NEWS : Biz.org.nz

If you havent checked out this site, it is chokka with info and advice about kiwi business: here’s the latest from their mail-out
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Check out the latest updates to biz, the Business Information Zone.

Tips on running a business from home
Homes are casual places by nature so it is important that when you work at home you create a proper working environment.
http://www.biz.org.nz/public/content.aspx?SectionID=40&ContentID=2124

9 steps for a better home-based business
You've got your home-based business up and running, now it needs the right care to grow. Read nine ideas to help you do this.
http://www.biz.org.nz/public/content.aspx?sectionid=40&contentid=1204

Workplace safety discounts
Some small businesses and self-employed people can apply for a discount on their levies, provided they can show good health and safety management systems.
http://www.biz.org.nz/public/content.aspx?sectionid=61&contentid=2137

For further information on government business services, compliance and business information, visit www.biz.org.nz

NEWS : Results from Global Design Survey

In June and July of this year the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business affairs conducted a web-survey that looked into the globalisation of the design industry and where that industry is headed in the future. We now forward the most important results to you.

A top ten list of the leading design nations: Top 10:

1 UK

2 Italy

3 USA

4 Netherlands

5 Denmark

6 Germany

7 Japan

8 Finland

9 Sweden

10 France

The survey showed that the following four design disciplines are expected to be the most important in the future. Digital and multimedia design gained almost twice as many votes as the runner up; Product and industrial design

1 Digital and multimedia design (+game design)

2 Product and industrial design

3 Communications design (+graphic design)

4 User centred innovation

The survey identified the following conditions to be the most important for growth in the design industry. Notice the emphasis on education and quality.

1 Improving education of designers

2 Presence of good design schools

3 Qualification of designers

4 Building up/improving networks for designers

5 The presence of knowledge centers

6 Government programs and investment

7 Varied demand for design

8 Public-private collaboration

9 National design brand

10 Improving patent rights for design

We thank you very much for your interest in this survey. The results will be used in a report published by the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business affairs. The report will unfortunately only be published in Danish.

Christian Løvenbalck Haxthausen National Agency of Enterprise and Construction The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs Tlf: +45 3546 6505 Mail: clh@ebst.dk

thanks to DINZ for this info

LECTURE : Patricia Moore, internationally renowned designer and gerontologist

Public Lecture by Patricia Moore

Wellington : 22 Sep 2006

VUW Schools of Architecture and Design, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington, Lecture Theatre 1

Friday 22 September, 6pm-7pm

OR Auckland : 13 Oct 2006

Venue: UNITEC School of Design.

Time: Friday 13 October, 6.00 -7.00 pm To be confirmed, plus venue.

Inquiries, please contact Dr. Cristiaan de Groot. Email cdegroot@unitec.ac.nz Phone: 09 8154321 ext.8778

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Patricia Moore, President of Moore Design Associates and Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Arizona State University is visiting New Zealand as the Southern Cross/NZiRA Visiting Fellow 2006.

Inquiries, please contact Natasha Perkins natasha.perkins@vuw.ac.nz, phone 04 463 6223

Patricia Moore is an internationally renowned designer and gerontologist, serving as a leading authority on consumer lifespan behaviour and requirements. For a period of three years (1979-1982), in an exceptional and daring experiment, Moore traveled throughout the United States and Canada disguised as women more than eighty years of age. With her body altered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging, she was able to respond to people, products, and environments as an elder.

Her broad range of experience includes Research, Product Development and Design, Environmental Design, Package Design, Transportation Design, Market Analysis, and Product Positioning for a wide range of international clients. Patricia is a frequent international lecturer, media guest, author of numerous articles, including the books DISGUISED: A True Story, The Business of Ageing [2005], and OUCH! Why Bad Design Hurts [in work].

Patricia has been internationally honored for her work, and is perhaps most well known for her work with OXO Good Grips??. She has been named by ID Magazine as one of The 40 Most Socially Conscious

Designers in the world and was selected in 2000, by a consortia of news editors and organizations, as one of The 100 Most Important Women in America. ABC World News featured Moore as one of 50 Americans defining the new millennium.

Patricia holds undergraduate degrees in Industrial & Environmental and Communication Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Awarded "Alumna of the Year" 1984), and graduate degrees in Psychology and Counseling and in Human Development (Social Gerontology) from Columbia University; Completion of Advanced Studies in Biomechanics at New York University's Medical School & Rusk Institute.

Patricia Moore's visit has been organised by The New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing (NZiRA) and made possible thanks to sponsorship from Southern Cross Healthcare. Patricia will be in New Zealand from mid-September to Mid-October this year. She will travel around the country making presentations on the design implications of population ageing and on 'inclusive design'.

DESIGN : The London Design Festival

Check out what is happening in all things design on the other side of the world at the London Design Festival
Includes some WICKED stuff from Jaime Haydon who has collaborated with camper shoes
The 100% design show for interior *bits*
And not forgetting one of my fav ramboling sites The Design Museum

EXHIBITION: Quoil 18 sept - 7 october

SKILLS: You Can Network your Way to Endless Referrals…

Half-day networking skills seminar
Wednesday 11 October 2006, 9.00 - 12.00pm
Wellington

Networking and referrals are very effective marketing strategies for any business. In this half day Networking Skills course you will develop the skills to network with confidence, by understanding how networking can work for you.
You will generate new business when you learn the 5 key steps that can make you a successful networker

The 5 key steps to become a successful networker:

1. The personality traits you need to develop to produce great results
Great networkers possess certain personality traits that ultimately bring them more referrals.
What are these traits?

2. What is your networking style?
There are several ways to approach networking – and some ways are more effective than others!

3. It’s what you do on a regular basis that counts
The preparation and background work which produces great results

4. What to do when you are at a networking event
Simple techniques for getting the most out of each event.
How do you break into groups? How do you get away? What do you talk about?

5. Networking groups and strategic alliances
Building relationships for mutual benefit

PLUS… You will also get the opportunity to network with attendees on the workshop

Who is this seminar for?
This course is aimed at people in work or business - plus people looking to set up in business - who would like to make effective use of networking as one of their marketing tools.

Why not start networking now, and forward this on to those you know who may be interested

Course facilitator:
Kim Chamberlain, MA Hons, NVQ, Dip CG, Dip FJ, ATM, APS
Kim is the Principal of Successful Speaking, a communications trainer, award-winning professional speaker and author. Kim understands the power of networking as a lead generating strategy

When Wednesday 11 October 2006, 9.00-12.00pm

Venue The Training Space, 5 Alpha Street , Wellington

Your Investment $195+gst per person
Includes course material and morning tea, and networking opportunity.

OR Book a group of 4 or more people and pay only $146.25+gst each

To register for this seminar:

• register online
• or email
• or phone 04 232 3726

CRAFTWERK : Auckland, October date announced

See you on the 5th october!

EXHIBITION : Best Awards, Wellington

come and check out NZs hottest Graphic Design of the year

I WANT ONE : a new marimekko mouse