Two Strange and Awesome Events (Images from designartnews.com)

So I'm at the final month of my college degree. After finishing my demo reel for the umpteenth I'm feeling great. As many of you know, I like art. I like it very much. I also like intricate designs for festivals, if you didn't catch that in my recent posts. So, let it be known that this pattern will continue for quite some time. The first show that I saw was The Horn of Plenty To Lowered Ceiling.  This show, curated by Gosse Osterhof, was about the pieces of Jonathon Monk and his jigsaw...

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Fruits at the Vivid Gallery

Hisakazu Shimizu presented an exhibition at the Vivid Gallery entitled Fruits. This was a great showcase of the designer's work. The pieces represent fruit in some sense or another, showing its versatility and flexibility. For example, there are melon-shaped porcelain clocks, as well as lamps shaped and colored like fruit. According to Designws, he Shimizu was fascinated with the juxtaposition of fruit, a borderless product of nature, being expressed within the vein of "pop culture", in the form...

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Business Plan Research (part 2)

So, If any of you have been reading, I made a post about some aspects that certain business plan developers  believed was most important to present within a business plan. In this post, I am going to talk about what I am going to put into my business plan. Now, lets take the first guy, Mark Zwilling. He talks of ten turnoffs to potential investors, and I found that some of them are right. For example, I will obviously have an executive summary to sum up my business without being too wordy. Speaking of words, I will make sure of it that people look for errors in my writing before I formally...

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Business Plan Research

So, I'm in my final month in my Masters' program, and I am in the process of making my business plan. I needed to get inspiration and education from somewhere, so I figured, "why not" and looked up some great business development professionals. The first one I looked up was a man by the name of Mark Zwilling. He is the founder of Startup Professionals, a contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Business Insider, an advisory board member of numerous startups, and many other important business occupations. In Zwilling's Top Ten Investor Turnoffs Around Business Plans, he mentions a few...

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Design Parade 6

     This is another design festival that is awesome in every single way. Running from July 1 to October 2 (according to Designws), this festival contains a few notable designers (most of them up-and-coming). Established designers like Stefan Diez and Moustache made appearances. Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio formed Moustache  a while back and their eccentricity is infectious. I love the way they take furniture design to a totally different...

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Some New-ish AutoCAD News

One, there's the news that you can submit your ideas to the AutoCAD Design Team. They are looking to start a new experimental website to gather more of your ideas and rank them by your voting. You can suggest ideas to change existing features as well, and view/vote on other ideas. This is a great way to build the AutoCAD brand in my opinion. There are some things that I've encountered some designers kinda irk about, so I can't see this failing. Here's a quote: “Your suggestions help make AutoCAD (Mac...

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Yet Another Odd (as in cool) Tech Story To Discuss

So, after my Valve post, I looked up some other news. This bit of news is a day late, but it's still something I've been kinda waiting for. Google Adding Search By Voice, Pictures p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #124276} San Francisco (CNN) -- The plain Google search box will soon be able to handle more than taps on a keyboard. Google is bringing features pioneered on smartphones, like voice and image search, to its flagship product, the company...

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