Posts from — June 2008

Staff member Anthony, dropped in his Design Your Own Vans entry today at C4tv. Lets hope he wins the trip to L.A to see a huge skate competition and get his shoes made at Vans. The competition closes tonight, so if you think you can design a pair of shoes in a day give it a crack.

Designed by Anthony - “Show Me The Money”

Free national shipping for one week only. Offer ends midnight July 1st.

All orders are shipped by tracked courier to your door.

Commandshift3 is a website where you vote for your favourite website based on design only. Two sites appear on your screen as snapshots, you simply click on the one you like the most, two more are shown, you vote again, and it goes on forever. They call it a battle.

Whether you need some inspiration for your next site, or just want to see the best and worst as voted by visitors, or just pass 5 minutes. We submitted endemicworld.com about 4 months ago. There were about 5000 sites back then. Now there are over 13000.

So to brag just a little, we think our site rules, and so do the users on commmandshift3. They even think its #5 in New Zealand. So check it out, if our site goes into battle with another….you know who to vote for.

endemicworld.com was designed by Studio Alexander. They rule, thanks SA.

I don’t really know what to say after watching this. The statistics are quite disturbing, the message is very compelling… but I posted it because of the creative way in which Chris Jordon has presented the statistics.

TED is amazing, sign up to the pod casts and you will never watch TV again…

Congratulations to Sarah from Wellington, the winner of the $150 voucher we had up for grabs….wahoooo.

Thanks again to our members for supporting nz design…. more competitions coming soon!

This weeks special we are knocking 25% off all headwear (23 styles and colours). Its your chance to get a sweet ICA beanie for winter or grab a Limited Edition Bellerby hat for cheapness.

The sale begins today and ends midnight Wednesday 25th June…

Kate wears a white Paranoid Knit ICA Beanie in the picture above. Its made with 100% super soft, anti itch acrylic. One size fits all.

The African Odyssey successfully premiered in Whakatane two weeks ago with three sell out shows. The riders have since planned premier screenings in Auckland and Wellington.

Auckland Premier
Tuesday July 1st and Wednesday July 2nd.
Academy Theatre 6pm (tickets - 09 373 2761)

Wellington Premier
Sunday July 13th
Paramount Theatre 6pm (tickets available at endemicworld.com)

They have produced a stunning DVD too.

More information at africanodyssey

This week only we are giving away a Talking Heads Kitchen Towel designed by Nuzilla when you spend over $40 (incl. shipping) They are worth $15 if you buy them separately so take advantage of this great offer. Buy something for yourself and get this cool kiwi gift for your friends and/or family.

Check out the Nuzilla Profile or view all of their products.

Keep an eye out for more weekly specials. We will post new ones on the blog each week.

Big companies are jumping on “ART” as the new cool by inviting design submissions. Nike did it, Vans are doing it and so are Dr Martins. So get out your pens and pencils (or photoshop on your mac of course) and start designing. Would be cool if someone from New Zealand won. Its Aussies vs Kiwi’s on this one.

Check out our “Kiwi Boot” below.

This was spotted by Kate on a trip to Lyttelton, Christchurch. If this monster cardboard robot is yours….nice work and keep it up. Hopefully this inspires you all to look at and use cardboard differently.

This week we feature The Stitches. Underground t-shirts designed by George Goldsack and Simon Bayliss. Models Tobias and Angie show off their “Last Call for Regrets” and “Like a Thief in the Night” T-shirts.

These prints are limited edition of 7 in each size. endemicworld.com is the exclusive online retailer for The Stitches. Do you already own some of The Stitches? Send us a photo for our flickr gallery and facebook fan page so other members can see your style.

See the profile of The Stitches here

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

A great idea and creatively put together. Nice one carrotmob.

Visit there site, its banned in China.

Photographed by Bob Nelson in the streets of Italy recently. An old art form with a new canvas. Now known as auto-decoupage. Without the varnish and the bad scissor finish. What would Man Ray have done with a Hummer?

Today New Zealand hosts World Environment Day. So today we show off all of the products and designers who incorporate sustainable features.

Kowtow is a certified organic fairtrade cotton streetwear business form Wellington.

Paradigm is a creative studio who produce carry bags from billboards and brooches from waste perspex.

Ooid collect design submissions for their range of oragnic cotton bags.

Jo Muir is a New Zealand homeware designer producing hemp cushions, with natural dye prints and filled with pure wool.

Kinoo has just launched with a range of baby and kids clothing made from a bamboo/cotton mix fabric.

Ruby in the Dust make plush toys from upcycled fabric offcuts.

Sweatpea Home make pluch toys form upcycled fabric offcuts.

Here are some of the things we do to operate sustainably.

Make everyday an environment day and mother nature will love you back.

Spotted recently in Mangarakau, at the southern end of the Whanganui Inlet. A Trophy worth winning. The thought of having this on top of my fridge would focus my mind on winning at Pool, Darts, Bowls and Table Tennis.