Project Glow on the Runway

A few weeks ago we pre­viewed the gar­ments and accessor­ies cre­ated for Pro­ject Glow, a fash­ion com­pet­i­tion for reflect­ive gear. Last Sat­urday even­ing we atten­ded the Wel­ling­ton show (the Auck­land show is on Sat­urday 26th, tick­ets here). Right now it’s hard to com­pete with all those lus­cious bur­ger pho­tos here on The Wel­ling­tonista, so we think we […]

Preview: Project Glow

At a pos­sibly not-that-secret loc­a­tion in the heart of Te Aro, The Wel­ling­tonista was invited to pre­view the entrants for this year’s Pro­ject Glow. We had to tap on the win­dow to gain entrance, and while there only man­aged to take the blur­ri­est of pho­tos. That’s because the judges were busy at work; and we […]

The Open Space Plan

While the shape of this city is a curse for trans­port­a­tion plan­ners, it is a bless­ing for any­one who even just occa­sion­ally wants to get out­side, because the city’s edges are close by and full of oppor­tun­ity. We don’t all take advant­age of this though. There’s lots of good and bad reas­ons why people don’t, […]

Walking, 7:05am

Wel­ling­ton is often a good city for walk­ing: some would even say it’s bet­ter for walk­ing than cyc­ling.