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D.Cast
by DINZ
The Designers Institute of New Zealand brings you insights, stories and reflections from our community.
Episodes
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Journals on Design6 | Monolithic Sculpture with Levi Hawken
Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is...
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Journals on Design5 | Historic Jewels with Vanity Fair Editor Annabel Davidson
Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is...
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Journals on Design4 | Architect to Critical Sustainability with Rui Peng
Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is...
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Journals of Design3 | Black Art in Mass Production with Adept
Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our...
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Journals of Design2 I Fine Jewellery with Naveya & Sloane
Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our...
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Journals of Design1 I Electric Café Racers with FTN Motion
Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our...
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EP6- Michael Tam - D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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EP5 - Nandini Nair - D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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EP4 - Sophie Hamer - D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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EP3 - Scott Mackie- D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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EP2 - Thea Betts - D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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EP1 - Tim Kwan - D.Cast Outside In | No Borders
Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween…
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D.Cast Interview Between Ashley Oswin and James Mfula
With the current To The Floor - Well-being competition well under way, we thought we would catch up with Ashley Oswin who won the competition with the theme Lifeforce in 2020. Along with James Mfula, Creative Director at Milliken ANZ. In the D.Cast James and Ashley discuss the inspiration behind...
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Good Yarns with Bremworth – at.space
Good Yarns with Bremworth In the Good Yarns with Bremworth D.Cast series, we will speak with local architects and designers to learn more about their approach to their mahi, them as people, and gain insights into the considerations behind their design choices. Alex McLeod DINZ & Tomi Williams…
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Good Yarns with Bremworth – Oli Booth
In the Good Yarns with Bremworth D.Cast series, we will speak with local architects and designers to learn more about their approach to their mahi, them as people, and gain insights into the considerations behind their design choices. Oli Booth In this instalment of Good Yarns with Bremworth, we...
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Building Capability – Designing a System
Historically Foodstuffs have not held and maintained a ‘Format System’ and development of new stores and refurbishments have been quote adhoc with new stores taking on different floor area sizes and varying architecture. Whilst there has been a system for controlling on brand fixtures and…
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Building Capability – Optimising
In this episode we’re going to discuss optimisation… so you’ve setup, you’ve hired the dream team, sorted your legal entities, dealt with the finance, self promotion is in hand so what’s next? Growth – whatever that means to you – is about optimising your business. Today we’ve got two guests well...
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Building Capability – Embedded in Design
Today we’re taking a slight detour and talking about working in house in large organisations. From building internal teams and navigating corporate structures, to championing the value of design and the deep understanding that comes from working in a single organisation. Today we have two very...
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Building Capability – Reputation and Notoriety
This D.Cast is about Reputation and Notoriety – Awards and recognition, portfolios and case studies, clients and sales... it’s all a bit chicken and egg, without the portfolio you can’t win work and without work, you can’t write your case studies. To help us with these conundrums and share their...
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Building Capability – Money, Fees and Liabilities
Welcome to the D.Cast. Today we’re going to talk about Money, Fees and Liabilities. Bank managers, the IRD and your landlord. Learning to talk about money is one of the most important skills you need in running a design business, whether it’s understanding a balance sheet or negotiating your…
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Building Capability – Partners, Partnering and Partnerships
In today’s D.Cast we’re going to talk about Partners, Partnering and Partnerships. Design businesses are often started by friends and on a handshake. As they grow and deal with different partners, suppliers and clients the need for contracts and legal structures grows. Whether it’s shareholders,...
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Building Capability – Building the Gang
Welcome to the D.Cast today we’re going to talk about Building The Gang. In most design businesses wages are your largest overhead but without People you’re going to be working very hard to grow a studio. With the right people in the right roles you can take on the world. But they can also be…
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Building Capability – Starting Up / Gearing Up
Today’s D.Cast is a discussion about starting up. Design businesses start for a variety of reasons – opportunity, economics, ambition, adversity – and I’m sure that there are many out there who have considered or are considering starting their own gig. Today we’ll share some insights from four...
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A Conversation with artist Janine Williams
Artist Janine Williams and architect Tom Locke of Warren and Mahoney discuss the large scale artwork which formed part of the 10 Madden development for Precinct Properties in the Wynyard Quarter. Janine talks about the process of developing the narrative for the project and then realising the…
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He wāhi pāoro o te Reo Māori (A Space to Echo the Language)
Associate Director at RCG, Andy Florkowski, PDINZ catches up to talk about the new workplace for Te Taura Whiri I Te Reo Māori with Jodie Mickleson, Milliken-Ontera and Anton Agnew, Autex Acoustics. The new space is entirely informed by Tukutuku. The structural qualities of Tukutuku are used as a...
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The Spark 5G Race Zone – Danny Carlsen, Shine Limited
Adam Jenkins, Executive Producer, FTW Digital; Mick McConnell, Executive Creative Director, & McConnell; and Danny Carlsen, Head of Design, Shine Limited talk about the immersive Spark 5G Race Zone they designed in the Emirates Team New Zealand base for the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland. Seven...
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DINZ Student Council chat with Oliver McDermott, Blender
Charging the forefront of innovative and passionate New Zealand-made design is Rosedale based design company, Blender. Blender occupies an inclusive design consultancy, strategy, and manufacturing platform in a cultivating and nurturing social work culture. That of which points to the efforts of...
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DINZ Student Council chat with Jonny Kofoed, Assembly
Jonny who is a Director, Motion Designer and Creative Director has a wide range of work that spans motion, film, animation, design, interactive, and visual effects. He has worked with many international and local clients who are household names. Alistair and Rose learn the ins and outs of some of...
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Value of Design - Championing the power of good design to create massive impact
How does design drive value? Across so many things it does/we do; Identity Culture Product Experience How do we grow business? What is the impact of the work we do? Design can help make a step change in sales and profits, culture and behaviour change, or opening up completely new businesses,...
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DINZ Student Council chat with Mat Bogust –Think Packaging
Established in 2010, Think Packaging is an award-winning structural packaging design studio that’s pure focus is cardboard engineering and delivering solutions. Mat’s talent has shone through his work, and with a long list of awards and well-known clientele, it’s no secret Mat is greatly…
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Product, Process and Persistence - Nick Mowbray
Andy Florkowski speaks with Nick Mowbray, CEO of Zuru Toys, and investor in up and coming kiwi FMCG brands such as Monday Haircare, Dose&Co, Nood Petfood and Rascal & Friends. Nick moved to China as a teenager, with a small loan from his parents and with the goal of launching a toy business. 15...
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Design for Positive Impact - Milliken-Ontera
Milliken-Ontera is a design-focused commercial flooring manufacturer headquartered in Sydney. With a strong ethical culture and long-held commitments to sustainability, they are creating a better future by actively participating in local communities, developing a diverse and inclusive workplace,...
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The Value of Design - Bevan Tonks & Jonno Sagar
Like other difficult dinner conversation topics such as politics and religion, the question around the value of design can be viewed very differently depending on where you sit. Independent designer Bevan Tonks along with Jono Sagar, principle and founder of Voice discuss the value of design from...
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Designers Institute Student Council - Project Make
Rose Norgrove, Alistair Kincaid talk to Demelza Round, Nathan Walker and Anjuli Selvadurai. Project Make is a design education community that encourages folk in Aotearoa to make things together. Made up of founder Demelza Round, Online Learning Coordinator Anjuli Selvadurai and Creative Director...
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Design for Positive Impact - Richard Shirtcliffe
In this episode, Oliver McDermott talks to Brand Guy, Richard Shirtcliffe, about building disruptive ‘triple bottom line’ consumer lifestyle brands, finding unmet needs, and outside the box thinking. Richard is the Co CEO of Noho, a direct to consumer furniture brand making beautiful dynamic...
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Designers Institute Student Council - Jungie Choi
Jungie Choi takes us through the design journey and process that led up to 2019 Student Graphics Gold Pin winning project, Han. Through the podcast AUT students Kai Concepcion and Harry Davis have a conversation with AUT graduate Jungie about student life, her creative journey from being a…
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Designers Institute Student Council - Tim Webber
Clean, simple, and quality. Three profound factors that point towards New Zealand furniture designer Tim Webber’s success in the furniture design industry. Tim, alongside his designs, praise the effortlessly beautiful elegance in design simplicity. From materials, to design choices and features…
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Unearthing Rich Stories with Italian Stone
Graeme Thorne and Matt Johnston from Italian Stone join Naomi Rushmer and Sebastian Negri to unearth rich stories about a beloved among the designer's palette: natural stone. Insights into a culture built around materiality, through the lens of an intergenerational family business.
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Baptism by Fire
James discusses his journey. James’s story is an inspiring one, full of honesty and insight. He started by studying Design Innovation at Victoria University in Wellington and due to graduating during the GFC James found jobs hard to come by. So alongside his two mates from uni he moved to…
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Design for Positive Impact Blythe Rees-Jones
When you think of most children’s toys and products these days, it’s hard not to get a bit worked up by the vast amounts of poorly made, colourful plasticky junky stuff. It’s not the most eco-friendly picture is it? It’s not very child friendly either, and It’s this, that inspired Industrial...
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Design for Positive Impact - Jack Candlish
When you think of Surfing, you think of fresh salty air, blue water, big waves crashing on the beach, sunshine, and nature … But if you look a bit closer at your average modern-day surfboard, it’s far from natural. Over 80% of surfboards are made from polyurethane foam, fibreglass and polyester...
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AUT Graduate, Xuangyang Sun talks to Material Creative
Liv Harper and Toni Brandso from Material Creative gave us a glimpse of their creative journey, giving advice to future designers as well as sharing insights into their award-winning projects.
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Design for Positive Impact - Timothy Allan
To make more sustainable products and businesses, we first need to change the way that we think about new product development: Considering all of the impacts of the entire lifecycle from raw material to end of use. This should be ingrained into any product designers mindset. It’s called lifecycle...
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Blurring the lines between home & work
We live in a time of hyper connectivity where digital mobility is making it difficult to separate personal life from work life. The impact of Covid-19 and the blanketed ‘working from home’ scenario, has revealed and elevated many challenges that have been simmering in the background for some…
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Design for Positive Impact Podcast - Louise Nash & Oliver McDermott
Our world is changing. With increases in human population and wealth, we have reached record levels of production and consumption. As a result, this has placed significant pressure on our natural systems and biodiversity. We are seeing the effects that the take, make, waste approach of the…
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Pros & Cons - Jen Cheyne & Rose Nola
Long time colleagues, Jen Cheyne (Jen Cheyne Design Ltd) and Rose Nola (Logic Design Ltd., Ngā Puhi/Ngātiwai) talk about their experiences and the pro’s and cons of home vs studio. Ways to make it work for you… or not, and what things might look like post lockdown. Working alongside each other...
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