The Thousands

Naked is like The Thousands personified in print. Only it’s about the Gold Coast and it wasn’t our idea! Naked is a well-groomed, 125 page pocket book dreamed up by Cory Maxwell-Coghlan. Printed free of carbon and free of chemicals on 100% recyled paper with soy-based ink, it’s almost good enough to digest. Speaking of eating, that’s just what Naked recommends, that along with what to see, random things to do and where to shop, play and dare on the GC.

Each GC ‘hood’ is colour coded to the particular entry, the copy is intelligent and the photography is warm and saturated like it stepped out of a Lomography catalogue, only crisper. This guide truly sets the bar for cities all over the country. Complied from hundreds of ideas submitted by locals, its honest and simple vision chalks up a big win for the Gold Coast. ‘It’s still home to pensioners in budgie smugglers and Wayne Carey’s mansion. It still wears scandal on its sleeve. We reckon that if anything, all these things are the raging side-effects of an unsung virtue.’ – Naked

Move over Wallpaper* I say.