This product has officially launched! Get your sketchbook at the Spaces for Ideas Store now!
After using my Moleskine for almost a year, I
Domus Magazine has recently launched a signature edition offshoot called Domus d'Autore. This first issue, entrusted to Editor-Architect Rem Koolhaas, was designed to allow readers to listen "
It has been a good number of months since the I've last updated my readers on the status of this project. Firstly though I like to apologize to a few of this project's supporters for this delay but I have
I've always considered myself resourceful and entrepreneurial even though I have always been an employee. I've always wondered about that? Why is that I don't see the need to leave my day job to be an Entrepreneur? In reality this post is
Edit: Re-formatted the layout of some text and images. Yep. There is no point me blogging about doing good industrial design or design theory if at the end of the day I don't walk the talk and produce something to show, right? Well after
Or the article formally known as Industrial Design 104: Materials and Manufacturing I did mention before last year and the beginning of this, I had given up on creating my own unique Mp3 (iPod Beater?) player because I could not create a design that was uniquely
I wrote a while back that I yet again took the steps in becoming an entrepreneur after failing twice before. What I was actually talking about was my setting up of a not for profit website that focused on incubating, promoting and networking the
What is it with funding that attracts entrepreneurs to it, like bees to honey? I'm not sure, but I know I went a little nutty when the "funding" ticket was waved in front of my face. Not once, but twice. And I hate myself
Intrapreneurship or Internal Entrepreneurship is fast becoming a big buzz word as companies start to embrace design, innovation and creativity as a strategic competitive advantage. Using the viewpoint that "innovation begins with everybody" as a credo to beat the competition, companies like IBM, 3M and
Some times fiddling and hopping in between jobs or projects, or at night the moment I close my eyes to sleep, I get a massive brain wave! This often gets me out of bed and sketching! So I asked myself: What happens to the
A fantastic article at Guy Kawasaki's blog "Signal Without Noise". He interviews Polly LaBarre with his usual G.K. style and flair, getting her to give insightful and indepth answers. In particular this answer stuck a cord with me: They (mavericks) all seemed to
About 3-4 years ago, my family and I paid a low six-figure amount to attend a course on how to run a successful business. My share was $35K of my hard-earned savings, and the course provided me with the biggest learning experience I have ever
Update 1: Oops sorry forgot to add. The Industrial Design 101 series are about my adventures of designing, creating, hacking and remodding my own brand of Cool Mp3 players. I'm not a marketing expert here but when ever I consider a new design I
Sure! Aim high as they say. Its nice to have a dreams don't you think? Well I am sure the Apple fan boys are preparing their ammo, but I must say I wont guarantee our final design will be an iPod killer, but what
Really this should have been the Art of the Small Start Part 3, but I figured this title was punchier. In the last discussion, Part 1 and Part 2, we talked about the critical aspects of People, Product, Pricing, Promotion, and Place (Distribution) as part of
So from Part 1 we really get a gist of the direction of where digital businesses are moving. If we use Crowdsourcing, which is a way to generate ideas and source for labor, and The Long Tail Effect which tells us that people buy niche products
Updated: New links were added and my usual poor grammar was corrected. A Web 2.0 marketing plan focusing on real tangible products, was really only made possible for our discussion today because of the pipeline pathway opened by the Internet. The Internet is amazing in the
This supports what I have been saying for ages. Singapore is one of the easiest places in the world to do business! This list, was from the World Bank's published report called Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs. These are the top thirty economies based on
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