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DINZ Fellows 2006
Meet the new Fellow members...more »
Invitation to CPD Sustainable Slip Resistance Seminar
10 Nov 2008 Specifying non-slip tiles? Are you aware it can only take a few months of foot traffic and cleaning until the surface will no longer pass a slip ...more »
May Time Living - Invitation
10 Nov 2008 DINZ GOLD Sponsors - May Time Marketing would like to invite you to view their new Spring/Summer 09 collection at their Showroom at 10a Burrett Ave, ...more »
DINZ Articles and Media Links - new
3 Nov 2008 John Grant's presentation from DINZ National Design Conference 2008 ˜Sustainability and Imminent Change' John Grant was the international keynote ...more »
BeST Design Awards 2008 on Campbell Live
31 Oct 2008 Interviews with winners from the BeST Design Awards 2008. David Trubridge MDINZ talks about Spiral Islands (Product Gold Winner, Design Objects); ...more »
BeST Design Awards 2008 who were the winners
30 Oct 2008 The BeST Design Awards is the annual awards program presented by the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) celebrating the best work the design ...more »
Design in Business Outstanding Individual Achievement Award - Rick Wells
29 Oct 2008 This year, for the first time, at the Design in Business Awards 2008 a new award was introduced in recognition of an individual who had through their ...more »
Design in Business Awards Winners - METHVEN'S LUXURY TURNAROUND WINS DESIGN IN BUSINESS AWARD 2008
28 Oct 2008 Luxury shower and tapware manufacturer, Methven Limited, is the major winner of the Design in Business Award 2008, organised by the Designers ...more »
DINZ National Design Conference
10 Oct 2008 DINZ National Conference Day - Sustainability and Imminent Change Friday, 10th October 2008, Auckland War Memorial Museum (new southern end) Check ...more »
2009 World Class New Zealand Awards
9 Oct 2008 The Chair of Kea, Stephen Tindall, is calling for nominations for the 2009 World Class New Zealand Awards. The World Class New Zealand Awards ...more »
The Starter Home Design Competition
9 Oct 2008 The Starter Home Design Competition is closing soon. Entries are due by 19 November for open entries and 26 November for student entries. Make sure ...more »
Transcript of a conversation - Anais Ardid, Communications Designer
9 Oct 2008 Anaïs graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London in 2003. She worked in the UK and Spainish ...more »
NZ Student Craft/Design Award Winners Announced
9 Oct 2008 Wellington design students took a clean sweep at the 2008 NZ Student Craft/Design Awards, sponsored by TheNewDowse Friends. Genevieve Packer's entry ...more »
DINZ Sponsors of the BeST Design Awards Exhibition, Dulux are looking for a Dulux Colour Ambassador
1 Oct 2008 Spatial Students in Graduate Year or who have Graduated here is a GREAT Opportunity for you either in Napier, Palmerston North and ...more »
News Release from the office of Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard
24 Sep 2008 The Designers Institute of New Zealand is very pleased to announce the introduction of legislation to repeal the commissioning rule. The law change ...more »
DINZ Design Law: Intellectual Property-Managing and Commercialising your IP
12 Aug 2008 DINZ: Design Law presented by James Carnie, Principal, Clendons to TAURANGA - venue: Tauranga Club, Level 5, Devonport Towers, 72 Devonport Road, ...more »
DINZ: Design Skills, Life Cycle Tools and Approaches - Implementing change
29 Jul 2008 The 'Life Cycle Thinking' workshop series has been gaining momentum over the past two months, initially engaging participants in the process of Life ...more »
BeST Design Awards 2007 Commemorative Book
11 Jul 2008 The BeST Design Awards 2007 Commemorative Book has been delivered into studios. DINZ wishes to thnk Crowther-Blayne Publishers of the BeST Design ...more »
Commemorative BeST Design Awards 2007 e-Book
10 Jul 2008 can be viewed online on http://digital.crowtherblayne.com.au/?xml=dinz.xml DINZ wishes to thnk Crowther-Blayne Publishers of the BeST Design Awards ...more »
DINZ & Hothouse Design Skills: Life Cycle Thinking series
4 Jul 2008 The 'Life Cycle Thinking' series of workshops has been proposed by Locus Research and Unitec to provide a crucial bridge for the uptake of ...more »
DINZ Design Business Series: exclusive to DINZ Associate, Professional, Fellow Members only
3 Jul 2008 Building the Business Capability of DINZ Members Designed and delivered by WHK Business Growth This will be as two series. Series One is a half day ...more »
INNOVATIVE KIWI DESIGN ACQUIRED BY NEW YORK'S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
2 Jul 2008 New Zealand designers have once again proven that New Zealand design is world class with New Zealand designed Lomak, a computer product for the ...more »
Dyson Product Design Award - Winner & Finalists
2 Jul 2008 The 2008 Dyson Product Design Award winner was Alexander Wastney. Alexander is a 22 year old industrial designer working in New Plymouth. His ...more »
DINZ Design Skills: INNOVATIONZ: Can NZ Make It?
2 Jul 2008 Six views, six 10 minutes presentations from researchers, teachers and practitioners at the University of Auckland that show interim thoughts for ...more »
Winner 2007 Dyson Product Design Award Stephen Smith - UK firm invests in cool design
1 Jul 2008 A 24-year-old industrial design graduate from Greenhithe will start a five-year contract as an egineer at Dyson's Research and Design Centre in ...more »
Congratulations to Dulux for winning Green Gold
14 May 2008 Dulux New Zealand won Green Gold at the 10th Wellington Region Gold Awards for business excellence last week. The award recognises Dulux's ...more »
DINZ Design Talk - Cynthia E.Smith from Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
8 May 2008 Presented a lecture on Design for the Other 90% and the ways in which design plays an integral role in the lives of billions of people existing on ...more »
ICSID online DINZ members-only area is now live!
9 Apr 2008 ICSID is pleased to announce the launch of the DINZ members-only area of the website. As a priority of the 2007-2009 strategic plan, this new ...more »
Have YOU completed your Professional Profile on this website
10 Jan 2008 For those who are Professional Members, ensure you have put your Profile and Website on your own 'free' Professional Page " DINZ has up to 80,000 ...more »
Check DINZ CLASSIFIEDS for employment opportunities or spaces to rent
10 Jan 2008 To advertise, this service is free of charge for DINZ Members, charge applies to non-members. To enquire about placing an add in Classifieds section ...more »
Free Legal Advice for DINZ members
20 Dec 2007 DINZ Honorary solicitors, Clendons have offered legal advice to DINZ members at no charge. DINZ members are able to request a 15-minute Consultation ...more »
New Zealand Professor is recipient of international design award.
7 Dec 2007 Professor Hazel Gamec, founder and Academic Manager of the Wanganui School of Design, Wanganui, New Zealand, received the Icograda Educational Award ...more »
DINZ National Conference 5 October 2007 - to download the keynote presentation follow the link below
10 Oct 2007 ...more »
DINZ Christchurch Regional Committee
21 Aug 2007 DINZ has formed a Christchurch Regional Committee that will build and support the design community in Christchurch. David Lovegrove MDINZ, ...more »
ARE YOU A GREAT DESIGNER and want more people to know about it?
3 Jul 2007 Talk to DOCK STREET GROUP - the public relations specialists for the design industry. We've proudly worked with DINZ, the BeST Design Awards, and ...more »
DINZ Fellows 2006
Meet the new Fellow, Life and Honorary members
Fellows
"Professional member who has given especially meritorious or distinguished service to the Institute or its predecessor societies or the design profession."
Joy Were FDINZ
Peter Bromhead FDINZ
Peter Bromhead has a considerable history as a furniture designer, interior designer, contract furniture supplier, cartoonist, children's book writer /illustrator and film animator. He was awarded in the 2000 New Zealand Honours List and was awarded The Prince Hendrik Medal of Honour for his services to Danish Design in 2001. He has won 7 Qantas Media Awards. He is currently a Director of Bromhead Design, Graphenzo Publishing and Wooden Spoon Productions. He cartoons daily for The Dominion Post, The Marl Express and weekly for The Sunday Star Times and writes for The New Zealand Business Herald, Urbis and Simply You Magazines. In the recent 2006 Toronto Film Festival four of his Doodlebug animated cartoons were finalists. He is currently working on a number of design projects both locally and internationally. He represents Knoll International, USM, Magnus Olesen, PP Mobler and Louis Poulsen in New Zealand.
Harley Hansen FDINZ
Rob Cox FDINZ
Rob trained in Interior Design in London in 1975, and established a full time consultancy in Auckland which operated from 1979 to 1989. He then lectured in Interior Design at Unitec from 1989 to 2006. He continues his private client practice, now specialising in Residential work, providing design services in the areas of indoor and outdoor planning, colour, lighting, materials and style.
Ray Labone FDINZ
Ray trained as a graphic designer but in most of his recent career has focused on brand positioning and brand identity development. He was co-founder, managing partner and later Chairman of Designworks Group, the Australasian brand identity consultancy. Ray has advised many of New Zealand's largest corporates on brand positioning.
In 2002/3 Ray chaired the NZ Govt. Design Taskforce, that was formed under GIF, to develop a strategy for employing design for economic advantage. Currently he is entirely focused on carrying out design assessments and mentoring under the Better by Design programme.
He was a past Vice President of DINZ and has a strong belief in its role in gaining public and business recognition for design as a profession and in developing the standards and capabilities of design practitioners.
Neville Parker FDINZ
Leanne Beard FDINZ and Vice President DINZ.
Leanne has always strongly supported the Design Industry in New Zealand for over twenty years from the early days of the Industrial Design Society to the present day DINZ.
Leanne's commitment to the growth and professional development and recognition of the design profession in New Zealand is paramount in her contribution to the industry. Leanne has previously served on Council actively contributing to the growth and advancement of the membership. Leanne is and has been active in the CPD initiatives facilitating the spatial sector rumbles and representing DINZ with the Ministry of Economic Development in the formation of the Licenced Building Practitioners (LBP) Scheme. As a result the LBP committee was formed to ensure spatial designers were adequately represented at Government level to which Leanne has been a significant contributor on behalf of DINZ.
Leanne has represented DINZ in the Building Code Review panel and has been involved in the New Zealand Green Building Council workshops and seminars. Leanne has been a Judge for the Best Design Awards and the IES Lighting Design Awards.
Davis Smith FDINZ
Dorenda Britten FDINZ
