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  • Designer Fight Club

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    After a hugely successful launch last year, BAD next byte Designer Fight Club is back for another round of visual brutality. You can see Brisbane’s most kick ass designers, art directors and wildcard entrants battle it out in a wild live design event. They will have to answer punishing design briefs set by industry heavyweights…

  • Purity or Pubity?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I was sitting having a quiet drink in front of the fire one cold afternoon while on holidays recently and I was talking to my father in law who was drinking this Cascade Premium Light. Being a graphic designer and a stickler for good typography I was interested to see the treatment of type and…

  • HIA Expo works wonders for Brisbane City Council

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Brisbane City Council’s exhibit at the HIA Renovate & Build Expo at the Brisbane Convention Centre was a roaring success with the engaging display attracting a lot of attention on the GreenSmart Building Zone. This custom display created by RED-i Design showcased an interior house scene where various tips were positioned over areas that could…

  • Heavy Meta: Design and the Informational Baroque

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    New York designer, Barbara Glauber, is touring the country later this month as part of AGDA’s international speaker program. Barbara is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun website and is on the faculty at Yale University as a critic in graphic design. She loves typography and chocolate (don’t we all?) and during her talk, titled ‘Heavy Meta: Design…

  • Curvy 6

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Our favourite annual ALL-GIRL art book, CURVY – created by the team behind YEN MAGAZINE – has been kicking up a creative storm since 2003 and have now unveiled the fantastic 6th edition. Curvy 6 had it’s launch party at Nine Lives Gallery in the Valley on Friday night. For those of you who missed it,…

  • Jewellery designed for designers

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    A necklace that can remind of essential key commands. Rings you can customise your kerning with. And don’t forget the earrings that double as rulers. All these and more are made by graphic designers/jewellery designers, plastique. Clever and funky the perfect combination for all of you design savvy folk. Yours in Design, Ren-odocus

  • Wanderlust 333

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Wanderlust 333 Exhibition has started and is on for 33 days. The exhibition showcases the work of 33 new  artists/designers/illustrators from around the world. Best of all you can own your favourite piece for as little as $6.20AU (3GBP) for the smallest size.

  • Curious…

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    A new colour palette is on the way for Arjowiggins Curious Collection and the wonderful photography for the marketing material has me curious as to what we will be seeing soon here in Oz. Arjowiggins, the international paper company carried here by Spicers and Doggetts Paper, has teamed up with trend experts Studio Edelkoort to…

  • Alice in Wonderland!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Only nine more months until we can see Tim Burton’s beautiful new take on Alice in Wonderland! Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter, Helen Bonham Carter is the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway is the White Queen. The movie is currently in post-production. Live-action sequences will be merged with whimsical motion-capture creations and then the…