Phew! And about high time too! I have spent the last 2 nights, and have finally updated this website to the latest wordpress instalment. Not only that I have updated all the outdated site plugins. WordPress is so much better these days and all their automated systems makes keeping software up to date easy. I [...]
This totally slipped my mind in my usual year end rush. The editorial team at IDAsia.org would like to congratulate resident contributor and blogger Wong Kok Keong on his Chronotebook concept winning the Judge’s Prize in this year’s Muji Award 02. The competition this year attracted 3422 entries from 47 countries. There was only one [...]
My team of volunteers (py, ec, kk and dotty) and I like to official announce the launch of our first ever online Industrial Design exhibition called Dandelion. This exhibition will be hosted at IDAsia.org and hopefully will be able to highlight some of the best and most interesting Industrial Designers from Asia. You see, most [...]
I like to inform and apologise to all readers for the down time of IDasia.org yesterday and today. This is due to 2 hard drive crashes on the server that is hosting this site. Sorry for any inconvenience caused if we missed any of your comments or uploaded content. Please feel free to repost them [...]
The time has come for your submissions for the IDAsia.org and Singapore Design Festival on line exhibition. Please submit the following information and pictures of your design work by Aug 8th 2007. Submission Criteria: 1) 200 x 500 pixels (wide) banner of your product. This is to introduce your product. 500 pixels is the width [...]
The new IDAsia.org site V.2 is up! Its almost done as we are about 80% there. However we need to start testing the theme now and fix the bugs as we go along. Do let me know what you think?
In the next week or so, IDAsia.org will be going through a site upgrade. So apologies for any inconvenience caused if the site appears to be wonky. We will be upgrading the site to the latest version of WordPress.
You are welcome to a Car Design Lecture by Mr. Roberto Piatti on 18th June, 3pm at National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Design & Environment. Open to general public.
IDAsia.org has been approached by the Design Singapore Council in an open dialogue to discuss the possibility of setting up an association to support multi-disciplinary industrial designers in Singapore and potentially in the region. It seems that Industrial Design is currently not represented in Singapore. This could potentially also become a move for IDAsia.org to [...]
Design 21 – Design It Competitions Prizes 1st prize: $5000 2nd prize: $3000 3rd prize: $1500 Popular prize: $500 Contest Deadline: 17 June 2007
Sponsored by SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Supported by DESIGNTOPE. Inc The word “Gaia†expresses the idea of a “living planet Earth†in which all of nature and all of life together form a single living organism. So that GAIA and people can coexist, we will develop only products that are truly needed, and we will [...]
Lightouch must be Functional. Adaptable. Modular. Scalable. Light. Touch. What is such a lighting system? Show Us. Show All. Lightouch Design Competition Now Closes on 30 April 2007! It used to be that being at the right place and the right time was the ultimate ‘trick’ to perfect. Many still try. But most soon realise [...]
Phew! That was nerve wracking. I have been doing some site maintenance, so apologies if things looked a little wonky. I’ve basically upgraded this site to the latest WordPress 2.1.5, checked all the plugins, and tweaked the template (notice the change in the widths of the columns?). So everything looks good so far so lets [...]
Sorry for the delay of this fun designer community concept exercise, but the Firmwareproject is on again! Took Dotty and I a while but, we needed to ensure all the gears were working as well as the overall plan in place. Anyways as discussed and suggested by the many members of the IDAsia.org forum, we [...]
After a few months searching, and a few more weeks for me to get my butt in gear, I like to introduce our brand IDAsia.org editorial team, committed to bring you the very best in design news and articles from Asia and beyond. Managing Editor: Porro Assistant Editor: Dotty (Currently on a sabbatical. He needs [...]