Update 1,2,3...

The trip to Greece was lovely and relaxing... and now I am back in England and started working in an Architects office near Ladbroke Grove. My first proper 9-5, discounting my work placements before.

I visited the annual 100% Design show couple of weeks ago and went the Michael Young lecture on Sat. He is a well known product designer that lives and works in Hong Kong. I attended his lecture as he had spent sometime during his career working in Taiwan, and I was interested to know what the design industry is like back at home. The irony hey?! The lecture was informal, conversational based. The reason why he left London, the hub of design, was because he was fed up with the designers working in the design bubble... circulated by other elite designers and people with colour square glasses. I respect his courage for doing this, as when he left he was already a published designer...so it would be easy for him to stay and do well in London. However, some of his comments just made me think that he too operates like an elitist. For example, he doesn't bother reading or care about what other designers are doing in his industry ...a trait shared by the well known architects Herzog and De Meuron. Other thing he commented on, is how useless European design students are when they leave college... They don't know how to use SolidWorks properly, therefore make bad placement students. Unlike their Asian counterparts who can whip up a SolidWorks model instantly. Yes, I am sure most people know that Asian kids tend to work much harder...though that's much down to the cultural and educational differences.

On the 10th of October, a new installation by Carsten Holler will be opened as part of the Unilever Series in Tate Modern. I shall be there next weekend..... looking forward to it!