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design•o•saur

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  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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December 18th, 2009

Size doesn’t really matter!

I have seen so many times lately my peers bragging about how many people they have in their email database and the relatively short time it has taken them to get a database that big. But the question that immediately pops into my head is… what is the quality of the people in that database?
Now [...]

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December 17th, 2009

Annual reports are yum

I just wanted to share this little gem which shows what amazing things can be achieved when you have a creative agency and an open-minded client. Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe, that has to be baked in an [...]

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December 14th, 2009

Christmas lights…

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and hundreds of people around Brisbane have certainly proved to be jolly with their magnificant Christmas light displays.

I have to admit, going Christmas light looking is one of my favourite annual pastimes. I love not only seeing the displays, but the reactions of everyone when they see something [...]

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December 13th, 2009

Memories on my walls…

I’ve always been a poster pilferer. I go to gigs and take them from the walls get them signed by the band then frame them. My Skunkhour poster from The Go tour is my pride and joy. My best friend recounts and experience of regret the time we saw Alex Lloyd at the Waterloo (in [...]

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December 9th, 2009

Amazing Astounding Stop Motion

Being a fan of nicely done stop-motion, I came across this video clip in a recent youtube browse. Not only is the effect beautiful and perfectly achieved, the song is pretty catchy too. To the untrained eye, the production just looks like a cool music video, but if you sit and think about the patience [...]

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December 9th, 2009

B_E_E Clever

I spied this clever marketing on a series of postcards in an eco store in Bellingen, NSW.

B_E_E – ‘Beauty Engineered for Ever’ is a range of cleaning products from New Zealand and these postcards perfectly embodies their drive to be “designed for pleasure, function and the environment”. I just love the way they have interacted [...]

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The web has become an interesting melting pot of application design and development.
Before the web, applications were held captive by the terrible desktop. They could only be installed by manhandling multiple 3.5 inch hard disks or CD’s that would end up with more track-marks than a junkie.
Documents produced by desktop apps that had to be [...]

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