January 2011
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The artist and the impossible Aussie dream?
Australia Day is tomorrow and I’m dreaming a big vision. I will have a commercial studio and be able to make a living with my artist pursuits. I’ll be able to give up my day job.
The ultimate dream is to create honest work. The sustainable dream is to get paid for what you have a passion for so it never feels like work. Most say Australia is a ‘lucky country’....
November 2010
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Indigenous music and art →
Jessie Lloyd is an indigenous aboriginal singer/songwriter and will be performing at both of them.
October 2010
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15 years of Playstation advertising | Technology |... →
Really good art direction.
Playful Type 2 | Art & Design | Lifelounge →
Awesome letter play. Makes me wants to design my own “A, B, C’s”.
Music marketing: Thinking outside the box →
Rubik cube salt and pepper shakers
Kitchen gadgets make my culinary skills easier and deplete my bank balance. I love the ‘re-use’ theme of this cube.
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Application for the SEEK ARIAs A-List Party... →
Viral and social network marketing
In the hot little hands of your consumer you have the power to influence their choices and hold captive the infamous static tech savvy market. Forget the street billboards…target iPhone users and other scurrilous modern mobile technology.
E-commerce has come a long way baby and it has nothing to do with Fat Boy Slim. Or does it? Say you got him as your celebrity endorsement for a new pair...
“VOTE for me and watch one of the funniest ARIA reports ever…...”
– My ego
Lady in red.
Colour play is a timeless art and without noticing you and your intelligent psyche are subliminally influenced. I love red. It is a power colour.
Studies have shown that it’s the first color babies recognize, and one that continues to appeal to most people throughout their childhood and into their adult lives.
Mother nature uses it in combination with yellow to tell other creatures to...
10 truths about human nature →
It’s amazing how mother nature programed us with instincts and I wonder if knowing this information will help us to become self aware. Do we really evolve?
Support my dream: 'I want to work for a music...
I love music and design. I really want to work for a music label making beautiful design/s while listening to great music.
I am not often narcissistic. I have volunteered for many social causes and given my marketing and design sense towards not-for-profit.
Please beautiful universe send to me a brief like this…
“My pet-hate is pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts.”
– David McCandless
Design nerd link for beautiful information →
David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer.
I wish I had seen this site when I was doing my masters of design semiotics project. Bah!
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Neo-feminist marketing power →
Want to understand the difference between the way female consumer and male consumer’s brains work? “Think of the floor layout at Swedish furniture behemoth IKEA”, is the provocative suggestion of Jane Waterhouse, managing director of specialist female marketing company Sister Communications.
Do you lose yourself in intricate space after space, floor after floor, discovering nooks and...
Mama Kin is awesome. →
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Xavier Rudd interview: Thunder and Lighting
Sometimes I do music journalism. Here is a sample…
IN BETWEEN recording and touring album number six Koonyum Sun, I chatted with Xavier Rudd about making music from the heart, surfing and his friendship with South African players Tio Moloantoa and percussionist Andile Nqubezelo (Izintaba).
XAVIER RUDD TALKS ABOUT THE WAVES AND THE SPIRIT BEHIND HIS MUSIC
In your time off I hear...
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Sponge Magazine →
The Melbourne based pop culture magazine born of the SYNK magazine collective. I contributed an interview I did with the soulful Xavier Rudd. Article also featured in Auzone.
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
This is not digital
Early on sunny Spring Sunday morning I migrated my bleary eyed self to Cowper St, Footscray to participate in the AGDA Back To Basics print workshop. Melbourne Museum of Printing (MMOP) is a working museum of typography and printing.
I really love being ‘hands on’ with my design discipline and although we did not create individual pieces ‘the AGDA collective’ learnt how...
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Design branding for drinking
A debate developed this week about marketing beer to the ‘Y’ generation in my office this week. This makes sense as my current client is within the alcoholic beverage industry. I started researching this stream of debate and found some very interesting results. Australia’s buying power has shifted to the fickle nature of generation Y and no major brand has successfully catered to...