2011-12-20 15:35:21 // Siobhan Leathley
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Chimerical Conundrums might sound like something out of a science journal, but in fact it's a collection by fashion designer Fiona Clements.
2011-11-30 18:22:03 // Idealog
The designers behind Kiwi fashion label Nyne have been bestowed with the DHL Express Fashion Export Scholarship for 2011, after making an unsuccessful bid last year.
2011-09-07 11:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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We don’t often feature fashion on this blog, but this was too funny to pass up. In this film clip from 'Pathetone Weekly', which featured news erring on the side of “the novel, the amusing and the strange”, fashion designers from the 30s were asked to predict what clothing would look like in Year 2000. There’s some crazy hair styles, the prospect of skirts disappearing forever and an electric belt that can be adapted to suit the climate.
2011-02-24 09:23:36 // Florence Noble
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Illicit can’t seem to catch a break: from
the suicide of brilliant co-founder Martin
Emond, the pillaging of its work by pop stars
and rip-off artists, to the failure of its US
partners. So the 15-year-old fashion label
and K’ Road institution found a new voice
and a new hip-hop market, though the joke,
says Steve Hodge, remains the same. Now
the US is calling again. By Florence Noble
2010-12-06 16:14:58 // Design Daily Team
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Written and directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, 'Influencers: How trends & creativity become contagious', looks at how influential creatives in New York—from the realms of advertising, design, fashion and entertainment—are shaping today's pop culture. Watch it here.
2010-11-15 13:17:05 // Design Daily Team
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Ever wanted to know how to light up your clothing? Make an inflatable dress? Transform card into an interactive creature? Develop a game or commercial application? Shoot, publish and stream videos using your smart phone? Or learn about Motion Capture or Virtual Reality and what you can do with it?
2010-11-08 12:28:42 // Design Daily Team
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Take the creative juices of a design industry veteran and add a splash of modern rock, and what do you get? ‘MAKE SOMETHING’—a creative, genre-defining mash-up, which creeps beyond regular commercial boundaries.
2010-11-05 06:00:00 // Lynda Brendish
// Idealog #30: now
Online magazine Coup de Main started out as an amusement between friends. A year and a half later, it’s a thriving business.
2010-09-24 06:00:00 // Ulrika Hedquist
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Glenn Jones’ t-shirt designs are designed in Auckland, printed in Texas and popular all over the internet. Ulrika Hedquist tracks the success of Glennz Tees.
2010-09-21 09:27:22 // Design Daily Team
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You have to see this one for yourself. Clothing you can literally spray on? Why not? Fabrication technology is just around the corner from being made readily available, but its uses extend beyond just the body beautiful.
2010-07-29 10:25:55 // Design Daily Team
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This year marks the 22nd year of the Montana World of WearableArt Awards Show (WOW). The world-renowned design and art event has been attracting ever-growing interest and amazing works of art from across the globe for some time now, and this year's show will showcase 191 finalists from more than 300 entrants from all over New Zealand and the world.
2010-07-15 12:10:57 // Amanda Cropp
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Talk about turning the corner: a major illness turned hairdresser Rebecca Herring into an artist and then a fashion designer. By Amanda Cropp.
2010-07-07 16:42:25
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With just over six weeks to go until this year’s Semi-Permanent event, we’re giving you a taster of what you’re in for by profiling a different speaker each week. This week, it’s the duo of Karen Walker and Mikhail Gherman.
2010-07-02 10:54:02 // Design Daily Team
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Jenny Holzer has been plastering cities with all kinds of words - truisms, snippets of poetry, even declassified Abu Ghraib documents - for nearly 40 years. She started papering New York city with posters in the '70s, and since then has moved on to LED art and xenon projections onto landmarks and buildings all over the world.
2010-07-01 17:30:32 // Hadyn Green
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The sneaker. It’s a cheap canvas shoe with a cheap rubber sole—or at least it used to be.
2010-07-01 15:49:42
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This is cool. The Blind Project helps women who have escaped the sex trade in Southeast Asia by selling t-shirts with designs inspired by survivor stories, and funnels profits back to the women involved.
The project is currently calling for submissions for t-shirt designs through their "open-source" Be a biographer initiative
2009-09-04 13:28:52 // Felicity Monk
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He took Bendon from a knickerwear manufacturer to a global lingerie brand; she holed up in a Wellington yoga studio before deciding it was time to join the ‘real world’. Felicity Monk asks how Stefan Preston made the leap from Stella McCartney to Jyoti Morningstar, and how Morningstar moved from teaching yoga to launching an ambitious fashion eco-label.
2009-08-17 08:35:01 // Deirdre Robert
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We can’t help but love Alexia Sinclair’s stunning work. We discussed childhood loves and her plans for world domination.
2009-07-02 08:48:31 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Alexia Sinclair’s digital art is part fashion, part montage, part tribute and totally original. Whether her subject is an artistic depiction of Cleopatra or a commission for Canon, the Sydney-based artist combines her unique artistic eye with virtuoso digital skills. And in mid-August she’ll be in Auckland for Semi-Permanent ’09.
2009-06-30 10:47:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Semi-Permanent must be due a name change. Back in 2009 for its sixth year, the landmark New Zealand design event is positively durable. It could also be called the granddaddy of a new wave of creative Kiwi events.
2009-06-12 09:31:19 // Simon Young
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Simon Young speaks with Dr. Leah Buechley, keynote speaker at Co-Lab’s recent Creating Technologies Conference, about the blending of technology and fashion, empowering girls to work in tech, and the reinvention of manufacturing.
2009-06-06 17:07:46 // Simon Young
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From squealing t-shirts to flashing cycle gear, there's a lot going on in the world of paper, scissors, glue ... and microprocessors. And it's not just fun, crafty stuff either. Find out the very serious implications this creative technology has for business.
2006-07-06 00:00:00 // Eleanor Black
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Tanya Thompson’s transformation from ‘waif-like graffiti artist to mini-corporate’ has some predicting that it’s just a matter of time until she has her own fashion empire. Thompson—better known as Misery—is turning her cute-but-creepy creations into a global business. By Eleanor Black
