Read the Essay: Flagging the Flag
Rafe Hampson is a Wellington-based guitarist and occasional actor who plays water-polo and studies at Wellington College. His musical preferences are in the area of jazz, and his preferred areas of study are Latin, English, French and Art. He enjoys hanging with Mac, Oba and Jarvis, and has only recently shrugged off several years of being mistaken for Harry Potter. Rafe is thirteen.
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Read the Essay: New Zealand Flag Design, Waitangi Day 2006 (pdf)
Kevin Helas was born in the Waikato. He completed a BA in design at AUT before heading to London under a New Zealand Arts Council development grant to complete an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College. He has since worked as senior designer at leading London interactive design agency digit, and in-house designer at the V&A Museum, before setting up roger in 2003, a design consultancy working on strategic design projects in the UK and beyond.
Read the Essay: Should Australia Change its Flag
Rollo Kingsford-Smith joined the Royal Australian Air Force in July 1938 and was flying with 6 (General Reconnaissance) Squadron just one month after the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Rollo's family has a proud tradition of service to Australia in wartime. .
Rollo was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying with 463 Squadron.
Rollo stayed in the RAAF until April 1949, when he joined the aviation company Hawker de Havilland. He rose through the ranks to become Managing Director and Chairman of the Board, helping the company become a major exporter of aircraft components, as well as building jet fighters and trainers for the RAAF. He retired in 1990. For his dedication in developing Australian high-technology exports, Rollo was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1985.
Read the Essay: The New Zealand Flag
Jon Mayson is the Chief Executive of New Zealand's fastest growing port, the Port of Tauranga. As part of the Port of Tauranga's management team since 1988, Jon has been the driving force behind the development and expansion of the Port.
The key to the Port's success has been a disciplined focus on maintaining the core business and building growth. Some of the latest developments headed by Jon include the development of METROPORT in Auckland and a valuable alliance with Northland Port Corporation to develop a new deep-water port at Marsden Point.
Jon has been in the industry since 1972 in various roles, from marine pilotage and operational management through to his present position.
The Independent: Jon Mayson puts his stamp on Tauranga port
Read the Essay: A New Brand for New Zealand - or a New Zealand Visual Language?
Turi
Park is Creative Director for Native Limited, a creative services company.
Native has grown around Turi's skills and interests: on a foundation of
classical training he has built a strong repertoire in brand strategy
development, as well as sophisticated photo and typo-graphics. Following
extensive offshore experience, he has come home to a small team and the
New Zealand natural environment. Turi is also growing a reputation for
speaking out about the "cultural responsibilities" of the New
Zealand creative industries. In his spare time Turi can be found running
dogs on beaches, searching out wild places or designing the covers for
Tinity Roots albums.
Read the Essay: A Look Back and a Look Forward
Read the Essay: Canadian Experience
Dr Ian Prior graduated from Otago Medical School in 1946 and qualified as a
physician cardiologist working in London in 1952. Soon after he returned to
New Zealand where he set up epidemiological population studies among Pacific Island nations - research which led to considerable insights in to how
environmental and social factors could contribute to some of the major
health problems disclosed in these population groups. Since 1983, Dr Prior
has had a major involvement in the International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War. He has helped with the development of the
Environment and Conservation Organisation (ECO), been involved with the
highly important and successful Save Manapouri Campaign, as well as the
Overstayer issue, Abolition 2000 and the recent debate concerning the
merging of Air New Zealand and Qantas.
Read the Essay: Return of the Flutter Bug
As a graduate of the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design, Michael Smythe became Fisher and Paykel's first full-time, graduate industrial designer. Further experience with JASMaD Design preceded self-employment with Marks and Smythe Designers and then the Designforces partnership.
Service outside his own practice has included election to the executive of the New Zealand Society of Industrial Designers (and later the Designers Institute of New Zealand) with terms as secretary and president, appointment to the New Zealand Industrial Design Council and service with a number of tertiary design course advisory committees. In 1988 he took a step back from the front line to work for three years as the inaugural Executive Director of the Designers Secretariat - established by NZSID.
Michael Smythe and Helen Schamroth established CREATIONZ Consultants in 1991 offering professional services in product development and visual communications as well as research, writing and strategic advice related to design and the visual arts. Michael has recently completed a Master of Design Management degree at Unitec.
Read the Essay: Eight Reasons to Change the New Zealand Flag
Brian
Sweeney is co-founder and executive editor of The New Zealand Edge. He
is a business thinker, producer, writer, editor, adviser and company director.
He graduated with a Political Science degree from Waikato University in 1979. There he edited the notorious student newspaper Nexus. He was awarded the Blackwood Paul Prize for New Zealand studies by the university.
His first career was as an entrepreneur, producer and agent in the entertainment business in New Zealand and Australia (rock music, blues, performance, vaudeville, film, jazz, theatre, dance), culminating in winning the 1988 Grand Jury Prize at the Clement Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, for Stalin’s Sickle (as producer with Costa Botes).
Since 1993 Brian Sweeney has been part of the influential TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference in Monterey California convened by information architect Richard Saul Wurman. Sweeney is an expert in the business and marketing benefits offered by converging telecommunications, computing and media technologies. He has presented technologists and the heads of leading US development labs to New Zealand audiences. Today he is co-director and co-founder (in 1987) of SVL, a firm providing advice, strategy, communications and resources to corporate organisations and brands throughout New Zealand, and the world.
In a private capacity, he is partner with Kevin Roberts in the idea of The New Zealand Edge and their website www.nzedge.com. He lives in New Zealand with his family .
Read the Essay: A Flag to Die for...
Hon Hugh Templeton QSO studied history at Otago University, is a former Rhode Scholar and is a former Cabinet Minister (1975-84), having been elected to Parliament in 1969. He is well known for his instrumental role in negotiating New Zealand's Closer Economic Relationship with Australia in 1979-83. A former diplomat, he has extensive experience in the Foreign Service and as a representative for New Zealand to the United Nations. Hon Hugh Templeton is presently Chairman of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery and the author of a number of recently published books.