Design Sojourn

Hi there.

I stumbled upon your site whilst reading the Core77 discussions this morning. Good stuff.
From your posts, i presume that you are working in Singapore?
How do you keep that passion for design going?

Cheers.

I write blogs! Nah just kidding! Its actually just one of the things I love to do. But I find my love and passion for design keeps going with work and interests in areas both related and non-related to design. The smallest thing inspires me. The trick is to keep your mind active and open to ideas, a rolling stone gathers no moss as they say.

Here are some of my other activities found online:

Founder of the Asian Industrial Designers Forums: IDAsia.org

Also I love to spend time with my 8th month year old son, the things he comes up with are so unexpected and wonderful!

Whoa is this a camera daddy?

hahaha.
is that your kid? he’s pretty adorable!!!
how do you find all that time to do all that stuff.
actually, my time after work is taken up by sports. so yea. LOL.

btw, what do you think of the industrial design scene in Singapore?
good? bad? won’t last? still being led by manufacturing?

Thats the thing I have no time! But I personally like things varied, as it keeps my brain juices flowing in all directions. Actually I have become a much more effective and efficient designer with a variety of interests and pursuits.

The industrial design scene here in Singapore is just at the cusp of its next big move. There are signs that its slowly evolving. However the majority of products designed are still led by a manufacturing mindset, but its starting to move in the right direction slowly but surely.

Singapore is sort of at the stage when Japan crossed the threshold into an innovation mindset when it realised that it can’t cost down or copy and improve anymore. There is a huge push for innovation in products designed in Singapore for the global market. Unfortunatly the road has been very bumpy and still long in terms of a change in mindset.

being fairly new to the ID scene in Siingapore, i feel as if its stuck in the mud at this point.And i’m at the cusp of really wanting to leave the industry even though i’m just starting out. lol.

if Singapore really wants to become a design hub so to speak, shouldn’t it really focus on improving the quality of life through Id rather than bringing in BIG names to promote various design events? no doubt Singaporeans need that exposure and its been pretty good so far. but how can we say that we want to turn SG into a design hub when even the most basic levelof public transport (eg buses) are not decked out to be disabled friendly ?

Hahaha, thats where bureaucracy comes. Its pretty difficult as Design Singapore Council has no control over these other aspects.

As you are new in the field, I suggest to give it a chance, and email me if you have any more questions!

Hi DT,

great to see another blogger dedicated to push the design profession to a more business and therefore (street) customer focus! Your insights are highly appreciated.

If you should be interested what some 30.000 visitors/month find useful on my blog on >Design Management

… seems the message has been garbled somehow ;-( Actually the link to my blog is: http://www.design-management.de (written in English :-)

Cheers, Ralf.

Thank you very much for your excellent coverage of 100% East. Many of the images are fantastic and we were wondering if we could use them with your permission. Full credit will be given to DS for images used.

I tried emailing you with no success. If you could forward me your Tel/Mob no. I would like to give you a call.

Kind regards,

Jimmy MacDonald
Event Director & Co-founder, 100% East

Tel +44(0)20 7739 5561
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