Any good designer worth his salt is not only about creating evocative and beautiful designs but is also a good communicator. There is no point in a designer creating these fantastic and unique designs if he/she is not able to communicate his intent or concept
I recently have had a lot of meetings with vendors and engineers trying to get our designs realized. Each time after the different meetings, I noticed that there is still a great divide between the workings of engineers and designers. It's really not about the
This morning I was watching the News show on TV when they had a little chat session with some artists visiting to promote The Asian International Art Exhibition. One thing that hit me was: Each piece is an artistic expression that embodies the culture and history
Welcome to the fourth installation of the Concept Equipment Shoot-out between the Sketchbook, Drawing Table and Tablet PC! I do apologise as it's been almost 1.5 months since Part 3, but I needed some time to really get into all the equipment to give
Tired of randomly creating styles and forms? Stuck at the same looking sketch over and over again? Tired of flipping through magazines or clicking on the internet? Tired of creating designs that just do not seem to inspire others or
Finally, I'm back to this last installment of this series. Phew! Took awhile, more than 6 months, but I finally got all my thoughts organized. Just in case do check out Part 1 and Part 2 first. In summary, the last two installments talked
Now for a nice change of pace, occasionally I get a flash of something that inspires me to take of an everyday product and re-design it with a twist. I had intended for it to become one of my first few simple easy to
For me another one of my yearly activities is hiring designer talents. This year is no exception. As always this also leads me to figure out how am I able to retain these talents that I hire. In the case of designers or even the
Sorry for the slight slow down in the blog posts recently as it has been very busy for me working late at my day job in the last couple of weeks. It is the time of year where companies worry about what they are
I have been to long away from our popular series. So lets get back to it! In this rendition we discuss the fine line between arrogance and confidence. My wife and I were watching our favorite reality show, Project Runway Season 2, when we
I stand humbled after reading a really nice and well articulated review of Design Sojourn and my analytical thinking abilities at James F Katz's blog on Design Arguments: Critical Judgements. He writes: In terms of King and Kitchener's scale of reflective judgment the articles in
About 2 weeks ago I wrote about how I managed to "cross the threshold" and become a social entrepreneur. With the urgings of my fellow comrades at SG Entrepreneurs, I've decided to blog my experiences during my 3rd go at entrepreneurship. Strangely this time I'm
I have been subscribing to Yaro Starak's Blog Traffic mailing list and highly recommend it as its a fantastic read. Unlike the other gazillion sites out there on blogging, Yaro's blog and mailing list focuses on the most important in a successful blog how
I finally decided to give up my dinky silver Nintendo DS and buy a brand new white DS Lite! Without risking of being called a "fan boy", the Nintendo DS franchise is fast becomming one of the most amazing gaming coups out there. Why?
Business plan competitions have been pretty big recently. I like to congratulate the winners and this post is in no way demeaning their hard work and excellent ideas. That being said I am pretty skeptical about such business plan competitions, entrepreneurship grants, and
I have been thinking about this for a bit. For a long time actually. So finally I've decided to "Come out" on the internet. Ah No. I'm not gay. Heh-Heh! But it's more coming out of the closet of anonymity, actually posting a real picture
I wrote this in 06, December, 2005. And with such topics it rears its ugly head again. I've updated and reposted it with ping backs to relevant blogs. The term "Design" is truly the in-thing theses days everybody is talking about it and how they
What I am about to say is the hard truth. No matter what they tell you, no Design School can completely train you to be 100% ready for the workforce. That's right. I've heard that even designers from the famous Art Center College in Pasadena, in the
Click! Yep I did it. With just one click I'm now an entrepreneur. Well not the usual entrepreneur type entrepreneur, but a social entrepreneur. The click was an email sent out to invite designers to join my little project. A project that