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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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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 it for safety’s sake. As a result, we see the same boring slides, with the same boring transitions over and over again, and people are encouraged to commit the ultimate presentation sin by PowerPoint—they read from their slides—because it does nothing other than list words. Read the rest of Death to PowerPoint →

24.07.10. filed under Reviews & Editorials. 3 Comments →

Go Font Urself 5 Brisbane Photos

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Checkout the latest pictures on the Design Federation Flickr from the Brisbane edition of Go Font Urself 5 in Brisbane hosted at Nine Lives Gallery!

23.07.10. filed under General. No Comments →

Whizkid Games wins design award

A package of free online games for children with autism has received the pinnacle award at the 2010 Premier’s Design Awards.

Whizkid Games was created by a group of final year multimedia design students from Swinburne’s Faculty of Design in collaboration with Swinburne’s National eTherapy Centre (NeTC) and Bulleen Heights Autism School. Read all about Whizkid Games Victory →

23.07.10. filed under General. No Comments →

Changing Lanes Festival

After nearly a year of hard work, council meetings, DA approvals and proposals, the team at FBi and MAPS have hit the ground running. The festival will take place on the 19th of September, in Eliza St, Newtown and will celebrate Sydney’s brimming artistic and music communities. Stages will be assembled in the Eliza St laneway, The Courthouse Hotel and Zanzibar where bands and DJs spanning genres such as indie, rock, acoustic, dub-step, hip-hop and electro will entertain crowds. Local and international street artists will involve themselves throughout the day, in a live painting event onto The Courthouse wall opposite Eliza street. Food, fashion, vinyl and bike stalls will also be present to browse through throughout during the day.

Line-up announcement due early August. Look forward to seeing you there!

23.07.10. filed under Events & Exhibitions. No Comments →

D&AD Student Awards

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The D&AD Student Awards took place a couple of weeks ago and it’s really inspiring to see the quality of work coming from these kids! To see the great work head on over to the D&AD Student Awards section!

23.07.10. filed under Events & Exhibitions. No Comments →

Furnitex: Melbourne photos by Bianca Milani

The photographer who never sleeps Bianca Milani is back with photos from Furnitex in Melbourne, and you can check out all her amazing pictures on the Design Federation Flickr

22.07.10. filed under Photography. No Comments →

Ben Thomas Interview

Some call it smallgantics, others tiltshift, but Ben Thomas’ Shrunken Cities are absolutely breathtaking.

Read the Interview with Ben Thomas the "Cityshrinker" →

22.07.10. filed under Interviews. 1 Comment →

No more grafik!

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The publishers of grafik magazine have liquidated the company and advised that the printed version will cease production and none will be produced for the foreseeable future, what a sad story to hear!

22.07.10. filed under General. No Comments →

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