Six Lenses The Locus Research blog about creatvity, design, product development and innovation.

Workshops

/ December 20 2013
We had the honour of hosting our latest Inspiration Session with New Zealand turned Singapore designer Jesse Keith. As Owner/Design Director of Vivid Origin Ltd, Jesse fit the theme of his session:... Read more
/ November 4 2013
BOOM! What a gig. October 22nd and 23rd I was privileged to attend this year’s Better by Design (BBD) CEO Summit at Villa Maria Auckland, themed Disrupt by Design. For those of you that attended I... Read more
/ November 1 2013
It was a beautiful sunny morning to talk social media at the Air New Zealand E.A.T Breakfast hosted by ExportNZ Bay of Plenty. Four professionals spoke on social media, and although they all claimed... Read more
/ October 25 2013
What do marketing yoghurt, biscuits, the internet, and mobile phones have in common? The answer is Kevin Bowler. Kevin has had an extensive career marketing and managing some of the world's largest... Read more
Keynote speaker David Darling presents at the 2013 Innovation Forum
/ August 23 2013
When we invited six of NZ’s leading innovators to Tauranga to judge the Young Innovator Awards, opportunity knocked. What a great chance to get them to share their stories with the business community... Read more
Jake McLaren presents at Vagabond Cafe.
/ May 31 2013
After throwing a couple of Inspiration Sessions out we brought this one closer to home – physically and philosophically. The new Vagabond Café below the Locus Studio hosted Jake McLaren talking about... Read more
Nicola Bell
/ May 24 2013
When I first heard the name Nicola Bell, she was just a year into her position, featured on the cover of Her Magazine, which I was designing at the time. When the cover photos came through, her... Read more
/ April 5 2013
Recently we had great pleasure in having Sally Rosenberg join the Inspiration Sessions hall of fame to talk about her experienced corporate risk, crisis, and programme management background. Her... Read more
/ March 21 2013
Being there with your customer was the message from both speakers at the last BOP Marketing Professionals event, Turning Consumer Insights into Real Bottom Line Sales, held at the Tauranga Chamber of... Read more
/ March 15 2013
Waikato Innovation Park partnered with Callaghan Innovation to hold the first in a series of practical application workshops last week. The session drew a design engineering audience with an... Read more