Design
Jaron Lubin: architect aiming high
American architect Jaron Lubin has been involved with some of the most impressive new design projects around the world. He's on the team that has designed a vertical suburb in Singapore, the SKY… Audio, Gallery
Team NZ designer: How we won the Cup
From the finely tuned dagger boards to the complex foiling systems Team New Zealand's design boss Dan Bernasconi reveals how they won the America's Cup and how the future is monohull. Audio
The multi-faceted Mardo El-Noor
Artist and designer Mardo El-Noor collaborates just as naturally with music groups like Opshop and the Modern Maori Quartet as he does with cartoonists like Tom Scott. He's made short films and music… Audio
'Everything has to be unmistakably NOM*d'
NOM*d founder Margi Robertson talks about her iconic 30-year-old brand, the one thing she would save in a fire and why summer is a season that never feels quite right. Audio
Changing the game
What are the game-changers for fashion buyers and influencers? And why is Instagram booming in Asia? Sonia Sly chats to David Jones buying manager Teneille Ferguson and influencers Mary Seng and David… Audio, Gallery
Bridalwear chilled to perfection
Trish Peng is a designer who creates show-stopping wedding gowns. At last year's NZ Fashion Week her 25-metre long train broke a world record and this year she created a dress that had to be kept in… Audio
Rebecca Rudolph - Design, Bitches
Rebecca Rudolph is a principal at Los Angeles firm Design, Bitches, an architectural design practise seeking to expand the definition of architecture. Rudolph and business partner Catherine Johnson… Audio, Gallery
New creative hub for high tech collaboration
Victoria University of Wellington along with some of the biggest names in New Zealand film and design technology have come together to form a new hub where students can learn from the best. The… Audio
Nell the Artist
References to Colin McCahon's paintings and the Rocky Horror Picture Show can be seen in an exhibition of work by a visiting Sydney artist - Nell - who is a bundle of contradictions. She is a Buddhist… Audio, Gallery
Valuable...by Design
A new report has calculated that design contributes about 4.2 percent of GDP and more than 94,000 full time equivalent jobs. Audio
Objectspace
The country's only gallery committed to craft, design and architecture has a new home, an Auckland warehouse redesigned and kitted out in a 630-thousand dollar makeover. All will be revealed later… Audio, Gallery
Martino Gamper - 100 chairs for 100 days
Furniture designer Martino Gamper says, "There is no perfect chair." Ten years ago, the London-based, Italian-born designer initiated his project 100 Chairs in 100 Days, making a new chair a day for… Audio
Can you re-Māorify a city?
An urban design competition is calling on New Zealanders to imagine what a decolonised city might be like. Audio, Gallery
Young visionaries and the future of fashion
If you want to know what the future of fashion looks like it pays to keep an eye on emerging designers who create without boundaries. Sonia Sly meets emerging designers from around the world to find… Audio
From pest to eco-fashion
Dunedin designer Jane Avery makes clothing out of wild rabbit fur and she's on a mission to take her label to the world. Audio, Gallery
Instrument maker Alan Clayton
It's a craft as old as music itself - making beautiful instruments. And in his shed in Wellington, instrument-maker and repairer Alan Clayton shapes and repairs custom-made wood instruments. He tells… Audio, Gallery
Virtual reality set to get more real
A team of computer scientists at Victoria University think they may be a step closer to making virtual reality more like... reality. Audio
Michael Parekowhai's The Lighthouse
Michael Parekowhai's controversial Lighthouse is a lifesize sculpture resembling a 1950s statehouse on Auckland's Queens Wharf, beaming light over the Waitemata Harbour from neon constellations… Audio
Sir David Adjaye: a world of influence in architecture
Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye was knighted this year for “being one of the leading architects of his generation and a global cultural ambassador for the UK". Audio, Gallery
Smoking ephemera
Smoking now gets more expensive with a 10% increased in the tax on tobacco There'll be 10% rises on January the first, each year until 2020. It's estimated 15% of adult New Zealanders smoke daily… Audio, Gallery
