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 CLOSED You 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
Brothers Jake and Patrick Morris of Boskke first denied the naysayers by growing plants upside down. Now the designers are once again deconstructing the
Earlier this year, the guys from Y.S Collective went from designing retail collections to focusing on bespoke and commercial furniture. Sometimes the public get lucky when
As design director of Augusto, Emma Rogan has to be creative every working day. She's constantly looking for inspiration and came across Yale School of Art professor
Grant Difford, founder and creative director of Waking Giants, asks why good professional practice is lacking in the latest pool of design graduates.
Scenario has made a World Cup poster that has deep, deep meaning, in an obsessive way that true football fans will appreciate. It created 64 individually