Government Funding Update
The NZ Government has funding available to help New Zealand businesses grow and innovate. Many of our existing clients have successfully applied for and received grants to fund our R&D services. You can too! Currently the key funding programmes are: - Agricultural and primary sector gran...
TED Video - Design for People, not awards
Timothy Prestero presents gives an inspirational and educational presentation in this great short video. He shares his experience designing for people and outcomes, rather than just designing products. This approach to design is in-line with our philosophy. Source: ...
Video: Highlighting NZ Innovation
In this great video: take a journey of New Zealand through its inspiring innovations from robotic fruit pickers and geothermal energy right through to boats that you can drive to the beach. Video produced by Gibson Group.
Integ Blade Video
In collaboration with our fantastic client, Integ, we have put together a video to showcase the design process and the philosophy behind the newly launched Blade. Check it out! Gareth from Subzero Group did a fantastic job of ...
Sir James Dyson: Let's get inventing!
Sir James Dyson: Let's get inventing to create jobs and prosperity. Invention creates jobs, it creates exports, and it creates wealth. Both in the UK and in New Zealand, we need to do more to ease the skills shortage in engineering, and champion budding inventors in schools, univer...
TED Video - Ernesto Sirolli
Want to help someone? Shut up and listen. When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you...
The Product Mindset 2012
This highly informative study titled "The Product Mindset" is a study dedicated to exploring and better understanding the way people think and feel about the products they make or consume and the role this plays in shaping global trade and impacting how products are conceived, constructed,...
This is How Design Works
We came across this fantastic website today. It is a really nice summary of what design is, how it works and most importantly why it is so important. There are also some very useful resources and further information on the site if you wish to know even more. We recommend having a look ...