Tag Archives: Product Design

Bio 22 Gold for Sky Planter

October 28th, 2010
New Zea­l­and product design recog­nised at Bien­nial of Indus­trial Design. It's a long way to Slov­e­nia, but it was worth the trip for the Sky Planter inver­ted plant pot — one of three products to pick up a gold medal at BIO 22. The Bien­nial of Indus­trial Design (known also by its Slov­ene acronym BIO) for forty-five years been present­ing con­tem­por­ary [...]
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Best Design Awards 2010: Black and Purple Pins

October 1st, 2010
A post-match report from the Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and Best Design Awards, with details and images of Black and Purple Pin-winning pro­jects. By Michael Bar­rett. The format for this year's awards shif­ted from last year. Gone were the Stringer Awards for over­all excel­lence in par­tic­u­lar design genres (graphic, spa­tial, product and, new this year, [...]
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Wake­board Bind­ing Wins Dyson

July 23rd, 2010
Julian Schloe­mer, a 23 year old indus­trial design gradu­ate from Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity, last night picked up the James Dyson Award for emer­ging product design. His inven­tion, Lucid, aims to reduce the incid­ence of wake­board­ing injur­ies, which are on ACC’s list of top ten adven­ture sport claims in New Zealand. “I’ve exper­i­enced a knee injury from wake­board­ing, which is [...]
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Gal­lery: Kat­rin Sonnleitner

July 13th, 2010
While we're on the build up to Semi-Permanent, it's worth men­tion­ing the works of Ger­man fur­niture designer Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner. They are, you'd have to agree, quite some­thing else — a clever mix­ture of humour with light fancy — and worthy of a gal­lery spot in their own right. I'll spare you Sonnleitner's bio­graphy (you can read that here); let's just enjoy [...]
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She'll Be Right, M8

June 11th, 2010
Howard Wright wins top Aus­tralian Inter­na­tional Design Award with M8 med­ical bed. Howard Wright’s M8 crit­ical care med­ical bed has won its fourth design award by win­ning the top award at the Aus­tralian Inter­na­tional Design Awards on Fri­day, June 4. To date, the M8 has also won the pres­ti­gi­ous inter­na­tional iF design award, a Red Dot design award [...]
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James Dyson Awards 2010

May 11th, 2010
Organ­isers of the 2010 James Dyson Award, now in its tenth year, are remind­ing stu­dents or gradu­ates of design study­ing in the areas of design, tech­no­logy or engin­eer­ing to sub­mit their product designs soon. Brett Avery of Dyson in New Zea­l­and, says regis­tra­tions will close on Thursday 1 July 2010. Entry details here. “We encour­age all [...]
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Cover Story: Issue 104

January 26th, 2010
The Penny Drops Will this buzzy bike, one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best inven­tions of 2009, become a Kiwi icon? Words Michael Smythe. From ProDesign issue 104, with addi­tional images. It’s unlikely that a focus group ever said, “Bring back the penny farth­ing!” But it’s that flash of recog­ni­tion that puts instant smiles on turned heads when a Yike [...]
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