From a card game designed to encourage literacy among kiwi kids, to colourful woollen shoes, and even an automated pest trap to protect native birds, the very best in design for 2016 has been announced.
The Best Design Awards is organised by the Designers Institute of New Zealand and recognises the strongest work produced in eight categories - spatial, product, graphic, moving image, interactive, best effect, public good and the Nga Aho Award, a category showcasing multi-cultural design collaboration.
The supreme winner in each discipline is awarded the Purple Pin and then there are Gold Pins, plus silver and bronze awards in different categories.
Designers Institute chief executive Cathy Veninga said: "The Best Design Awards celebrate not just the designers but their clients who have used design to achieve better outcomes for their businesses, their products, and the end users.
"Our design studios keep pushing boundaries with their eye for craft, ideas and innovation. Winners of the Best Design Awards become part of New Zealand's proud design history."