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Winners of the PANZ Book Design Awards 2018
From cookbooks to typography, here are the winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards 2018.
Meet the maker
Creative leaps: Tim Christie on the shift from graphic design to art
Tim Christie has done design and brand work for a range of clients, including RNZ, Invercargill and The Interislander. Now he's attempting to transfer some of those skills to the art world and is currently exhibiting his MONOMOKO series in the UK. He explains how it all happened.
Gratuitous self-promotion
Blunt + Generator + Idealog Blooming 'Brellas on sale now
Whether you're a selfish lover of design and want your own, or you're looking for a unique gift for family, friends, staff or clients, you'd better move fast and get yourself a Bonnie Brown's winning Blooming 'Brella. Only 300 of these beautiful things are being made, so if you want to secure yours, all you need to do is specify how many you want and then enter your payment and delivery details online. Once you've done that, the Blooming 'Brellas will be in your hot little hands by mid-September.
Waste transformation
From plastic tag to necklace: Remix Plastic transforms waste to art
Christchurch woman Anthea Madill has created Remix Plastic, a project that aims to confront the growing problem of plastic pollution. By setting up a small scale mobile recycling unit, Madill is able to create useful items, such as planters and jewellery, while educating others on the extent of the plastic waste problem.
Design for good
From seed to garment: Kowtow’s latest collection continues its sustainability journey
Wellington-based fashion label Kowtow is known for its high-design values alongside minimal, every-day basics. Gosia Piatek, founder, creative director and designer of Kowtow, talks about its sustainable flagship store, the new fabrics in its latest collection, and being inspired by art and design.
Design inspiration
Making the invisible visible: Patrick Godfrey and Scott Dadich on inclusivity, impostor syndrome and Abstract: The Art of Design
Ex-editor of Wired Scott Dadich and Patrick Godfrey are the co-chief executives and co-founders of Godfrey Dadich Partners, a strategy, design, and content firm headquartered in San Francisco and the main brains behind Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design. Elly Strang caught up with them in Sydney at Semi-Permanent to talk making design inclusive, the future of the tech sector, and more.
Taste the tech
'Digital' innovation: Giapo's wearable, edible tech
At Idealog, we regularly celebrate our community's brilliance. So as we did with our previous Lego Experiment and Log Experiment, for the just-released tech issue, we asked some of our favourite humans from the fields of art, VR/AR and hospitality to use technology to take their craft to new heights. This is an extremely (and purposefully) broad brief, but part of the fun is seeing what these talented folks come back with. Staples VR and Guangyu Li went to town on our cover and created a futuristic AR wonderland, and Giapo, the country's most innovative ice cream brand by some distance, decided to bring new meaning to the phrase wearable tech. Gianpaolo Grazioli explains why they went down this path.
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Elevator Pitch: Allbirds' Sugar Zeffers (WATCH)
Allbirds' co-founder Tim Brown stands awkwardly in an elevator and pitches his latest product, a comfortable, strong, customisable and carbon-negative jandal made from sugar cane.
Can you handle the jandal?
Caning it: Allbirds' Tim Brown on the launch of its new sustainable jandals, Sugar Zeffers
First there was a shoe made of merino in 2016. Then came shoes made of trees earlier this year. Now Allbirds has launched its latest comfortable, sustainable innovation: customisable jandals made from sugar cane. Co-founder Tim Brown tells Ben Fahy how the Sugar Zeffer range came about, how the SweetFoam material could make a dent in the environmentally unfriendly shoe universe and whether there will be any need for the classic bread-tag-to-fix-the-jandal-blow-out trick with this new range.
