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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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October 28th, 2009

Don’t forget…

If you’re interested in markets and all things arty, pretty or just different the Finders Keepers Market is on this weekend. It’s held at the old museum at the RNA Saturday and Sunday. Along with showcasing new designers and artists the market offers live music and garden café and bar… what a lovely way to [...]

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October 27th, 2009

Promo Party

Last weekend I found myself happily involved in mini marketing stint in which I unknowingly promoted a brand I don’t even particularly like.
Here’s the recipe for setting up your own small scale marketing exploit. These instructions relate to a Jim Beam promotion, but you can replace the ingredients to suit your preferred brand.
Step One: Utilise [...]

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October 27th, 2009

Windows: Mega Fail

If anyone’s in the mood for 6 minutes and 15 seconds of spew-worthy pain check out the latest “ad” (I cringe even calling it that) by Microsoft for the launch of Windows 7. They’ve proved yet again how out of touch they are with their consumers (and reality) with this over the top, cliched ad [...]

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October 21st, 2009

Art & About

Throughout this month, October 09, Sydney has been delivering an art extravaganza. With a full events program in action open to the public, there is never a dull moment on the streets of Sydney.
Take a stroll in Hyde Park and you’ll see bold imagery of Sydney life from all walks of life/culture in photographs printed [...]

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October 19th, 2009

The laziest form of advertising

If you have ever crawled past a 100 kilometers an hour speed zone at 5 kilometers an hour, wriggled in your seat to avoid the morning sun’s heat, madly changed radio stations to avoid Guy Sebastian’s latest single, breathed in copious amount of poisonous gases spewing out of the car’s exhaust in front and burned [...]

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October 16th, 2009

All things Italian

As we gear up this weekend to take our Fiats to  FIERITALIA to be held in New Farm park (Sunday 18th October), I realised how lucky I am to be part of a car club  (Fiat Car Club Queensland) that is very social and welcoming to anyone who has a remote interest in Italian cars. [...]

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October 14th, 2009

Wholphin Short Movies

The Brisbane Powerhouse has started a bi-monthly showing of rare and never- seen-before short films. Under the title Wholphin, (a hybrid whale/dolphin), these free Saturday afternoon sessions are held in the subterranean turbine rehearsal room at 3pm.
We have picnic in the park with friends before we go in, it makes for a fun free [...]

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October 12th, 2009

Lola Marc Jacobs

I went on a mission over the weekend to find a new perfume. I have used the same one for some time now and the bottle is nearing empty.
I searched high and low in my quest to find the ultimate perfume, before I stumbled across the most creative perfume bottle and lid I have ever [...]

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October 7th, 2009

Sweet Chops

Red-i Design is a dog-friendly workplace – we have regular residents Stella and Luby-Loo, and both of them are always hungry.
Whenever lunchtime comes around the dogs tend to linger. This wouldn’t be a problem if I wasn’t so hungry at lunchtime and could share my food – but by this time my tummy is always [...]

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October 5th, 2009

Social media revolution.

Social media is taking over! Check out this clip - “Social Media Revolution”.

Yours in design,
Jorja-saurus.

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