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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
HIA Expo works wonders for Brisbane City Council
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 [...]
Heavy Meta: Design and the Informational Baroque
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 [...]
