A few weeks ago, the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Hsien Loong said: "Good design thinking was a key reason for Singapore’s successful journey from a third world country to first, and it will be critical in the country's future transformation…” Indeed, Singapore is where...
The last 6 months had been a busy time for the team at Design Sojourn. So I have to apologize for the limited updates on this blog.
One thing I am happy to announce is that we...
In the recent months two significant technological driven disruptive events have happen that could bring about the downfall of two of Singapore's largest corporations. Singtel, or Singapore Telecoms, is the first and biggest Telco (they own all the infrastructure) and Comfort one of the...
Our 4th Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4 is finally back!
Though slightly delayed (we skipped our last one due to some administrative matters), we are now never more ready to facilitate 2 days of awesome design...
Encourage by great feedback and awesome participants, we will be running our 2nd Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop on the 1st and 2nd of December 2011!
The workshop will be run in a...
You might have missed this TED talk by Eames Demetrios, the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames. ...
Registration Closes on the 23rd September 2011. Do hurry as spaces are filling up!
It's official. With the backing of the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), which focuses on improving skills, productivity and the...
I had the pleasure of being invited, on Tuesday, to the opening ceremony of the Made for SAM exhibition. This exhibition, probably the first of its kind in Singapore, featured the work of...
I recently went for a walk-about at the Lasalle College of the Arts here in Singapore. This local design school has an amazing...
Over the last few days, I conducted a whirlwind tour of the different events and exhibitions at the Singapore Design Festival 2009. There were some interesting work exhibited that reaffirmed my faith in the...
As mentioned in a recent post I will be taking part and covering the Icsid Congress 09 here on Design Sojourn. What's even better, is that I will also be covering the Singapore Design Festival, where I will try to go to...
Today I presented "What is Design?" at the Invent Singapore Conference 2008, Design for Life workshop. I had a really great time as we had a really friendly audience that asked great questions. As promised to my audience, I have uploaded my...
I have been invited to conduct a Workshop called "Design for Life" at the Invent Singapore Conference 2008 this Saturday 16 Aug 2008 at 2pm and also at 4pm. Invent Singapore is a convention like no other, where innovators, inventors and the business community come together...
Hot on the heels of my recent post Blueprint for Design Education 2.0, is the announcement of Singapore's 4th University that has a niche focus on Engineering, Design and Business. With a target of 2,500 students a year, it will "...
Yesterday, at the height of the Singapore Fashion Festival, I was invited to view a wonderful fashion show that was unlike any other. Called Blueprint 2008 the show was a...
Wallpaper Magazine has done a nice write up on the history of the Singapore Girl and her fashionable Sarong Kebaya uniforms. A true design classic that embodies all aspects of the Singapore Airlines brand, in fact, I would go as far as to...
I think this might be old news, but sunny Singapore has launched its next endeavour into fostering creativity and design in the masses. Singaporeans invited to give views on re-design CNA Online (17 Nov), My Paper (p 6), ZB (p 15) and ST (p H21). 17 November...
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...
This morning I was watching the News show on TV when they had a little chat session with some artists visiting to promote The Asian International Art Exhibition. One thing that hit me was: Each piece is an artistic expression that embodies the culture and...
Is blogging all about an online personal diary of rants about disabled toilets, your cat or how fugly a celebrity is? I believe not. I believe blogs are a great source of credible information, often bringing information to the viewer faster than traditional...