Image: Colador 2 by Josep Altarriba
Fellow designer blogger csven has written a great article on his observations on the state of Intellectual property and its future impact on Design and of cause Industrial Design as well.
Here is an excerpt:
At some
China is actually a wonderful place with many interesting things that shows its culture evolving as it finds a happy relationship between east and west. Enjoy the photos.
A lunch of stir fry vegetables and pork
Sorry again for the lack of posts this week and likely the next. After a mass flurry of activity, emails and phone calls over the weekend, I will now need to make an emergency trip and fly from Sydney to Nanjing, China today.
It's been a really tiring last couple of weeks for me and hence a real slow down in my blog posts. As one of my post alluded too, the fourth quarter is a mad rush to finalise product launches and garner new business for
Mario Vellandi author behind the very excellent Melodies in Marketing, spent the last couple of weeks conducting a hard hitting interview on my views on the future of industrial design, design strategy and sustainable design. It was a great discussion with very high
This week's question is from David, and avid 11 grader looking to get into a career in design. Wow they start young these days don't they? He writes:
One of the issues industrial designers, often working in a high level strategic roles, face is the dreaded "Design Creep" or some call "Specification Creep". Year after year it's the same old unproductive story, and I hazard a guess probably for you as well.
Last night I, like many people in Australia and around the world, switched off my TV in sadness. England beat my beloved Australian Wallabies 12-10. While I sympathised with the Australia team, I can't help admire the English team's game strategy. The
Oh Christmas is fast approaching and I am getting fat. I'm currently stressed and when I'm stressed I eat, and so I get fat, all before Christmas comes. I should exercise instead but I don't and I digress. Christmas traditionally is the best time
A while back I started this non-profit social-entrepreneurship endeavour called IDAsia.org as a means to network, uncover and perhaps showcase Industrial Designers from Asia.
As a result of these efforts, my team of volunteers (py, ec, kk and <a
Sorry for the slowdown in posts last week as I had to make a last minute trip back to Singapore to attend to a family emergency. I just got back and am now catching up on work. However not to worry and do