all things beautiful

Tom Dixon has done it again!! Putting things together simple yet edgy. He is one of my favourite contemporary product designers. Here are some furnis from his latest collection, pretty mind blowing for me... Check it out:

Black Oat Armchair

Personally, I love all things black so naturally I would say this is pretty!!

Oak Armchair


Oak Bench


Images via: Dezeen



Another interesting news, alittle dated but still something to share...famous french product designer Philippe Starck(known for his series of furniture and GHOST CHAIR and iconic orange squasher) says he is retiring from designing see what hes got to say: DESIGN IS DEAD!

its paula!!

Back to back post…yea thats me!! I love to do things like that, when I don't write, I don't write and when I write cases like this happens Haha!!

Been looking at Pentagrams stuff for a long while, though they are not really "ADVERTISING AND DESIGN" related I still love the work that is coming out from all 5 office (New York, San Francisco, London, Austin and Berlin). They are made up of a large group of partners who manages and design…the design agency is made up of mainly Graphic designers, Architects and Industrial design(product design). They are really strong in North America and Europe! By the way they've got a new book called "BLACK BOOK", which is a compilation of over 400 projects of the years. It covers all aspects of design from architectural, branding, graphic design, interior design, product design, exhibition, packaging, publications, product design etc etc……you got to get the book to check it out for yourself if your a design junkie like me!!



My influences in designs: Paula Scher, Micheal Bierut and Abbot Miller all 3 of them hail from Pentagram's New York Office. All are great masteros in design!! Their work has always been a source of inspiration for my own…

A short interview of Paula Scher by Hillman Cutis Inc. :


Hillman Curtis Inc.

Worrying solves nothing!

Worrying indeed dosen't solve anyting…i find my entries title so true!! Well been looking at Stefan Sagmeister's new book titled: "Things that I have learned so far in life".





The maxims he has for each experience he encountered made me think a little more. Heres a video of what I have watched on Hillman Curtis the interactive mastero's website http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/fof/sagmeister08.php, it is a documentation of Sagmeister's latest exhibition at Deitch Project. The whole vid is very nicely shot…so even for you guys who don't do design or don't know him, heres the time to know this fella alittle better.

Maxims from his latest book see if they make senses to you…

1. Helping other people helps me.

2. Having guts always works out for me.

3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.

4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.

5. Being not truthful always works against me.

6. Everything I do always comes back to me.

7. Assuming is stifling.

8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.

10. Money does not make me happy.

11. My dreams have no meaning.

12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.

13. Trying to look good limits my life.

14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.

15. Worrying solves nothing.

16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

17. Everybody thinks they are right.

18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.

19. Low expectations are a good strategy.

20. Everybody who is honest is interesting

Busy and here we go again…

I have been so busy recently, everything seems to be piling! Don't seem to know why my projects aint moving at the rate I intended to! I struggled a little or maybe for quite abit, but at the end of the day I manage to tide the storm.

My Final Project is a killer, I have no idea how much work I am putting myself into, but I am really excited about how the outcome would look like. Personally I think I did enough research on my topic and hopefully it will all but reflected onto what I want to say. I feel at times I over think and thats the cause of many of my own downfalls, or to put it simply I am ambitious, where I pack too much of my thoughts and ideas together.

This question popped up on monday night while we were having our booze, chris kept saying I want to do advertising, but my question back to him was "What is Advertising".



While I was reading the book by Micheal Bierut on the 79 Essays of design, it wrote about what advertising design is about and its purpose of how it persuades its audience and to some large extend creating a false impression of how a product or service works , and a graphic designers like an artist creates a form as the canvas/medium to express and relay their messages.

So what is it different from doing graphic design and advertising and design, are we all not graphic designers or artist in a way!

Well I guess I will continue to search for an anwser for this question that I have!