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Social Enterprise
Design with a purpose? Massey moves to make its mark
A new initiative from Massey University is focusing on design projects for the public good. Has the moment come for social enterprise design?
Best Design Awards
Design odyssey: Head of Philips Lighting on best designs, co-creation and kiwi ingenuity
Head of design at Philips Lighting, Pierre-Yves Panis sees design potential via the Best Awards.
Idealog + Insight Creative
How design helped drive the drug debate
The New Zealand Drug Foundation believes that the way we currently deal with drugs doesn’t work for Māori and that our criminal justice approach to minor offences causes more harm to those caught up in it than drug use itself. A series of hui was established to discuss the issue with the community most affected, so it created a brand, marketed these events and helped draw some bigger than expected crowds.
Best Design Awards
Best Design finalists announced. We pick our five favs from ... Graphic design!
The Best Design Awards finalists were announced this week. And because there's too many finalists to list (or even cover in a meaningful way), we decided to give you our picks from each category. Next up: Graphic design.
Best Design Awards
Best Design finalists announced. We pick our five favs from ... Product design!
The Best Design Awards finalists were announced this week. And because there's too many finalists to list or even cover in a meaningful way, we decided to give you our picks from each category. First up: Product.
Check, mate
Four Kings One War: Double the chess, double the fun?
A Kiwi inventor is trying to capture half a million dollars to bring his new chess variant to the masses. Can he checkmate the market, and centuries of chess tradition?
Density density density
Fighting for change
Change gets in the way of the status quo. It makes people unhappy as they fear what they’ll lose without seeing what they might gain. It takes a leap of faith to embrace change and celebrate it.
Unboring
Orcon and Blunt add some beauty to necessity with designer products
Orcon has given the humble modem a makeover with the help of a selection of Kiwi artists and it's also raining design at Blunt, which has worked with a couple of Kiwi fashion brands to create special umbrellas for New Zealand Fashion Week.
Handy as
Water, water not everywhere with new NZ-designed waterproof hoodie
Soggy wool meets its worst nightmare in a waterproof hoodie.
