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DINZ Fellows 2007
Meet the new Fellows added in 2007...more »
Jasmax Film Festival
13 Aug 2008 11 - 17 September Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga, Rotorua, Arrowtown, Nelson Jasmax is a firm of architects, ...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 »
DINZ Sponsors of the BeST Design Awards Exhibition, Dulux are looking for a Dulux Colour Ambassador
28 Jul 2008 Spatial Students in Graduate Year or who have Graduated here is a GREAT Opportunity for you either in Auckland, Dunedin and Nelson. Recruitment ...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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 DINZ and for the design and business community. All designers, their associates and boundary crossing individuals are welcome to this evening session.
venue: University of Auckland, new Business School, Grafton Street, Level 0, OGG. Lecture Theatre B5 (go through main entry doors off Grafton Rd down set of stairs and room is just to your left and easy to find on this level)
date: Wednesday 4th June 2008
time: 6pm - 8pm
rsvp: to designer@dinz.org.nz
On September 25th this session will be presented in Christchurch.
In Auckland on September 17th there will be a second session developing ideas.
We are saturated with policy statements. We are fed up with truisms dressed as discoveries. Give us a break. We know the bald facts. Yes, New Zealand is a long way from anywhere else. Yes, we live in difficult times. Yes, the carbon footprint is a problem. Yes, design is important�.really, really important. Yes, New Zealand will only survive by being smarter and more agile. We know all that. We have known it for years. Of course good theory, strategy and policy has informed us and given us a platform of knowledge and a sense of direction. We know the whys and wherefores. But what we would really like to know right now, with some sense of urgency, is�. HOW to do it. The global targets are clear but no one really knows how to achieve them. We lack detail, we lack techniques, we lack tools. We lack KNOW-HOW. But acquiring know-how is not easy. It does not come from reading reports and bullet points. It does not come from armchair theorists. Knowhow takes time, takes trust, and hard graft in the physical world. Strategy is easy but implementation is difficult.
To put it more bluntly. The survival of the New Zealand economy does not depend on policymakers. It depends on grafters, on artisanship, on people with skills. In this context that would include design skills, managerial skills and sophisticated technological skills. High level skills embody the magic of what human beings do best. You do know what I mean. Think tennis, think rugby, think wine making, think playing the piano, think cooking. Skills are all those interconnected micro-acts of human achievement that are fine grained, flowing beneath the radar. They are often tacit and instinctual.
In these short presentations, we show you some of the things that are important about implementation and future know-how. We do not have all the answers, but we can show you some good work going in the right direction. We can be certain that the mastery of these things, the growth of these skills, will lead to success. And hopefully, one day soon, New Zealand will make it.
David Walker, 8 May 2008
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PROGRAMME
6pm Welcome
6 x 20 slides x 20 seconds
6.30pm - Rainer Seidel 'Making it work' - How we have made connections between industry education and research
6.40pm - Logan Wait 'Making it easier' - Evaluating small businesses and dealing with their idiosyncrasies
6.50pm - David Howell 'Learning from making' - How NPD and Design can learn and flexible manufacturing
7.00pm - Manuel Seidel 'Making it green' - How businesses and designers can deal with sustainability as an opportunity
7.10pm - Richard Cross 'Making it personal' - New directions in mass customisation, and the personalisation of goods
7.20pm - David Walker 'Making it smaller' - The potential of nanotechnology and mesotechnology for designers
7.30pm - discussion
8.00pm - close