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
Edit 1: Updated 13 December 2008 I'm currently conducting an experiment, as I move towards my bid to become a bootstrapping Design-Entrepreneur. I have 2 objectives. The first is to install as little software as possible on my computer and use everything online as
I must say The Singapore Entrepreneurs Blog is fast becomming one of my favourite blogs to read. Their recent post on patents has encouraged me to post my alternative take on patents. This is something that is actually practiced at my company, a SME (Small
During my usual lunch trolling of my RSS feed from Tomorrow.sg, I am once again faced with the amazing ad-nausum argument of whether it is possible to teach creativity and its cousin entrepreneurship to an individual. This comes at a very important time as we are
I'm sure most of you have already started noticing Google's little foray of multiple thing-a-ma-jigs with their free web based products like flickr, gmail, picasa, earth, etc. You can get the comprehensive and staggering list here. I did not even realise that they own Blogger! I