The recent agIdeas conference in Melbourne showcased loads of amazing designers from diverse creative backgrounds. One particularly inspirational duo, James Yencken and Leeathon Bellew, patented a little online invention called the 'Cocktail Typer'. While it's not an excessively useful tool, it is really awesome. They...
Continue ReadingI've always driven past billboards/ads/posters and eagerly scanned their content for some form of inspiration to bring to my day. But it seems that beer advertisements with half-naked models, realestate billboards with cheesy agents and towering fast food burgers just aren't cutting it for me....
Continue ReadingApple's strong marketing campaigns, amazing hardware and great software have definitely been stealing the technological spotlight almost to the extent where (and I don't mean to start arguments about this) people seem to be forgetting all about Microsoft and what they have been up to....
Continue ReadingTo all of you other there who couldn't give a rat's arse about weddings I apologise and suggest you tune out now as I'm about to bore you to tears. But to those who might be planning a wedding or helping someone else do so...
Continue ReadingDesigners and Developers across the world need to keep up with the latest technology and trends or get left behind. It’s just how the industry works. The great thing about both of these professions is that everything we could possibly want to know is readily...
Continue ReadingI love type. It's my favourite part of design. For me, there's nothing better than working with a beautiful serif typeface or a bubbly rounded sans that just screams "cool". A few years ago I worked on a 50th anniversary book for an screen-printing organisation, and...
Continue Reading[caption id="attachment_1544" align="alignnone" width="500"] Beautiful Scenery[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1545" align="alignnone" width="378"] Over-used font[/caption] Everyone knows that Avatar is a great movie. It really is a breakthrough in filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and steroscopic film making with cameras that were specially designed for Avatar's production. The acting...
Continue ReadingI 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...
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