Fortunately, through Tom and Giancarlo at the Frog office I was able to meet with Ezio Manzini. Manzini is someone who I have long admired. I have an original hardback copy of ‘The Material of Invention’ authored by him in 1986 that ...[Read More]

        I was befriended in my 3rd year at school by a small group of Final Year Industrial Designers. Two of these are of note; Adam Ellis who merges the landscape with product design and his knowledge of plants, and Thomas Sutton, ...[Read More]

    Whilst in London I visited Jared Mankelow. Jared and I go quite far back, as a 17 year old he was working as a cabinet maker, he was always interested and hanging around the design studio. Eventually I suggested design school and t ...[Read More]

    I visited the office of Onzo on the 6th and 7th of November to catch up with Neil Tierney and to see what their team is doing. The new offices of Onzo are located in the west end in London. On Great Newport street.   West End - ...[Read More]

    The Yard - Element 06 (Govan, Glasgow,Scotland)   We have known the guys in Scotland at Lightweight Medical and Element06 (one in the same) since they visited New Zealand 4-5 years ago. Since that time Ryder Meggit worked at ou ...[Read More]

      Timothy Allan - Locus Research Presenting at Reform 08   As part of the Irish Design Week Reform 08 is held to reinforce the inclusion of sustainability into design practice.   The event is largely created through the ...[Read More]

    During the first part of my European Trip I was hosted by Muireann McMahon a lecturer at the University of Limerick in product design. Product design is part of the Manufacturing and Operations Engineering faculty. Ryder Meggit f ...[Read More]

I was lucky enough to be a part of the select audience at Michael Braungart’s extra presentation on Tuesday. Three points have reverberated in my mind since his presentation on Cradle to Cradle design thinking:   “A design that is less bad is stil ...[Read More]

If I needed to summarise my comments with one sentence I’d say “Cradle to Cradle is great but not a panacea”.   The below is a limited analysis of “why”, only for those who have some time to kill through reading some of my rantings. I am critical ...[Read More]

This year’s CEO Summit set out to explore how New Zealand companies can make the most of sustainable design and business opportunities with examples given by several leading international organizations and a group of local companies committed to s ...[Read More]