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
Portability In this rendition of the Concept Design Equipment Shoot-out focuses on the Portability aspect of these 3 tools. If you missed the first two episodes, here they are Part 1, and Part 2. Sketchbook + Drawing Pen: 9/10 In terms of portability nothing beats a sketchbook. I would
Wow they have done it! MIT Media Lab has launched their first prototype of the $100 Laptop for children that hopefully silence all the critics including Bill Gates. What is the $100 Laptop, really? The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display—both a
The Usual Suspects! Ok here are my tools and a short description about it and how I intent to use them. Sketchbook + Drafting Pen I'll start off with the classic. I 'm currently using a brand new Paperchase Paperbound sketch book. Paperbound because I cant
I have been reading a lot about the new new in computing technology for designers. This technology has had a strong foot hold in 2D (visualisation) and 3D (detailed design) parts of the design process over the years. However the computing technology has now moved
Some of the best designers I know are curious about every thing in their environment both natural or man made. So much so that it annoys the non-designer people around them. Imaging having to stop and look at the way a stop sign
My father in law eagerly passed me a copy of the "Today" newspaper, pointed to the article and asked me "Is this true?" After reading this, my immediate reaction was defensive. I wanted to protect my passion and my profession, but stop myself short. I grudgingly
This series provides little hints and tips on how to be a better designer. (BBD) The aspects mainly include how to improve productivity and better design management of your day to day concepts development tasks. In this first installment we focus on "Just Do it!" Getting
Most of us are designers because we like design and at least (i'm hoping) can innately tell a good design from a bad design. This innate "design sense" most designers have, though some more than others. This "design sense" is both a function of designing
Lets give a quick summary from the previous installment before we go on. Basically due to problems of tangibility people do not respect digital media and have trouble managing it. This means digital media will not stray far from the PC. However for digital media
Today we start this new series on theories on how to possibly create better designs. I think central to successful design thinking and even to this series as a whole, is the concept of reflection. Looking back and onto one's self. Often designers power
There is so much talk on design and innovation in an organisation and how to do it. But there is actually very little on how a designer can be a better one on his own steam. I supposed it's expected for a designer to improve
Well its the end of the the inaugural Singapore Design Festival, that ran from from 9 to 23 November 2005. I must say a great back slapping "well done" and a round of applause for the team at Design Singapore who manage to pull it
Arrgh! I am truly having a hard time trying to design this blog. After running a blog at xanga.com for a bit, I realize that at Blogspot I have to be a robot. I have to learn to read HTML code. But I not
1) I hate digital media, cos I can't touch it. The RIAA's lawsuit on illegal p2p music sharing hit a poor old lady by the name of Patricia Santangelo. Naturally infuriated, she fights back, particularly because she has no idea what music sharing is or even