3rd Thinklab Design Conference ‘The New Malaysian Design Agenda’

As the decade begins with ‘Innovation & Creativity’, Malaysian governments’ newest policy is becoming a fan favorite amongst creative players within the industry. An offshoot from ‘The Local Design Culture’, Thinklab’s 3rd Design Conference will bring some of the industry’s dynamic minds that will share and inspire new young leaders inside and outside design community, [...]

China: The Not Fakes.

The mere mention of its name, China, in design, constantly struggles with the imagery of the fake design objects. Lest we forget, architectural and culturally, China, is better known for the image of power and wealth. As we arrive this new decade, many creative geniuses in China, recently acknowledged for their unlike communist school of [...]

Something to consider: Building Preservation / Tourist Attraction

Over the past decade, merging concerns of heritage into the curicullum of architecture schools, has become common. Assignments of such nature are a ‘hit three birds with one stone’ phenomena. Bird 1: Students gain practical training with hands-on involvement in methods of documentation and measured drawings. Bird 2: Students gain a formal introduction to the [...]

The Creative Industries: A brief introduction.

Today’s article was contributed by Adriana from RENCAH. She currently is highly involved, contributing her expertise as researcher in political economy and finance locally. Enjoy!
What do a Mah Meri wood carver from Carey Island, an advertising executive in New York and museum curator in Shanghai have in common? Other than their making a living [...]

Event updates: Project ARM / Malacca River Art .

Good day everyone!

Today, we are announcing the collaboration project with Malacca River Art as the official media partner beginning 1st of February until 22nd February 2010. We are in the works of getting the team to work for the media promotions for the entire month of February. Hence, the year 2010 is very much [...]

The brilliance of design innovation : Human Empathy.

Image of the the earthquake in Jacmel, Haiti. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

When Michael Arrington of Crunchpad,creator of computer tablet back in 2009
wrote “one thing I’ve learned about hardware in the last year is that you need
partners to actually make things happen.” I realized most [...]

Reality and Virtual: Exercising the mind

When I am bored, I usually play this one game. The game is called the Sims 3. I m sure many of you have heard about the game. But for those who have not, let me humbly introduce to you this game, and why I call it the exercise of the mind.
The Sims 3 is [...]

Bauhaus: The Primitive Form Language Theory.

“We must at the outset distinguish basic elements from other elements, viz. – elements without which a work …cannot even come into existence.” But is it really as simple as it looks?

Vassily Kandinsky.

The Bauhaus’s importance to Modernism needs no introduction. The shift of art based on its rejection to tradition is a result of [...]

Online Muses.

Usually in the process of thinking and musing, designers might find themselves browsing the net for the latest style and concept. Often times, not knowing where to go, these said designers might just
randomly type another designer’s name and analyze the images and ideas they see on the webpage.
But as I have long realized, as [...]

In Between Design: The Year of Creative and Innovation / Campaign it like you give a damn!

Recently, according to the presses, florists expects drop in sales this coming month.
Not that it mattered within the context of being creative. Maybe it does.
I don’t know.
Or maybe we should think of new resolutions of looking into creative and innovation campaigns. Like with a guidebook perhaps. A handout that could be given free, to [...]