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  • RED-i Design to unveil new Brand 9th July!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Unlike other controversial talk of unveilings (yes, we’re referring to you MP Fred Niles who this week introduced a bill to parliament to seek to ban the wearing of the burqa and other face veils in public), here’s an unveiling that’s for the creative good of the community! RED-i Design will unveil our new brand…

  • Could art be imitating life in Daybreakers?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Who would have thought there was room on our video store shelves for yet another vampire movie?! Daybreakers is an Australian epic, filmed at Gold Coast’s Warner Brothers MovieWorld. It’s a visual piece of art by the Spierig brothers, Michael and Peter. Michael is a graduate of Graphic Design and Peter a Film graduate. Teamed…

  • Happy 30th to Australia’s First IVF Baby

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Hitting the 30 mark is a definite birthday milestone for anybody. But what makes Candice Reed’s birthday today so super special is that Candice is Australia’s first IVF conceived child (and the world’s third IVF baby!), so it’s a milestone for IVF in our country as well. Candice was born in Melbourne on 23 June…

  • The appeal of user generated content

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Don’t you love those seminars that stay with you for days, even weeks, after you attend? Recently I sat in on an informative seminar on content, and why it is still king – especially for the online arena. We’re not just talking well written copy, but the images, video, podcasts and fresh posts that communicate…

  • New BP Logo

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So, after the debacle of the BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico recently it was inevitable that us arty type of folks were going to take things into our own hands and give BP some advice! There is an online competition to see who can design the next BP logo. Visit www.logomyway.com I’m…

  • Time’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2010

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I stumbled upon the Time website the other week (which is fantastic by the way) and found their list of Top 10 Tech Trends for 2010. This list gives a very basic snapshot of some of the amazing applications that are changing the way we live. The list highlights FourSquare, Facebook Connect, Social Games like…

  • Twitter to the Rescue

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    There is always so many ways you can do a task. Recently we were looking for a senior designer and was not having much luck finding exactly who we were after using the traditional SEEK ad. So we thought why not put the word out through Twitter and see what happens. The strategy we employed…

  • Design For Life – a design apprecenticeship

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The renowned and redoubtable Phillipe Starck has been ‘doing a Donald’ and is appearing in a TV show Design For Life which has 12 young UK designers vying to work in his atelier. Last night’s (June 2) first episode introduced the young hopefuls and then showed us what they were up against. Mostly they were up…

  • Old school technologies that (thankfully?!) we no longer use!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Remember monitoring each song while you carefully taped it on your cassette player? Two fingers on the pause and record buttons waiting to make sure that you recorded every song perfectly for that special occasion, only to have the cassette tape finish on one of your favorite songs. Frantically you pulled the tape out of…