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.
2013-03-12 15:37:11 // Esther Goh
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Spaceworks owner Lizzi Hines is a sharp designer with commercial nous. She has previously been a finalist in both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Westpac Business Leadership Awards, and Spaceworks itself has picked up several awards of its own for various projects.
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.
2013-02-07 09:46:57
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Faceture artist Phil Cuttance on his unique and cheap crafting process, inspiration, and the myth of spare time.
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.
2012-12-14 14:51:27
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Getting a fashion label off the ground is hard graft, and designer Ingrid Starnes has cleared more than a few hurdles.
2012-12-13 16:50:58 // Nina Siegler
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Industrial design graduate Ruth Mitchener has won a slew of awards for her endeavours. After nine months in Paris gathering inspiration, she's opening up the creative gates.
2012-11-16 11:57:59 // Esther Goh
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With a background in design and production, newcomer Dan Gillingham's furniture turns its back on a genre of easy-come easy-go and looks to a bygone era, when a furniture maker was a craftsman not a production line.
2012-11-09 14:31:36 // Esther Goh
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Her family's been in the jewellery business for decades, but Nikki Partridge only recently turned her hand to designing her own unique range, Halo – fronted by Gin Wigmore.
2012-11-02 12:19:40 // Esther Goh
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Jane Russo, aka Designjane, harbours secret fantasies about breeding unicorns and secret agenthood.
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 16:12:15 // Esther Goh
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From purveyor of junk mail to soul-sucking agency work, Jason Lingard has finally found his calling in fashion design.
2012-10-18 16:45:36 // Esther Goh
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Furniture designer Warren Twisleton is all about comfort and relaxation – a philosophy that extends into the pieces he creates.
2012-10-08 13:08:46 // Esther Goh
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Jonathan Barnbrook is one of the six headliners speaking at We Can Create on October 27. Design isn't just about making the world a prettier place, he reckons, but a better place in which to live.
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.
2012-09-14 13:17:36 // Esther Goh
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Thomas and Martin Poschauko are heading down under for We Can Create in Auckland next month. They're itching to see our fine country, but in the meantime, they indulged our curiosity into their working lives as creatives...
2012-09-07 16:01:33 // Esther Goh
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Adbusters is one of the six speakers on the bill at We Can Create in Auckland next month. Pedro Inoue shares a few insights into his working life.
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.
2012-07-13 12:34:14 // Esther Goh
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Photographer Jake Morgan can also guide you through this newfangled age of digital media. And he brews up an excellent pot of tea.
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.
2012-07-06 15:28:44 // Esther Goh
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Tinch Design's Helen Riley-Duddin dishes on keeping the creative juices flowing and growing a small business.
2012-06-29 13:09:02 // Esther Goh
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Cleo Barnett is an organiser extraordinaire of community art events (such as First Thursdays) and believes in the intersection between creativity and commerce.
2012-06-25 15:45:43 // Esther Goh
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Graphic designer Amy Potter often finds inspiration on the way to work – so don't be surprised if you see her walking along while frantically scribbling in a notebook.
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
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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.
2012-04-16 15:33:58 // Esther Goh
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Jake Burdess spends his days colouring between the lines and the rest of his time on his own new venture Startup Tartup.
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.
2012-03-30 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.
2012-03-29 13:39:34 // Hilary Jackson
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Rush Digital Interactive is doing big things. What can we expect next from them – and what advice have they got for fellow game developers?
2012-03-09 13:37:42
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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.
2012-02-09 16:26:17 // Esther Goh
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Designer Nicola Cumming starts and ends her day with a walk in the orchard with her animals.
2012-02-07 15:09:39 // Esther Goh
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Richard Miles doesn't like wanky business titles but has a weakness for whitebait and TradeMe.
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.
2011-12-06 14:48:33 // Esther Goh
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There's a little bit of voyeur in all of us – and online platform TheLimner satisfies those urges beautifully with a sneak peek into the work and workspaces of all kinds of interesting people.
2011-12-05 16:45:01 // Esther Goh
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Yes, it's early in the week, but the best thing we've seen this week are these posters designed by Nuno Filipe Miranda capturing gems of wisdom uttered by the likes of Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford and Steve Jobs.
2011-02-17 12:29:08 // Rebekah White
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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
2006-10-24 01:00:00 // David MacGregor
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| 2 comments "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
I heard that on the same radio broadcast today that Jason Kemp blogged about in the previous post. When Dennis Dutton confessed, grudgingly, that it was most sensible thing he could find on the subject of happiness I felt the cringe of an academic admitting that a lay person had aced Socrates and Plato - the author of the quote was Dale Carnegie author of How to have friends and influence people.
