Posts from — September 2008

Found via Queensberry who found it on Brand Story who probably found it somewhere else…

This is a very cool short film. Some lessons for you marketers out there.

One of New Zealand’s most successful and fastest growing animation/cartoon studio’s mukpuddy was interviewed on TV2 last month. I forgot to post about it so here it is. Not just creative news but one of the illustrators “Xander” a.k.a Alex Leighton is the creator behind Geek Freeks with partner Karla Hansen.

If you did not see it on T.V its worth taking 5 to watch it. It makes you want to be a kid again.

NZ Design company Paradigm and maker of cool engolden yourself brooches and salvage billboard bags is a finalist at this years 2008 National Sustainable Business Awards.

Their graphic design business has been following sustainable business practices long before you could get awards for it. They also produce brooches from perspex off cuts and upcycle rubbished billboards into large shoulder bags.

Nice one Paradigm.

Today we welcome Valentin to endemicworld.com. Read more about Valentin here and check out his amazing ceramic stag heads. Made to order just for deer lovers…

Comma Dot Dogma gets reviewed in Urbis - Issue 46 just out. No New Zealand Art enthusiast should live without it.

The winners of the New Zealand ‘Design in Business Awards’ were announced last night in Auckland.

Dunedin based Tap and showerware company Methven took the top award. Highly commended was Christchurch’s AuCom Electronics and the worlds fastest growing accounting system Xero ( we use it and it rocks our accounting party).

The finalists were:
Amie Design Group - creator of Merino Kids, Pure Cotton Kids, Hum and Merino Pure.
phil&teds – NZ leaders in nursery products.
Sonar6 – the world’s only graphics-based employment management system.
Winegrowers of Ara – a global wine business.

Judge David Walker commented that these companies have shown that it is possible to successfully combine ‘left and right’ brain activities in business.

The awards were started in 1997 by the Designers Institute of New Zealand. The aim of the Design in Business Award is to celebrate New Zealand companies who have used and fostered design to develop more competitive products and businesses, and to establish a link between an investment in design and business growth.

Read more about the champions here

Just as well we didn’t enter….. we would have cleaned up for sure.

All keen shoppers this week automatically go in the draw to win an eclipse light shade by Tim Hunt. Super cool, super modern…. super. If you are not on our newsletter (see last weeks here) then make sure you and your friends sign up before October 10th because we are giving away a free worldwide shipping account to one lucky member, check out the details here.

The Whaling Ship is an underground online magazine about Auckland and its surrounding culture. Apart from the articles being undated and anonymous it actually has some good content about whats going on out there in the big smoke we call “AK”.

The article above, a short interview about Catalina Necklaces popped up the other day.

Today we welcome Rata & Ruby from Raglan and their selection of original organic cotton kids t-shirts. Sizes range from 3-9 months to 6 yrs with both boys and girls styles.

The natural environment surrounding Raglan clearly influences Nadine and her designs. Our favourites are the Aroha T-Shirt and Numbers Te Reo T-Shirt pictured above.

Lets your kids go organic this spring…

At endemicworld.com we do all sorts of stuff to make our work space fun. Lots of art, make paper toys, stick green tea packets all over the walls, take photos, crank the tunes, play hacky, share your favourite website, blog, drink loads of coffee and talk as fast as you can about the collest thing you just discovered…  These guys play with sticky notes. What do you do?

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

I am not a designer. But I like design and often wish I was, hence the creation of endemicworld.com and making some noise about nz design and nz designers.

I read about it, use it and our business is driven by it.

There are a billion trillion links to great design I could share but this presentation about web 2.0 is a start. Interesting to read whether you’re a web designer, a web user, or want to “ready steady learn” something in your lunch break today.

If you’re in New Zealand and want to meet and talk design check out Design Assembly - “Conversations on Graphic Design”. This is a niche event for those who work in the design business and want to help build a knowledgeable and information sharing community.

A loyal endemicworld.com fan sent us these photos of her in New York wearing her super fresh Kinoo Kiwi T-Shirt…

Peppermint magazine just launched and we have a bunch of free ones to give away. All customers will get one free with orders from today until midnight Friday, September 18th.

Peppermint is New Zealand’s and Australia’s first dedicated eco-fashion magazine. From eco-art competitions to the environmunter report and  how to make a hand bag from your old dress!

So get shopping and score your free hit of eco-fashion this week…

Spring is in the air, and Ruby in the Dust is giving away this Nice hand-embroidered badge made from a vintage baby bib with very naively-embroidered text.  Just go to her blog and leave a comment before Wednesday evening to win.  Good luck!