What happened after I quit my job?
I felt that I needed to do something else to develop myself further in a different way for the time being, as I thought that it was not the right timing to find another design job during the recession.
I decided to improve Product Design Forums and Product [...]
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Freelancing and working on my own small online business
July 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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What I have experienced at my first job in Shanghai?
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Begin January I decided to quit my job at Asentio Design, the design studio where I have been working for 1,5 years. In that period I have learned a lot about industrial design, user interaction design and how to work with Chinese designers and engineers and how to communicate with clients. I worked for international [...]
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Designer Gathering Shanghai on the 3rd of July
June 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments
If you are a foreign industrial designer in Shanghai, then you are specially invited to join the ‘Designer Gathering’ on next Friday, July the 3rd. It’s been a while that this gathering has been held. Previously organized by German industrial designers Anke and Lars, but they both left to their homeland.
Fortunately, there are 3 [...]
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Shanghai Design Biennial 2008
September 21st, 2008 · No Comments
This weekend I took a short visit to the 4th Shanghai Design Biennial at the Shanghai Exhibition Center.
It was a big disappointment, because there is not much interesting things to see. There were mainly local companies presenting themselves with not too attractive content in their booths. The covered space was small too.
I just stayed for [...]
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Book recommendation: ‘Carl Liu Design Book’
September 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Taiwanese industrial designer Carl Liu created a book that contains a lot of hand drawn sketches and showcasing his HP PDA design project through the whole design process,from the initial design sketches until manufacturing. This is a must have book, especially for students who want to be inspired and motivated by this highly talented designer, [...]
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IDSKETCHING.COM
August 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I would like to announce a new industrial design site dedicated to sketching, created by two of our ProductDesignForums members: IDSKETCHING.COM
The site contains a bunch of video tutorials that show you how to sketch in industrial design.
Here is a word from the creators:
“So here’s the deal – John (jm745) and I (snugja) go way [...]
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Sharpen your skills
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Today, a colleague shared the following article with me:
Set an effort-based goal.
If you’re honest with yourself, you probably already know which tools in your box need sharpening, and setting yourself a specific goal for improvement is the obvious next step. Creative growth can be difficult to measure, so the most effective short-term goals are [...]
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Sino CES experience
July 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments
I have exhibited 3 of the 4 days during Sino CES exhibition event in QingDao. It was quite an interesting experience for our first time exhibition. Unfortunately, there were too few visitors at the event. I believe that the promotion of the event is pretty poor. We met some potential clients, some designers and students. [...]
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Asentio Design at Sino CES in QingDao
July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Asentio Design will exhibit at the Sino CES in QingDao during 10-13 July. You can find us (and me) at our booth in the big exhibition hall. Sorry that I am not able to tell our exact location. Hope to see you around though. Iwill post pictures of the exhibition after the event.
SINOCES demonstrates the [...]
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Asentio Design Open House
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments
You are welcome to visit our design studio during June 26 and 27. I will be in the office at the 27th. So come on that day to meet me.
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