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  • 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,…

  • Gender Stereotype Advertising

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/NIdrloPF0bU[/briotube] Have you ever noticed, every time you turn on the T.V, go into a store, or look at a newspaper, you are accosted by gender stereotypes? There are children’s Toy Commercials, which never show the fathers.  There are household cleaning product commercials where the woman is fretting over her mother in law coming over,…

  • 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…

  • Aussie James West tracks down the Trans in time for Thanksgiving

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Each year there must be millions of emails about Thanksgiving preparations hitting American inboxes from loved ones. Nothing unusual there. It’s a big holiday and no doubt takes loads of organising. Florida’s Tran family send dozens of preparation emails each year; but unbeknown to them the James West (one of their relative’s partners) they’ve been…

  • Woolloongabba Antiques Precinct is now open!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Photography: Janet Pogorelc @ Brio Group If you’ve been missing Miss Posh Poodle from Brisbane’s LaTrobe Terrace you’ll be happy to know she’s relocated to the newly opened Woolloongabba Antique Centre where sisters Sarah Jane Walsh and Megan Rizzo will have you embarking on an antique experience like no other. The centre is at the…

  • 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…

  • Sometimes it pays to think small…

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    Tanya Heading

    During my recent wanderings around the wonderful world of facebook, I discovered this fantastic little competition that had happened on flickr: Spectacular Insect Faces! The competition closed in March, but lucky for us the winning entries are still available for all to see! Have a look at all the top entries here. See if you…

  • Apple MacBook Air’s Next Generation

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Apple have now released the new generation of MacBook’s available in an 11 inch and 13 inch screen size. The MacBook Air. This MacBook runs off a flash drive instead of a hard drive, which, if you already have an iPod, iTouch, iPhone etc… then you already have the experience of using such development. It’s…

  • Guilt free SHOE shopping

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Wouldn’t you love to own one of these cute pairs of shoes and feel good about the purchase? – For each pair of TOMS shoes purchased a child from around the world in need will also receive a pair of shoes. The philanthropic entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie came up with this ‘one for one’ model while…