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  • 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…

  • Spend Friday nights at GoMA’s Up Late

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    When 5pm rolls around each Friday, what do you do? a) Head to a city bar and muse over the working week with colleagues and a bottle or two of vino? b) Drive straight home and settle in for an evening of TV and takeaway? c) Or… do you spend the evening longing to find…

  • Collaborative Consultation

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Collaborative Consultation is a design concept communicated to me at a design workshop I attended on Saturday, 16 October 2010, at the State Library as part of the Icograda Design Week. The workshop was facilitated by Paul Hughes from Lava, a design studio in the Netherlands. The basis of Cooperative Collaboration encourages a design ‘Ecology’…

  • The Gift of Genius

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Last week saw the passing of a woman both humble and great, Dame Joan Sutherland. Sixty years ago Joan Sutherland won a competition that allowed her to sail away to London and learn to forge her gift into an art form that has given us back bel canto singing, something that had all but disappeared…

  • Sleepeater wins NZ Best Design

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Everyone’s favourite New Zealand band, Shihad, might have been around since 1988, but they are keeping up to date with new media. They enlisted the help of NZ agency Oktobor to create a microsite for the music video of their new single ‘Sleepeater‘. The innovative site won Gold in the Small Scale Website category and the…

  • No budget? Ask Richard!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of the biggest challenges designers face is coming up with effective campaigns on only a small budget. While reading up on the 2010 Australian Effie Awards in this months edition of B&T magazine, one of the winners stood out as a great example of how creative thinking can tackle this issue. Sydney independent radio…

  • Got a bit of Spring Valley Fever?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    On Sunday night we saw Schweppes Australia launch a significant multi media campaign for its fruit juice brand Spring Valley entitled ‘Where Spring Comes From’ . The new campaign, by George Patterson Y&R Melbourne, draws on the skills of multi-award winning US based animation house Psyop to deliver a series of executions that capture ‘the…

  • Marcus Graham stars in Macbeth during Brisbane Festival

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

        You may remember him from Underbelly, but now Marcus Graham can now add Shakespeare to his already impressive CV. The Aussie screen icon has landed the title role of  Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth which is drawing to a close tonight (12 September) at QUT Festival Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse – so get in…

  • Loyalty lessons from Lady Gaga

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I stumbled upon this great article by Jackie Huba…well worth a read!… There’s a lot marketers can learn from artist and musician Lady Gaga. At age 23, Lady Gaga has rocketed to global fame in less than two years. Playing piano at age 4 and New York nightclubs at 14, she recently broke Billboard’s record as the…