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How to have a great idea this summer—with tips from New Zealand’s most creative thinkers
Interact
6 Five Down
8 Contributors
Gena Tuffery, Rebekah White, Duncan Greive & Tane Williams
10 Revisited
14 West side stories
15 They funded me with science
16 Wiggs’ Way
Lance Wiggs helps with your tricky business problems
Now
18 The transporter
Anton Garland is on the hard road to automotive design—and is fixing Auckland’s traffic problems on the way.
20 Smooth operator
From kitchen stove to the world: Bernadette Soares takes on the waxing industry with an old family recipe
22 Taking fright
Filmmaker David Blyth completes his cult-horror trilogy after a 30-year hiatus in the Hollywood “sausage factory”
24 Freedom on three wheels
Chris Haverkort’s trikes are a cool alternative to wheelchairs for kids with cerebral palsy
30 Peter Gordon's wild west(end) adventure
Peter Gordon and partner Michael McGrath have embarked on their most ambitious venture yet: teaming up with fellow expats Brandon Allen and Adam Wills, founders of UK-wide Gourmet Burger Kitchen, to open Kiwi-themed restaurant Kopapa in the heart of London’s ultra-competitive West End. How will they sell that? And didn’t Gordon get the memo about food miles?
Gear
65 IdealGear
Design led delights
Features
68 Cracking the small time
Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali’s design house Special Problems became a music video powerhouse quite by accident. But as they tell Duncan Greive, they’re counterintuitively resisting expanding their business
74 Have a great idea this summer
The long summer days, the idle time, friends, a change of pace—it’s the perfect time to think up new ideas for the New Year. To get you started, we talk with some of New Zealand’s most serially creative ideas people. By Rebekah White
84 Raising Webstock
There’s nothing quite like Webstock. Perhaps that’s because it runs counter to everything the experts said a Kiwi web conference should be. By Haydn Green
88 The dummy's guide to the Hobbit dispute
What was that about? Denis Welch explains what really happened in Hobbitgate
Workshop
109 Books
Stephen Jewell on a turning point in human history, Kelly Bennett on the third man, Deirdre Robert on nutty houses, and Leonie Hayden on rock chicks
112 Playing covers
Cover art still sells albums
114 Berlin bred
A family-friendly German suburb shows the value of planning
115 The fling’s the thing
Stable relationships are a rare thing in agency-land
116 Is less more?
Two recent exhibitions reframe minimalism as a live conversation.
116 A measure of good-will
Treat-'em-mean only goes so far
118 Tax changes do the trick
At least for some
119 Roar of the amateurs
There's no pro business in show business
120 Parting shot
From the walls of Chauvet Cave in southern France
Plus
26 Pure vision
Steinlager Pure has stumped up close to $100,00 in funds to help the next generation of inspirational New Zealanders bring their visions to life.
33 Ten years of AUT
A milestone for our most innovative university
92 Reality check
99 Know thy customer
Today's customers are both savvy and fickle. So how do you build, maintain and improve relationships with your customers to give them a better service and ensure loyalty?
100 Now we're talking
In an age where technology rules, the most basic human instinct is still the need to talk.
102 Gathering intelligence
For a jump on the competition, there's nothing like a tailored end-to-end direct marketing campaign.
104 Secure a loyal following
Loyalty marketing as a customer strategy is on the brink of a new wave of growth and innovation.
106 Winning at a contact sport
Its been described as the holy grail of contact centres: cost-effective service operations, with superior service measured through customer feedback and customer satisfaction.
