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  • Five ways to listen better

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In this concise TED talk, Julian Treasure addresses the concern that we are losing our hearing. He suggests that conscious listening creates understanding, and without understanding we can’t achieve complete communication and peaceful relationships. He provides us with 5 easy tricks for improving our listening skills. One of these is using the acronym RASA: Receive, Appreciate,…

  • M&M’s – Eat the Hostage Commercial

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Who likes the M&M’s commercials? I think they are the just the cutest and funniest and the recent Hostages M&M’s commercial is no exception. In the Nielsen Top 10 Recalled Ads of the Academy Awards, Feb. 27, 2011, The M&M’s Hostages commercial was in 1st Place. The M&M’s “Hostages” spot has also created the strongest…

  • How Young is Too Young?!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The fashion world is obsessed with two things: individuality and youth! Top fashion designers and magazine editors search the world to find something different… But now readers ask, how young is too young to be striking a provocative pose? 10 year old, Thylane Loubry has a portfolio that could rival most in the modeling industry.…

  • Miranda Kerr – home for David Jones Colourful Spring/Summer 2011 Fashion Runway Launch

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I just love Fashion and Fashion Parades and the upcoming Spring /Summer season is sure looking great as seen when fashion designers, Camilla, Jets, Kirrily Johnston, Collette Dinnigan, Carla Zampatti Lisa Ho and signature Alex Perry, showcased their newest creations at the David Jones new season launch in front of 400 guests in Sydney last…

  • Semi-Permanent Hits Brisbane This Friday

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Are you one of the lucky ones to score a ticket to Semi-Permanent in Brisbane this Friday? I hope so, because this year’s conference is looking pretty awesome and tickets are sold out! Every year in 8 cities across the world Semi-Permanent showcases the best in graphic design, film, fine art, illustration, web design,…

  • Gamification: How Games are Transforming Marketing

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Gamificiation: introducing the new buzz word for a marketing direction that takes cues from games.  Gamification in its basic form is introducing the mechanics of games and combining them with technology to deliver a unique brand experience for the consumer. These ideas are starting to be used by savvy marketers as some of the traditional…

  • Rebecca MacKinnon – Let’s Take back the Internet

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a “Magna Carta” moment when citizens around the…

  • Typographers Dream

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    “Designers, type enthusiasts and people who love to explore the world of typography, better take a seat before hearing – FontBook, the most complete reference guide of typography in the world, is now available as an App for iPad!” – Halex Pereira for MacMagazine Brazil (translated from Portuguese) As if I didn’t need yet another…

  • Font-tastic!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    This book is currently on its way to my house and, for a type nerd obsessed with swirly elegant letterforms it is an absolute dream. “Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age” is a new book by Louise Fili and Stephen Heller containing of examples of beautiful vintage script lettering from the mid-19th-to-20th century. While…