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.
2012-04-16 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
// 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.
2012-02-09 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.
