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	<title>Double Happy</title>
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		<title>Mobile first wireframes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I completed the initial wire frame for my portfolio site using a &#8216;mobile first&#8217; approach. The idea behind this is to really focus your site on what users need, content first navigation second. It&#8217;s a great approach to help pair down a site and throw away often extraneous content. It was a refreshing change, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/notebook/mobile-first-wireframes/</link>
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		<title>My first responsive website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginning the new build of my website it seemed obvious to me that I needed to step up into the responsive world. I&#8217;ve read all the books and articles, grasped the technicalities (I think) and I&#8217;m really looking forward to the challenge of designing and building something that just works for everything. So first things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/notebook/my-first-responsive-website/</link>
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		<title>Sindico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Magazine insert for Sindico Industries, leaders in clean water technology.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/offline-work/sindico-2/</link>
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		<title>Ministry of Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand Ministry of Justice redesign. With a small budget and tight deadline I created a design based on a strong grid, honest, simple typography and good usability guidelines to suit a wide audience. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/online-work/ministry-of-justice/</link>
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		<title>Whitireia Polytechnic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Complete re-design of the Whitireia Polytechnic website. Working as lead designer for Lushai I created all the visual design and worked on some key interaction designs with <a href="http://www.lushai.com">Lulu Pachuau</a> including the course browser and student gallery. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/featured/whitireia/</link>
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		<title>NZ Wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NZ Wood is a major promotional and development programme for the wood and forestry industry. I created the interaction patterns and visual design for the homepage picker and key audience groups pages. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/online-work/nz-wood/</link>
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		<title>Madwax bar inserts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mad wax are New Zealands premium snow wax creators. My role in this project was the creative direction and graphic design (excluding the Goldrush illustration) of their White lightning and Gold rush packaging headers. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/offline-work/madwax-bar-inserts/</link>
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		<title>Aptimize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a nutshell Aptimize help speed up your website, especially Share Point installations. I created an info-graphic design as part of their data sheet handout for a United States conference on SharePoint.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/offline-work/aptimize/</link>
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		<title>World Vision – 40 Hour Famine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visual design concept for the World Vision 40 hour famine campaign 2010.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/online-work/world-vision-40-hour-famine/</link>
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		<title>RSA – Anzac Poppy Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visual design for the Returned Services Association 2010 annual poppy appeal website. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brentdickens.com/online-work/anzac-poppy-day/</link>
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