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  • The Social Network movie review

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Social Network is the story of the early days of Facebook and the egos, greed and rivalry that comes hand in hand with the billion-dollar idea. It’s based on real life events, but the people in the know claim it’s been ‘Hollywoodised’ to some degree … which has to be expected really. In case…

  • India Fashion Week showcases fantastic designs

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The launch of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week commenced in New Delhi this week. The five day event organised by the Fashion Design Council of India is the largest fashion trade event in the country and will feature more than 115 designers.  At the launch this week, models adorned with giant face and box…

  • OPTIMISM: Design Week Brisbane IS NOW!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    OPTIMISM: Icograda Design Week Brisbane has hit Brisbane this week. Last week was the warm up week with Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific setting the scene for one of the most exciting Design Conferences to come to Brisbane. The international event is unlikely to be back in Australia, let alone Brisbane, for a very…

  • Screen • Act • Impact

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    It’s been another successful year for Media That Matters – a film festival in their 10th year with entrants showcasing their film talents on pressing issues which relate to every day people. The provocative and engaging social-issue documentaries range in topics covering law, the environment, immigration, age, gender, politics… you name it… it’s ‘media that…

  • Come On Lil’ Lleyton

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Those of you in Brisbane (or even Australia and the world it seems) will most likely be aware of the battle between Josh Shiels and Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt of the trademark dispute of the ‘Come On’ brand that Josh created a number of years ago. As a friend of Josh and his son…

  • Meet the woman behind Peppermint Magazine

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Kelley Sheenan from Peppermint Magazine will kick off the Design Institute of Australia’s 2010 Breakfast Series: Bubble & Speak as their first speaker this Thursday 15 July. Kelley comes from a graphic design background, graduating with distinction from Media Design School in Auckland. Initially working for a design/communications company, Kelley and her husband Ben McGill…

  • Could art be imitating life in Daybreakers?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Who would have thought there was room on our video store shelves for yet another vampire movie?! Daybreakers is an Australian epic, filmed at Gold Coast’s Warner Brothers MovieWorld. It’s a visual piece of art by the Spierig brothers, Michael and Peter. Michael is a graduate of Graphic Design and Peter a Film graduate. Teamed…

  • Dream Big

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I have always loved TED talks (described to me once as Youtube for smart people!), so when we had the opportunity to go to TEDx in Brisbane we applied. Held on the weekend at the State Library it lived up to my high expectations. So many ideas were shared that both Paul and I came…

  • Google’s the Buzz word!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Surely it’s not just me that has noticed that Google has been in, around, on top of and responsible for everything at the moment. Almost every news story, blog post, email that I read mentions Google. Some of the innovations that Google have bombarded us with recently include the Google phone, Google Wave, the updated…