Back to Blog

SHARD SELECTS VOL 3

SHARD SELECTS VOL 3 is here to fuel your next workout! Packed mainly with hard house, techno, and trance, it’s been the go-to gym tool for the team at Shard to get the body moving in 2025.Pop in those ear pods, crank up the volume, and get after it!Check out the playlist here!  - SHARD SELECTS VOL 3...

VITOOL® NOW AVAILABLE FROM NZ’S TOP RUGBY SUPPLIER

Exciting Announcement! 📢 Shard Studios is excited to announce our partnership with RHINO/POWA Rugby as official VITOOL® distributors!With decades of expertise, POWA Rugby has built a solid reputation as a global leader in rugby innovation and equipment manufacturing - “Changing the game – since the 1980s.”We’re proud to partner with such a respected brand and bring VITOOL® to more players and teams across New Zealand and around the world. Equipping them with the tool, so they can PR...

TOM TALKS VITOOL® WITH RUGBYPASS

Thomas Martin Talks VITOOL with RugbyPass!

As Shard Studios wraps up an incredible first year, Founder Thomas Martin discusses rugby innovation, design, and the future of VITOOL with RugbyPass.
Click the link to read the full article! - https://www.rugbypass.com/news/injury-breeds-opportunity-for-waikato-entrepreneur/...

SHARD SELECTS VOL 2

This playlist which includes music from Jeigo to John Frusciante, and everything in between. It’s got it all!A mixed selection of electronic, ambient and uptempo tunes that have been helping the Shard Studios team get through all recent projects and VITOOL assembly.Check out the playlist here! -  SHARD SELECTS VOL 2 ...

LIFE AT SHARD STUDIOS

The past few months have flown by at Shard Studios.From the official launch of my very first product - VITOOL, being asked to speak to the Year 13 Business students at Hamilton Boys' High School, running pop-up shops around New Zealand, seeing amateur and professional rugby players using VITOOL’s on sidelines all around the world, to being invited onto TVNZ Breakfast. The start of this journey has been very fulfilling. It's been largely about learning as much as I can from people I meet a...

KIOSK X SHARD STUDIOS POP UP

Discover the Future of Sport and Design at the Kiosk x Shard Studios Pop-Up Shop. On Sunday, June 16th, Shard Studios will be partnering with Kiosk Design Store in Newmarket, Auckland, for an unforgettable one-day pop-up event!Immerse yourself in the dynamic fusion of sport and industrial design as we showcase the cutting-edge VITOOL - The world’s first multi-tool designed specifically for rugby and football players!...

VITOOL LAUNCH PARTY

Time to dust off your favourite footy jersey! Join us at Norm Taps on Saturday June 1st for the Shard Studios VITOOL Launch Party!FREE ENTRY, live Super Rugby, music all night long by Two-Step, and your chance to check out the world’s first rugby multi-tool!📅 SAT JUNE 1st 2024⏰ 4PM - LATE📍NORMA TAPS - City Works Depot, Auckland CBDTHE RUN SHEET_ 4PM - WARM UP4:35PM - HURRICANES VS HIGHLANDERS6:00PM - TWO-STEP DJ SET 7:05PM - BLUES VS CHIEFS8:30PM - TWO-STEP (ALL NIGHT LONG)LA...

MAY MEDIA!

SHARD STUDIOS Media articles from the month of May 2024...

'REEL TAILS WITH SWEENS' PODCAST

Tom Martin sits down with with professional rugby player of nearly 20 years, Dwayne Sweeney. - Beyond his impressive rugby career, Dwayne wears multiple hats as a coach, motivational speaker and the host of his podcast. 'Reel Tails with Sweens'.Check out: Episode Forty Four : Tom Martin - Balance & Creativity "We cover a range of topics such as how his frustration in a rugby changing room pregame led to his world’s first multi tool for rugby and football players.We also discuss t...

SHARD SELECTS VOL 1

Music plays a special part at Shard Studios...Shard Selects Volume One - A playlist full of some of our favourite Techno, UKG and House tunes to fuel your next project, pre-game routine, Watt-Bike session or broken bronco.It's the audible equivalent of three coffees - sure to get you going like the clappers.Hit the link belowhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AdEQOPlw0omkpWeeFJSnD?si=d26659ac237e4e7c...

HOW IT STARTED.

Time out with a knee injury increased Waikato rugby player Tom Martin’s drive to complete his design degree and develop his own rugby products.Published 6 December 2022Hamilton-based Tom is back in Wellington this week to graduate with his Bachelor of Design Innovation and have a much-awaited catch-up with course mates.He has been looking forward to receiving his degree after a series of metaphorical hard tackles threatened to derail his progress.COVID-19 and extended quarantine measures meant...

'VITOOL' IS HERE!

Trialled and tested by players in The All Blacks, Black Ferns, All Blacks XV, NZ Under 20’s, Chiefs Super Rugby and U20’s, Waikato NPC and FPC teams, and Waikato Premier Club teams. 'VITOOL' is here.In New Zealand alone there are over 5,000 Rugby Union games played each week involving over 160,000 players, 13,000 coaches, and approximately 1.92 Million boot sprigs that dig into the grass and dirt.These sprigs constantly need replacing and changing.Rugby, football players, and team ma...