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design•o•saur

dəˈzīn•ō•sau | noun
  1. A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of art and design.
  2. Wise informer of art and design subjects.

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  1. Online portal giving crucial information on art and design.

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August 31st, 2009

Why am I here?

I have been doing quite a bit of thinking lately about my Life Purpose…Why am I here and what can I achieve while I am here.  I know I don’t just want to be a consumer of life, to go on day after day using manufactured products and duplicating the same year of my life [...]

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August 18th, 2009

Designer Fight Club

After a hugely successful launch last year, BAD next byte Designer Fight Club is back for another round of visual brutality. You can see Brisbane’s most kick ass designers, art directors and wildcard entrants battle it out in a wild live design event.
They will have to answer punishing design briefs set by industry heavyweights inside [...]

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August 18th, 2009

Purity or Pubity?

I was sitting having a quiet drink in front of the fire one cold afternoon while on holidays recently and I was talking to my father in law who was drinking this Cascade Premium Light. Being a graphic designer and a stickler for good typography I was interested to see the treatment of type and [...]

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Brisbane City Council’s exhibit at the HIA Renovate & Build Expo at the Brisbane Convention Centre was a roaring success with the engaging display attracting a lot of attention on the GreenSmart Building Zone. This custom display created by RED-i Design showcased an interior house scene where various tips were positioned over areas that could [...]

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New York designer, Barbara Glauber, is touring the country later this month as part of AGDA’s international speaker program. Barbara is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun website and is on the faculty at Yale University as a critic in graphic design. She loves typography and chocolate (don’t we all?) and during her talk, titled ‘Heavy Meta: Design [...]

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