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The Daily News - Jun 2003 (452kb)
...The sleek and fashionable shells of the infopods and wayfinders were designed and made in Australia by Abuzz Technologies. The company this year won the Australian Design Award for the concept. Ms Porter said the reason for using products from across the Tasman was that there was nothing of a similar standard available in New Zealand...
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BACK TO TOPElle - Dec 2002 (327kb)
...Necessity may be the mother of all invention…but it helps if it looks good too, as these annual design awards attest...
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BACK TO TOPAssisting Australians Overseas- Feb 2002 (127kb)
...Maintaining high-quality help and advice to the traveling public in the face of steadily increasing demand is a challenge for the department. A key to our response is smarter use of technology...
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BACK TO TOPBusiness Review Weekly- Dec 2000 (139kb)
..Industrial designer Morgan Drew, director of Abuzz Technologies, Australia's second largest touch-screen kiosk manufacturer in Australia, found a good reason to design racy kiosks, which are also nominated for next year's awards...
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BACK TO TOPDynamic Small Business - Dec 2000 (371kb)
...Interactive kiosks were a relatively new concept. According to Drew, those available at the time were generally constructed without any sense of aesthetics or regard for the human interface. "I couldn't find a decent looking kiosk design anywhere in the world," he says, "Why should fantastic multimedia presentations be housed in ugly boxes or be difficult to use?"...
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BACK TO TOPMotor - Dec 2000 (74kb)
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BACK TO TOPeMag - Nov 2000 (94kb)
...Next time you're trancing out at the famed @Home nightclub in London, check out the curvaceous infostations, placed strategically in the chill-out areas. The idea is that you could see live video feeds from other clubs around the world and even communicate with clubbers in New York...
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BACK TO TOPAustralian Trade Community - Jul 2003 (100kb)
...New Plymouth District Council commissioned eighteen Zap kiosks, a design that won Abuzz an Australian Design Award earlier this year, for the project....
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BACK TO TOPThe Australian - May 2000 (353kb)
...Morgan Drew was a furniture designer who, when exhibiting at Designex four years ago, used a multimedia screen to display photographs of his work. When he got more inquiries about the screen than the furniture, he decided to swap fields...
