Auckland Design & Style News

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Swiss Artist Injects Order Into the Everyday

Ursus Wehrli wants to put some order into your life.

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Highlights of New Zealand Fashion Week

Fashion Week has been and gone. Here are some of the highlights that stood out.

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Urban Farming Continues to Grow Around the World

Urban farms offer city dwellers a chance to green up their cities and get their hands dirty in the process.

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Stylish 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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The World’s First Self-Inflating Tyre

PumpTire self-inflates as you ride your bike.

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Lego 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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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month

Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May

Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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Must-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far

Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April

Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March

Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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Hop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend

Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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Nine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately

'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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Say Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game

Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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Predicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards

Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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Here's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now

From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.

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Rio 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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Beautiful Swear Words

Theo Olesen turns swear words into finely illustrated graphics.

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Bamboo iPhone Covers Handmade By Grove

Eco-conscious designers at Grove create bamboo iPhone covers made with their very own hands.

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Curate

Curate is a fantastic new ‘fashion gallery’ in Britomart set to launch September 9 2011, which will feature a selection of fashion, shoes, accessories and jewellery from the crème de la crème of New Zealand designers.

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Paypal 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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Apple Unveils Eco-Friendly Campus HQ Plans

Apple's new eco-friendly HQ plans are larger-than-life.

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This That

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A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

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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Japan’s Intelligent Vending Machines Know Your Type

Thinking machines are already among us, watching us, and telling us what to drink.

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Aleksander Krasinki’s Futuristic Floating Island City

Architect Aleksander Krasinski has developed and designed a futuristic island concept.

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Design 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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The 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.

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The Ajiro Bamboo Velobike: Grown Not Made

Design student Alexander Vittouris' all-bamboo velobike will keep both the hipsters and eco-conscious happy.

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Australian Artist Creates Perfume You Can Swallow

A scent that is not applied but taken as a pill.

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Twilight Tuesdays

Tue, 3 Dec, 2024
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell

Wander through Auckland Museum's beautifully-lit galleries after dark.
Event
Britomart Saturday Farmer's Market

Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Takutai Square, Britomart., Auckland

This weekly inner-city farmer's market sells everything from fresh produce and flowers to coffee, vegan foods, pastries, sweet buns, crepes, juices and savoury snacks.
Event
Pasta and Peroni Nights at The Grounds

Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
The Grounds at Whoa! Studios, Auckland

See out the last sunny evenings of autumn with fresh pasta handmade by an ex-Baduzzi chef and ice-cold beers on tap.
Event
Yoga in the Sky

Multiple single dates
SkyCity Auckland, Auckland

Take your yoga practice to a whole new level — level 51, that is.

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Event
Smales Farmers Market

Mon, 9 Dec, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore

Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.

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Modular Bike Tracks Take Cycling into the Future

This design by Ines Le Bihan is proving a viable alternative to our current bike paths.

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Interview /// Voyurl Looks Closer at the Murky World of Web Analytics

Voyurl breaks down your browsing behaviour in attractive graphs.

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Facebook Launches a Free SMS App

Deactivating your Facebook account might become harder with the launch of Facebook Messenger, a free standalone SMS app.

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The World’s Largest Wooden Structure Appears in Seville

The recently completed Metropol Parasol marries aesthetics and functionality.

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Interview /// Concrete Playground meets Ooby Ryn

Concrete Playground caught up with Robyn Brooks to unravel the daily grind behind life as a fashion designer.

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Interview /// Concrete Playground meets webuyyourkids

Kirstie Sequitin talks to Sonny Day head of their appearance at Semi-Permanent.

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Ecohol: Sustainable Alcohol Packaging Design

A German designer has developed a series of eco-friendly alcohol products made from Tetra Pak cartons.

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Apple Has More Money in the Bank than the US Government

Recent figures show that Steve Jobs is richer than the US Government.

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Tequila Could Fuel Cars as Well as Parties

Don't drink and drive. Pour it in the tank instead.

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Three Ideas Shaping the Future of Music

Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.

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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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The Most Unforgettable Space Shuttle Pictures

National Geographic has compiled a photographic retrospective of the shuttle's colourful history.

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Chris Jordan’s Rubbish Photography

Artist Chris Jordan takes everyday items and scary statistics to make some thought-provoking digital photographs.

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Kagi Jewellery Brings Paua to the People

Five years on and inspiration is still yet to run dry for Kagi jewellery designer Kat Gee.

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Up Bracelet Records Your Everything

Jawbone's new piece of wearable tech will keep tabs on your health.

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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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In The Black – Ketz-ke new season collection

CP Fashion Reviewer Christina reviews NZ Fashion label Ketz-ke new season release

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Weird And Wonderful Phone Chargers

Need to keep your phone charged at a festival?

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Google Insights Helps Predict The Economy

What does the average person do when confronted by something new in their life? Google it, of course.

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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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Iceland’s Crowdsourced Constitution. Like.

Iceland use social media to get the people's input for their new constitution.

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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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