Inspiration

  • The ‘Bandwagon’ that’s not for everyone

    Apple’s strong marketing campaigns, amazing hardware and great software have definitely been stealing the technological spotlight almost to the extent where (and I don’t mean to start arguments about this) people seem to be forgetting all about Microsoft and what they have been up to. So I would like to take the time to talk…

  • Accidentally legendary

    A good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I’ve shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are plenty more. It just goes to show some of the…

  • Nothing beats Queensland campaign launches

    Nothing beats Queensland is the message that will be promoted to Australia and the world as part of a joint $10 million Gillard and Bligh Government global tourism marketing strategy. Government Acting Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh yesterday announced details of the campaign to support the state’s $9.2 billion…

  • Surrealism exhibition to open at GoMA

    One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major survey exhibition showing at GoMA from June 11 to October 2, 2011. The exhibition will include more than 180…

  • Green Earth Day to help plant the seeds for change

    Green Earth Day (the brainchild of Leigh-Chantelle Koch) will delight Brisbane greenies this Saturday 12 March at a new venue: Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. This free, family orientated, community event aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye. Green…

  • Clean Up Australia Day

    Just one day left to Clean Up Australia Day 2011! The event will be held on Sunday, 6 March. Clean Up Australia Day has been running since 1990 and has become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. It attracts hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the community, schools and businesses to help clean up and…

  • Is your brand a fractal?

    Influenced by Lee’s original blog about fractals, I started to think about how fractals can be used for brands. I came to the conclusion that fractals are a good paradigm / framework to model your brand. The definition of a fractal according to Hyperdictionary is: A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in…

  • Design your own shoes with Shoes of Prey

    When I signed up for a Small Budget Web Success Seminar with Interactive Minds I saw one of the speakers was Mike Knapp from Shoes of Prey. I thought ‘what a great name’ and got on the old google machine to find out who they were. What I discovered literally made my jaw drop (it…

  • To goo, or not to goo? That’s Cadbury’s eternal question

    Now I’m not loyal to many brands and chocolate is certainly no exception, but these little guys with their own personalities and quirks have me coming back for more every year – even to the point where I think I should “stock up” because its going to be a long hard year (or roughly 8…