I know I do, I always swear like a "Potty Mouth" when ever I stumble over any kind of great Industrial Design work. Even though I am from sunny Singapore, I rarely actually comment about the local design industry back home. Why? Well
A British journalist interviewed Apple executive Phil Schiller about the Monopoly iTunes has created (ah la Microsoft Style) and the use of it for downloading music on the iPhone. The Apple PR animals jump right in to stop the interview, and forces it to
China is actually a wonderful place with many interesting things that shows its culture evolving as it finds a happy relationship between east and west. Enjoy the photos.
A lunch of stir fry vegetables and pork
Recently my trusty not so rusty DVD player died. It just refuses to play my DVDs anymore. So I'm back in the market for a DVD player and my one and only requirement is that is has to be able to play DVDs
With Skype being widely used by businesses for overseas calls, the other equally used function of Skype Chat (Instant Messaging) is getting its fair share of use. Not to mention the usual favorites in the IM world: MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger (which many
Edit: This does not apply to ALL designers, but it does apply to some that I have met and spoke too, I have also fixed some typos and cleared up some statements. Managing designers is not easy, some are quiet, some rant and rave, and
I must apologize, dear readers, for the lack of posts recently as I faced the harsh realities of blogging. I really don’t know how people do it. That is, they run and maintain multiple websites or blogs as well as their own day-to-day lives. Just
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.
Called “Beautifully useless” by the New York Times, the Buddha Machine is an interesting yet simple product, which reminds us of a less complicated time by defying the current convention of sleek. It just snubs the Cult of Mac by giving the bird to everything
The Strategy Paradox is an interesting book written by Michael Raynor on why certain strategies adopted by certain companies are successful and why some are not. Interesting simply because it directly reflects what I am facing in my industry. However the replies he
I really know how to beat my self up. As I have a few meet ups planned with designer friends and members of the design community here in Sydney in the next couple of weeks, I stupidly decided to re-do my portfolio in the
When I first looked at it I felt "this is a cool list of design schools" listed at business week. Then reality started to sink in, D-School? Wait, nobody calls a design school "D-School" except a business school teaching design. As usual my cynical
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
Wow the internet is really the new media, and as such does it comes with a whole new set of rules? I recently got slapped on the wrist, not once but twice, for the usage of some images. Let me recount the tale. When can you use
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