LIfe + Style 2 October 2015

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What’s the buzz?

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When you visit Trudy Kendall’s Papamoa property, there’s a constant yet beautiful

aroma of beeswax and the sound of buzzing.

Trudy and her partner Jonty have been beekeeping for about 15 years. They’ve built as many as 90 hives on their property that’s nestled in the Papamoa Hills. They used to make their own honey and sell it at the Rotorua Night Market every Thursday, along with top quality cheeses and bread.

Trudy would chop the cheese and wrap it in wax paper to sell.

“I found traditionally cheesemakers use wax to store their cheese and age it,” says Trudy.

“So because we had collected years and years of beeswax, I just started dipping the cheese in the wax to lengthen its life.

“It worked a treat but every week when I opened the cheese up, I would throw away all of the wax, which was phenomenally wasteful. It was then when I said: ‘It would be great if I could fi nd a way people could use and reuse this’.”

So she did. Trudy went back to basics. She developed a reusable, durable and breathable eco-friendly beeswax-infused food wrap that keeps food fresh and delicious, aptly naming it BeeWrapt.

“Bees are the masters of food preservation and honey is the one live food that never goes off, it was even found in Tutankhamun’s tomb. They make the wax to seal the hive from moisture and bacteria. We work on the same principle.”

Now their homemade honey is given as gift when people buy their prettily-packaged BeeWrapts at the markets and food shows.

BeeWrapts are sustainably produced from cotton fabric and infused with pure New Zealand beeswax,

handmade by Trudy and her bees.Customers can simply handwash the

food wrap in cool water, air dry and use to store their food in over and

over again.“It’s a very versatile product that replaces cling fi lm,” says Trudy. “It moulds, shapes and responds to the warmth of your hands so you

can use it as cover for leftovers in the fridge, as

well as everyday use to keep sandwiches, vegetables, breads

and cheeses fresh.“We’re very aesthetic people and

because bees are very beautiful, we like to make the BeeWrapts in really beautiful patterns.

“We kind of go with the idea that

just because something’s useful and ecologically friendly, it doesn’t mean it has to be brown and green, or plain or boring.”

The BeesWrapts are both pretty and practical, as well as very common-sense.

“We go all over the country showing them and people just go: ‘Oh my gosh it’s so sensible’,” says Trudy.

She says many people buy the BeesWrapts and send them as gifts to friends and family in Holland, France, Switzerland. “All those places that are really big on their food, breads and cheeses.

“It’s quite nice when you go to places to sell your product and people are constantly telling you how clever you are and how beautiful your product is.

“It’s quite amazing how easy it is if you go back to simple things and

common sense. It’s so easy to get caught up in other stuff just because it is there.

“I love the fact that what we make is useful and beautiful, natural and sensible.”

For more information, visit www.beewrapt.co.nz

Trudy Kendall and colleague Joanna O’Reilly.

“I love the fact that what we

make is useful and beautiful,

natural and sensible”

Pair are ‘wrapt’ with success

Zoe Hunter


The then and now of building and renovating

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It was a beautiful 1940s-built home with an equally beautiful view. An oldie, but goodie. It had creosote boards, with white window frames and

a pitch ceiling.“That’s the house that got away,” says interior designer

and landscaper Hamish Dodd. “It’s the one that you wish you never sold, I loved it.”It’s the fi rst home he’s ever renovated. “I poured everything into it that I collected over the

years, great fabrics and bits of pieces. Luckily for me, some architectural enthusiasts bought it, so I knew it was in good hands.”

That was about 12 years ago now and things have changed. Prices of materials have skyrocketed, products have evolved and technology has advanced.

“I’ve noticed everything seems to have become more specialised,” says the 39-year-old. “Now you have an insulation company that does the installation, you have a plaster board company that does the lining.

“Everyone’s broken into very compartmental areas, which is good in some ways because they’re fast and effi cient and know their job really well. Whereas back in those days the builder did everything.”

Hamish has noticed the changes between renovating his fi rst home to the recent building of his holiday home in Taupo. The one we’ll get to see on the telly.

Choice TV’s ‘100 Day Bach’ is a “warts and all” reality television programme recording Hamish’s building project from start to fi nish. So we grabbed him for

a quick chat to ask his top tips on renovating and building. 1) Dream big, but not too big

Hamish’s three-bedroom bach started out at 180m2, but was scaled back to 149m2 for cost. The land cost about $150,000 and $400,000 for the fi nished property.

“If we were to go with our original 180m2 design it would have cost us well over $500,000. Straight away we went: ‘Ah, nah!’2) Get things costed

“It’s about picking and choosing where you do and don’t spend your money,” says Hamish. “Sometimes you’ve got to spend a little bit more if it’s a key feature, but you can save in other areas.

“You can wait for small plants to grow outside, but spend more money on your trees for instant impact.”3) Finding clever uses of material

“It’s about choosing materials that go into your home that are going to be durable,” says Hamish.

“I painted all of the walls inside using Resene SpaceCoat. It’s a slightly dearer paint, but it means you can actually scrub the walls to keep them clean.

“I don’t want to be precious about our kids running around. It’s not a mausoleum, it’s a holiday home.”4) Have the support of your closest friends and family

“I don’t think this would have been as easy if I didn’t have my partner, my mother and father and my mates.”

You can catch all of the highs and lows of Hamish’s bach renovation on ‘100 Day Bach’, Choice TV every Friday night at 9pm.

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Spring into new-season fashionThe clocks have come forward, the weather is heating up

– so now’s the time to spring clean your wardrobe!

From shoes, to shapely dresses and stylish

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to suit the modern Bay woman. to suit the modern Bay woman. to suit the modern Bay woman.

Spring into new-season fashion

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Fabulous fashion shoes, made in Spain, from Maggie J Shoes.

From top: Hispanitas SHV51118, Pedro Miralles 1356,

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Kelly green top with bengaline white 7/8 pant and Crush On You skirt and jacket. Available from Lynette’s.

Farin shoe by Katie ‘n’ Me in Blue Butterfl y,

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I’m not usually a nude girl – I like my pretty pinks and racy reds – so naturally I opted for the brightest nude in the collection, Doutzen.

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Business by designHousing our creative spirit

The stats are in – business is booming in the Bay. Housing sales are up 26 per cent

on last year and one only needs to be caught in stand-still traffi c on a daily commute to

know there’s plenty more people living and working in the region.

But it wasn’t always the case. Go back not even fi ve years and the perception of Tauranga and Mount Maunganui was very different: the newlywed and the nearly dead.

“It was seen as a bit of a sleepy town,” tells Brent Devcich, owner of marketing and graphic design agency Devcich & Co.

“Within the last couple of years, there’s been a huge number of people who want to live here – and not because they want to take a step back.

“With the last four hires, we’re got creatives coming from New York, Perth, Melbourne and

Auckland, and every time we put a job out, there has been 70-80 applicants.”

The Mount Maunganui-based business, a mere fi ve minutes from the beach, feels very much removed from the idea of ‘$10 Tauranga’.

Vintage bikes and furniture adorn the room for no other purpose than aesthetics, perfectly balanced by the new-age, up-market setting of the rest of the décor. A space like this wouldn’t look out of place in the big smoke and indicates the changing face of our city.

Now, the independent design company, which has grown at Brent’s hands since 2000, has had its international appeal affi rmed by becoming a fi nalist at the Designers Institute NZ’s Best Design Awards 2015.

“People look at you in a different light because you’re not just good by Tauranga’s standards, you are good by national standards. It certainly helps morale, but it puts the pressure on a bit for next year!”

Handpicked from nearly 1000 entries, the fi nalists represent the best graphic, interactive, moving images, spatial and product designs for the past year.

Devcich & Co were chosen based on their work with the Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s Portraits of Our Place campaign. It’s the fi rst time they’ve entered.

“And the amazing thing is there is three of us in the fi nals within 3km of each other,” says Brent, who suggests the lifestyle is conducive to better work output.

Tauranga-born Brent knows fi rst-hand what it’s like to come home for a lifestyle change. He left young to seek an overseas experience and training in Auckland for a few years. But the avid windsurfer and mountain biker found himself heading back to the beach to pursue his passions.

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However, at that time there was one design agency and no jobs, so the graphic designer ended up doing an apprenticeship as a prepress typographer.

He then spent a few years at Kale Print, working in their art room, before going out on his own. His company has taken on various names and locations during the last 15-or-so years before Devcich & Co was formed in December 2013.

The ‘Co’ stands for ‘colleagues’, as staff are very much viewed as such. Equally, it could be for ‘collaboration’, a key attribute of Brent’s way of operating.

As well as being a jack of all trades himself, from design to copywriting and photography, he surrounds himself with people he and his team can learn from.

“There’s lots of shared knowledge here. That’s the

job of an open-plan offi ce, the environment feeds itself. That’s part of my job too – shifting away from doing to teaching.

“At my age, which is...” he hesitates, before saying, “23” with a smile, “I feel I’m only at my peak now. No matter what someone comes in asking for, we can do it.”

Sadly, business growth means little time for those long lunches off at the beach as planned, but Brent’s fi nding other outlets for his creativity after hours – motorcycles. His love of the two wheels explains the collection gathering in the offi ce.

“Vintage bikes are the most amazing pieces of design. With this job you can spend so much time in your head, trying to drag things out, so that tactile side, working with machinery, feeds something else.”

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An initiative of The Designers Institute of New Zealand, the Best Design Awards is the annual

showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design.

Entries judged Best in each category are awarded the Gold Pin, while the very best project in each discipline will be awarded the supreme, Purple Pin for work that raises the bar of New Zealand design.

Devcich & Co’s entry for Portraits of Our Place is one of 514 fi nalists in the 2015 Best Design Awards, selected in the Design Communication category. It’s also one of six Bay of Plenty businesses to make the cut.

Woods Creative, on Maunganui Road, is a fi nalist in Small Brand Identity for its work on Mosaic Church and in Environmental Graphics for work with Steens Honey.

Pacifi c Ave-based Wave Creative Communications Agency is a fi nalist in the Self-Promotion category for its Wave Festive Feast Cider and in Business Communication for the Wave Trustpower Annual Report.

Flightless design was named a fi nalist in application design for its Taku Tamaki Exhibition - Collect And Connect Multi-User Interactive Table.

Te Puna’s Locus Research, based in the Newnham Park Innovation Centre, is a fi nalist in the Consumer category for The Utility Bike, an electric farm bike, and the Automatic Boat Loader 2500. Their Inverse hair conditioning system has been named as a fi nalist in Concept/Experimental design category.

Waihi’s Gold Discovery Centre is a fi nalist in the Exhibition Installations and Temporary Structures, which was designed by Wellington’s Locales.

And fi nally, Tauranga-founded company Think & Shift, which relocated to Auckland earlier this year, is a fi nalist in fi ve categories.

The awards are being held on October 9 at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland.

Laura Weaser

“You’re not just good by Tauranga’s standards, you’re good by national standards”

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