of celebrating Lower Hutt's new town square.
2011-12-20 12:01:57 // Idealog
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Not just the first country to see the sun, New Zealand will be the first to kick off the Global Game Jam too come January.
2011-12-15 09:08:34 // Idealog
Are you an event planner looking for someone with cash to throw your way? Then rejoice, for Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) is calling for applications from parties looking for sponsorship of major events.
2011-12-07 09:54:16 // Idealog
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Here's another to add to the onslaught of pre-Christmas invites: the Media Mingle Xmas Party, December 13.
2011-12-02 09:50:06 // Idealog
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Prizewinning journalist Jon Stephenson is returning to Afghanistan before Christmas to tackle a number of stories, and a bunch of his friends want to give him a bit of support.
2011-12-02 09:41:42 // Esther Goh
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Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime Minister, is a staunch champion of science as a pillar of economic development and innovation. And turning Auckland into a major Asia-Pacific innovation hub will be the topic du jour when he speaks in Auckland next week.
2011-11-22 12:00:36 // Sarah Robson
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Expect to see three-metre seagulls and a giant puppet family roving around Auckland central next month.
2011-11-10 12:48:33 // Esther Goh
Scientist, social entrepreneur and inventor Sir Ray Avery is an inspirational Kiwi if ever there was one – and you can catch him at a public lecture at Massey University’s Albany campus next month.
2011-11-09 13:29:54 // Esther Goh
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Translating Hergè's iconic panels onto the big screen was most definitely not a task for the faint of heart. And if you're curious to find out just what went into it, AnimFX will be presenting the ‘making-of’ ahead of the New Zealand release of The Adventures of Tintin in December.
2011-10-25 14:49:36 // Idealog
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With the Rugby World Cup done, dusted and firmly in our grip, it's time to turn to the other main event of the year – the national election.
2011-10-17 09:42:01 // Idealog
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Pixar. Weta Digital. Microsoft Studios. OpenFeint. Robot Entertainment. Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. What else could it be but AnimfxNZ 11?
2011-10-13 15:11:07 // Idealog
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Festival for the Future is the latest venture for Splashroom Media, the socially conscious Dunedin filmmakers.
2011-10-13 11:34:12 // Esther Goh
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Feeling lucky? Win free entry to Social Media Club Auckland on Tuesday, where clever clogs from SmallWorlds, Microsoft, Snapr and more will gather to discuss all things gamification.
2011-10-11 09:18:26 // Idealog
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Should you long for gold-plated wisdom in spades, MSN's Digital Marketing Summit next month promises to offer a fresh range of talking heads.
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 15:38:20 // Idealog
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Next week is the last LATE at the Museum event for 2011, to be held at Auckland Museum. Vote on our poll to go in the draw to win and join in the fun.
2011-09-26 17:19:10 // Idealog
New Zealand needs a few lessons in competitiveness, if you put stock in the World Economic Forum's opinion, and November will see delegates from more than 40 countries descend on Auckland to build alliances, explore new models and envision what's next in economic development.
2011-09-22 09:35:16 // Idealog
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In Auckland on Monday? Got nothing to do? Why not head along to the NZ Technology Trade and Investment Forum being held at the Langham Hotel as part of the Rutherford Innovation Showcase. It's the first in a week of Auckland-based events, and with high-level representatives from government and the private sector speaking and attending, it's the place to be for startups, entrepreneurs, software developers and others in the tech world.
2011-09-12 09:31:49 // Idealog
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The world’s top international agricultural biotechnology conference is heading to New Zealand in 2012, putting the spotlight on environmental, social, and economic change under the umbrella theme ‘Adapting to a Changing World’.
2011-09-07 16:58:39 // Esther Goh
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The next Envisage programme from AUT's CoLab is bringing together people from leading companies in design and sport to discuss new developments and opportunities in sport and technology.
2011-09-01 11:28:35 // Idealog
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Be awed and inspired – for free – by business heavyweights from Google, Movac, Z Energy, VoucherMob and more.
2011-08-31 11:32:22 // Idealog
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Today's the last day to secure earlybird tickets for Taste of New Zealand, and we've got two general passes to give away. Get in quick
2011-08-26 17:06:55 // Esther Goh
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Wellington has won an international bid to host the 2012 Digital Earth Summit, which mayor Celia Wade-Brown says ties in perfectly with the city's bid to be recognised as a ‘creative digital capital’.
2011-08-01 08:30:16 // Idealog
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A trade show is hoping to capitalise on the hordes of visitors set to descend on New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup and showcase local food suppliers to international importers.
2011-06-30 10:00:00 // Esther Goh
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Survive & Thrive, an expo and series of workshops, is all about enabling creative types to tap into the business-minded part of their brains.
2011-06-17 11:39:25 // Esther Goh
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The fifth annual Barcamp is for developers, designers and anyone who cares about the future of the net
2011-02-17 18:17:00 // Natasha Turfrey
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Wellington tech entrepreneur Michael Koziarski shared his formula to happiness and productivity in the workplace at the Webstock conference in Wellington today.
2011-01-19 23:13:08 // Hadyn Green
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There’s nothing quite like Webstock.
Perhaps that’s because it runs counter
to everything the experts said a Kiwi web
conference should be. By Haydn Green
2010-12-01 10:35:17
// Idealog #30: now
While Pumpkin Patch
won Supreme Award
for International
Business at the New
Zealand International
Business Awards
2010, it wasn’t
the only Kiwi
company feted on
Oct 13. The awards
celebrate New
Zealand business
success worldwide
and recognise
professional
excellence and
innovative practice,
so here are the
winners in each of
the categories
2010-11-25 16:22:24 // Josie Stanford
// Idealog #30: now
John Boone’s new venture had to be explained to him—and now he explains ‘corporate drumming’ to us.
2010-09-17 10:22:33 // Martyn Pepperell
// Idealog #29: now
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Paint parties—imagine dumping litres of fluorescent paint on a rave—are selling out nationwide, thanks to the Facebook factor
2010-09-09 10:39:18 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #29: interact
Mark Pesce is a longtime Apple user and a dedicated futurist and technologist, so you’d think he’s seen it all. But the iPad, he reckons, is something altogether different.
2010-08-13 09:27:49 // Esther Goh
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CreativeTech, a forum devoted to all things Apple, is heading to Auckland next month—and we have a brilliant prize pack to give away including a one-day pass.
2010-07-12 10:03:39 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #28: interact
Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.
2010-07-01 09:41:33 // Design Daily Team
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If you’re an Apple fan, there’s a brand-spanking new event you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. Introducing CreativeTech.
2010-06-30 10:33:44 // Design Daily Team
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You might have seen Haydn Green's blogs for us about the recent FullCodePress event - which he dubbed the 'geek Tri-Nations'. Now Jason Santa Maria, who participated in the event on the American side, has blogged about his experiences at the event.
2010-06-29 12:50:24 // Design Daily Team
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Running with Scissors Creative Strategist, and yMedia Challenge Judge, Friday O’Flaherty, shares his experience of working in the creative industries – tomorrow!
2010-06-29 12:26:59 // Design Daily Team
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The Designers Institute of New Zealand is holding the next of its Designers Speak series on July 7 at Ironbank, bringing in top names to discuss commercial design.
2010-06-22 21:14:21 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #28: interact
Pixar senior animator Andrew Gordon is making his way down under for SP10 in August. We caught him in June to ask about the future of Andy, Buzz and Mr Incredible.
2010-06-21 16:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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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.
2010-06-18 10:33:14 // Julie Starr
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FullCodePress is back this weekend—and this time a US team is here with some serious star power.
2010-02-19 17:26:39 // Ben Kepes
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It may be hard to believe, but we're only just at the very beginnings of the web revolution. In the first fifteen years (1994-2009), the human world of culture and civilization was sucked into the black hole of cyberspace. Now the real world is poised to follow.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2010-02-15 08:31:52 // James Hurman
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Today we heard from Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, David Rockwell, Natalie Merchant, David Byrne and Chris Anderson (the Wired one, not the TED one), yet despite such an auspicious roster, the ‘wow’ moment today came from a humbler corner.
2010-02-12 16:03:54 // James Hurman
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My ‘wow’ moment of today was the discovery of an American barista who knows how to make a flat white. The ‘wow’ moment for everybody else was ex Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold.
2010-02-11 18:29:16 // James Hurman
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It’s bloody difficult to choose a standout from the 18 speakers and performers we experienced at the first day of TED’s 2010 event, themed ‘What the world needs now’. But here’s the biggest collective ‘wow’ and the quote of the day.
2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard
// Idealog #25: interact
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Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.
2009-11-20 11:42:50 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #24: features
When Bruce Ferguson took his big-splash events business to the UK, he arrived alongside a less welcome visitor: the recession. A year later, the recession is still there—but so is Ferguson, and he’s finding a ready audience for his outrageous stunts and extravaganzas. By Stephen Jewell.
2009-09-07 15:59:37 // Frances Chan
// Idealog #23: interact
Whatever your Big Idea is, pitch it to the Icehouse and you could win $15,000 worth of prizes, including three months in the Icehouse business incubator to develop your product and offer to investors.
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog TV
Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
2009-08-17 08:50:01 // Deirdre Robert
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Pentagram’s Harry Pearce discusses his passion for mixing his creative work with human rights project Witness. Then there’s the conversation he had with Te Radar involving Spike Milligan and gravestones.
2009-08-17 08:45:00 // Deirdre Robert
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No one proposed to him when he was signing books—much to his disappointment. He had the audience and fellow speakers in awe, and it’s got nothing to do with his catchy name and youthful looks! We spoke with a modest James about his incredible body of work and why he’s, er, aging backwards.
2009-08-17 08:40:18 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. We talk with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby
2009-08-17 08:35:01 // Deirdre Robert
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We can’t help but love Alexia Sinclair’s stunning work. We discussed childhood loves and her plans for world domination.
2009-08-16 22:29:27 // Deirdre Robert
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Paul Soong from The Church talks about the permanence of Semi-Permanent and why it’s important to nurture upcoming creative Kiwis
2009-08-16 21:48:52 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog TV
He likes to lie down but it’s a good thing he was upright when we spoke to him. Semi-Permanent MC Te Radar shares his unique analogies on creativity.
2009-08-15 20:35:28 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s very tall and filled to the brim with creative prowess. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken tells us why Hollywood loves New Zealand
2009-08-15 20:34:56 // Deirdre Robert
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She feels like she’s drunk, but she’s not. We managed to snag some time with adrenalin-filled Semi-Permanent producer Anna Cameron and found out that even karaoke has its place at this event
2009-08-15 20:33:40 // Deirdre Robert
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While the rain was pouring outside, we spoke with some of the fine folk inside and soaked up some artistic spectacle
2009-08-15 08:49:26 // David MacGregor
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A slightly surreal experience with an advertising guy who acts like an artist … or should that be an artist who acts like an advertising guy?
2009-08-13 14:47:39 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog TV
Walking through the supermarket with wires running through your cheek and a camera in your mouth may sound odd to most, but for AUT Colab resident Matt Kenyon, it's all in a day's work. Seeking to challenge the 'powers that be' through the appropriation of popular culture, Kenyon not only challenges it, he throws it on its head and turns it inside out.
2009-07-27 09:00:00 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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Todd Wackrow spent just 3 months at the Icehouse and now look, he's really tall. Idealog asks why.
2009-07-21 15:17:41 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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James Madelin had an idea. Now it's a global business. Vincent Heeringa meets the man from Orbis.
2009-07-17 12:27:49 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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The Icehouse Business Growth Centre is opening its doors to all tyre-kickers and wannabe billionaires at an Open Day on July 29. Idealog asks startup director Ken Erskine what it takes to become the next Sammy Morgan.
2009-07-03 08:44:52 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Innovation isn’t just a commercial buzzword. It can transform our schools, hospitals, public spaces, transport, workplaces and our leisure time. And now New Zealand has its own organisation dedicated to encouraging new thinking to transform Kiwi society.
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.
2009-06-30 10:47:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Semi-Permanent must be due a name change. Back in 2009 for its sixth year, the landmark New Zealand design event is positively durable. It could also be called the granddaddy of a new wave of creative Kiwi events.
2009-06-26 16:11:08 // Vincent Heeringa
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That's the cover of the year, there. A brief brag about our wins at the MPA Magazine Awards.
2009-05-21 23:39:44 // Vincent Heeringa
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How did 100 talented entrepreneurs pick an idea only Murray Hewitt would think is cool?
2009-02-25 12:45:48 // Matt Cooney
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Matt Jones wowed the crowd at Webstock 2009, reinventing the idea of ‘the city’ in front of our eyes. Plants that twitter, organic architecture and a world haunted by d(a)emons
2009-02-21 09:21:39 // Ben Kepes
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So. Webstock is over for another year and, in an attempt to wean myself over the legal, but highly addictive, drug that is the Webstock event, I though I’d write the roundup, the epitaph, my personal catharsis from Webstock
2009-02-20 18:28:12 // Ben Kepes
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Damian Conway is a PhD in computer science and, until recently, was honorary professor of computer science at Monash University. He’s a designer, a columnist and an author.
2009-02-20 17:08:36 // Ben Kepes
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Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, a design essayist and a net critic. He’s also one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2009-02-20 15:34:12 // Ben Kepes
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Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service.
2009-02-20 14:48:29 // Ben Kepes
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Matt Jones is a designer who was formerly creative director for the BBC news online. He was with Nokia as the director of UX design and he’s now with Dopplr.
2009-02-20 12:26:40 // Ben Kepes
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Feminist, political activist, translator, publisher and filmmaker Tesanovic is a creation of the 1999 Kosovo war. She wrote a war diary based on the war Diary of a Political Idiot.
2009-02-20 11:45:25 // Ben Kepes
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Annalee is editor of science/fiction blog i09.com and a former policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She asks what today’s science fiction telling us about where our technology will go tomorrow?
2009-02-20 10:46:02 // Matt Cooney
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There's an authentic community building around Webstock. What better place to learn about creating others?
2009-02-20 10:33:03 // Ben Kepes
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Derek is an international accessibility expert. Can we do things on the web that go beyond the ‘can we just meet the guidelines’ and make things truly more accessible for users?
2009-02-19 17:42:42 // Ben Kepes
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Ze Frank is an American online performance artist, composer, humourist and public speaker. He wanted to share notes, practical advice and war stories on the value of contribution through to the challenges of feeling a virtual audience.
2009-02-19 16:48:30 // Ben Kepes
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Michael Lopp is a veteran of Apple, Netscape, Borland and Symantec. He explores the class of people who span both Generation X and Y and that he calls “The Geeks”—a group that has spent the last two decades moving amongst the dark technological fringe and is now a mainstream demographic.
2009-02-19 15:40:45 // Ben Kepes
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Heather Champ is the director of community at Flickr, seeing it grow to 24 million members sharing 2.8 billions photos and videos with 3 billion page views per month.
2009-02-19 15:04:57 // Ben Kepes
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Adrian is a journalist (ahhh—that’s a good thing—a dying breed) and a developer of web apps for washingtonpost.com, lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. If that wasn’t enough he also co-created Django, the open-source development framework.
2009-02-19 14:09:44 // Ben Kepes
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David is a tech lead for Six Apart, home of the blogging software that powers most of the world's pro blogs—Movable Type.
2009-02-19 12:24:06 // Ben Kepes
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Meg Pickard is the head of communities and user experience for guardian.co.uk. She points out that users interact with content in many different ways. Consume, React, Curate, Create
2009-02-19 11:45:59 // Ben Kepes
// The Idealog Blog
Author of ‘Design for Community, The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places’, Powazek is an alumnus of HotWired, Blogger and Technorati and he wondered why despite the wisdom of the crowds (Google “James Surowieck”), community generated content tends to be somewhat *low brow* results …
2009-02-19 10:36:32 // Ben Kepes
// The Idealog Blog
Home-town hero Nat Torkington, ex (and sometimes current) alumni of O’Reilly media is always a good choice for an entertaining show, he didn’t disappoint this time!
2009-02-19 09:57:34 // Ben Kepes
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McGonigal is a game researcher at the institute for the future. Her ethos is that in game-design the human experience is perfectly optimized—we feel we have purpose, we feel we are collaborating and we feel we have a meaning. Why then are other aspects of our online (and for that mater offline) experience not fulfilling all these needs?
2009-02-19 09:13:34 // Ben Kepes
// The Idealog Blog
Well here we are in the vibrant, creative and seemingly totally web-enabled city of Wellington (disclosure—I'm a Wellington boy borne and bred). Around 600 people have jetted in from all around the world to take part in what is quickly getting a name as one of the coolest conferences bar-none (heck—even the free schwag is a better class than what seasoned conference goers are used to).
2009-02-17 13:16:21 // Ben Kepes
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Some call Webstock the greatest conference this side of Silicon Valley, while others just call Webstock the greatest conference bar none
2008-12-01 09:45:54 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #19: interact
‘Transportation’ might be a strange word to describe a web conference, but for Webstock it’s a good fit. Plus on their way to Webstock: Jane McGonigal and Matt Jones
2008-05-30 11:30:00 // Hamish Coney
// Idealog #15: now
While most eyes turn to the Olympics, Dane Mitchell will be competing in Switzerland at the ‘Olympics of the art world’
2008-02-11 13:21:38 // Matt Cooney
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Congratulations to Webstock's organisers -- they've sold out. After missing the first Webstock and both Kiwi Foo Camps with unavoidable scheduling conflicts, I'm really looking forward to finally getting to a decent geekfest this week.
2007-11-09 11:28:20 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #12: now
Hats off to The New Dowse, which is demonstrating its multi-discipline exhibition policy with a show of millinery
