Matisse ‘Up Late’
‘Up late‘ is back at GOMA with the current Matisse: Drawing Life exhibit, running from 20 January-2 March 2012 on Fridays 5.30-10pm. With an exciting line-up planned…. This Friday 3 February 8.30pm Tyrone Noonan (AUS/USA) – originally from Brisbane 10 February Brous (AUS) 17 February Jason Lytle (USA) 24 February Halfway (AUS) 2 March Bonnie [...]
Matisse at GOMA
Art lovers will agree that Henri Matisse was an artist of classical greatness. His career was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction. Early on in his career, he was viewed as a Fauvist, and his celebration of bright colours reached its peak in 1917 when he began [...]
App Love: A Local’s Guide
A Local’s Guide is a stroke of design genius from Map Magazine I’m a huge fan of the magazine from the content to their design and this local’s guide to Brisbane in app form is no exception. Map describe the app as hundreds of random curated suggestions by locals for the best experiences in [...]
TEDxYouth Brisbane
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending TEDxYouthBrisbane at The Edge. The speakers were diverse and I loved the revised 10min talk format. It kept the pace of the day just right and you never felt like your attention was drifting. A firm favourite was Harrison Saragossi, a local photographer who was this year named [...]
Top 5 Australian Photographers
Such an art… So much talent required… Something I definitely appreciate. I’d like to share with everyone my top 5 Australian photographers (this was hard to pick!) WEDDINGS: Marcus Bell, Studio Impressions. PORTRAITS: Stephen Walker, Grapeshot Studios. COMMERCIAL: David Collins, Blackbox Photography. FASHION: “It’s a tie..” Between HenryK AND Georges Antoni. Who’s your favourite…? [...]
The Future according to Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh, author of ‘Futuretainment’, presented at a recent AIMIA Brisbane event: “Yesterday the world changed. Now it is your turn” which I attended. For the one-hour session I felt Mike covered a lot of ground, but not once did I feel “overwhelmed” by the information being given to us. Working in an industry focused [...]
TEDx Brisbane
The second TEDxBrisbane was held at the State Library of Queensland last weekend. More than 450 people attended the event. It was a great day and a few firm favourites shone through. My top moments of the day include: Gordon Hamilton’s Toy Story 3 = Awesome Composer Gordon Hamilton’s video takes random Facebook status updates [...]
Spare Ticket announced as AMI National Finalist
Ok shameless plug warning! We’re super excited to see our client Spare Ticket announced as a National Finalist for the Australian Marketing Institute’s Awards for Marketing Excellence in the ‘New Brand’ category. We’re up against some ‘stiff’ competition: Warnie’s underwear brand Spinners; Simplot’s Quorn and Queensland winner Mater Mother’s Private Redland; so fingers crossed! The awards are [...]
Brio Reads #1
Welcome to what we hope will become a regular Friday fixture on Brio Daily – Brio Reads. Each day our team stumble upon the cool, quirky, inspirational and creative online. This is our opportunity to share those finds with you. Enjoy! This week the technology, creative and business worlds lost a true pioneer. Steve Jobs [...]
What is Good Customer Service?
Good customer service is all about bringing customers back, about sending them away happy – happy enough to pass positive feedback about your business along to others. It is the livelihood of all businesses. Good customer service must be provided to customers before, during and after a purchase or service. You can offer promotions and [...]