Catrin Owen
Freelance Journalist
Recently graduated from AUT's journalism undergraduate programme, Catrin has a unhealthy love of dogs, sun, beaches, and coffee. She's also Welsh and proud to let you know it.
Architecture Awards
Heritage, ‘hip’ hospo and houses – the 2015 Wellington Architecture Awards
From refurbished heritage buildings, cafes and Trade Me’s new office, the 2015 Wellington Architecture Awards showcased a snapshot of the Capital’s contemporary building design.
Social media
Tomato: the Kiwi app that helps you ketchup with friends
Meet the brains behind ‘Tomato’, the new social media application that helps you arrange business and social meetings by tracking friends’ locations in real time.
Film
Design Assembly is proud to present the nationwide premiere screening of Made You Look – a documentary about creativity in the digital age.
Living in the digital era where technology is been used for almost everything, DIY artists, designers and creatives have wondered how they would survive this new media era.
Design
Return to the Bloc
Furniture designer Tim Webber has been on the design scene for over five years, but opening a new retail space alongside artisan pet product company EightPaws is the next step to getting his furniture noticed.
Architecture/Design
A garden in the middle of your apartment building.
Changing the mindset of the population to want to live in the city centre isn’t easy but Union Green may just be doing this.
Art/Design
365 days of movie quotes you may have never heard of.
Incorporating beautiful typography with iconic film quotes, this Project365 account from illustrator and graphic artist Ian Simmons is a sight to behold
Fashion
Mirrors, drones and haute couture.
Jessica Minh Anh continues to make history with her innovative catwalks, this time she is transforming the award-winning solar power plant, Gemasolar in Spain into the world’s most innovative catwalk yet.
Fashion/Design
Kiwi designers breaking new ground in South East Asia
Ten Kiwi designers are making a place of their own in the competitive South East Asian market.
Design
Wellington collaboration sets scene for new event celebrating design
A reason for Wellingtonians to get excited about the local and New Zealand design scene.
