I went along to a superb session last night on Design Law run by The Designers Institute in Tauranga. If you are a freelance creative/designer/developer/product manager or you are into UX, service design, brand, product, industrial, spatial or architecture this is a must attend gig as it travels to Wellington and Christchurch before the end of March. It’s also worth attending if you find yourself as a client that works with these types of individuals or companies.
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After many years of running sessions at the studio, we threw the doors open for the first public 'Inspiration Session' at the Library Bar at the Mount.
Dion Cawood (Lead Business Development Manager), David Chin (Key Account Manager), and Guy Irvine (Rapid Prototyping Software Architect) ventured over the Kaimais from their base at Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) in the Waikato to talk to the crowd about 'Starting New Innovative Activities in a Corporate Environment'.
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The year 2012 marks ten years since Locus Research was formed. We have enjoyed a diverse range of projects and learned a lot from the challenges, successes, and failures over the decade, whilst working with some fantastic people and companies along the way.
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New Zealand wool is regarded as the whitest wool grown anywhere in the world. Its soft, almost cloud like. Well today New Zealand Wool came to the Cloud in Auckland on the waterfront for the Shear Brilliance Exhibition. In September 2010 the Campaign for Wool initiative was launched by the HRH the Prince of Wales with a pretty simple goal: to highlight wool as a fibre that is an eco-friendly, comfortable, fashionable and durable option to cheaper and more disposable alternatives.
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We were fortunate enough to both help in creating, and attending the recent Kiwinet Investor Engagement workshop which Chairman of Plant and Food, Michael Ahie presented at. Michael presented as a primer before the pitches and for the local investment community. Special thanks to Daryl French for getting Michael to the Bay.
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About 80 keen local business people from around the Bay of Plenty braved an early morning start on Friday 27 July to hear Mark Pennington talk about the importance of design and innovation in business. Mark is one of New Zealand’s most highly awarded and commercially successful designers and design educators.
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Yesterday I attended a workshop run by Rob Adams on Market validation which was about how to go about validating market opportunities for new products and services.
Rob is strategic consultant and venture capitalist based in the US. Thanks to several New Zealand companies including IRL, the NZ Investment Fund and the Ice House, Rob was bought over to deliver a series of workshops up and down the country.
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The following principles were laid out by Mat Nalder during his recent designer in residence week with us. We alwasy love mat's work and it is great having him in the studio again.
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