Blog posts related to New Zealand

Alternative Design Suggestions For The New Zealand Flag

Kevin Bradford - Wednesday, October 28, 2015

With New Zealand moving ever closer to a referendum on whether it should change a key element of its national identity, we thought we'd 'flag' (apologies), some design suggestions our global community of creatives came up with. In case there is no stand-out candidate from the official selection to compete against the current flag, here is our Top 5 from our competition for consideration. Read more

Best Logo Designs from the Kapiti Coast Contest

Jo Sabin - Tuesday, April 30, 2013

New Zealand March 2013: The new Kapiti Coast Council logo was expensive and not universally loved by locals. So we launched the Kapiti Coast logo design contest to promote our design community's awesome creativity without the big guy budget. Check out these stunning unofficial alternative tourism logos for Kapiti Coast. Read more

DesignCrowd launches New Zealand crowdsourcing site

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Excellent news for New Zealanders - we have just launched DesignCrowd.co.nz. New Zealand now has a site dedicated to helping NZ businesses "crowdsource" creative projects to designers around the world. The New Zealand crowdsourcing service that will help New Zealand small businesses "crowdsource" graphic, logo and website design projects to designers around the world and help New Zealand designers find work from businesses in Australia, the UK and the US. Read more

20 Hot Startups from New Zealand

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Look out Silicon Valley, there is a buzzing startup scene in New Zealand. Just check out their leading world class incubators CREATIVE HQ and The ICEHOUSE and brilliant startups in NZ like Trade Me!  In this article we've rounded up 20 Top Startups from New Zealand.  Read more

30 Logos from New Zealand Companies & Organizations

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, October 11, 2011

New Zealand is a place that puts a huge amount of value in national symbols. The silver fern is the most prominent among these - as you'll see in this roundup, Kiwis find many ways to work the fern into their logographs, from the straight-up implementation in the All Blacks logo to the clever integration of grapes and fern in the New Zealand Wine logo. Others play on symbols of the Maori, the indi Read more

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