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We are proud to announce that our long standing client Backpackers Buddy won the Outstanding Tourism Award at the Local Business Awards Ceremony last night. Its been a fun journey helping them get back on their feet and we look forward to helping them grow into the future. Well done to the whole team!
Backpackers Buddy designs
Every 18 months for the last decade, the world has doubled the data it pushes to you. Twice as much email, twice as many friend requests, twice as many sites to check, twice as many devices. When does your mind lose the ability to keep up? Then what happens? Is it already happening?
An awesome blog from Seth Godin today…
Breathing, hmmm, it is one of those things that we do all day and all night long, or suffer the consequences. How do I ensure that I do it even when I am so busy that my breathing becomes more shallow, less important and almost an inconvenience? Think about it. Focus, in,….out,….in,….out,….slowly, my priorities change and I realise that all those busy things that I really need to do are critical so that I can breathe at home, with my children and with my family.
Guest blog by our good friend Charlotte Rimmer, the best MD we could have!
I read a very interesting chapter in John Maeda’s book ‘Simplicity’ today, it spoke about how in some cases, a certain kind of more is always better than less–more care, more love, and more meaningful actions. In the design world that I live in, I work to the mantra that less is more–less words, less on the page, less ambiguity but I realised when I read this paragraph that we do actually give more to our clients in the ways that John suggests, its the only way we can design effectively for human beings!
Emotional intelligence is now considered an important facet of leaders today, and the expression of emotion is no longer considered a weakness but a desirable human trait. Fulfillment from living a meaningful life is the ROE (Return On Emotion), I like that!!
Amazing oil paintings by Parisian artist Francoise Nielly, who uses a palette knife to achieve the dramatic textures and bold line work that punctuates her portraits. Check out her website to see how she paints so dramatically. Oh so talented!!
francoise-nielly
Met with a great guy called Peter yesterday who is setting up an exciting new venture, he spoke of how, as a race, we have moved from ‘We to Me’ to ‘Me to We’. I felt uncomfortable with this phrase and wondered why… After a little pondering, I realised that we have actually retained our selfishness and the whole Seth Godin tribe theory is utterly correct, what is actually happening, in my opinion, is that we now have groups of ‘Me’s’. In the past if you were in a group, metaphorically speaking, you held each others hand because you shared a common thing, now, due to the advances in technology and lifestyles, we find ourselves in little groups of Me’s. Our commonality remains but so does our selfishness. For instance, if we both have an ipad, then we share something in common so we are part of the ipad group, but our selfishness forces us to try and outdo each other through more apps, bigger memory or greater connectivity, I think this is what is helping the churn and burn mentality.
From our clients point of view, we need to be mindful about these groups of ‘Me’s’ and communicate effectively to these niche markets.
Eggcellent! pardon the pun but we are happy to announce that we have been asked to design the logo for the Australian Egg Corporations quality assurance program. A mark that will be used across Australia on all compliant eggs! Thanks Yelli and James for choosing Kindleman!
We are excited to announce that we have been asked to help re-brand Browne & Co, the fab accountants and business development guys. Along with a new logo, we will be helping communicate their message with updated collateral, advertising and website. Thanks Phil and Anna for choosing us.
We are very excited to be working with the great team at TPP Internet, they have invited us to help with a re-brand and re-communication of their key business offerings. After a fun photoshoot with their whole team & Big Dave Hunt, we now have an asset library that we will use to update the website and advertising material. Thanks guys, we look forward to building your brand with you.
We would like to welcome Rebecca at Clime Asset Management, we have been invited to help re-brand Stockval and move it into a slightly different realm utilising website, social media and printed communication channels. Exciting!