Photo: Courtesy of ʻIolani SchoolThe new K-1 classrooms at ʻIolani School incorporate natural elements. Nearly 200 kindergarteners and first graders in urban Honolulu have begun their new school year in brand-new classrooms inspired—and surrounded—by nature. These classrooms have outdoor lanais, natural sunlight, gardening spaces and ceiling-to-floor windows…
This weekend, indulge in cocktails and midcentury modern design at Inspiration, catch the annual King Kamehameha lei draping, sip local craft beers, explore a super-sized cultural festival and travel back in time at a 1940s-themed festival in Chinatown. Got Friday off? Even…
Local designers and artists gathered at Kaka’ako Agora Thursday night to share their visions of a contemporary Hawaii, one free of the cliched coconut bras and tiki torches the world knows us by. The idea involved giving participants a white…
Kaka‘ako Agora, a huge, multipurpose space on Cooke between Auahi and Pohukaina streets, held a preview party on Sunday, the evening before its big debut. Headed by Interisland Terminal, the venue will be partnering with various community organizations to offer…
The designs are in, and it’s time for you to vote for your favorite SPAM Hawaii package design in the SPAM Hawaii package design contest.Voters can cast one vote per email address, and you and have until Friday, Feb. 25…
SPAM lover? Now’s your chance to design the next Hawaii SPAM can!Hormel Foods Corporation, the Minnesota-based maker of SPAM products, is holding a design contest open to any Hawaii-based graphic designer willing to take on the challenge.The winning design will…
With an onslaught of blog posts and mentions of last night’s premiere of the new “Hawaii Five-0”, you’re bound to find multiple reviews, story dissections and character breakdowns, which is cool, but I’m really no critic, so I’ll leave the…
It’s happened to the best of us — from the casual browser looking for car parts on eBay to the full-time, multi-tab launching power-user, it’s inevitable that you’ll stumble upon an error page (or four) while surfing the net.Page moved,…
