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Small Giants Interview

Small Giants Interview

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Set up by musician Clare Bowditch, Big Hearted Business teaches creative people about business and business people about creativity… Part of her Inspiration Bomb series, Berry Liberman, co-founder of Small Giants, discusses her background and what lead her do pursue this course. An interesting twist on the podcast interview format, the entire interview is illustrated […]

HASSELL / Herzog & De Meuron Win Flinders Street Competition

HASSELL / Herzog & De Meuron Win Flinders Street Competition

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Australian architecture firm HASSELL and Swiss firm Herzog & De Meuron have won the Victorian government’s $1 million competition to redesign Flinders Street Station. A group of Colombian students from Melbourne University won the people’s choice award, with a design that included a rooftop garden above the station tracks. Eduardo Velasquez, Manuel Pineda and Santiago Medina […]

In the Favelas of Brazil

In the Favelas of Brazil

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Home to the 2014 FIFA World Cup final and 2016 Olympics, billions of eyes are soon to be turned to Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Recent news of a ten-cent increase in bus fares in São Paulo swelled into demonstrations drawing millions of people into the streets of all the major cities, who protested lavish outlays on […]

The Worst Film of the 2000s

The Worst Film of the 2000s

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It’s been ten yeas since the release of the Ben Affleck–Jennifer Lopez catastrophe Gigli. The Daily Beast looks back in detail at what many consider one of the worst films of all time, and how it all went so wrong. What made the film so bad? Just watch the two minute highlight (or lowlight) clip, which begins […]

Create-Your-Own-Hipster-Logo

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Daydreaming of starting an artisanal chutney/pickle/popsicle business? Perfected your home brew and it’s time to graduate to mirco-brewer and sell your product to the world? All you need is a logo that reflects the old-world integrity and craftsmanship in your new-world endeavour – with this six-step guide to creating said logo, you’ll be good to […]

Who Invented Umbrellas?

Who Invented Umbrellas?

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While Ancient Greeks and Egyptians had parasols for sun blockage and there’s collapsible umbrella design documented in China as early as 21 A.D, photos captured by Indonesia-based photographer Penkdix Palme show that there may be another contended for the origins of the simple act of holding an object over our heads for shelter. Source: Code 77

Flinders Street Designs Unveiled

Flinders Street Designs Unveiled

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The six finalists in the Flinders Street redesign competition have been revealed to the public. Some of Australian and global architecture’s biggest names grace the designs, from Zaha Hadid to Herzog & de Meuron through to Hassell, ARM and NH. But possibly one of the most sensitive designs comes from three Colombian architecture students at […]

Anatomy of a Brand Update

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Graphic designer Jessica Hische delivers a detailed account of the ever so slight adjustments present in the brand refresh of email platform Mailchimp. The process is subtle and meticulous, the outcome also subtle yet certainly effective. Source: Co. Design Read It: Here

Detroit Hits Bankruptcy

Detroit Hits Bankruptcy

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Detroit, a city which was the United States’ fourth-largest in the 1950s with nearly 2 million inhabitants, has seen its population plummet to 700,000, losing around a quarter-million residents in the past decade and their tax dollars with them. As a result, the city is currently home to nearly 80,000 abandoned and blighted structures and income […]