Out and about
Recap: The Idealog Pop-Up Magazine - Design Edition
We'd like to think we have good taste. You'd like to think you have good taste. And, it turns out, those two things helped make the Idealog Design Event a success.
Umbrella Experiment
The Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment: The top 10 People’s Choice winners
Did you enter (and/or vote!) in the Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment? Good on you. The four finalists and People’s Choice winner will be announced in early April when our Design Issue debuts. But everyone hates waiting. So here are the top 10 People’s Choice winners.
Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment
VOTE NOW: the Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment
The entry deadline for the Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment is February 28. But don't forget to vote for your favourite designs, too.
Umbrella Experiment
VOTING ENDS TONIGHT - let your voice be heard in the Idealog + Blunt + Generator Umbrella Experiment
We've had a whole heap of great (and not-so-great) entries for our crowd-sourced Umbrella Experiment with Blunt and Generator. However, since we were overwhelmed with awesome entries and admittedly battled a few technical bugs, we've extended the People's Choice voting through this weekend (until 11.59pm Monday NZDT to be precise).
Raining Red (Peak)
Earlier this week, I felt like a sucker. Chatting with a colleague at the coffee machine, I asked if he’d seen the Red Peak umbrellas Blunt were making.
Technology
Location, location, location: Blunt's unloseable umbrella, personal tracking and the law of unintended consequences
Blunt – the Kiwi makers of “The World’s Best umbrellas” – have paired up with Tile, the location-tracking device from Silicon Valley, to produce the first “unlosable umbrella”. Does this mean it’s less cursing and frustration on a rainy day, or just another thing that’s wirelessly tethering you?
