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Elevator Pitch: Trickle (watch)
As part of our Elevator Pitch series in partnership with Flick, we gave Adrian Wills a little longer than an elevator ride to pitch Trickle, a tap management and pour tracking software that analyses beer flow and helps bars run better.
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Elevator Pitch: Aquafortus
As part of our Elevator Pitch series in partnership with Flick, we gave Daryl Briggs a little longer than an elevator ride to pitch Aquafortus, which removes water from waste.
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Elevator Pitch: No Ugly
As part of our Elevator Pitch series in partnership with Flick, we gave Aaron Taylor a little longer than an elevator ride to pitch his scientifically formulated wellness tonic, No Ugly.
Solid foundations
Building the best: our favourite 2018 Architecture Awards winners
Regional winners for the 2018 Architecture Awards have been announced. Here are some of our personal favourites.
Adapt or die
Designing for extreme weather events: how can we navigate climate change?
The evidence is there – extreme weather events are occurring more frequently than ever. So what role should design play in taking into account the increased risk? We talked to Jasmax, Isthmus and Prefab NZ to find out.
Idealog + Generator
The design evolution of Auckland's co-working spaces
Green is the new black
A billion trees – will this government initiative work?
Giveaway
WIN a trip to the Nurture Change Business Retreat in Hawaii worth $6000
Want to win a 'bizcation' in Hawaii worth $60,000 and hear from some of New Zealand's top business leaders? Share some information about yourself, your business challenges and your thoughts on Idealog and we'll pop you in the draw to win, thanks to our friends at Nurture Change.
Movings and shakings
Done Deal: Fundings secured, contracts inked and deals done and/or did, for the tl;dr crowd
Our regular roundup of recent deals done and/or did featuring Pushpay, Weirdly, Global Pac Technologies, and Ohmio
Topics
Can We Fix it? Brought to you by Kiwibank
In a regular section in print and in a series of online pop-up sections throughout the year, Idealog and Kiwibank explore some of the world’s biggest – and, in some cases, most intractable – problems and then showcase some of the clever people trying to tackle them.
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What Keeps You Up At Night
Idealog chats with the movers, shakers, visionaries and future captains of industry about what issues keep them up at night and also what gets them going the next day.
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25 things with Peter Haythornthwaite
Peter Haythornthwaite – industrial and creative design deity, Designers Institute of New Zealand fellow, owner of an ONZM for services to design, and current exhibitor of his life’s work at Objectspace Gallery in Auckland – knows things, loves things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things.
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Green Rush
In a new series, we talk to entrepreneurs and investors about the challenges and opportunities in the emerging New Zealand cannabis industry.
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The Idea Log
Million dollar ideas and inspiring inspiration from Idealog's sassy spirit 'animal'.
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The Log Experiment
At Idealog, we regularly celebrate our community’s brilliance. So for the 2018 Design Issue, we’ve tapped into the talents of the Idealog community and, in honour of our spirit ‘animal’, The Idea Log, we sent a few hunks ‘o wood out to some friends of the Idealog family from the fields of art, design, architecture and creative business to see what they could do. These are the results.
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A Day in the Life
How do you perfect the work/life balance? In an ongoing series, high-performing New Zealand entrepreneurs share how they handle the madness of business.
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Cash cow
Meet the young entrepreneur at the helm of Halter, the NZ agritech company backed by Peter Beck and Peter Thiel
A young man from Morrinsville is making waves in the agritech world with the award-winning idea behind his company, Halter. The solar-powered, GPS-tracked collar self-herds cows while gathering data about their behaviour, emotions and health and sending it to the farmer’s phone. It recently just raised US$8 million in capital in Silicon Valley from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Rocketlab’s Peter Beck has dubbed it a ‘billion-dollar idea’. Could this be the future of farming?
Heigh ho, heigh ho...
Idealog goes mining for bitcoin
Ever wondered what it's like to mine bitcoin? Or ever tried to wrap your head around the idea of cryptocurrency? Ben Mack dove deep into the trenches to investigate.
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Idealog + Motion Sickness
Motion Sickness creative director Sam Stuchbury on the seven rules of great content
Solid foundations
Building the best: our favourite 2018 Architecture Awards winners
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Heigh ho, heigh ho...
Idealog goes mining for bitcoin
Logging on
The Log Experiment: How ICG brought our spirit animal to life
At Idealog, we regularly celebrate our community’s brilliance. But, just as we did in 2017 with our Block Party experiment, when we sent a whole bunch of Lego to some of our favourite humans from the fields of art, design, architecture and creative business and asked them to do something interesting with it, we want to showcase that brilliance in different ways. So, once again, we’ve tapped into the talents of the Idealog community for the 2018 Design Issue and, in honour of our spirit ‘animal’, The Idea Log, we sent a few hunks ‘o wood out to some friends of the Idealog family to see what they could do. Here's how our parent company, ICG, turned our mascot on paper into a real-life object.
Bula
Six Senses of sustainability: How Auckland's Space Studio helped design Fiji's newest eco-friendly luxury resort
Can stunning design and sustainability go hand-in-hand at a luxury resort? Yes, they can - at least when Auckland's Space Studio is a driving force helping to bring Six Senses’ new Fiji resort to life.
Gratuitous self-promotion
Get your name on the Blunt + Idealog + Generator Bloomin' Brella pre-order list now
There were 239 entries. But there could be only one winner – congratulations to Bonnie Brown of Studio Bon, who will see her design 'Blooming 'Brella' turned into a limited edition Blunt umbrella. Only 300 will be made, so whether you're a selfish lover of design and want your own, or you're looking for a unique gift for family, friends, staff or clients, you'd better move fast and get your name on the pre-order list. These things will undoubtedly be worth millions one day. Don't live a lifetime of regret.
The future of work
New Zealand's enterprising future: Seven reasons why co-working and flexible workspaces are booming
There are several reasons why co-working spaces are continuing to gain in popularity, says IWG New Zealand country manager Pierre Ferrandon. And, he says, they're something businesses operating "traditional" workspaces could do well to consider.
Working for families
How becoming a parent made me a better CEO and business leader
Contagion's Dean Taylor shares what he's learned about inclusivity and "compassionate ambition."
Tips to be tops
Networking myths and how to build strong connections
Networking. Hard? It doesn't have to be, says Alyson Garrido - and it's incredibly important.
The times are changing
The future of work: Ten digital workplace trends
Poverty Week, brought to you by Kiwibank
How we can end the poverty gap within our lifetime
Idealog fiction
Idealog fiction: Wipe
A technology-driven world in which medical procedures replace prisons. A man - and a region - trying to keep up. And the struggle to remember it all.
Opinion
How New Zealand companies are stacking up in the business of sustainability
Sustainable Business Council executive director Abbie Reynolds, fresh off meeting with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, shares learnings from her meeting - and what New Zealand companies are doing that other organisations around the world could emulate.
Clever Kiwis
Vote now: The Hot List 2018
Food for thought
Times change - and ads should, too
Poverty Week, brought to you by Kiwibank
Rethinking poverty: aligning our solutions with Kiwi culture
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