ECHOS Alumni Profile
Rebecca Nguyen
We often worry about what world we will leave for the next generations; worry about how our actions today will impact the new generations to come....
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ECHOS Alumni Profile
Why It’s Time To Capacitate Your Team In Design Thinking
The speed in which technology is improving and disrupting reality has never been greater. Because of it, companies across the world aren’t simply...
Designers Institute of NZ
Interview with Stephen McCarthy
Stephen McCarthy, PDINZ. Design Intervention Judging by the wealth of cool design work coming out of his thriving Christchurch studio, you’d...
Designers Institute of NZ
Interview with Milly Scott
Milly Scott, DINZ. Industry Insider Insights Milly Scott has a design career that’s flourishing. She’s part of the busy, multidisciplinary team...
What client's think
What client's think. A research report titled What client’s think has just been released. The report is based on 500 individual client...
What client's think
What client's think. A research report titled What client’s think has just been released. The report is based on 500 individual client...
From Air Mattress To Airbnb – A Case Study
When planning a trip away, chances are Airbnb is the first thing that pops into your mind when thinking about accommodation. The company, founded...
Getting It Wrong May Be Exactly What You Need
Look at the images below: What do they have in common? If you guessed that they were all picture failures, you guessed it right. These pictures can...
Who Will Be The Adult In The New Business Room?
Agencies like to say they “partner” with their clients, but what kind of partner lies to you or issues ultimatums? In today’s post I share...
The Design Conference
Stream Craig Black from #TDCbne18
Craig Black is a Scottish born graphic designer, lettering artist and typographer. Having spent the first few years of his career in leading design...
The Design Conference
A Driven Future
In the months leading into last years event, quietly and privately, we were hard at work launching the first official TDC Futures event. WTF is TDC...
We are the sum of our experiences
We are the sum of our experiences. We’ve been working with designers and studios to discover their ‘onlyness’. What they do differently to...
Watch, Listen, Read: Design & Inclusion In Every Medium
How can we design a society that is inclusive of everyone? What role does design plays in it? Below you’ll find a TED talk, a podcast, an article...
Design & Diversity: A Chat With Peta Wilkinson
Peta Wilkinson is, in her own words, “a people’s person”. She is a Diversity & Inclusion advocate, who has a long career working closely...
Clients behaving badly
Clients behaving badly. Clients are under increasing pressure to produce products and services quicker. This has caused them to short change...
More Than I Can Chew?
Podcast (noun): a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet. Last month we looked at...
A Chat With Cuca Righini: How To Create Empathic Connections With Peers
We are alive at a particularly fascinating time of history, where information travels fast and the internet created a platform for anyone to...
Female Leaders And The Lesson Of Disagreeing Productively
We’ve all heard the saying: “There’s always two sides to every story”, but the thing is, that’s not entirely true. Stories have many...
Super8
February
This month, Mel Bruning has collated eight eclectic articles all about communication in and out of the workplace. Our February selection is a mix...
What makes you distinctive to a client?
Marketing your personal journey. Some weeks, if we’re lucky, we learn something new. Might be from talking, or doing, or watching. Better still,...