Design
Catwalk comeback with a bang!
The return of WORLD to NZ Fashion Week was all about show-stopping, otherworldly looks, writes Sonia Sly. Gallery
Designs on Auckland
With the recent sign off of Auckland's development blueprint, the heat is on to get the planning and design stages right. Auckland now has a new single set of planning rules to manage the city's… Audio
WORLD returns to New Zealand Fashion Week with New York Twang
Well-established and new names sit side-by-side in the line-up at New Zealand Fashion Week 2016, while more of the familiar designers plan to show during the public weekend shows, rather than the… Audio
Chinese design show cutting-edge coolness
Sustainable, biodegradable and cutting edge technology is put to the test in an exhibition of internationally award-winning utilitarian designs by globally renowned designers from Zhejiang Province… Gallery
Thomas Thwaites: acting the goat
Kim Hill talks to designer Thomas Thwaites, whose new book, GoatMan, tells about how he took a holiday from being human by becoming a goat in Switzerland, using special prostheses and attempting to… Audio, Gallery
Chinese designs show cutting-edge coolness
Sustainable, biodegradable and cutting-edge technology was put to the test in a recent Wellington exhibition of world-renowned designs from China.
Taniwha - the human-powered submarine
Team Taniwha, from the University of Auckland, has designed and built a human-powered submarine, that has borrowed ideas from leather-jacket fish, and currently holds the world record for a… Video, Audio
Peter Haythornthwaite: design, spifes and San Diego
Kim Hill talks to celebrated product designer and design integration consultant Peter Haythornthwaite, who was awarded an ONZM in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours. Audio
Sir Richard Taylor on concept designer Gus Hunter
Skull Island in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong was a pretty daunting location. Even more daunting was the fact that it's not real. Much of it was the work of Samoan-born concept designer at Weta… Audio, Gallery
Sit on your art: 2D to 3D furniture
You see some attractive objects hanging on an apartment wall, and assume they're purely ornamental. But what's this? Your host is taking the artwork down, and folding this two dimensional object into… Video, Audio, Gallery
Art and Industry of Imagination
Games, film and television and publishing industry professionals with a love of sci fi and fantasy are gathering to swap notes and help the next generation to realise their dreams. 'Art and Industry… Audio, Gallery
Steve Thomson: Making Marques
Jim Mora explores the history of car logos with a creative director at Auckland agency Brandspank. Audio
Kate Sylvester talks career, inspiration and making mistakes
At iD Fashion Week 2016 New Zealand designer Kate Sylvester showed her AW16 collection 'A Muse' inspired by the work of Picasso. She also presented a talk at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery about her… Audio
Project Runway's Tim Gunn
New Zealand fashion designer Sean Kelly is launching his own label in New York this year. He thanks American TV show host Tim Gunn for much of his success. Sean won Project Runway a couple of years… Audio
Emerging designers and the changing face of fashion
This year iD Fashion Week is in its 17th year. Thirty-nine emerging designers from 15 countries will have the opportunity to show their work before a panel of local and international judges. The… Audio
Michela Magas and Andrew Dubber: music tech fest
Michela Magas, founder of Stromatolite and the #MusicBricks project, and Andrew Dubber, founder of digital music consultancy group New Music Strategies. Together they run the Berlin Music Tech Fest. Audio
Making grounds for the humble pigeon
Pigeons are part and parcel of our urban landscape and there are at least 400 million pigeons worldwide. But how did they come to be in our cities and how do you feel about them? A show in Wellington… Audio
Designing New Zealand
Design shapes our world, our environments, and our everyday. Where is design going, what's interesting and exciting about it, what's working, what's not? For The Weekend's design panel Lynn Freeman is… Audio, Gallery
Media: Photographer Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher photographs New Zealand's newsmakers, personalities, politicians and quiet achievers - she also enjoys taking photos of buildings and coastlines. She's best known for her many years… Audio, Gallery
Objectspace's crafty plans
A big push against technology, stress and mass production has seen the rise of movements like slow cooking, adult colouring, and the demand for handmade and bespoke arts and crafts. Craft remains a… Audio