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  • 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…

  • Fete de la Musique Brisbane 2009 a success

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Fete de la Musique Brisbane 2009 was a huge success seeing more than 220 musical acts perform. The event, which took place on Sunday June 21, was simultaneously hosted by more than 330 cities around the world. Despite the rainy conditions some of Brisbane’s biggest acts were among the hundreds of artists who performed. Famous…

  • Exquisite Typography Poster Exhibition (QLD)

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    Tanya Heading

    Exhibition Opening Monday 29 June 6.15pm AGDA International Speaker event — Kris Sowersby, NZ typographer Queensland College of Art Auditorium, 226 Grey Street, South Bank The theme ‘NZ identity’ – how nine separate designers from all over the world imagine New Zealand through typography. Now it is possible to discover our contemporary world through Flickr, webcams, online news, in…

  • Pecha Kucha Volume 11

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Yes, it’s that time again! Pecha Kucha is back in Brisbane and back at the Powerhouse for this installment on the 3 June. Starting at 8.20pm, speakers include the Director of the Queensland Museum, Ian Galloway; local textile designer, KT Doyle; and founder of In Finland Records, Nick Smethurst. Along with eight other equally diverse…

  • UnderExposed

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Something about music photography is truly captivating, the reflection and intimacy that is gained through freezing such intense emotion has always grabbed me. UnderExposed is an exhibition featuring some of the best – established and emerging – music photographers in Brisbane. Bringing together those select shooters who have captured the visual side of Brisbane’s aural…

  • State of Design

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    Tanya Heading

    15-25 July, 2009 – Melbourne The State of Design Festival showcases Victoria’s best designers and creative teams, and businesses using innovative design. Learn how design can lead business, industry and society towards a better future. The Festival holds four major programs in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, focused around the 2009 theme ‘Sampling the Future’:…

  • Semi-Semi-Permanent

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

        A BIG thank-you to AGDA (www.agda.com.au) for my lucky door prize at one of their recent design events of a Semi-Permanent Brisbane ticket, for which I shared with my young and creative work colleague during the busy time before the Easter long weekend. Anya-demus enjoyed the first half while I absorbed the second…

  • Semi-Permanent

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    Tanya Heading

    To put it simply Semi-Permanent is a design event. It consists of a conference and side events which include exhibitions, competitions, workshops and parties. It’s a celebration of all things design. Graphic Design, Film, Art, Illustration, Web Design, Photography, Visual Effects, Animation, Graffiti, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion; all these things and more. Semi-Permanent explores the…