The Best Design Awards' Best Effects category showcases designs that go above and beyond, bringing a profitable outcome for the clients involved. Here's a

Everybody loves the ambience of a roaring fire, but not so much the immense pain that goes with it. Enter Firestarter.

DUB Pies has been educating Americans on the joys of Kiwi meat pies since 2003. After an initial run-in with the Feds, success has

Idealog picks some of its favourites from the prestigious awards.

Exploding books, extraordinary challenges, a clever cafe app, and other cool digi projects. Here's a look at the Interactive Marketing finalists in this year's

Equity crowdfunding – it’s big business and New Zealand appears to be very, very good at it. But is New Zealand the canary in

A Kiwi developer has answered the casting call of model agencies around the world with a seamless cloud-based platform for this fast-paced industry.

Born in NZ in 2009, Blunt umbrellas hit the overseas market a year later and then went Stateside. We ask the blunt question: how

There's no denying that we as a nation love black. The announcement of the finalists of this year's Best Design Awards revealed a familiar

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If you are a surfer, you may have hankered after a handcrafted surfboard tailored just for you? Graphic designer Jon Chapman-Smith has just that in

So you know how sometimes everything goes wrong? And then just when you think you can’t take any more bad news, other things that

A design student’s boot cleaning station may be key to fighting New Zealand’s killer kauri disease.

Just six months after putting its hand out in an equity crowdfunding campaign, PledgeMe is back at it again for round two. And this

Idealog takes a look at the heroes and the also-rans of this week's global crowdfunding milieu.

Idealog talks to three unique Kiwi businesses that have taken — or are in the process of taking — the big, stateside plunge, to

Ask any wannabe entrepreneur: in 2015, crowdfunding is where it’s at. The seeming golden ticket for a million would-be start-ups, crowdfunding seems to promise

As the $2.5bn-plus Square Kilometre Array project moves one baby-step closer to revealing the origins of the universe (well, maybe), New Zealand scientists and

The latest trials and triumphs of the Raglan Coconut Yoghurt start-up.

From now until August 4th the New Zealand Innovators Awards (NZIA) is looking for next wave of NZ organisations developing exciting new products or

Investing into early-stage internet, technology and design-led businesses, Lance Wigg’s Punakaiki fund first dipped their toes into public funding two years ago. That didn’t

For many New Zealanders, launching a business in Silicon Valley is the ultimate in brass rings – truly the stuff dreams are made of.

What do you do when banks sit back and twiddle their thumbs about loaning you money for your own kitchen? You come up with

Opinion: Ford may be following Tesla’s lead in opening its electric car tech patents to the world, but it can’t quite bring itself to

Who doesn’t want to see what the celebrities of New Zealand have for dinner? I, for one, am highly intrigued as to what Hilary

A look at the latest victories, frustrations and insights of the Raglan Coconut Yoghurt company.