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The Death of the Paper Industry

The Death of the Paper Industry

Is the paper industry in the final death throes of its heyday?   Macquarie analyst Alex Pollack sounded the death knell for daily newspapers yesterday when he recommended Fairfax Media axe its Melbourne and Sydney newspapers to boost profits.   The Australian (owned by rival group News Corp) reported Pollack’s prediction that 'Delivering digital-only ...

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Death to PowerPoint

Death to PowerPoint

If you’re like me, the prospect of having to sit through one more PowerPoint presentation makes me want to gnaw my own arm off. Most people use PowerPoint because it’s the default standard and if you plan to give a presentation on an unknown computer you tend to stick with ...

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Fashions of the field

Fashions of the field

Design Federation went a-walking on Saturday, through the gentrified fields of The Hawkesbury for our second photoshoot for The Federation Annual and it all went swimmingly. A little too much so for moi, who ended up in the drink after scaling across a mossy rock ledge with all the confidence ...

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Photography Tips: Six of the Best

Photography Tips: Six of the Best

iStockphoto offers some practical advice and guidance on capturing the perfect image and taking amateur shots to the next level. 1. DIGITAL NOISE AND COLOUR DISTORTION Image noise is the variation of values in the detection process of your camera. Noise and colour distortion (or digital noise) occurs most frequently in uniform colour ...

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Brisbane Semi-Permanent Review

Brisbane Semi-Permanent Review

I trooped off with yet another group of students this year to see the Brisbane Semi-Permanent extravaganza. Unlike Sydney’s two-day speaker fest, we only get one day up here, but boy are we grateful for this one day. They’ve been running in Brisbane for three years now and every year ...

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The Finders Keepers markets in Melbourne

The Finders Keepers are heading Melbourne, and as with all Finders Keepers events there will be live music + café & bar open all day. If you are a creative who wants to be involved in the event, you can apply online at www.thefinderskeepers.com, keep in mind that applications close 27th of August 2010, so hurry!

What: The Finders Keepers Spring/Summer markets
When: Sat 9th October & Sun 10th October, 10am-5pm
Where: Shed 4, Victoria Harbour North Wharf Rd, Docklands Melbourne
How Much: Free Entry

27.07.10. filed under Events & Exhibitions. No Comments →

HotHouse begins today, in case you’re not already there – run – it’s probably started.

A two-day think-tank of creative thinkers, designers, artists, curators, academics, philosophers, urban planners and architects to get chatting about the sustainable transformation of urban environments.  I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a brainstorming session I would love to be a fly on the wall of! Read more about hothouse →

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Travis Dewan of Vegas Spray Interview

Vegas Spray.Com is an online gallery dedicated to the promotion and development of Brisbane Emerging Art so Design Federation decided to talk to the Travis Dewan the Vegas Spray director about all things Brisbane. Reasd the full Travis Dewan of Vegas Spray Interview →

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Tony Abbott: the man your PM should be (Old Spice parody)

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Another brilliant election animation, this time from Small Poppy TV.

Small Poppy TV is the cartoons of Julian Ellis and Adam Brodie-McKenzie. Julian whips up all the animation and artwork himself. Adam watches.
www.smallpoppy.tv

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Positive Posters Party Pictures by Bianca Milani

Bianca Milani is back with some great snaps from the “For The Love Of Design – Positive Posters Launch Party 2010!!” held at The Workers Club in Brunswick. Check out the full set on the Design Federation Flickr

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Top 6×6 Design Icons

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The Top 6×6 Blog provides an opportunity for you to post your own top 6 design icons. It’s both interesting and inspiring to see others selections – who, what, where will you pick?

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MAD DOGS part 1

Just because your paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not after you. The strange and terrible saga of the Mad Dogs. Sam Smith is a Surfers Paradise based artists. The contradictions and culture clashes in his home town inspire some of his work.
www.submarineco.com

Opening 29 July, 6pm – 9pm. Show running from 29 July – 8 August.
Oh Really Gallery.
55 Enmore Rd. Newtown. Sydney.

25.07.10. filed under Events & Exhibitions. No Comments →

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