Edward Prince Furniture Design - Links
The following links are for your interest in aspects of furniture, design, creativity and business:
Design organizations
UK based collective containing the best of the best british furniture designers and makers
http://www.designermakers.org.uk/FrontPage.html
Collective of high quality New Zealand based crafts people
http://www.craftinfo.org.nz/
New Zealand directory or craftspeople
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/new_zealand.html
Designers institute of New Zealand
http://www.dinz.org.nz/
Timber supplers
Suppliers of quality solid timbers, great learning center on their website
http://www.timspec.co.nz/
Suppliers of a range of quality timber products
http://www.bbstimbers.co.nz/
Stockists of New Zealand Grown timbers
http://www.rarefind.co.nz/
Hardware
Suppliers of quality hardware, fittings and a huge choice of handles for all applications
http://www.hafele.co.nz/
http://www.hettich.co.nz/nz/index.htm
Sustainability
Australian Forestry Standard. a not-for-profit Australian company who developed, own and manage the Australian Forest Certification Scheme.
http://www.forestrystandard.org.au
Eco Timber currently operating in the Solomon Islands to encourage locals to adopt FSC certification principals. Some of the main benefits of this scheme is more profit is returned to the local community, and a lot less damage is done to forests.
http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/campaigns/ancient-forests/protecting-paradise-forests/eco-forestry
FSC.
Forest Sterwardship Council. The most well-known Certification Scheme. An international organisation established to promote responsible management of the world's forests
www.fsc.org
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes
an umbrella scheme that endorses other Forestry Certification Schemes. It maintains a list of standards which other schemes when aligned will be sold/traded as PEFC Certified.
www.pefc.org
New Zealand Retailers
Those stocking my products and those of other New Zealand designers and craftspeople
Business
Great resource for anyone in business in the waitakere area for training and networking
http://www.waitakereenterprise.co.nz/
Creative online design, web site development and hosting services.
http://www.korumedia.com
Creative thinking
Directory of creative thinking techniques and tools
http://www.mycoted.com/Category:Creativity_Techniques
Lots of interesting articles on all aspects of creativity
http://www.enchantedmind.com/
Site with lots of interesting articles on increasing our mental performance from the scientific to esoteric
http://www.increasebrainpower.com/brainexercises.html
Optical illusions
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Education
For those people who want to learn how to make furniture
http://www.centre-for-fine-woodworking.co.nz/