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  • Writing on the iPad

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So we want to eliminate needing to take a notepad and pen with us everywhere to write and sketch our brain farts, when we have our trusty iPad at hand. There are various apps available from iTunes which have note-taking and sketching functionality as well as pens that sync to an iPad. Apps for download:…

  • Kid’s know best

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    An inspiring TED talk from 6th grader Thomas Suarez.

  • Ultimate Christmas Gift for a Designer…

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    OK, I think this would have to be up there with the top gifts for a designer this year! They are Pantone® Christmas Baubles! Very cool! Don’t forget that you can also get Pantone Chairs, Pantone Boxes, Pantone Coffee Mugs and Pantone Wall Stores! You can get them individually (10 colours to choose from) or…

  • Google Street View Now Shows Ski Slopes

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Google Street View snowmobile had been out and about capturing imagery for ski resorts using a special-made snowmobile made during the 2010 Winter Olympics. How awesome is this! Take a look at the YouTube below, it is amazing what they are able to show us with Google Maps now. Yours in Google Street Viewing,…

  • Colour Tool for Designers & Developers

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Ever seen a website and thought ‘what a great colour they are using here’. Well now, to make your life easier, there is a tool called Colour Tool. You bookmark the link in your browser, and when you see a site that you love and want to know what colours are used, you click the…

  • The Future according to Mike Walsh

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Mike Walsh, author of ‘Futuretainment’, presented at a recent AIMIA Brisbane event: “Yesterday the world changed. Now it is your turn” which I attended. For the one-hour session I felt Mike covered a lot of ground, but not once did I feel “overwhelmed” by the information being given to us. Working in an industry focused…

  • Five ways to use your Instagram photos

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Instagram is a photo-sharing app for the iPhone. It has fast become a way to quickly share bits and pieces of your day using preset filters to give various affects to your photos. Aside from how simple it is to use, the beauty of Instagram (in my opinion) lies in how it can make users…

  • Spare Ticket announced as AMI National Finalist

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    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 Future without Steve Jobs

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Steve Jobs was an amazing ‘creator‘, he consistently managed to innovate and I believe he has changed the way we consume music, has changed our expectations around how computers and mobile phones should operate and has given us products that we didn’t even know we needed (iPad). Can we imagine a future without the input…