Positive People

Our Home-grown Positive Posters Competition is currently accepting entries. Founded by Melbourne's Nick Hallam in 2009, this not-for-profit competition calls upon entrants from around the globe to use their creative talent to promote positive thinking. Unrestricted by the bounds of commercial bureaucracy, this is an opportunity for fantastic exposure to internationally acclaimed industry professionals.

This idea works on a number of levels. Coming from an Advertising perspective, the exposure created through the interactivity and word-of-mouth stir, invites the audience to participate and become immersed within the product. The product being; positive thinking. Even after the competition is over, the awareness will prevail through the display of these posters around the cultural hub that is Melbourne. From a graphic design head space, the opportunity harbours enormous potential for "breaking through" as a designer in this highly competitive and albeit, network based industry. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, with the possibility of your design getting the masses to think differently, why not enter?

The brief:

I haven’t failed; I’ve had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work 
– Benjamin Franklin

We think Mr. Franklin had a nice way of looking at things. So the 2010 competition theme is ‘A Glass Half Full’.
 For those who don’t know, this saying refers to optimism. Some people see situations with optimism (Franklin – glass half full), and some see situations with pessimism (glass half empty).

We would like you to design a positive poster in response to this theme. Judges will be looking for original concepts, lateral thinking and inspired designs. The poster will be up in Melbourne streets, so keep in mind it should also standout against the city landscape.

Stone and Fringe

...When it is okay to have more than 10 fingers.

On enthralling crystal and unearthly design, VeidiAum is here to save us from mediocre jewellery purgatory. With a big green tick for eco-friendliness and sustainability, this label is sporting a top-ranking in my favourite emerging creatives list.

Keep your eyes on this one.

This amazing thread is rekindling a childhood love of white witchery. I can envision this heavenly wispy fringe partnered with the above-adourned hand candy as the perfect attire for casting some seriously cool spells.

Visit GirlOnAVine's Etsy here for some tassle-some treats.

Like.No.Other

During one of my Advertising lectures at uni today, one of my all-time, heart-somersaulting, favourite campaigns was analysed. Behind the profound peace and beauty it’s inspiring imagery and sound produce, lies a highly clever and equally creative concept. The hundreds of thousands of vibrantly coloured bouncy-balls, which are hoisted down the streets of San Francisco’s Russian Hill, metaphorically represent the colour pixel “ball” technology of the product, Sony Bravia Flatscreens. This high-budget campaign reigns close to my favourite commercial and validates my proclivity of studying and designing to Jose Gonzales’s organic grace of a voice. As interesting as the end result, is the creative process and implementation of this gala. Watch this clip to see how creative crusaders, legal “i" dotters and “t” crossers, heavy machinery handymen managed to orchestrate this magnificent explosion of colour and gravity.

Words and Thoughts

Words, no matter whether they are vocalised and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast almost hypnotic spell on you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotised into implicitly believing that when you attach a word to something, you know what it is. You only covered up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, a stone, and certainly human beings is ultimately unknowable.

From "A New Earth" by one of my dear favourites, Eckhart Tolle. Quite Easily one of the most influential books I have read. Don't take my word for it, ask Oprah.

Streetstylism

Whether you like it or love it, Streetstyle is vastly emerging on trend. Over the past three ish years there has been a shape shift within the fashion bizz. Transcending empyreal perfection and Valentino-esque stature and grace, Streetstyle hasmade it's mark as one of the most influential stylings of today. Summoning real life creatives and capturing the brilliance and innovation of the home-grown talent crop, Streetstyle has redesigned the image of DIY, abolishing the exclusivity of who can create and broadcast trend. Much a result of the rapid acceptance of recent technological endeavours, predominantly, blogging. My admittedly obsessed attitude toward Streetstyle was heightened when I spied this crafty critter of a lookbook by REECE HUDSON. I died of happiness a bit.

Oak & Bone

(Little Sister Leopard Maxi, Little Sister sheer crop, Sportsgirl hat, Jeffery Campbell imitation Sportsgirl clogs, Wayne Cooper Fur Coat, Thrifted Shark-tooth necklace, Sportsgirl Metal Ring.)

Sister Jessica and myself behind and in front of the Nikon D90.

The Line.

The line between incorporating your daily wanderings and happenings and going overboard with self-narration is seldom acknowledged in personal blogs. I think it makes a blog worth following if there is some human element fused in with the broadcasting of content. However, it can be overdone. Particularly, within PR there is a lot of overkill when it comes to reporting daily encounters and opinion. I pondered for quite some time, whether I wanted to create a blog strictly material based, blogging about collections, artists, readings etc, all unrelated to myself, or whether I would write from a first-person base, about my life. The most interesting blogs it seems are those that can skilfully do both. they must be able to don their blogs with interesting content from a personal perspective. To embark on my half-journal, half-content approach, I am sharing my picnic with you.

Mecca's Apologies.

My admittedly sporadic blogging is over. I, Sarah Byrne, vowel to honour you, The Mecca, as my lawfully, life broadcasting, pass time. School is out for the summer. It may be Winter and it may only be "out" for another few weeks. But, baby I am back. My brain is about to bust with things to blog about. I have been reading some hectic material I want to share, working with some very interesting clients and have had some interesting experiences worthy of mention which will all be addressed in time.

As an appetiser of things to come...

1. Book Porn. Oh, Hey Book Porn, How are you going?

Oh my days! Stunning.

2. Policeman Arnold Odermatt's Photography

Swiss Policeman who took photographs of the crime scene... then took his own personal set. Peculiar and Incredible.