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Fisher & Paykel industrial designers Ting Yang and Neil Robinson cook a Chinese stir-fry meal in the firm's new Dunedin test kitchen in 2009. The designers were cooking their own lunch so they could better understand how to get the best out of the products they designed. 

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 29 August 2009, p. 25

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Michael Smythe, Industrial design – Going global: the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41863/designers-for-fisher-paykel (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Smythe, published 12 June 2013.