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  • Cradle to Cradle

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Read it!! William McDonough’s book, written with his colleague, the German chemist Michael Braungart, is a manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design. This book as a must-read for anyone interested in the future of the planet and society. McDonough “argues that we can only think of our future cities…

  • Pecha Kucha is coming back to Brisbane

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Back in town on the 27 March, Pecha Kucha is an evening of short, interesting and inspiring presentations from a cross-section of Brisbane’s design industry. Each speaker shows 20 slides at 20 seconds each slide. Its a chance for designers to jump on their soapbox and present their designs, thoughts and ideas. For more details…

  • New Woolworths Logo

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The branding for the Australian household name that we have all been brought up with has gone through a transformation and is starting to be rolled out in it’s 700+ stores. Woolworths, known as the ‘Fresh Food People’ is still committed to providing it’s customers with the freshest produce, the best price and the best…

  • Key Performance Indicators

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Whether you are designing a logo or selling a website, you need KPI’s . Key performance indicators (KPI’s) can be a great help in allowing you to measure all sorts of areas critical to business success. Here are some useful points that have worked for me 1. Set goals & objectives. Once you can identify…

  • Efficient Website Styling – using parent ID’s and style-sheet reseting

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Anyone who has developed a large website knows that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can quickly get out of control. A style-sheet can end up a maze of ID’s, classes and elements in a myriad of combinations and twists intended to produce unique styles for specific regions of a site

  • Invisible Brands

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Recently I’ve stumbled upon some of Rob Walker’s work in prelude to his new book “Buying In”. In one of his write-ups he talks about invisible badges. According to Walker, badges are signals that suggest a tighter relationship with the brand producer and the brand consumer. Walker observes that people no longer buy stuff to…

  • Blanket Magazine New Issue Out

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The new issue of Blanket magazine has just been posted. Click here to visit the site and download the magazine. Yours in design, Janet-eratops

  • Become more organised – To Do Lists that work!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Time to take charge of your time!

  • Paper at Paris Fashion Week

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    There has been a dramatic shift away from paper based design in recent years but, after seeing the paper sculptures that made the backdrop of the Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week recently, I think paper just may have redeemed itself! These beautiful handmade sculptures decorated the massive columns and entry staircase of the Cambon-Capucines…