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  • Nothing but the Best

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    This is the time of the year when we all like to reflect on the past year’s “great” and “not so great” achievements and make personal changes to help us achieve our new goals next year. Tuesday afternoon was one such time at the Brio HQ when I was both laughing and teary at Belinda’s…

  • Spaces Magazine to help creatives live, work and play in inspired surrounds

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The popular creative design magazine Frankie has now launched a new magazine project named ‘Spaces – Where creative people live, work and play’. Spaces showcases a fantastic global collection of eclectic interiors. This large format magazine explores the favourite space of photographers, graphic designers, vintage collectors and shop owners. Be inspired by the unique living,…

  • 5 reasons why custom design impacts social media success

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Social networking sites have become an essential part of a business’s branding strategy and promotional campaigns. Custom designed Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages not only help your branding, but designed and built right, they can help you meet your social media goals, whether that may be lead generation or gaining more fans. When designing for…

  • Illustration inspiration!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of my resolutions for the New Year is to get back into illustration and painting, so I’ve been having a little look around cyberspace to get some inspiration and see what styles are out there. This week I came across some wonderful caricatures which I thought I’d share with you. It’s incredible to see…

  • Los Angeles Design Challenge

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Mercedes has taken up the garden spade and hoe in its search for a sustainable future for the motorcar, and showcased the next technology at the LA Design Challenge. The futuristic coupe looks very flash, but no mention of how much cash, or when this beauty may become more than a dream. The Mercedes-Benz BIOME…

  • When Facebook becomes a book

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    When Facebook becomes a book from Siavosh Zabeti on Vimeo. I think I’ve become a little obsessed with the digital word lately. I’ve pretty much stopped buying newspapers and magazines and get my fill online. I use my iPhone for my shopping lists and to jot down the epiphanies that come to me in the…

  • How Printing Ink/ Pantone Colours are Made

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In my 15 years of design experience I am embarrassed to say that I have not once thought about how the ink that I designed for is made! I even worked with a printer for a few of those years and it never occurred to me that there was an art to the process of…

  • Environmental Myth Busted

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So here we are thinking we’re being environmentally friendly by uploading files to websites to be read online or burning them to CDs rather than printing them. A study conducted and published in Finsbury Green’s publication: Green Paper Guide, demonstrates that less CO2 is generated by the conventional method of printing. The study used the…