Auckland Design News

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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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60 Internet Seconds Around the World

How much do you get done in a minute?

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Coke Creates World’s First Carbon-Friendly Billboard

Coke's advertising goes green.

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Creative Art Shelves Combine Form and Function

Creative modular shelf units that can fold up against a wall, revealing artwork on the underside.

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Prison Populations Going Through The Roof

A prison in the sky wins the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.

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David Lynch Opens Mulholland Drive Inspired Nightclub

A new nightclub designed by David Lynch and inspired by a fictional venue from his film Mulholland Drive is set to open in Paris.

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Artist Designed Hotel Without Staff Opens in Paris

Designed by artist Matali Crasset, Hi-Matic is a self-service hotel completely devoid of staff.

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Vizualize.Me Livens Up Your LinkedIn Info

Turn your life's work into an infographic.

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Steve Jobs Announces Plans for Apple’s New Mothership

Apple's new campus is a giant glass ring.

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Ice-Cream On A Boat

How did the Brits beat us to this idea?

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Shade Cloths that Generate Solar Power

Super solar solutions for your backyard.

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Discover the Beautiful World of Fonts with New Typography Application

Eye. Aperture. Descender. Spine. A weird collection of words, but for a typographer, a publication nerd like me or the owner of this new app they make perfect sense together.

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Odette's Eatery

Shed 5, City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley Street

Between the lively chat, the excellent dishes and plotting how to run away with all the tableware, we had a wonderful time.

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Branding That’s Friendly First Thing in the Morning

Branding to make you smile, even before your morning coffee hits home.

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Next Step for Sustainable Cities: Smog-Eating Buildings

Imagine if the materials a skyscraper is made from could eliminate the pollution it produces?

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The Next Step for Smart Phones: Paper Thin

Introducing the PaperPhone: an extremely light weight and, as the name suggests, paper-thin smart phone.

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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

First glimpses at a sustainable city sprouting roots in Abu Dhabi.

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Latest Events

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Boy Kills World

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Bill Skarsgård makes a mesmerising action star in this cartoonishly OTT revenge flick that's produced by iconic 'Evil Dead' filmmaker Sam Raimi.
Event
The Fall Guy

Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Ryan Gosling is at his most charming — including while batting around screwball banter with Emily Blunt — in this dynamic action/rom-com ode to stunt performers.
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Abigail

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

The directors of 'Ready or Not' turn their attention to monster movies in this deliciously entertaining heist-meets-vampire flick.
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Challengers

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

For 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in a smash of a tennis- and love triangle-fuelled drama.
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Back to Black

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.
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Robot Dreams

Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This Oscar-nominated animated gem explores love, loneliness, finding a connection and facing fate's chaos through the friendship of a dog and a robot.
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Origin

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

'Selma' and 'A Wrinkle in Time; filmmaker Ava DuVernay returns with a sensitive, sincere and supremely smart biopic that's also an exploration of caste systems.
Event
Lovers and Castaways

Wednesday, March 6 - Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Pah Homestead, Auckland

This exhibition allows visitors to experience 1980s Aotearoa through the eyes of some of New Zealand's most treasured artists.
Event
The Effect — Auckland Theatre Company

Tuesday, April 16 - Saturday, May 11, 2024
ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

This ethically ambiguous, toxic love story is the work of Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO’s ‘Succession’.

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Event
Aotearoa High Tea in The Libraries at The Hotel Britomart

Saturday, March 16, 2024, Saturday, April 13, 2024 and Sunday, May 12, 2024
The Hotel Britomart, Auckland

Enjoy some of Aotearoa's best food in the elegant, heritage spaces of The Libraries.

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Floating Golf Course in the Maldives

Obscene and indulgent or responsible and socially inclusive? Maldives begins work on floating golf course.

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

Heineken's glow-in-the-dark aluminium bottle enhances the beer drinking experience.

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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

Brazil takes the title of building the World's Largest 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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Functional Wall Stickers Make Organisation Fun

Being well-organisation has never looked so good.

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Turn Your Favourite Book Into A Lamp

Designer Boris Dennler lets you highlight your book collection by turning them into functional lamps.

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Bike Helmets Get Fashionable

Designers give the lid a new look.

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‘The Cube’ Portable Restaurant

Portable restaurants to tour the landmarks of Europe.

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The Incredible, Edible Pen

If you're a pen-chewer, we have some good news.

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A Mobile that Can Recharge in your Pocket

An environmentally friendly mobile phone that can run on body heat

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Silicone Speakers for Sharing Music Anywhere

Foldable, stackable, washable and virtually indestructible, Tembo Trunks sustainable silicone speakers let you share your tunes wherever you are.

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IKEA Helps Organise Your Computer Desktop

Can't get enough IKEA in your home? Download IKEA's digital storage solutions for your 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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Homes Getting Cheaper and Smaller by Design

With the global economy in a less than premium position, sustainable micro-houses might be awaiting us all in the future.

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Scrabble Revived with Designer Fonts

Now not only is Scrabble a delightful game for grammar pedants but for typography fetishists as well.

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Literary Figures Give Lego Bookish Cred

The one thing Lego has always needed was a smug F. Scott Fitzgerald and brooding Ernest Hemingway to give it some literary credit.

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Lego Releases Digital Camera

The new go-to gadget for anyone who wants a colourful, geometric and completely unique and workable camera.

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