This is my final stop of my Asian pacific tour. I spoke at Creative Kids in Hong Kong this past friday. Creative Kids is the art program that I grew up going to, I first went to this program 18 years ago when I was 8 until I was about 15. In that 7 year period, I was given a chance to express my creativity and nurtured me as a designer. It was an honor to go back after 10 years to talk to the next generation of students and teachers about what I have been doing and talk about the value of creativity.
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TEDxSingapore
It was an honor to be at TEDxSingapore when I was back in Singapore for the first time since getting the TED Fellowship in 2010. It was a tremendous atmosphere and was great to present my work in design to an audience of over 200 people. I was introduced as the first Singaporean Fellow and was giving a lot of attention the entire day, which I was not very used to. I did meet a bunch of really cool people at the event, and several collaboration opportunities arose and I am excited to see where these projects might go.
The speakers that spoke at the event were great too, from harnessing the consumers’ spending to get corporate companies to donate part of their earnings to better the world; to talking about the different TED conferences around the world; to a presentation given to highlight the worst of powerpoint presentations; to using social media in the right way; TEDxSingapore was a great platform to spread ideas in Singapore that many are not exposed to in the traditional media. If you are interested in finding out what happened at TEDxSingapore, check out Twitter #TEDxSingapore Find out more about TEDxSingapore here.
I am currently in Sydney and will be traveling to Brisbane.
The Design Revolution Road Show goes live
Emily Pilloton, a friend who we invited to come to the first Better World by Design, came back to speak at the conference a second time, and this time she gave us a preview into what she was about to do for the next 3 months of her life. Having started Project-H, a humanitarian design organization that applies industrial design skills to projects around the world in developing nations, she have decided to showcase the work for the world to see. She will be driving an 60s airstream to 25 school, in 75 days, 6300 mile across the United States from school to school as an exhibition on wheels. The goal is to educated students along the way and spark awareness and interest in applying their design skills for the greater good. The exhibition includes 40 humanitarian projects from her book Design Revolution.
Visit Design Revolution Road Show | Project H Design
Global Warming froze England
via Gizmodo
This is an amazing and some what terrifying satellite image of the United Kingdoms. Flights have been delayed for days and thousands are stranded at the airports.
3 Events in 5 days: Design for Obama, TEDxEast, Opportunity Green 09
Having be flying back and forth to go to events and conference the past week. I was in New York City for my business partner Aaron Perry Zucker’s book launch at the New York Taschen Store in Soho for his new book with Spike Lee, Design for Obama. Hundreds of people showed up to the book signing coincides with the first anniversary of the election on November 4th.
Then I was at the TEDxEast event on friday in New York City, an independent TED event bringing together a range of excellent speakers, where I met up with good friends and TED fellows, Kyra Grant and Juliette LaMontagne.
I left TEDxEast early to catch a flight to L.A. for the Opportunity Green conference the next day. I met the co-founder of the conference Mike Flynn at TED in Long beach in February and talked about founding and hosting conferences. This event was one of most well organized events I have been to, and found home being in the world of businessmen and entrepreneurs. It was quite an eye opener to see what other people are doing to be more environmentally responsible, even big companies like, Procter and Gamble, Clorox and even Nike. Some of the discussions were great, but at any “green” conference, there were people who only saw “green” as an opportunity to exploit the good-will of people to sell them more stuff. I can’t say that I totally agree with everything discussed at the conference, and I think that it will take more to change the culture, but it is an important symbol for business to come together.
My traveling work station
I have been on the road for the past several weeks. I have been in Cambridge, New York city twice, San Francisco twice and LA. And I’ll not be going home for another week and a half. I am now in San Francisco working on projects here and will be heading back to the East Coast this coming friday.
It has been great being able to bring my work station with me on the road. This is what I have: A Macbook Pro, a Microsoft mouse, a portable Hard drive, an iPhone, a Moleskine, a Bic pen, a Sony DSLR, a Kodak HD camcorder, a card reader and some white ipod earphones.
And this is the first blog post that I created on flickr 