Forget Instagram, a project by David Trubridge and Brancott Estate Wines is taking Kiwis #throwbackthursday to the world stage.It's no surprise that pioneer of
A New Zealand designer is designing furniture from recycled Chinese sailing junks, and selling his pieces all round the world.
‘Do what you love’ is a common refrain these days
With a crumbling Cathedral at its centre, the rebuild of Christchurch may appear to be no further ahead than when the Government released the
A New Zealand designer based in Southern China is selling furniture made from recycled Chinese sailing junks all round the world.
If you think tweeting your live response to a conference presentation and seeing it appear on screen is just so… 2013, then the emotion
It's wheely bad to fall off your bike and not get straight back on it. You should always recycle. Okay, terrible pun, but it leads nicely into
The Best Effect category of the Best Design Awards celebrates design that really works.Design, said Apple founder Steve Jobs, is not just what it
Junk and Disorderly is an I Spy picture book brought to life, a cavernous 140,000-square foot warehouse filled with, well, the past.
John MacDonald started out 50 years ago trying to take the dismal out of Kiwi retail. Now he’s designing stores from Dubai to Durham.
Talking life insurance is a sobering enough task, so why not lift the mood with splashes of bright yellow and peaceful blue hues? It's this and other
Tel Aviv designer Noa Raviv recently showcased a collection of breathtaking tulle and silk organza garments, inspired by the patterns that corrupted and distorted
A Wellington industrial design company has created a breed of railway safety screens for the electric train network that protect passers-by from being zapped,
What does is it take to successfully dress the nation? We speak to designers Juliette Hogan and Francis Hooper about the ins and outs
A harvester that converts vibrations from city traffic into electricity and handles that turn sticks into sophisticated tramping poles are among those that made
Collected junk from the ocean becomes this wonderfully speckled Sea Chair, in a clever design driven by Studio Swine.? The team at Studio Swine, together with Welsh
COMPETITION CLOSEDYou may have noticed the latest issue of Idealog? on the newsstands (or in your letter box if you're a subscriber, and for
Indesign magazine has named David Trubridge its 50th Luminary, as part of the architecture and design magazine's Luminaries series that honours "outstanding contributors to Australian design culture." The
A Victoria University lecturer has teamed up with a major international battery manufacturer to help solve the problems of kids getting horrible internal injuries
Fisher & Paykel's former electronics factory has made way for a $5.5 million renovation, unveiling a fancy and modern design centre for the appliance
Confirming that looks can be deceiving.? This chair may look like an angler fish morphed into a beautiful piece of furniture (just picture the pine corks as teeth), but
Timber is hero in this apartment design.A proposal for a six-storey apartment building with clever use of cross laminated timber has won S3 Architects the Akepiro Street competition,
??A bicycle goes eco (more than expected), a VIP room for Heineken gets greenlit, and a New Zealand Opera poster shows flower power. These
Flicking through Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War ($49.99, from Te Papa Press) is like taking a peek into
More than 100,000 ceramic poppies, every one of them handmade, have been installed around England's Tower of London, to commemorate 100 years since Britain entered the first world
The trend of pop up retail continues to live on but remains daunting to many small businesses, faced with leasing agreements and hefty overhead