2008-10-10 14:52:43 // Graham Reid
// Idealog #17: features
South Koreans are reinventing Seoul, inspired by the world’s most liveable cities, and even the US Army is getting out of their way. Graham Reid asks why Koreans can unite to build the ‘lifestyle capital of the East’ when New Zealanders struggle to build a football stadium
2008-10-03 13:17:21 // Karryn Cartelle
// Idealog #17: features
Terrie Lloyd couldn’t speak a word of Japanese when he arrived in Tokyo, so he started a translation company. Now he’s at the head of a multimillion-dollar publishing and technology empire. Karryn Cartelle meets the Kiwis running Japan Inc
2008-04-04 14:11:28 // Lauren Bartlett
// Idealog #14: features
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Forget cast-offs, hand-me-downs and the fashions of yesteryear, ‘re-designers’ are turning forgotten gems into something new and desirable. Lauren Bartlett meets the Kiwis creating born-again-ware
2008-02-21 11:29:27 // Bette Flagler
// Idealog #13: features
Our kiwifruit industry was built by combining the Chinese gooseberry with Kiwi know-how. Now a New Zealand company is returning the favour, working with Chinese growers to raise the plants needed for its natural, healthy sweetener. But they need to step carefully, reports Bette Flagler—Big Sugar is watching
2007-12-21 12:40:14 // Karryn Cartelle
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Karryn Cartelle finds the Kiwis on the floor at the massive Tokyo Design Week
2007-11-02 18:26:39 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #12: features
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China’s Mayland Design Exchange—MayDE to its friends—is marrying our creative can-do with their manufacturing know-how. Could ‘MayDE with New Zealand’ be just what ‘Made in China’ needs? Idealog finds out. Plus: How Kiwi students are designing answers to Chinese lifestyle problems.
2007-10-02 20:22:02 // Lauren Bartlett
// Idealog #11: now
Apparently, not all our textile innovation went into the All Blacks’ World Cup jumper. Orca has designed the world’s first breathable wetsuit, which expels heat and moisture while keeping the ocean at bay. “We had a lot of triathletes coming to us asking, ‘Is there any way you can make cooler wetsuits’, so we tried to work out a way to make it happen,” say Simon Kenny of Orca
