Product Designing from Drawings to Reality in Bangkok

To design a Product in Bangkok is a challenge when the product needs special technical skills. To find manufacturers and artisans in Thailand is not an easy process. To find online is easier but that is tapping in to the whole  world wide web. The following is a recount of how a product does not become real. The end of …

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A Businesswoman’s Hotel Room

Hotels started as temporary home for traders traveling across countries for business many decades ago. Over  years  they have changed and developed with the trends and the demands of businessman. Style have changed, room sizes have changed and  technology is now omnipresent in every guest room. One thing though I have found out is, despite the ever growing number of  …

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Dissection of a Hospital

Every one goes to hospitals every once in a while. We take our kids, we go ourselves, we visit someone, it’s very much part of our lives. The space planning and layout of the hospital is a very important. Well space planning of all facilities is important but importantly so for hospitals. While planning a hospital, designers and architects must …

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50 Shades of White

White, Pure, Clean, Simple, and Classy… Everywhere one turns these days, it’s white or light,  We‘re already the middle of the year, Summer is turning to  Autumn and White products are the trend; they are everywhere you look; White Interiors, White Clothes, White Cars, White, White, White. Is White the New Black? Black has been the dominant colour for ages, …

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Faulty Designs that last

From the moment we wake up in the morning, our lives are made easier by a large number of products and gadgets, from the alarm clock, the toaster, the juice maker, the car or bicycle to take you to your destination products are everywhere, the list is endless. All these products are designed to be user friendly,  practical  and safe. …

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Are we paying for the Chocolate or for the Package?

Chocolate…. Bittersweet, delicious and absolutely sinful. Go to a supermarket or a chocolate specialty store and pick out a chocolate, each of these exquisite morsels are packaged in to beautifully designed packages. They are attractive, eye catching and meticulously crafted, but then sometimes the taste of the chocolate does not live up to  the packaging. Chocolate humble beginnings start out …

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Cool,Warm, or in between?

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe described Minimalism as “ Less is more” but is it really? When a space is designed minimalistically, “less” often is less A minimal space is often associated with clean, sleek and clear lines, or a very “open” space in other words with elements of  furniture sparsely used  to create an impression. “Minimalism” is a …

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