New Life in My Life: Naomi
| Date: September 11, 2011 | Categories: General | Comments: 5 Comments | Share: |
I am very happy and exciting to announce that I have become father of our first lovely baby girl Naomi Chung. She was born on the 24th of August, weight 3.65 kg, in Shanghai China. My wife and I still need to get used to waking up in the middle of the night and change diapers and give her milk. It’s tiring, but it is worth every minute [...]
Continue Reading →Ancient Water Towns near Shanghai: Wu Zhen and Xi Tang
| Date: August 8, 2009 | Categories: General | Comments: 7 Comments | Share: |
During my 2 years stay in Shanghai, I have made 2 one day trips to two ancient water towns, both at around a 2 hour drive distance from Shanghai. The first one was Xi Tang, which I have actually visited it twice, once just with my wife and the other time with my family who came to visit us. Xi Tang became ‘famous’ after Mission [...]
Continue Reading →Putting Life Back Into This Blog
| Date: June 25, 2009 | Categories: General | Comments: 2 Comments | Share: |
Hello there, If you are reading this, then you have probably followed my profile link from Product Design Forums or LinkedIn or you found me through Google because you are interested to know more about design in Shanghai or it happened that you have discovered about my blog through a design site that is linking to me. I hardly believe that [...]
Continue Reading →Edushi.com / amazing pixel art maps
| Date: April 4, 2008 | Categories: General | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Check out Edushi.com and view different Chinese cities in pixel art format. View Shanghai ! It is really fine detailed. Enjoy
Continue Reading →PicLens – Interesting Image Viewer
| Date: March 24, 2008 | Categories: General | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be the same again. Try this browser plugin, if [...]
Continue Reading →How to build a portfolio?
| Date: January 27, 2008 | Categories: General | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Check out some tips and advises for creating a portfolio here. And post your portfolio images or website in this forum to get feedback. Also DesignSojourn wrote some useful portfolio tips. Here are a few good sites where you can create your online portfolio for free: Coroflot Carbonmade DesignRelated Finalcrit
Continue Reading →Happy 2008
| Date: January 13, 2008 | Categories: General | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Hello readers, who are still checking this place out even I haven’t blogged for 2 months. Maybe blogging is not my favorite habit. I want to wish you a happy and healthy new year (yeah i know i am late) and want to update with some few things: What has happened and what have I experienced and learnt so far in the past 4 months working [...]
Continue Reading →Second International Designer Gathering
| Date: November 12, 2007 | Categories: General | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Anke and Lars will held the second international designer gathering in Shanghai. If you are a foreign designer in Shanghai and want to have a drink with others like you, then you should come to the event. It will be held at Jonathan Li’s (Design Manager of Asentio Design) Winebar ‘Just Grapes‘ Time: Wednesday, Nov 21 Place [...]
Continue Reading →Starting my career in Shanghai
| Date: September 1, 2007 | Categories: General | Comments: 7 Comments | Share: |
Why did I choose Shanghai to start my career? Well, I have read and heard some positive things about the development of industrial design in China and while I was in China during my trip last April/May, I did a couple of interviews in Shanghai. One of them was at Asentio Design, where I work now. I believe that a work experience in China can [...]
Continue Reading →The purpose of this site
| Date: August 15, 2007 | Categories: General | Comments: 5 Comments | Share: |
Why am I starting this blog? Well, on the 22nd of August 2007 I will leave the Netherlands, where I was born and grown up and graduated as a industrial designer, and fly to Shanghai to start my design career at Asentio Design, a studio that enables Western and Asian clients to deliver deeply personal and addictive experiences to their target [...]
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