Check out this brand new motorized bicycle. Looks like it has a major identity crisis. Is it a bicycle? A scooter? Cruiser? Motocross bike?

Lots of design opportunities to define an identity or design language for this hybrid product category.

I was pretty shocked at the price of this mug. The finish looks great, but for $28, I’m not so sure. You?

I was invited to speak at a Bloggers only session called “Your Blog: How to Market your Blog like a Brand”. This little cozy get together was organized by Pat, Tania and Brian from Ogilvy’s Open Room home of the 360 Digital Influence Team.

I had an opportunity to be in the company of a number of great speakers including Jon YongFook, “The Dude” behind ToysREvil and Arti, a former journalist, from Ogilvy. All in all it was a great experience and nice to give back to the local blogging community.

Simple but Edgy is now Showing at Philips Design!

I have been invited and accepted a position at Philips Design Singapore as The Senior Design Manager in charge of the Home Cinema Sound, Home Video and Home Controller business portfolios. It is a design management position which finds me managing design programs for internal Philips clients.

I’m sure there will be many exciting times to come!

On August 16, 2006 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.

I designed the slide show not as a Design definition exercise. Far from that. In fact designers are still debating on what design really is. This presentation was really more about looking at design on a holistic level and how design like the subject itself is constantly evolving. Not only that, the focus of the presentation was more about creating a design mindset for inventors to understand what design can do for them.