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Diary Note

Design­ers Speak — The Big Sell March 23 Auckland A retail theme for the next in the Designer's Speak series: War­ren and Mahoney: Gareth Hus­ton Title: Bright knits, a big idea and the art of retail Space Stu­dio: Vee Smit Title: Lingerie for the masses – design­ing for cul­tural diversity in remote loc­a­tions Sound­bite: Design­ing lingerie stores for inter­na­tional rol­lout [...]
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Col­our Awards

The win­ners final­ists (sorry, my mis­take, you haven't won yet…) of the recent Dulux col­our awards have been announced, and it is our pleas­ure to bring you a few shots of New Zea­l­and pro­jects in this Aus­tralasian com­pet­i­tion, and, in par­tic­u­lar, those from the Com­mer­cial Exter­ior and Interior cat­egor­ies, and also the Sus­tain­able Interior category. Com­mer­cial [...]
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Intel­li­gent Mobility

Elec­trolux has opened invit­a­tions for its Design Lab 2011, a design com­pet­i­tion for Kiwi indus­trial design stu­dents and recent gradu­ates of indus­trial design to com­pete for a six-month paid global intern­ship and cash prizes by sub­mit­ting ideas that con­sider intel­li­gent mobil­ity. This year, the com­pany says it is upping the ante for New Zea­l­and stu­dents by extend­ing [...]
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Chch Cre­at­ive Collective

chchcreative.co.nz – a new web­site show­cas­ing the tal­ents of Christchurch's self-employed cre­at­ives affected by the earthquake. This just in from Christchurch: Christ­ch­urch has a wealth of tal­en­ted and hard-working freel­ance cre­at­ives. Due to the earth­quake on Feb­ru­ary 22nd, work flow is at a stand still as local cli­ents focus on re-establishing their busi­nesses. People around the coun­try have asked the [...]
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It's Pretty Nuts…

As the dust slowly clears in Christ­ch­urch, some folk's thoughts are start­ing to turn back to busi­ness, and there is quite a pre­dic­a­ment facing those in the busi­ness of design in the city. All types of busi­nesses are going to take a hit, but it seems inev­it­able that the city's small– and medium-sized firms, which often depend [...]
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The Shirt Fits

Fol­low­ing on from our last post, design firm DNA has also chipped in with a pos­it­ive way to raise money for Christchurch. The design firm has released a range of t-shirts with all pro­ceeds from sales going to the NZ Red Cross 2011 Earth­quake Appeal. Shirts are avail­able in black or white, in men’s and women’s sizes. [...]
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Christ­ch­urch Help

There seems to be a bit of a brouhaha brew­ing over here about how design­ers – or any­one for that mat­ter – can offer help to those that need it in Christchurch. Opt­ing for actions over words, bka inter­act­ive has devised a prac­tical way for busi­nesses who need help in Christ­ch­urch to get it, and busi­nesses who can offer help to do [...]
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Pop­ping Up in Wellington

Australian-based designer Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain is pop­ping up at a new pop up show­room in Wel­ling­ton tonight. The designer, who is rep­res­en­ted by UFL in NZ, is the founder of Derlot, and an enter­tain­ing speaker in his own right. UFl dir­ector Madeleine Reesby says that tonight the deisgner "will share his exper­i­ences in sus­tain­ab­il­ity and social equal­ity [...]
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Bet­ter by Design: The Movie

Seats were lim­ited at last year's Bet­ter by Design CEO Sum­mit. Hap­pily, the good folks at BBD believe in egal­it­arian notion of free­dom of inform­a­tion, which means you can now watch videos of selec­ted speak­ers at the event over here.
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Not Your Brand, Theirs!

Resn's Andy Wil­li­ams is the only New Zea­l­and mem­ber of SoDA (Soci­ety of Digital Agen­cies) and is a con­trib­utor to that institute's latest report – the Digital Mar­ket­ing Out­look 2011, released today. That report – free to good homes – can be down­loaded here. The Digital Mar­ket­ing Out­look 2011 com­prises a sur­vey of 600-plus mar­keters, agen­cies and tech­no­lo­gists; art­icles and case stud­ies from [...]
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