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Paint it black
Kiwis can be a miserable bunch. We like our humour as black as our art. Our captains of industry expect the sky to fall at any time and we’re cast into national gloom when we lose a rugby match. Enough! It’s time to lighten up, says . Plus the science of happiness and turning gloom to zoom
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The last great showman
Roy Meares has wowed and wooed consumers for over 30 years. What drives one of the last of the old-school admen to keep the hits coming? reports. Plus the art of the pitch
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If it only had a heart
Can heartless Auckland be given a beating creative centre? Expat developer Peter Cooper thinks so. In the biggest property deal in New Zealand history, Cooper and company plan to turn Auckland’s derelict Britomart precinct into a centre of retail, commercial and residential creativity. asks if Aucklanders are ready. Plus the search for civilisation
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Shaken and stirred
Microsoft global CEO Steve Ballmer talks exclusively to Idealog about ideas, innovation and the infuriating iPod. By
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Idea idol
High-energy production company Television Spaceman creates a TV show to encourage innovation by kids and to sell to the world
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How to ... protect your ideas
A great idea is worth defending—but how? Idealog talks to inventors, entrepreneurs and IP experts
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March-April 2006
Audi designer Wolfgang Egger brings the A5 Sportback to life right in front of our eyes. It’s all about three lines, apparently, but those three lines have been obsessed over. Enjoy the autospeak: the rear comes complete with both accent and elbow.
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Unfortunately it is not just red tape - it is also the laid back kiwi attitude, compounded by educators who think achieving national standards is a bad thing.
The target of higher GDP per capita is all wrong. Aiming for it encourages more production and consumption, often at the expense of quality of life. We need to construct a Genuine Progress Index (GPI) to guide policy. Fr …
"You got caught up in events at EMI.." and yet shes STILL with EMI - their local branch is distributing her new album. Wonder why?
I blogged some more of Hollies comments on the details behind the fallout …
Brilliant, insightful article, VH.
This situation has principally arisen because - simplistically - the world no longer wants what we are intrinsically advantaged in supplying.
And yeah, it doesn't look like our co …