Belinda Vesey-Brown

  • Clean Up Australia Day

    Just one day left to Clean Up Australia Day 2011! The event will be held on Sunday, 6 March. Clean Up Australia Day has been running since 1990 and has become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. It attracts hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the community, schools and businesses to help clean up and…

  • Racing car design liveries

    OK, so I have written about racing helmet designs, but now, I would like to do a post about racing car designs this time. I will specifically be talking about the V8 Supercar Championship car liveries for 2011. A great livery this year, is the Jack Daniels Racing cars. They have not really changed their…

  • Is your brand a fractal?

    Influenced by Lee’s original blog about fractals, I started to think about how fractals can be used for brands. I came to the conclusion that fractals are a good paradigm / framework to model your brand. The definition of a fractal according to Hyperdictionary is: A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in…

  • Design your own shoes with Shoes of Prey

    When I signed up for a Small Budget Web Success Seminar with Interactive Minds I saw one of the speakers was Mike Knapp from Shoes of Prey. I thought ‘what a great name’ and got on the old google machine to find out who they were. What I discovered literally made my jaw drop (it…

  • How to grow your fanbase on Facebook

    “How do I grow the fanbase so more people are engaged and have exposure to the brand?” Every Marketer asks themselves this question when they’re working to build a brand through social network sites. First, you need to be clear on the rules for promoting a brand through Facebook. From a marketer’s perspective, we recommend…

  • To goo, or not to goo? That’s Cadbury’s eternal question

    Now I’m not loyal to many brands and chocolate is certainly no exception, but these little guys with their own personalities and quirks have me coming back for more every year – even to the point where I think I should “stock up” because its going to be a long hard year (or roughly 8…

  • When maths and design cross paths

    In the Brio office recently, an interesting conversation led not only to some confusion but also to the concept of what happens when math and design cross paths. It was all sparked by the recent release of GoogleLab’s “Julia Map” project, a tool for exploring fractals using the Julia set numbers, a HTML 5 and…

  • Last Weekend of the Brisbane Moonlight Cinema

    This weekend is your last chance to catch an outdoor flick at the Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinema in Brisbane. The cinema has been running at the Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm park since December 15 and will finish up this weekend with a great line up for movies ready to be enjoyed in the open…