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    Realise Your Childhood Dreams with O2 Treehouses

    An American company is bringing award-winning design and sustainable practices to the humble treehouse.

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    Creative Art Shelves Combine Form and Function

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    Prison Populations Going Through The Roof

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    David Lynch Opens Mulholland Drive Inspired Nightclub

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    Artist Designed Hotel Without Staff Opens in Paris

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    Vizualize.Me Livens Up Your LinkedIn Info

    Turn your life's work into an infographic.

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    This That

    57 Lorne St , Auckland City

    A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.

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    Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

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    Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.

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    Cassette Nine

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    Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.

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    Miss Clawdy

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    There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.

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    Steve Jobs Announces Plans for Apple’s New Mothership

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    Ice-Cream On A Boat

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    Shade Cloths that Generate Solar Power

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    Branding That’s Friendly First Thing in the Morning

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    The Next Step for Smart Phones: Paper Thin

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    Use Your Design Skills to Change the Way We Comprehend Nutrition

    Do you have what it takes to redesign the nutrition label to make sense out of confusing percentages, milligrams, serving sizes and calorie counters?

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    Nissan to Produce New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow

    The iconic New York yellow taxi will be produced by Japanese manufacturer Nissan in the years to come.

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    Sustainable City in United Arab Emirates

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    Floating Golf Course in the Maldives

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    Heineken’s Glow in the Dark Bottle Lights up the Night

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    The Evolution of Web Design over Two Decades [INFOGRAPHIC]

    The internet has become a more friendly, accessible and interactive animal over the past two decades. Here is an incredible infographic that maps out the role design has played.

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    The World’s Tallest Lego Tower

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    Ralph Lauren’s Solar-Powered Backpack

    Ralph Lauren's Solar Panel Backpack can charge iPhones, iPads and iPods in a matter of hours.

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    AquaNotes Create Waterproof Notepad for Shower Thinkers

    Shower-thinkers now have a creative outlet with waterproof AquaNotes notepads

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    Caipiroska Flavoured Vodka Comes in Peelable Bottles

    Smirnoff introduces their new flavour, Caipiroska, in funky peelable skins.

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    Sketch Your Own Chair

    Sketch Chair allows anyone to design and build their own custom chairs.

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    The Revolutionary Masterplan for Mentougou Eco Valley Development

    Eriksson Architects have designed the most modern environment friendly development to date, the Mentougou Eco-Valley.

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    Phoenix Bamboo Car Defies Convention

    A new kind of eco-friendly car.

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    Turn Your Favourite Book Into A Lamp

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    ‘The Cube’ Portable Restaurant

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    The Incredible, Edible Pen

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    IKEA Helps Organise Your Computer Desktop

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    Pepsi Develops 100% Sustainable Plant-Based Bottle

    Pepsi trumps Coke with a 100% plant-based bottle made of switch grass, pine bark and corn husks.

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    The new look Concrete Playground

    We've nipped, tucked and delivered Concrete Playground to you in a shiny new package, re-imagining everything from the ground up.

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