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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...