If your short of activities during the long weekend why not download the pimp my paper cardbot from spicers paper’s latest promo and get creative. Short on ideas? Drink and draw… Have a super weekend everyone and thanks for reading our blog and supporting NZ Design
The winners of the New Zealand ‘Design in Business Awards’ were announced last night in Auckland. Dunedin based Tap and showerware company Methven took the top award. Highly commended was Christchurch’s AuCom Electronics and the worlds fastest growing accounting system Xero ( we use it and it rocks our accounting party). The finalists were: Amie […]
I was lucky enough to attend the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise ‘sustainable design for the bottom line’ conference on Monday in Auckland. one word – mind blowing. 12 sustainable business leaders spoke about their dream of what the world ‘could’ and ‘should’ look like if we all decided to take this ‘sustainable’ business challenge […]
Best news all day. The Best Awards, for those of you who don’t know, are New Zealand’s annual design awards. From product design to student design to web design, this event celebrates the best work from New Zealand design companies. But what makes the event so worth blogging about is Nuzilla is a finalist in […]
Reminder to all those going to Design Assembly tomorrow night… Doors open 6.30pm and speakers start at 7pm. Some super cool prizes provided by the sposners too, so see you there bright and sparky.
Mai Farm Naturally has come about from the 100 year centenary of the Mai Family. The organic milk and beef farm is in the Beautiful Pohangina Valley. The festival will comprise of natural and organic stalls, live musicians, fire performers and wandering stilt artists, holistic healers, organic water, organic coffee, natural foods and a childrens […]
Aaron Kreisler, man of the moment, curator at Dunedin Public Art Gallery and editor of Comma Dot Dogma is a finalist in the Montana NZ Book Awards, illustrative category. We wish him the best of luck (not that he needs it because he’ll win). You can buy it here and check out the art here
Semi-Permanent 2008 (a design event) is on in Auckland during August 15th-16th. Idealog Magazine is right behind it and have a cool competition going for Rookie Designers. If you consider yourself a rookie designer Idealog want you to submit/create a visual explosion representing Idealog. Winner is crowned Idealog Rookie Designer of the Year plus heaps […]
