Design

Why we shouldn't be spamming people across too many social networking sites and why cropping is an instagrammers best friend. Audio

Landscape and urban design consultant, founder of Greenstone Design, and author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens Audio

Gut instinct, intuition, and accessing the belly of creativity may sound a bit abstract, but according to Dutch contemporary jeweller Ruudt Peters it is here that the creative process begins. He has… Audio

This week, Sonia Sly speaks to Auckland-based sculptor and artist Caroline Robinson, she may have started her career in the World of Wearable arts, but for the past 16 years her focus has been on… Audio

Gosia Piatek doesn't feel very 'Kiwi,' especially where her work ethic and hunger are concerned. On the communication-front she is also very direct-a trait she readily puts down to her 'European'… Audio

Australian set and costume designer whose work for Verdi's La Traviata, can be seen in the upcoming NZ Opera production. Audio

f.lux is a bit of software that subtly changes the colour of your computer, tablet and phone screen to help you sleep well. With Michael Herf of f.lux. Audio

Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the exhibition currently at the gallery, California Design: 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Audio

The art of early tourism and its place in this country's art history with art historian Warren Feeney and editor Peter Alsop. Selling the Dream is a Craig Potton publication. Audio

Based in Hawkes Bay, the award winning lighting and furniture designer sells work all over the world and now has an installation in the permanent collection at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Audio

Architectural historian, designer and broadcaster best known for the television series Grand Designs. Audio

A new website that enables wide participation in the design of images has been launched at Wakari School in Dunedin. Called flags.otago.ac.nz the site is using public interest in the New Zealand flag… Audio