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100 New Zealand Design Heroes

I was asked by Dorenda Britten to write an article about New Zealand design heroes for her designindustry site. "Of course," I said, knowing immediately I did not have the time. "When in doubt - or short of time - do a list," so here is my list of 100 New Zealand "design" heroes.

There are few "designers" on the list; what everyone shares is an edge aesthetic that for me is what design is all about.

Edge is about how the periphery influences the centre by way of new ideas, new forms and new aesthetics. Beautiful global ideas and performance achievements laced with edge.

My New Zealand design heroes are a broad group of innovators who inspire the view that creativity, originality and performance are embedded in our culture. Here are just over 100 people from both our history and contemporary life who in their own ways have been world-changing.

Each person is linked to their principal Google reference or to the nzedge.com essay on them.

Brian Sweeney, producer, New Zealand Edge www.nzedge.com


Alexander Aitken	- design of calculation
Rewi Alley	- design of working together
Hugh Anderson	- design of grand prix
Ian Axford	- design of astrophysics
Brian Barrett-Boyes	- design of the heart
Jean Batten	- design of flying
James K Baxter	- design of soul
Clarence Beeby	- design of education
Peter Blake	- design of circumnavigation
Godfrey Bowen	- design of the wool clip
Brian Brake	- design of the image
John Britten	- design of speed
Thomas Brydone	- design of export
Bill Buckley	- design of ion beams
Robert Burchfield	- design of language
Paul Callaghan	- design of nanotechnology
Bob Charles	- design of the golf
Don Clarke	- design of goal-kicking
Marie Clay	- design of reading
Leslie Comrie	- design of computation
Michael Corballis	- design of the brain
Morton Coutts	- design of beer
Russell Coutts	- design of match-racing
Geoffrey Cox	- design of journalism
Russell Crowe	- design of performance


Alan Curnow	- design of verse
William Davidson	- design of export
Robert Dickie	- design of postal technology
Roger Douglas	- design of the open market
Gordon Dryden	- design of learning
Bruce Farr	- design of sailing
Finn Brothers	- design of anthems
Sean Fitzpatrick	- design of captaincy
Bob Fitzsimmons	- design of the punch
Janet Frame	- design of experience
Bill Gallagher	- design of the electric fence
Rosalie Gascoigne	- design of the sign
Harold Gillies	- design of the face
Max Gimblett	- design of painting
Ernest Godward	- design of internal combustion
Peter Gluckman	- design of birth
AJ Hackett	- design of adrenalin
Richard Hadlee	- design of the fast ball
Bill Hamilton	- design of going up-river
Hone Heke	- design of the siege
Edmund Hillary	- design of altitude
Te Rangi Hiroa	- design of ethnicity
Francis Hodgkins	- design of painting
Fred Hollows	- design of eyesight
William Hudson	- design of hydro-electricity


Denny Hulme	- design of championship
Keri Hulme	- design of the bone people
Witi Ihimaera	- design of myth
Peter Jackson	- design of epics
Vaughan Jones	- design of mathematics
Roy Kerr	- design of the black hole
David Lange	- design of nuclear free
Lucy Lawless	- design of the warrior princess
Jonah Lomu	- design of thrill
Jack Lovelock	- design of victory
David Low	- design of political satire
Arthur Lydiard	- design of fitness
Len Lye	- design of kinetic energy
Alan MacDiarmid	- design of conductive polymers
Colin McCahon	- design of identity
Bruce McLaren	- design of Formula 1
Margaret Mahy	- design of children
Katherine Mansfield	- design of story
Ngaio Marsh	- design of the sleuth
Colin Meads	- design of rugby
Tex Morton	- design of entertainment
Ivan Mauger	- design of speedway
Bert Munro	- design of the fastest Indian
Colin Murdoch	- design of pain relief
Joseph Nathan	- design of export
Keith Park	- design of battle
Richard Pearse	- design of flight


William Pickering	- design of space flight
Bill Phillips	- design of economics
Te Rauparaha	- design of the Haka
Bill Robertson	- design of quake resistance
Ernest Rutherford	- design of the universe
Kate Sheppard	- design of suffrage
Joseph Sinel	- design of design
Sydney Smith	- design of forensic medicine
Peter Snell	- design of the 1500m
Bert Sutcliffe	- design of the stroke
Ronald Syme	- design of history
Angus Tait	- design of electronics
Jeff Tallon	- design of superconductors
Kiri Te Kanawa	- design of the aria
Beatrice Tinsley	- design of the cosmos
Titokowaru	- design of guerilla warfare
Mark Todd	- design of equestrian
Charles Upham	- design of fearlessness
John Walsh	- design of the dental drill
Nancy Wake	- design of resistance
Robert Webster	- design of viruses
Wilson Whineray	- design of captaincy
Anthony Wilding	- design of Wimbledon
Harold Williams	- design of linguistics
Yvette Williams	- design of the long jump
Maurice Wilkins	- design of DNA
Alan Wilson	- design of evolution
Douglas Wright	- design of dance