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  • Key lessons from Designing for Emotion

    I recently read Aarron Walter’s book Designing for Emotion. Walter is the lead user experience designer for MailChimp where he is the chief responsible for making the online e-mail campaign program’s interfaces more human. As someone fascinated by the psychology of the things we do, I rushed through this book at an eager pace. My…

  • Spare Ticket announced as AMI National Finalist

    Ok shameless plug warning! We’re super excited to see our client Spare Ticket announced as a National Finalist for the Australian Marketing Institute’s Awards for Marketing Excellence in the ‘New Brand’ category. We’re up against some ‘stiff’ competition: Warnie’s underwear brand Spinners; Simplot’s Quorn and Queensland winner Mater Mother’s Private Redland; so fingers crossed! The awards are…

  • The Rabbit Hole Ideation Cafe opening soon…

    I’ve recently stumbled across the Facebook page for a new cafe and it caught my eye. Set to open soon, the West End cafe combines my two great interests: design and coffee. The Rabbit Hole Ideation Cafe will be a space for creative types to meet, share ideas, tackle briefs and brainstorm concepts. The cafe will…

  • What’s your work philosophy?

    At Brio Group we have the pleasure of being a part of the Hear and Say Centre’s weekly play group sessions where we have the chance to witness so many beautiful families interact. Last week’s play group was a great chance for me to capture some amazing images for the Hear and Say Centre Annual…

  • Driven to distraction

    When did we cease to disconnect in favour for a distracted and digital existence? Brio talks to Damon Young, author of ‘Distraction’.

  • New social network to rival Facebook, Twitter and Google

    I was reading the Brisbane Courier Mail on Friday and came across this story by Alex Dickinson about “the next big” social network, created right here in Brisbane. Kondoot – a social network based around live streaming video – was quietly launched last month by a small Brisbane team of young technical programmers and already…

  • Social Media for Good & Evil

    It was the widespread availability of social media – namely Facebook & Twitter – which enabled the coordination of the recent London riots. It was also the Blackberry which made it difficult for Police to uncover the crimes as the Blackberry’s instant messaging is not easily encrypted. The majority of British youth prefer the Blackberry…

  • Brio Group celebrates Rhylee’s ‘Switch On’ Ceremony at the Hear and Say Centre

      Everyday at Brio Group our team works hard to help our clients’ businesses grow, blossom and become the best they can be. This is made possible because of our amazing team, who together become the life force of Brio. One day we asked: what if we could use our skills to help people on…

  • Made In Britain

    Earlier this year a national competition amongst UK university design students was launched to create a logo which could be used as a standard marque to promote products manufactured in the UK. After receiving hundreds of entries, the winning design was by Cynthia Lee from Nottingham University. The 11 finalists can be viewed here on Facebook.…