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Cheap comfort

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Contributors

Hadyn Green, Stephen Goodenough, Esther Goh and Jacqui Gibson

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Revisited

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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.

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Be deconstructive

Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.

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Wiggs’ Way

Lance Wiggs helps solve your tricky business problems.

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American pie

Meet the ex-scientist who’s taking our humble meat pie to the gourmand streets of San Francisco

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The people's court opens for business

Warren and Mahoney's magnificent new Supreme Court in Wellington brings people to justice

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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?

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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.

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Walk this way

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Girl next door

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Play like a playa

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Labour of love

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Take a load off

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Time is of the essence

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Kaipai, car-pie

That drink holder in your car doesn’t need a drink. It needs pie.

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Sneakernomics

The sneaker. It’s a cheap canvas shoe with a cheap rubber sole—or at least it used to be.

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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

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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 Florence Noble.

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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.

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Casualties of coincidence

Adman James Hurman 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?

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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.

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Adventures into the unknown world of social media

A fun-but-serious, useful-but-free gift from the most productive man on the planet.

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No time to ponder

Sometimes you can think too much—so here’s a guide to help you stop.

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The little big things

Bestselling business writer Tom Peters has been watching some small Kiwi businesses.

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Mini’s big step

Cars have been sold the same way for decades. It's time for a grand experiment.

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Ban the banner

There's a place where the world's garbage collects. No—two places.

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In the picture

Computer-generated imagery is rendering a Hollywood industry right here.

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A right royal rein

Recent spending is a picture of restraint.

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Well, well, well

Innovation in New Zealand is on the decline. It's time to ask: do we really value new ideas?

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Rewired

It's a connected world, from our social networks to the cells between our ears.

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Pure futures

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Eat easy

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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

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A spoonful of sugar

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It's showtime!

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Greater than the sum of its parts

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Consumer rules

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Local brand, global reach

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New energy