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Kiwi Made: Idealog #28, on sale from July 24th at good stores everywhere.
Interact
8 Cheap comfort
10 Contributors
Hadyn Green, Stephen Goodenough, Esther Goh and Jacqui Gibson
12 Revisited
16 Animated tales
Pixar senior animator Andrew Gordon is making his way down under for SP10 in August. We caught him in June to ask about the future of Andy, Buzz and Mr Incredible.
17 Be deconstructive
Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.
18 Wiggs’ Way
Lance Wiggs helps solve your tricky business problems.
Now
22 American pie
Meet the ex-scientist who’s taking our humble meat pie to the gourmand streets of San Francisco
24 The people's court opens for business
Warren and Mahoney's magnificent new Supreme Court in Wellington brings people to justice
28 Change agent
You know the television scene is getting weird when TVNZ launches a new channel on Sky’s pay platform. But Eric Kearley, the broadcaster’s new head of digital, reckons it heralds a new age of co-operation in New Zealand media. Others say TVNZ is already irrelevant. So is Kearley just rearranging the deckchairs?
Gear
34 Baby bunnies to pound powder on fat Kiwi skis
Why should grown-ups have all the fun? Boutique company Kingswood Skis is pioneering a range of fat kids' skis. No, not skis for fat kids, but fat skis for ordinary kids.
35 Girl next door
35 Play like a playa
35 Walk this way
36 Time is of the essence
36 Take a load off
36 Labour of love
36 Kaipai, car-pie
That drink holder in your car doesn’t need a drink. It needs pie.
Features
40 Sneakernomics
The sneaker. It’s a cheap canvas shoe with a cheap rubber sole—or at least it used to be.
46 Jump starter
When Keith Alexander realised a childhood dream and reinvented the trampoline, he also created a global business and relaxed thousands of nervous parents. By Amanda Cropp
52 Camera never lies
Roseanne Liang directs her first feature film—based on her own life and starring two kung-fu movie veterans. No pressure, says .
56 Through the crossroads
Talk about turning the corner: a major illness turned hairdresser Rebecca Herring into an artist and then a fashion designer. By Amanda Cropp.
64 Casualties of coincidence
Adman knows what it’s like to be branded a plagiarist—and why we're so quick to believe that a ‘fresh’ idea is actually a cheap rip-off. Why, then, do so many ideas emerge at the same time from different places?
Workshop
87 Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers
Is the record of the Finn brothers to date a “massive injustice”? Author Jeff Apter says yes; the brothers say nothing.
87 Adventures into the unknown world of social media
A fun-but-serious, useful-but-free gift from the most productive man on the planet.
88 No time to ponder
Sometimes you can think too much—so here’s a guide to help you stop.
89 The little big things
Bestselling business writer Tom Peters has been watching some small Kiwi businesses.
90 Mini’s big step
Cars have been sold the same way for decades. It's time for a grand experiment.
92 Ban the banner
There's a place where the world's garbage collects. No—two places.
93 In the picture
Computer-generated imagery is rendering a Hollywood industry right here.
94 A right royal rein
Recent spending is a picture of restraint.
95 Well, well, well
Innovation in New Zealand is on the decline. It's time to ask: do we really value new ideas?
96 Rewired
It's a connected world, from our social networks to the cells between our ears.
Plus
28 The road warrior returns with kit and kaboodle
Promotion: Awarding-winning photographer Chris McLennan and HP make a world-beating combination. Here's how.
32 Pure futures
50 Eat easy
72 A designer's job now is designing trust, because no else is doing it
Creating trust ought to be the leading task of designers right now—trust in products, trust in people and trust in the idea that change is for the better
74 A spoonful of sugar
76 It's showtime!
78 Greater than the sum of its parts
80 Consumer rules
82 Local brand, global reach
84 New energy
