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Editorial

A safe pair of parties

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Contributors

Andrew Smith, Cassie Doherty, Rosie Bosworth & Greg Wilson

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Mailbag

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Revisited

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Slow journey

Sculptor Joe Sheenan describes his work as an exercise in sitting still

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Who's a clever bastard, then?

A round-up of our artistic types

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Myself, ourselves

Musicians are managing themselves and inspiring each other

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Sweet nectar

Redemption for fruit wines

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O for awesome

Trevf prints a history lesson on your chest

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Cleaning up

The big world of small person’s products

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Not available in floral

Helping parents gain back some street cred

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Shooting stars

For the person who has everything: golf balls from space

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Peri, possum

Peri Drysdale risked her life savings on high-tech—and beat the machine

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Sweet Cybèle

With daring slashes and loud inserts‚ Cybèle Wiren’s clothes aren’t exactly polite. But their creator most certainly is. And as our latest export winner‚ that could be a very good thing. By Gena Tuffery

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Lab rats

Despite the perception of science as a dull and dusty undertaking, Priv Bradoo and other young Kiwis are collaborating, commercialising and capturing our imagination. Lauren Bartlett meets the new rock stars of New Zealand science. Plus those that lead the way

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The sound man

The music biz is struggling, but Mikee Tucker is always ready to take a punt. His Loop label sells indie Kiwi music adorned with the labels of megabrands. He‘s packaged music with t-shirts, AA Memberships and broadband, bought rights to Aerosmith and Nirvana and opened an office in LA. Peter Griffin charts Loop’s hits and misses

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Brew town

A chance meeting in the depths of the Pureora forest between a Dutch traveller and a Fijian brewer could make a decent a-man-walked-into-a-bar joke. Instead, the meeting led to a business exporting a uniquely New Zealand beer. Lauren Bartlett reports

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Not as good as the movie

Evaluating 30 years of Kiwi film

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Scientific discovery

A big book of Kiwi science

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Books in brief

Disruptive education and the new green

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See Jane run

Must we fuel the psychosis of the natural-born killers of calm?

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Looking over the horizon

Today’s ‘eco-friendly’ designs just delay the inevitable. It’s time to plan ahead

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First steps

We’re transfixed by the problem of climate change. Where to start?

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Listing, heavily

A plea: stop trying to impose order on music

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Selling trust

Everyone is spinning you a line—but truth can be found in unlikely places

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Tune up your ideas

Even companies with great ideas usually don’t know how to analyse them

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Make websites work

When NASA asks you to help organise its information, you must be doing something right: New Zealand consultants Optimal Usability has been propelled into the galactic market with its simple online tool

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Browser emptor

The ad is an established art, but now it has a new venue

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Venture forth

The hallmarks of survivors

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IdealGear

Idealog’s pick of design-led delights

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Creative showcase

The future of advertising | Advertising and marketing may be changing—with multiple channels, multiple providers—but the future of the storytellers and idea merchants remains secure