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DINZ Fellows 2007
Meet the new Fellows added in 2007...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News Release from the office of Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard - Commissioning rule to be repealed and parody/satire review announced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 »
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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 severely disabled, being selected for the Museum of Modern Art's Architecture and Design Permanent Collection.
The revolutionary design, Lomak (light operated mouse and keyboard), enables people with severe physical impairments, such as cerebral palsy, quadriplegia and carpal tunnel syndrome, to easily and effectively operate a computer without the need for special software.
Peter Haythornthwaite and his team at creativelab were the industrial designers on the Lomak project
The product idea was invented by Mike Wattling and comprises a keyboard employing state-of-the-art light sensor technology and a hand or head pointer to control a beam of light that enters, then confirms, the key or mouse function. Confirming each key helps ensure the correct selection is entered, reducing errors and increasing the speed of operation.
Developed between 2002 and 2005 Lomak has won numerous design awards, both in New Zealand and internationally, including a highly coveted gold at the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). It was also among some 200 other international designs recently selected for display in the Museum of Modern Art's 'Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition
The exhibition, which ran from February 24"May 12, 2008, chronicled the latest advances in design in a modern and changing world. It showcased designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behaviour, converting these changes into objects that people can actually understand and use.
Following the hugely successful temporary exhibition, MoMA's department of Architecture and Design acquired the LOMAK for permanent display, where it will be exhibited alongside many other influential design objects from around the world, ranging from appliances to furniture, from tableware to tools, and from technologies to sports cars. Works by Charles Eames, Mies Van der Rohe, Etorre Sotssas, Issey Miyake, and Australia's Mark Newson are included in the collection.
MoMA's Architecture and Design collection, which was established in 1932, id one of the world's largest collections and comprises some 3000 works ranging from large-scale design objects to works on paper and architectural models. The collection surveys major figures and movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Cathy Veninga, Chief Executive Officer of the Designers Institute of New Zealand (dinz) says that the museum's acquisition of Lomak demonstrates that New Zealand designers can compete with the rest of the world in terms of the quality and innovation of their designs.
'Over the past few years the New Zealand design industry has enabled businesses to become more successful globally and this is seen by the international response to New Zealand designed products. The global market no longer just turns to products from New York, Sweden or Berlin for good design. We now see design and design thinking as adding value to people's lives. Rather than trying to compete with low value cost driven products from places from China, New Zealand can produce better designed products.
'We are now beginning to really appreciate and celebrate New Zealand design and the talent of our designers. I hope that people throughout New Zealand will be inspired by Peter and his success, and will see that while we are a small country, we can make a big difference when it comes to design.
Creativelab's Peter Haythornthwaite, was the industrial designer on Lomak along with sons Andrew, David and Dean Edgington, the inventor and a team of engineers. Lomak is marketed in New Zealand and internationally by Opdo Limited.
Said Peter Haythorthwaite: 'Lomak was a unique opportunity to be involved in the design of a system that is now helping liberate people otherwise trapped by their disabilities.
'We are very honoured that this work has been selected and included in MoMA's permanent collection.