2011-10-26 09:39:19 // Sarah Robson
// Idealog #35: workshop
Henry Kissinger's definitive account of US-China relations is fascinating, though bogged down in detail.
2011-10-25 13:02:11 // Idealog
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Talk about a quick turnaround – the official NZRU and RWC commemorative celebration book of Sunday’s All Blacks win will be in shops on Thursday, less than a week after the Rugby World Cup final.
2011-10-19 13:25:35 // Sarah Robson
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Father-and-son team Lance and James Morcan have been pretty busy of late – they’ve just had two of their co-written novels published and two of their feature films released offshore – but creative roadblocks have stymied their "passion project".
2011-09-28 11:50:29 // Esther Goh
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Auckland-based author-turned-publisher Jill Marshall is taking on traditional publishing houses with Pear Jam Books.
2011-09-14 15:12:21 // Idealog
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It comes wrapped in plastic, but the content is definitely G-rated. Taschen's new tome on making wicked websites is helpful, but also heavy.
2011-09-13 10:01:09 // StopPress Team
Contrary to popular belief, PR is not just about crisis management or pushing products. So in an effort to show what the business is actually all about – and how it can be used effectively – the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) has released the first ever New Zealand Public Relations Case Studies e-book, which tells the tales of 26 PRINZ Award winners and entrants from 2011.
2011-08-26 15:29:09 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog #34: workshop
Could a fully recyclable performing vessel be engineered almost entirely out of reclaimed plastic bottles, cross the Pacific while demonstrating real world solutions?
2011-08-22 14:24:19 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #34: workshop
Since the GFC, a lot has been written about the demise of capitalism. But its death is exaggerated.
2011-07-04 12:41:26 // Mike Hutcheson
// Idealog #34: workshop
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Muggles control the money and therefore have the power of life and death over things like, er, advertising.
2010-12-08 09:26:26 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog #30: workshop
With over 100 innovative projects from over 200 countries, sustainable design can look mighty impressive and sophisticated.
2010-11-30 10:38:21 // Simon Young
// Idealog #30: workshop
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For thousands of years living standards remained much the same, but in the early 1800s all that changed for Western nations. Why?
2010-10-20 17:34:08 // Su Yin Khoo
// Idealog #29: workshop
Ray Avery's memoir is an honest-to-goodness tale about how with the right attitude, a worthy goal and good friends, you can make a real difference.
2010-07-07 10:12:59 // Mark Roach
// Idealog #28: workshop
Is the record of the Finn brothers to date a “massive injustice”? Author Jeff Apter says yes; the brothers say nothing.
2010-07-05 08:49:41 // Design Daily Team
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It seems like pop-up stores have been, well, popping-up all over the place recently. Iconeye pointed us to this great example of a foldaway bookstore constructed for the London Festival of Architecture.
The concept uses cardboard as shelving for the books, and can be broken down and easily recycled at the end of the festival.
2010-05-31 09:57:54 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #27: workshop
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Lord Robert Winston, scientist, broadcaster, writer, is brilliant, erudite and charming. So his book, Bad Ideas?, should be terrific.
2010-05-24 10:55:13 // Paul Reynolds
// Idealog #27: workshop
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Kiwi history and art, with a detour through British science and American politics.
2009-12-17 10:52:00 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #25: now
Freakonomics was freaky, but Superfreakonomics pushes the envelope even further, analysing the price of prostitution, how terrorists can be tracked through their financial records and most controversially how technological advances could remedy global warming. Stephen J Dubner responds to its “angry” reaction
2009-11-10 15:14:12 // Paul Reynolds
// Idealog #24: workshop
If the Great Southern Continent didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent it. And so they did.
2009-09-15 13:56:31 // Paul Reynolds
// Idealog #23: workshop
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Innovation always has a history. Two books remind us that the present isn’t the only age of wonder.
2009-08-17 08:50:01 // Deirdre Robert
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Pentagram’s Harry Pearce discusses his passion for mixing his creative work with human rights project Witness. Then there’s the conversation he had with Te Radar involving Spike Milligan and gravestones.
2009-08-17 08:45:00 // Deirdre Robert
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No one proposed to him when he was signing books—much to his disappointment. He had the audience and fellow speakers in awe, and it’s got nothing to do with his catchy name and youthful looks! We spoke with a modest James about his incredible body of work and why he’s, er, aging backwards.
2009-08-17 08:40:18 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. We talk with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby
2009-07-14 18:12:19 // Matt Cooney
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This looks most promising … trailer for the new version of Under The Mountain, directed by Jonathan King.
2009-06-18 16:21:52 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #21: now
Author Cory Doctorow is a merciless critic of the mega-corporations that seek to control creative content—and he’s happy to give his own work away for free
2009-02-27 11:07:45 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #20: now
Think you’re talented? Creative? Dare we say it: outstanding? Good for you—but if Malcolm Gladwell is right, that’ll only get you so far. He’s looked at the traits of successful people and found what they have in common: hard work and happy circumstance. So how do the merely talented get ahead?
2009-02-05 11:04:13 // Nicky Chapman
// Idealog #19: features
Flying in the face of popular opinion, in a tiny niche in a difficult industry, Julia Marshall’s Gecko Press has proven the naysayers wrong. By Nicky Chapman
2008-08-15 11:35:20 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #16: features
Kevin Roberts: is he God or just a good talker? Vincent Heeringa talks to the world’s most irrepressible optimist and New Zealand’s biggest booster about love and rugby, blue as the new green, snail porridge and the new simplicity. Plus the Eagle vs Shark quiz
2007-11-06 12:03:40 // David MacGregor
// Idealog #12: workshop
Does mass collaboration herald the rise of a new literati, or just more monkeys with typewriters? Two books take polar views
2007-10-10 10:28:33 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #11: workshop
When Rod Oram was unexpectedly sacked as editor of the New Zealand Herald’s business section in 2000, it was on the rather delicious charge of insubordination. But the Herald’s loss has been the nation’s gain
2007-08-23 23:00:00 // David MacGregor
// Idealog #11: features
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Many New Zealanders find they learn most about their country by living somewhere else for a while. Steven Carden is no exception: after three years in New York with McKinsey & Co, he returned to Godzone with some new ideas about our past, our future and our place on the planet. But unlike most New Zealanders, Carden has put his thoughts into a book: New Zealand Unleashed, subtitled ‘The country, its future and the people who will get it there’. David MacGregor meets the man behind the message
2007-07-18 23:00:00 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #10: features
Two Wellingtonians have written a guide to the dreams, desires and dislikes of our fellow Kiwis, using well-known cities, towns and suburbs to identify our ‘tribes’. Gena Tuffery reckons she learned a lot reading 8 Tribes (but then she would say that—she’s apparently a Grey Lynn gal)
