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  • Brio Group win Ben & Jerry’s Free Scoop Friday!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    There’s nothing like ice-cream to sweeten up your afternoon at work. Especially free ice-cream of the gourmet variety – Ben & Jerry’s! Pretty sure I scored massive brownie points with the team last week when the B&J crew came knocking on Brio Group‘s door with 50 tubs of the delicious stuff in tow. So despite…

  • The 9×5 is coming to Brisbane!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      After a successful exhibition in Melbourne, the 15th Annual 9×5 Illustrators Australia Exhibition is coming to Brisbane! 9×5 will be presented as part of OPTIMISM: Icograda Design Week and will kick off the week’s evening events at 6pm Monday 11 October 2010 at Brisbane Design College, 200 Barry Parade, Brisbane. The exhibition gives you…

  • Facebook Places launches in Australia

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Facebook Places, which launched in Australia today, will allow Facebook users to share their location with friends. So if you’re enjoying a coffee in Brunswick Street, Brisbane and your friend is nearby, you’ll be alerted – and like magic, you can have a random catchup. This new feature is set to open up new real-life…

  • New slogan launched today “Queensland, Where Australia Shines”

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/HWaMt3CLRt8[/briotube] Queensland’s new slogan was launched today by the state’s Premier Anna Bligh. Gone are the days of “Where Else But Queensland” … now we will be referring to “Queensland, Where Australia Shines”. The new brand, which reportedly was 12 months in the making, has been described by Ms Bligh as capturing “the essence of Queensland…

  • Design Week Brisbane – 17 days to go!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Brisbane Design community has really been spoilt this year for design events, and it is all about to climax for the year. In 17 days time the Icograda International Design Week hosted by AGDA starts in Brisbane on 11 October and funnily enough runs for the whole week! This is such an amazing ONCE…

  • Marcus Graham stars in Macbeth during Brisbane Festival

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

        You may remember him from Underbelly, but now Marcus Graham can now add Shakespeare to his already impressive CV. The Aussie screen icon has landed the title role of  Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth which is drawing to a close tonight (12 September) at QUT Festival Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse – so get in…

  • How to think and act like a designer

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    Tanya Heading

    [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/YC9l2xBRWo0[/briotube] I watched this great talk by Fred Dust from Ideo about the designer in everyone. Watch the video to see how you can contribute, even if you’re not a designer! Yours in Design, Tara

  • Brisbane PARK(ing) Day – 17/9/2010

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Have you ever wanted to be a guerilla gardener and put some greenery back into your street? Well here’s your chance! Next Friday (September 17) is PARK(ing) Day in Brisbane. It has become a synchronised global event starting in 2005 to raise awareness about the lack of green spaces in San Francisco’s downtown. I think this…

  • Brisbane Arts Festivals

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Every year as the Brisbane Festival approaches, I am taken back to the eighties, when I used to watch my daughter and fellow dancers from her dance school ride the Brisbane City Council Float through the Brisbane CBD in the Warana Parade which then marked the beginning of the Warana Festival’s two weeks of celebrations.…