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2 months ago I had the honor and great pleasure to be interviewed by Marcello Milteer for his beautiful designed Japan Cinema entertainment blog, where he writes about Asian movies and interviews many other Asian creatives. He was especially interested in my design experience here in China. You wear many hats. In your line of [...]

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Greetings to the new reader who stumbled on this outdated blog! Another greeting to the very occasional revisiting reader of this non lively blog! It is a shame that I haven’t touched this site for more than a year. Yesterday, I was rechecking this site and reread my own very first posts and I was [...]

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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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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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) [...]

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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 [...]

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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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