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DINZ Design Talk - Dr Janis Birkeland - "Poor urban design is killing more people than terrorism" AKL&WLG, February 2009
17 Feb 2009 "Poor urban design is killing more people than terrorism"........ radical words from one of the world's leading thinkers on sustainable built ...more »
DINZ & Objectspace: DESIGNERS SPEAK - Showtell2: Out of the Ditch
13 Feb 2009 Australian and New Zealand designers talk about their practice, motivations and where they are going. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS EVENT & TO VIEW ...more »
Photo Gallery of Dulux BeST Design Awards 2008 Exhibition opening & Christmas Party held in Auckland 9th December
11 Dec 2008 To view photos click on the link below. ...more »
EECA Awards 2009 - Call for entries
9 Dec 2008 EECA IS ACCEPTING ENTRIES FOR THE EECA AWARDS 2009, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY 21 MAY IN AUCKLAND. The Awards feature New Zealand businesses ...more »
MOKUM @ Index - Dubai 2008
2 Dec 2008 Mokum, DINZ Silver Sponsor, is excited to participate in Index Dubai 2008. You can visit them at the Furn-niche stand #1E36. Mokum is a unique high ...more »
INNOVATIONZ - Design Goes Critical - a 'blog' by David Walker
27 Nov 2008 INNOVATIONZ hosted a DINZ event AFTER THE CRASH at the University of Auckland Business school on the evening of 19 November . The turn out was ...more »
TypeSHED11 - Wellington, 11-15 February 2009
24 Nov 2008 A five-day international typography symposium organised in collaboration with Typevents LLP. 11-15 February 2009 REGISTER NOW and don't miss ...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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 2008
"Professional member who has given especially meritorious or distinguished service to the Institute or its predecessor societies or the design profession."
Alasdair Hood FDINZ
Andrew Bissett FDINZ
Bina Klose FDINZ
Bryn Chapple FDINZ
Desna Jury FDINZ
Jennie Dunlop FDINZ
Jennie Dunlop (FDINZ) has been operating as a spatial designer in New Zealand since 1985. Projects, both residential and commerical, have been completed throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific. Jennie's projects have been featured in numerous interior design magazines and television. Jennie designed interiors on MS Itasca and Katana for Amercias Cup in 2000 and 2003.
Jennie has been an active member of the Designers Institute and regularly attended and supported their meetings, conferences, design events and promotions as well as mentored design students and graduates.
1985 - Society of Interior Designers, 1988 - Designers Institute - Interior Sector - Auckland Committee (approx 7 years), 1997 - Best Design Award - GPK Restaurant, 1999 - Guest Judge NKBA Design Awards, 2000 - Kitchen Design Award - Home Ideas Centre, 2003 - Judge - Best Design Awards
Jenny Green FDINZ
Jill Carroll FDINZ
Jill was a member of the Society of Interior Designers (before DINZ was formed). In 1991 organised trade seminar at Pembridge, worked on interiors sector committee, recruited sponsors for Designers Saturday and Best Design Awards and actively promoted DINZ to industry and designers through until this year.
Actively participated in 1994 DINZ conference at Waipuna Lodge, with approximately 150 delegates from the design community. In 1994 served on a committee for DINZ throughout year to organise events and meetings of interest to members.
Jill was Sponsorship Manager of the Best Design Awards 1995 which was staged at the New Art Gallery in Auckland. Also co-ordinated the public relations for this event.
Kate Alexander FDINZ
Director of the design business Studio Alexander; and Director of New Zealands online design store endemicworld.com Kate has design in her blood. She never even considered doing anything else. Graduating from AUT in 1997 she had several years in the industry earning her stripes before starting the design business Studio Alexander in September 1999, with her father Grant Alexander. In the past ten years Kate and Grant have built Studio Alexander to a humming team of twelve.
Kate has won several Best Design Awards, was the youngest elected professional member of the DINZ council, has been a judge of the Design Ambassador Awards and the Best Design Awards.
Kate took some time off at the end of 2007 to have her son Harry and is now the creative and marketing director for new venture endemicworld.com. and an active Director and creative mentor at Studio Alexander.Â
DINZ Life Members 2008
"Professional member who has given especially meritorious or distinguished service to the Institute or its predecessor societies or the design profession."
Alasdair Whye FDINZ
Geoff Hargreaves FDINZ
Harley Hansen FDINZ
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.
Peter Tasker FDINZ
Born 1952. Wellington School of Design through early 1970’s. Initial work experience in plastics and sheetmetal. Peter had a small wooden product manufacturing business for 5 years. Then a combination of Industrial Design consultancy and design licensing through to the present. Peter has lived in Auckland for the last 25 years and is married with one child.
New Zealand design influences have been Peter Haythornthwaite and Max Beachamp. Peter has been a member of the Industrial Design Association since the mid 80’s and a DINZ since it was incepted in 1991.
Peter has won the Stringer for Product at the BeST Design Awards in 1995.
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.