News from the Otago Institute of Design
| Lifelike displays installed(Otago Daily Times, 14/12/2010) Otago Polytechnic staff and students have joined forces to develop displays simulating life as it was in Dunedin when the bus station foyer in the Otago Settlers Museum building, formerly the New Zealand Railways building, opened in 1940. |
| Solar Action Trailor Hits the Road(Otago Daily Times 11/10/2010) The Otago Polytechnic's Centre for Sustainable Practice is undertaking a biodiesel-fuelled national roadshow tour to promote the launch of its new educational qualification. |
| Polytech partner in collaboration(Otago Daily Times 21/07/2010) Otago Polytechnic is one of the founding partners in a collaborative national network promoting polytechnic services to industry. |
| Dunedin designer's shot at the big time(Otago Daily Times 7/07/2010) Dunedin designer Amber Bridgman (31) has a chance at the big time by earning a place for her designs on the runway of the country's biggest annual fashion event, New Zealand Fashion Week, in Auckland this September. |
| Redevelopment over 12 years for Otago Polytech(Otago Daily Times 6/02/2010) Renovation plans to demolish the Art School location on Anzac Ave. and build a location to house over 1000 art, engineering and horticulture students. |
| Interactive show project to bear fruit(Otago Daily Times 19/01/2010) The Otago Museum and Otago Polytechnic have joined forces to develop an interactive science exhibition which will soon be showcased to potential overseas buyers at a conference in Dunedin. |
| Polytech's sustainable house sold for $176,000(Otago Daily Times 30/11/2009) The Waikouaiti 70-year-old bought the Otago Polytechnic's sustainable house at an auction run by Metro Realty on Saturday. |
| Couple set efficiency standard with low-energy home(Otago Daily Times 21/11/2009) Many people like the idea of building a low-energy house to keep their heating costs and power bills down; Golden Bay couple Lawrence and Antje McIntyre have gone the whole way and actually built one. |
| Polytech house shows sustainable way forward(Otago Daily Times 21/11/2009) Last year, Otago Polytechnic won a Ministry for the Environment contract to run Shac 09, a competition to encourage designers, builders and suppliers to produce affordable and practical sustainable homes. |
| Hundreds of Millions of reasons to smile(Otago Daily Times 15/08/2009) The Otago Polytechnic Product Development Centre and Design graduate Griff Humphreys have helped Dunedin architect replicate his 75,000sq m building worth hundreds of millions of dollars for a Chinese client. |
| New Direction for Fashion Incubator(Otago Daily Times 17/06/2009) The Dunedin Fashion Incubator has a new home, a new manager and a new plan for nurturing fashion businesses during the recession.
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| Dunedin designer on brink of US market(Otago Daily Times 21/04/2009) Dunedin designer Sarah Macdonald's passion for hunting, fishing and outdoor life has led to a remarkable career path which seems soon to take a giant leap forward. |
| Dunedin designer Reveley grows with iD fashion show(Otago Daily Times 4/04/2009) From a spiky-haired new graduate in 2003 to a sophisticated designer in 2009, Reveley (27) knows the publicity from the event, in which she has featured for six years in a row, has helped her develop her business and form her approach to designing. |
| Institute joint effort designed to 'do more'(Otago Daily Times 19/01/2009) Alistair Regan has been appointed the Group Manager of the Otago Institute of Design. Alistair's vision is to become a leading facility of Design in New Zealand, while helping grow the design programme at the Otago Polytechnic. |
| The SHAC '09 entrants(Otago Daily Times 29/12/2008) The entrants in The Sustainable Habitat Challenge '09. |
| Building for a better future(Otago Daily Times 23/12/2008) Earlier this year, Otago Polytechnic won the tender to organise the Sustainable Habitat Challenge '09, a competition encouraging tertiary institutions to team up with architects, builders, product suppliers, community groups and local authorities to design and build sustainable and environmentally-friendly houses. |
| New fund will help the entrepreneurial(Otago Daily Times 23/12/2008) A Dunedin business couple are the first recipients of assistance from Otago Polytechnic's Evolver project fund. |
| Designer creating clothes for the outdoors girl(Otago Daily Times 16/04/2008) Trudging along in the great outdoors in ill-fitting clothes will soon be a thing of the past, says a Dunedin designer who is releasing a new clothing line for the female hunter. |
Challenge to create eco-homes(Otago Daily Times 22/02/2008) Tim Bishop is hoping to see innovative, environmentally friendly houses taking shape all over New Zealand next year. |
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