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“IPAD GETS GOLD AT BeST!” 27 August 08
Huge congrats to Andre Hodgskin taking the GOLD with his latest innovation, the modular bach IPAD. The design won the Residential Interior Category at the 2008 NZ BeST Design Awards. It's not surprising IPAD has drawn the attention of the judges after the huge interest being shown to date. This website has had high visitor numbers to Andre's story with interest coming from overseas.iPAD is... Click here for more |
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“Roger Kelly wins again!” 12 August 08
Roger Kelly scores again winning the annual Design/Make Furniture Design Competition curated by the Waiheke Island Community Art Gallery.Running for the third year, this years theme was to construct a sideboard, balancing the storage and display aspects.The winning entry titled “Renovation” is constructed entirely of sustainable Radiata Pine to echo the structural elements of the Kiwi weatherboard home. The design challenges our perception of indoor/... Click here for more |
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“Cloud South Films” 1 July 08
Cloud South Films is the midlife lovechild of NZ based Emmy nominated, multi-award winning Canadian cinematographer Tom Burstyn CSC, FRSA and New Zealand journalist Barbara Sumner Burstyn. They describe themselves as escapees from the fantasy world of feature filmmaking and corporate media. They work from a converted shearing shed on their small acreage in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.Barb and Tom are committed to factual storytelling.... Click here for more |
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“What we mean by cool places to stay” 17 June 08 No motels, no hotels, no lodges where you wake up in the morning and haven’t a clue where the hell you are or what country you’re in. Just cool, clean, super-designed places run by people who understand what differentiates New Zealand from the rest of the world… great design, informal hospitality and a touch of the local.So watch this space.... we are hunting... Click here for more |
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“Coromandel Road Trip” 26 May 08
When we were growing up, the post-Christmas drive down to Coromandel in Dad’s ’72 Chrysler Valiant marked the real beginning of summer. Three kids and the dog in the vast back seat, the metallic whump of the boot slamming over a small car’s worth of chilly bins, fishing gear, scratchy polystyrene surfboards, towels, and if we were heading up to camp at Waikawau Bay, the... Click here for more |
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