The Owl & the Pussycat and Other Oddities We are just finishing the adaptation of classic works by Edward Lear its brilliantly set to the music of Edmund McWilliams (Ed Cake of Bressa Creting Cake), Geoff Maddox (of Goldenhorse) and Geva Downey, Children of all ages will be rocking out to the nonsense lyrics of…
We got a new design brief from a Auckland Theatre company. They have a strictly minimal iconic brand as the perform high quality one and two handers at The Victoria Theatre in Devonport. Outbox Theatre knew they wanted a graphic poster as photos of the cast in full costume would not be available to well…
If you build it, will they come? Yes, for a while anyway. But building the website is only the first step.
It has been exciting coming back to Auckland and helping a new theatre company bring out a season of modern drama classics. Its been fascinating to watch Elena and Stephen work through some tricky parts of the play, finding the life in it, holding it to kindle together then blowing up the flames of a…
Blogs are great. You go every day or once a week or even once a month and you are systematically opening doors to your website with every word you write. Structuring how you use words on the web is very important for anybody who wants to build a network or just get traffic. Some of…
Just because you have a great idea and you have great new digital tools doesnt mean you will get what you want with your social media campaign, and indeed the key as always with content is be original and for god sake tip your hat to your influences. Because if you stray into the…
She’s not an easy road getting an idea made into a childrens television series, especially in New Zealand. For a start if you want local funding there is really only one date a year in August that NZOA call for funding of the genre. If you are lucky enough to get network interest in…
Trend following works until it doesn’t, investors and gurus from Soros to the universe of tweet-perts advocate following a trend and jumping into cash before a trend ends and prices are brought lower as supply hits the market. Everyone has different indicators and time frames for their trades; and in a terrible downdraft there…
What a beauty the kiwi design florin is, one issue that sets the point of reference for all coinage issued after. First issued in 1933 with the pattern of the Emperor George V, the 1936 reverse has Emperor VI but has the same browsing kiwi design. Numerous flaws and variations exist in NZ…
The powers that be in the creative (read: content) industries have reacted with stunningly arrogant ineptitude to the disruption of the internet. Instead of whining and suing and bullying and messing with national sovereignty with their IP treaties, they might spend a bit more time and energy figuring out to exploit new content delivery channels….
