The Phoenix Electrostatic Speaker, designed and developed by my team and I, has been featured on Wired Magazine. Sniff...
Sorry for the slight slow down in the blogging in the last and next few days. I have been doing some massive site maintenance, here at Design Sojourn, IDAsia.org and at my family's blog, so apologies if things looked a little wonky. I've have...
Since I moved to Sydney, I have experienced a state of mind that most designers who become freelancers or decide to go at it on their own as an entrepreneur would. This state of mind is the loss of interaction with other designers. ...
My design team and I recently bagged 2 "Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Awards Honorees" at the world's biggest consumer electronics show the CES in Viva Las Vegas in January 2007. Sorry it’s a little late...
Phew! I’m almost done with my spring cleaning, and believe you me it does not look like much, but it’s a lot of stuff. Here is what I did...
It's fast approaching Chinese New Year and its tradition for us Chinese to do some massive spring cleaning of our homes. Here at Design Sojourn it is no different. I'm currently updating categories, reorganizing chicklets and tweaking CSS, so please do excuse the...
Edit: Amended the title to be more factually correct! Cornering the link market some say, "counterfeit links" others mention...
Oh dear, just one day late, but I like to announce that one of my posts has been selected for a Blog Carnival called, "The Carnival of the Mobilists". My first ever and not only that, I have been awarded a "Posting of the...
Astute readers may remember a while back I was looking at creating my own personal industrial design project titled something like "Creating the iPod beater, oh really?" You can read the back ground info here: Industrial Design 101, Industrial Design 102, and Industrial Design 103. Well the...
We take a short break from design blogging today to dive into some extreme geek blogging. Apparently you can buy a Windows Vista upgrade for your Windows XP, COOL! But in typical Microsoft manner they actually literally put the upgrade OVER your existing...
I have recently been talking about how there are many blogs all over the world and naturally some are good and some are, well, not so good. Invariably the quality of the blogs apparently falls into a few categories. Just like actors you...
Well the only way you can get that many people from around the world together in one place is on the internet! Warning slow loading after the you click for the "Jump" Accordingly to Tino Buntic there are 55 Million Blogs on the internet and he would...
Following on from my last post on this amazing viral blog meme, I felt that such great piece of work by Purple Wren needs to be somehow immortalized. As most of these blogs are pretty good, I like to somehow turn this Z-List into...
Here is the official press release of the Nissan Design Forum that I mentioned that I was invited to be a moderator off. A little late, but found it actually by googling my name. Oh the vanity! Check out my ugly mug towards the...
Here is the official press release of the Nissan Design Forum that I mentioned that I was invited to be a moderator off. A little late, but found it actually by googling my name. Oh the vanity! Check out my ugly mug towards the...
Dear readers, I need to first apologize for the lack of postings here at Design Sojourn. This is simply because in the last few weeks I have been busy to the point of exhaustion. Before I can explain why, let me wish you...
Wow its pretty amazing the rounds this Z-List meme is making. Recently Seth Godin, the marketing guru, has picked up on this phenomenon and posted all of us at his Squidoo site. Squidoo is a site similar to Digg where the users can vote up...
Please blame the shortage of posts to a huge intake of turkey, its stuffing, honey bake ham, stake, lamb etc. Just a teaser, a HUGE change for the Design Translator come Jan 01 2007! So do stay tuned! Merry Christmas my...
My first ever Blog Meme, and one that is pretty good as well! Getting a "tag your it!" from a fellow designer blogger AiAlone.com, I feel compelled to join in! Basically the idea is "Mack over at Viral Garden has started a little pyramid scheme to...
Yesterday I got out of my National Service commitments just in time to attend the prize giving ceremony of the Red-Dot Award: design concept 2006. This award is the industrial design industry's equivalent of the Oscars and it was held at the red-dot design...