Category — NZ Design

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…

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.

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…

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.