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NewsIt’s Just a Plant: The Children’s Book on Marijuana
The story of a young girl's educational journey as she comes to understand cannabis, explained to her by her parents, a doctor and a kind gang of Rastafarians.
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NewsUrban Beekeeping Hits New York’s Rooftops
Philips has tapped into the growing beekeeping trend and designed a sleek looking urban beehive.
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NewsTurn Your Smartphone Into a Robot
Romo smartens up your already intelligent smartphone by turning it into a robot.
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NewsDialug Saves You Time and Power
This clever plug and socket design with in-built timer lets you save power.
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NewsA Finnish Greenhouse Fit for Living
Gardening enthusiasts will be able to spend even more time with Mother Nature in this wonderful garden shed.
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NewsThe MAMA Bike Rack
Continuing the trend of ingenious bike accessories, the MAMA bike rack allows your two-wheeler to literally stand above the rest.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do Around Auckland in January
Take advantage of the quiet city and long summer days to enjoy events, exhibitions, theatre, markets and some great films.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around New Zealand This Autumn
From immersive moving Van Gogh artworks to two-storey labyrinths of black wool, here's where you can get your art fix around the country.
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GuideSeven Exciting and Powerful Auckland Art Exhibitions to Step Into This Spring
From tumultuous and unsettling photography to immersive moving image projects, here's where you can get your art fix around the city.
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GuideTen Must-See Events at Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Auckland Arts Festival launches into its 11th year with multidimensional dance, critically acclaimed dream pop and a free sing-along waiata.
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GuideTen Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
Auckland's favourite independent open-access arts festival is back for another year.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend
A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most ...
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NewsPaula Scher’s Amazing Maps
Scher's pieces offer an individual distortion of the world and strong commentary about our society and often chaotic lifestyles.
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NewsTurn Your iPhone into an Antique Typewriter
This new, limited edition app puts an antique typewriter in your pocket.
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NewsCharge Your Devices in Style
The OXO multicharger is like an executive penthouse for your devices.
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NewsVanishing Fruit Stickers that Dissolve in Water
Scott Amron has come up with an ingenious and hygienic way to get rid of fruit stickers once and for all.
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NewsSweden’s Treehouse Hotel
The hotel has five different rooms, all of which are themed differently and offer much more than your standard bed and complementary chocolate.
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NewsAlpina Bike Spins your Vinyl Records as you Ride
Dutch designers have created a cycling/music machine that plays vinyl records as you ride at a consistent speed.
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RestaurantThis That
57 Lorne St , Auckland City
A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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NewsPost-It Watches For People Who Forget Stuff
The days of writing notes on the back of your hand are over. The Post-It Watch has arrived.
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NewsHelsinki Named 2012 World Design Capital
Helsinki is not only a city of freezing winters and scary death metal bands, but the world's capital of innovative and sustainable design.
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NewsSteve Jobs’ Biographer Interviewed on 60 Minutes
Walter Isaacson shares the story behind the story.
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NewsThe Mona Lisa Recreated with a Single Line
It's incredible the things an ordinary person can do if they just have the appropriate felt-tip pen.
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NewsBrooklyn Man Turns His Life Into An Exhibition in a Dumpster
In the ultimate act of not being able to let go, an artist has transferred the detritus of his past into a perusable dumpster.
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NewsIkea App Uses Facebook to Personalise Your Bedroom
Ikea attempt to sell you their durable and inexpensive Swedish wares by aligning them precisely with your personality, lifestyle and tastes.
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NewsU-Boat Worx Offers Submarine Charters for Tourists
These 'personal submarines for yacht and tourism' are for those people who are desirous of exploring the depths of the ocean but who suffer the misfortune of not being Richard Branson.
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NewsA Portable Hanging Herb Garden for Inner-City Dwellers
The dream of any inner-city or spatially-challenged dweller with a green thumb, finely tuned tastebuds and no backyard.
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NewsAdidas Unveils Super Intelligent Football Boot
Sporting giant Adidas has outdone itself with the adiZero f50 miCoach, a new soccer boot that boasts state-of-the-art technology.
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NewsDesigns That Let You Sleep Anywhere, Anytime
Our society seems to be developing an obsession for sleeping in places that are not our beds.
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NewsIPhone Bike Speaker Lets You Listen While You Ride
Play sweet music and use your iPhone as a GPS while riding through the town on your bike.
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NewsMicro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing
The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.
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NewsInspirational Designs for Busan’s New Opera House
A design competition for Busan's new Opera House has inspired some truly amazing submissions.
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NewsNike Release Back to The Future Sneakers
Nike has released a near-exact replica of the shoes worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2.
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NewsNYC Artist Brings Subway Etiquette to Life
NYC artist Jay Shells' Subway Etiquette Posters pokes fun at commuter pet peeves.
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NewsSwiss Artist Injects Order Into the Everyday
Ursus Wehrli wants to put some order into your life.
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NewsStylish Ways To Save Water
Saving water can be as simple as capturing rainwater in some sort of dispenser to be stored, treated and reused.
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NewsLego Takes On The World’s Architectural Icons
Adam Reed Tucker has developed a new line of Lego celebrating some of the world's best architecture.
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NewsRio De Janeiro’s Sustainable Olympic Village Design
The winner of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park Urban Masterplan competition has been announced.
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NewsBamboo iPhone Covers Handmade By Grove
Eco-conscious designers at Grove create bamboo iPhone covers made with their very own hands.
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NewsPaypal Founder’s Futuristic Floating Island City
The Silicon Valley billionaire is making plans for the project to be launched off the coast of San Francisco next year.
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NewsApple Unveils Eco-Friendly Campus HQ Plans
Apple's new eco-friendly HQ plans are larger-than-life.
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NewsAleksander Krasinki’s Futuristic Floating Island City
Architect Aleksander Krasinski has developed and designed a futuristic island concept.
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NewsDesign Similarities That Will Have you Seeing Double
Bob Caruther's collection of images will leaving you wondering just how 'new' a new idea really is.
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NewsThe London Riots: The Impact on Creative Communities
While London was engaged in a process of repeatedly kicking itself in the face, some of those hardest hit have been independent artists and small businesses.
