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DINZ Fellows 2006

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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 »

BeST Design Awards 2008 Ceremony 10th October

10 Oct 2008 Don't forget to book your tickets to the BeST Design Awards 2008. The BeST Design Awards is the annual awards program presented by the Designers ...more »

News Release from the office of Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard - Commissioning rule to be repealed and parody/satire review announced

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 Sponsors of the BeST Design Awards Exhibition, Dulux are looking for a Dulux Colour Ambassador

23 Sep 2008 Spatial Students in Graduate Year or who have Graduated here is a GREAT Opportunity for you either in Napier, Palmerston North and ...more »

Design in Business Outstanding Individual Achievement Award - Rick Wells

22 Sep 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

22 Sep 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 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 »

B-complete publication

28 Jul 2008 B-complete publication, new book-a-zine called b-complete will be out mid September. B-complete will be distributed to all members of DINZ. Each ...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 »

The Pond. Unique. Innovative. And now a Platinum sponsor.

8 Jul 2008 The Pond, best known for its award-winning �Writer's Block', has come on board as a DINZ Platinum sponsor. The Pond is a team of creative consultants ...more »

Artist, prankster, streaker? Guerilla marketer joins The Pond.

8 Jul 2008 Looking to grab attention with thinking a little outside the traditional media square? Check out the work of new Pond member, Hadleigh Averill. The ...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 »

HOME New Zealand Designer of the Year Awards 2008

10 Apr 2008 As part of Eon's ethos to actively promote New Zealand design, we partnered with HOME New Zealand magazine to host their Designer of the Year Awards. ...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 »

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 »

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 »

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 honours its members at the AGM

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."

John, and his then business partner Colin Martin, formed Martin Hughes and were the first company some 30 odd years ago to introduce fees as part of the interior design profession. John has long been active within the institute and keeps raising the awareness that we should, as designers, refer to the institute as the Designers Institute and not DINZ as we are apt to do. His rationale is that it reinforces that there is an institute for designers and not just another acronym that very few understand the meaning of. John's passion for design and the arts has seen him build a significant interior design company where each year his team successfully takes home awards at the BeST Design Awards. John was awarded the Outstanding Achievment Award at the BeST Design Awards in 1999.

David has made a long standing commitment to DINZ over many years. He has been on the BeST Design Awards committee 1996 to 1998. David was Secretary of the Designers Institute for four years and judged spatial for the 2003 BeST Design Awards. Nearly nine years ago he started Ellery Muir and with that David brings his wealth of experience to a committee that is currently developing strategies for DINZ spatial members around the building legislation of the 2004 Building Act.

Murray, along with Fraser Gardyne and Michael Major in 1995 brought back the BeST Design Awards after a four year hiatus. He has been on the BeST Design Awards committee in 1996 to 1998. Murray has always been outspoken for product design and the Designers Institute. Murray this year was part of the committee who developed the Better by Design Discussion Paper and DINZ Action Paper that was presented to the Better by Design Advisory Board (see the website to read this document).

Carin was President of the Designers Institute for the 1992 to 1993 term and ran a very lively council with many DINZ events that were well supported by members. He was also on the BeST Design Awards committee in the early years. Carin has been a designer who keeps setting new directions for design and embraces the nature of his culture within his design work and therefore creating a contemporary view. Carin continues to be involved with DINZ and this year was a judge for the Design Ambassadors Dyson Product Awards.

Life

"Any Fellow of the Institute who has given especially meritorious service to the Institute"

Gifford is 83 years of age and a practicing designer today with a long and interesting career of 64 years of designing. Gifford was awarded in 1998 the Designers Institute's BeST Design Awards highest award, the John Britten Award. Gifford presented his rich portfolio of work in 2003 to Institute members. PRODESiGN profiled Gifford in the December/January 2004 issue. Gifford is a regular at institute events and the Annual General Meeting's for the Designers Institute.

DINZ Honorary

"Any person distinguished in any of the aesthetic, technical, organisational or productive aspects of design who has been or may be of material assistance to the Institute or the design profession."

Robin has tirelessly been an advocate for design and architecture, His magazines such as PRODESiGN and Urbis are testaments to his commitment to raising the standards of design and having designers valued. The BeST Design Awards have been managed since 1998 by the events arm of agm, Geshundheit. As a result the BeST Design Awards are able to be held annually and sustained as a high level awards programme. Robins commitment goes way beyond the magazines, in that ,he has sat on various committees over the years contributing time to DINZ initiatives. In 2001 Robin was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award at the BeST Design Awards.

Craig has given many hours to the Designers Institute since its inception in 1992. He wrote the Designers Institute of New Zealand Constitution, the Code of Ethics document and the Spatial Contract documents. Craig has attended, over the years, too many Council meetings to name, and has barely missed an AGM. His counsel has been invaluable to DINZ and its members.

Mike's sponsorship of the Designers Institute is legendary. Not only has he been a sponsor of the BeST Design Awards for many years but he has been a significant sponsor of the institute as well. The DINZ office is currently in the ECC Lighting and Living building courtesy a la Mr. Thorburn.

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our sponsors:		Latest News Wai 262 Submission Download PDF » Media coverage of Design in Business Awards New Zealand Herald » National Business Review » DINZ Fellows 2006 Meet the new Fellow members...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 » BeST Design Awards 2008 Ceremony 10th October 10 Oct 2008 Don't forget to book your tickets to the BeST Design Awards 2008. The BeST Design Awards is the annual awards program presented by the Designers ...more » News Release from the office of Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard - Commissioning rule to be repealed and parody/satire review announced 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 Sponsors of the BeST Design Awards Exhibition, Dulux are looking for a Dulux Colour Ambassador 23 Sep 2008 Spatial Students in Graduate Year or who have Graduated here is a GREAT Opportunity for you either in Napier, Palmerston North and ...more » Design in Business Outstanding Individual Achievement Award - Rick Wells 22 Sep 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 22 Sep 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 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 » B-complete publication 28 Jul 2008 B-complete publication, new book-a-zine called b-complete will be out mid September. B-complete will be distributed to all members of DINZ. Each ...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 » The Pond. Unique. Innovative. And now a Platinum sponsor. 8 Jul 2008 The Pond, best known for its award-winning �Writer's Block', has come on board as a DINZ Platinum sponsor. The Pond is a team of creative consultants ...more » Artist, prankster, streaker? Guerilla marketer joins The Pond. 8 Jul 2008 Looking to grab attention with thinking a little outside the traditional media square? Check out the work of new Pond member, Hadleigh Averill. The ...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 » HOME New Zealand Designer of the Year Awards 2008 10 Apr 2008 As part of Eon's ethos to actively promote New Zealand design, we partnered with HOME New Zealand magazine to host their Designer of the Year Awards. ...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 » 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 » 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 » 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 honours its members at the AGM 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." John Hughes; Martin Hughes Interior Architects; hughes@martinhughesdesign.com John, and his then business partner Colin Martin, formed Martin Hughes and were the first company some 30 odd years ago to introduce fees as part of the interior design profession. John has long been active within the institute and keeps raising the awareness that we should, as designers, refer to the institute as the Designers Institute and not DINZ as we are apt to do. His rationale is that it reinforces that there is an institute for designers and not just another acronym that very few understand the meaning of. John's passion for design and the arts has seen him build a significant interior design company where each year his team successfully takes home awards at the BeST Design Awards. John was awarded the Outstanding Achievment Award at the BeST Design Awards in 1999. David Muir; Ellery Muir david@ellerymuir.co.nz David has made a long standing commitment to DINZ over many years. He has been on the BeST Design Awards committee 1996 to 1998. David was Secretary of the Designers Institute for four years and judged spatial for the 2003 BeST Design Awards. Nearly nine years ago he started Ellery Muir and with that David brings his wealth of experience to a committee that is currently developing strategies for DINZ spatial members around the building legislation of the 2004 Building Act. Murray Pilcher; Burrows Pilcher Design murray@bpdesign.co.nz Murray, along with Fraser Gardyne and Michael Major in 1995 brought back the BeST Design Awards after a four year hiatus. He has been on the BeST Design Awards committee in 1996 to 1998. Murray has always been outspoken for product design and the Designers Institute. Murray this year was part of the committee who developed the Better by Design Discussion Paper and DINZ Action Paper that was presented to the Better by Design Advisory Board (see the website to read this document). Photo by Simon Devitt website www.simondevitt.com Carin Wilson; Studio Pasifika; carin@studiopasifika.co.nz Carin was President of the Designers Institute for the 1992 to 1993 term and ran a very lively council with many DINZ events that were well supported by members. He was also on the BeST Design Awards committee in the early years. Carin has been a designer who keeps setting new directions for design and embraces the nature of his culture within his design work and therefore creating a contemporary view. Carin continues to be involved with DINZ and this year was a judge for the Design Ambassadors Dyson Product Awards. Life "Any Fellow of the Institute who has given especially meritorious service to the Institute" Gifford Jackson (1 Jubilee Avenue. Devonport ) Gifford is 83 years of age and a practicing designer today with a long and interesting career of 64 years of designing. Gifford was awarded in 1998 the Designers Institute's BeST Design Awards highest award, the John Britten Award. Gifford presented his rich portfolio of work in 2003 to Institute members. PRODESiGN profiled Gifford in the December/January 2004 issue. Gifford is a regular at institute events and the Annual General Meeting's for the Designers Institute. Photo by Bruce Nicholson email bigworld@slingshot.co.nz DINZ Honorary "Any person distinguished in any of the aesthetic, technical, organisational or productive aspects of design who has been or may be of material assistance to the Institute or the design profession." Robin Beckett; AGM Publishing; Robin has tirelessly been an advocate for design and architecture, His magazines such as PRODESiGN and Urbis are testaments to his commitment to raising the standards of design and having designers valued. The BeST Design Awards have been managed since 1998 by the events arm of agm, Geshundheit. As a result the BeST Design Awards are able to be held annually and sustained as a high level awards programme. Robins commitment goes way beyond the magazines, in that ,he has sat on various committees over the years contributing time to DINZ initiatives. In 2001 Robin was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award at the BeST Design Awards. Photo by Bruce Nicholson email bigworld@slingshot.co.nz Craig Horrocks; Clendon Feeney; Craig has given many hours to the Designers Institute since its inception in 1992. He wrote the Designers Institute of New Zealand Constitution, the Code of Ethics document and the Spatial Contract documents. Craig has attended, over the years, too many Council meetings to name, and has barely missed an AGM. His counsel has been invaluable to DINZ and its members. Mike Thorburn; ECC Lighting and Living; Mike's sponsorship of the Designers Institute is legendary. Not only has he been a sponsor of the BeST Design Awards for many years but he has been a significant sponsor of the institute as well. The DINZ office is currently in the ECC Lighting and Living building courtesy a la Mr. Thorburn. [ top of page ]