Based on Philip K. Dick’s book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), Blade Runner takes us into a world where humans have created sentient beings almost identical to humans. The film, just like the book, asks the age old question of what it is to be human. If our own emotional responses and […]
The Brand for Brands
Since I work above one of the biggest shopping malls in Hong Kong it is inevitable that I need to walk through it every morning, lunchtime and evening. Most of the shopping done is fashion related with about 90% of the shops catering to the fashion/brand aware. One casual lunchtime I walked past a shop […]
Austin Avenue: Hong Kong Street Art
Being quite a fan of graffiti and street art and it’s diversity and impact on a city, it was hard for me to arrive in Hong Kong and to see almost no graffiti on the walls and buildings around the city.
Maybe the laws on graffiti are especially strict or the people of this great […]
Embracing the Team Dynamic
Coming from a student background and being thrust into your first real job in a collaborative design office is kind of like being thrown into the deep end of the swimming pool, but then tossed a life jacket by your work colleagues and reeled back in. The contrast between the solo work life of a […]
Story is more important than aesthetics
“What does it do?” she said, lifting her eyes off the thick wad of dog-eared sketches in front of her.
“Umm, well you put the toy in here and it shoots it out of it……I tried to get the feeling of the environment the toy is set in accurate enough so that it looks nice and […]
Chinese work ethic: Living up to the hype
Recently I had the opportunity to visit a injection mould production factory located on the ourskirts of the up and coming “Whatever Hong Kong can do, we can do better” city, Shenzhen. Located just over the border into China’s Guangdong Province. A simple 30 minute train ride from Kowloon to the edge of Hong Kong […]
Getting stuff done in China
“Can you carry this? I want to take you with me to a meeting with one of our vendors” she said as she handed me the large, rough working model of a current design idea. Still clutching the work I thought I was going to be presenting my boss for final approval I realized this […]
‘Beautiful people make beautiful design’
I always suspected that my amazing good looks and expensively styled hair is the reason behind my cutting edge design style. I work very hard to maintain my image and fantastic figure, which is the same for my work, which I’ve refined over years of experience. I must admit, it’s hard for me to get […]
I am the Bono of the Design world….apparently.
Coroflot recently held is 6th Annual Design Salary Report and there were some pretty interesting results. Some things came as a surprise while others where pretty much expected. Although mainly based on North American statistics, a lot of it probably rings true for the rest of the world especially to the new global conscious and […]
“Why is there a queue outside Louis Vuitton?”
Exploring Hong Kong is one of the most sensory explosive activities available to an human being. Since my job hasn’t started yet I’ve taken the opportunity, before I get tied up, to soak up as much of the city as possible via my favourite mode of transport, the feet. To be honest you can’t walk […]