Case study : Philippe Starck vs Grandpa Prateep Looking at old story seriously Good Design or Good Marketing.

During this New Year Holiday, I had the opportunity to visit my parents in Trat for a couple of days. It brought back the memory of my childhood such as the sounds of cooking, the smell of charcoal creative person, these experiences raise many questions for me in term of design in our commodity society today, where we call a civilized culture or may be a consumer culture?

The Duang He's Walking to The Dream.

Many people take a long time to know what they want to be or to do. Some spend almost lifetime to find what is "right" for them. However, Veerachat Duangpla or the Duang as many know him has always known that he wants to be a comic artist. His determination helps push him to be the latest Thai comic artist to receive Silver Awards from Japan's International Manga Awards although he is only 24 years old.

Ploy Saeng 100 Festival : 100 Creative Idols Present 100 Original Thai Products

Ploy Saeng Festival has been held by TCDC to open doors of opportunity for creative people to present their creative original works. This exhibition also represents the meeting place for creative entrepreneurs and potential customers to exchange ideas leading to the development of products. The past exhibitions had been successfully held with different topics but the same theme, which is the creativity in the process of "thinking, doing and eating".

50 YEARS YOUNG I SALONI

I Saloni will celebrate their 50th birthday next April. A milestone anniversary that will be celebrated in the full awareness of the fact that everything that has been accomplished by all those who have shown their commitment to the Saloni, right from the very first day, must be carried forward tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, for (at least) another 50 years, increasingly and constantly better. A great many events are planned, both at the Fairgrounds and in the city of Milan.

BERTONE B99 : The Revival of The Lost Soul

Jaguar, a fame of British luxury automobile and a gentleman's choice for decades, has been re-interpreted by a world renowed Italian Coachbuilder "Carrozeria Bertone" and resulted in the breathraking yet familiar character , the Bertone B99. The Jaguar design signature that we are familiar is the work of Sir William Lyon, the XJ6 of 1968. The design heritage of Sir William Lyon has continued for almost 4 decades until 2009 when it was completely changed by new XJ (X351) under the lead of Ian Cullum the new customer who has never owned a Jaguar. The work of Ian Cukkum, whether stunning it splits apinion and raise a question among Jag's fan that is it a true Jag?

Mercedes Benz's "Aesthetic No.2"

Sometime a blurry images is more  inspiring than a razor sharp crystal clear image, imaging a hazy image of a lady contour under dimmed light which leaves us an impression of an artful romance compares to an explicit hardcore material.

Philippe Starck "I like to open the doors to people's brain."

Whenever we discover an object or a place designed by Philippe Starck, we enter a world of wall-to-wall imagination, surprises and fabulous fantasy. For more than three decades, this unique and multifarious creator, designer and architect has been a part of our daily lives by creating unconventional objects, whose purpose is to be "good" before being beautiful, and iconic destinations that take the members of his "cultural tribe" out of themselves and, most importantly, towards something better.