Category — New Zealand Designers

Best news all day. The Best Awards, for those of you who don’t know, are New Zealand’s annual design awards. From product design to student design to web design, this event celebrates the best work from New Zealand design companies.

But what makes the event so worth blogging about is Nuzilla is a finalist in the sustainable product category and endemicworld.com is a finalist in the web design category

WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

So BIG UPS to Nuzilla, go here to check out why they rule. And another BIG UPS to Studio Alexander for designing such a cool site for endemicworld.com

Kate Alexander, our designer, was last night accepted as a Fellow member of the Designers Institute of New Zealand.

There are only 32 Fellow members across New Zealand (from a total membership of 946).
Fellows cannot nominate themselves. They are selected by the membership for their special service to the Institute and the design profession. The Designers Institute represents professional designers in New Zealand.

You can see Kate speak about the ‘democratisation of ideas’ at the inaugural Design Assembly conversation evening on August the 27th.

Big ups Kate, now you can put FDINZ after your name!

Guy Bellerby Interview from endemicworld.com on Vimeo.

We ‘casually’ interviewed Guy Bellerby from Bellerby Clothing in the weekend. Thanks for having us Guy. Can’t wait to see the new range out on the people.

Don’t laugh at the production of our first designer interview… but do please share it, blog it, watch it, join us in spreading the word about New Zealand Designers and in the meantime we will practise our editing skills.

Let us know who you want interviewed… or just leave cheeky comments for Guy and the producer.

In the video Guy wears a new Rob Tucker Crew from his new 2008 range coming soon.

When you shop for great design products from New Zealand you can now meet the wonderful people behind the brands and discover their stories. What inspires them, likes and dislikes, how their brand and products came to life and links to thier own myspace and other community pages.

You can view all of the designer profiles here. Get to know the designers behind your favourite brands.

We will be featuring a New Zealand designer everyday on the homepage.

Studio Alexander went bowling last weekend and sent us some pictures of their hero performance. Thats right, designers by day, extreme bowlers by night. Ed poses for the neon shot of glory.

Next time your choosing a team building or staff bonding session, drop the high ropes and go dress up bowling. Neon poses and kissing pink ten pins will keep your workers happy…see! Its essential design career stuff.

Threaded Magazine launched Issue 5 last night. Thanks to Threaded for the Red Bull, wine and friendly atmosphere. This issue is themed “For the Love of it”. Threaded says “Hey, if you’re not doing it for the love of it, what on earth are you doing it for?” We couldn’t agree more. 12 hour days in front of your macbook would suck without love involved.

Once again its packed full of humming local talent. Art, Graphic Design, Fashion, Illustration…. you know the deal. Get one today…. and be cool.

Rachel Young has brought ancient origami and modern materials together to create Fold. Each product she hand-folds herself. A level of hands on skill that makes us all jealous. It also shows you can make wonderful products without laser cutting.

Her creations include bright coloured, strong, light-weight bowls and lamp shades. We are excited about having Fold as a new supplier at endemicworld.com and look forward to seeing what other origami inspired creations she designs in the future.

Meet Rachel and view her profile.

Check out her amazing origami bowls.

Leave a comment and tell Fold what you would like to see created using Origami folding techniques.