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Whilst ‘click-here’ and ‘more >>’ may be fairly obvious to most web users, its’ certainly not best practice. It can be difficult to avoid…

As proud and nationally recognised proponents of web standards, Propeller have been quietly basing all of our work on and occasionally loudly selling the many benefits of designing with web standards since our inception in 2004.

“What struck Jim Wier first, as he entered the Wal-Mart vice president’s office, was the seating area for visitors. “It was just some lawn chairs that some other peddler had left behind as samples.” The vice president’s office was furnished with a folding lawn chair and a chaise lounge.”

Renee Buckley is the right side of the brain that is Propeller Global the award-winning graphic design and marketing company based in Brisbane, Australia. You may have already read about the left half in the Damien Buckley interview.

Excerpt from a recent interview I did with Peter Moulding from TXPQ magazine.

Damien Buckley is one half of Propeller Global, a one stop web & graphic design studio based in Brisbane, Australia that does advertising, brochures, business cards, copy writing, creative artwork, digital imaging, domain name registration, e-commerce, email marketing, flash animation, flyers, hosting, leaflets, logo design, packaging, point of sale, posters, print, stationery, shopify themes, web design and web hosting amongst other things

Having been shortlisted for the McFarlane Prize for the second year running, Propeller packed up and headed to Sydney for Web Directions South 2008.

WDS08 was well attended and featured a stellar cast of the net’s finest with over 30 sessions hosted by international speakers such as Jina Bolton, Jeffrey Veen, August de los Reyes, Jeff Croft and Cameron Adams amongst others. WDS08 was sponsored by Microsoft, Adobe, the W3C, Xero, Gruden, 99 Designs, Sitepoint, Molten, Wacom and Opera.

Following a fascinating insight into Microsofts’ new ‘surface’ technology by August de los Reyes, conference organisers John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin presented this years' McFarlane Prize

After receiving an award for the Solution Central website in the 2007 McFarlane Prize, Propeller are delighted to find out that we’ve made the finals again this year with the Pro Plaster site.

Bite Me Bait, a local Redland business, recently enlisted our help to produce their company logo and stationery in time for their product launch at the Moreton Bay Fishing Competition.

The brief was to develop a simple logo that would be lend itself to printing and embroidering onto T-shirts, caps and other merchandise.

The finished result was this simple, yet quirky logo that sums up the product at a glance.

As keen scuba divers in our spare time, we at Propeller are passionate about the conservation of our amazing marine environment and are proud to support the Australian Marine Conservation Society where we can with some occasional graphic design work.

The AMCS is currently campaigning to save our precious sharks from becoming shark fin soup as the result of an alarming new proposal by the Queensland Government to establish a dedicated shark fin fishery in the Great Barrier Reef.

Propeller were recently commissioned to produce a new catalogue for local food manufacturers Euronatural. The brief was to update the look from the previous catalogue and create a clean, contemporary design.

The great part about this job was that Euronatural had professional photography taken of their products that were displayed beautifully by a professional food stylist.

By working in concert with the photographer and stylist, we were able to ensure that the styling, imagery and layout fitted with the brief and the initial concept.