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Recently, I have received another interview about MADE in China. You can check out the article here.
I’ve also been awarded honourable mention in the RE:Store design contest and finalist in the Australian International Design Awards student category.
AARIVE.com will receive a makeover in the very near future. Keep a look out for it!
Tonight, my housemate (studies graphic design) asked me 2 questions to help with his essay… And i think both of these questions are very interesting and I’d like to share with you the answers I gave him. They’re just answers i gave him out of the top of my head:
–What is the designer s greatest responsibility in the 21st century??
In the 21st century, the greatest responsibility of designers is to be “ever open in yourself and to everything else”. By being open-minded in you, innovative approaches could give rise to more ever desirable results. By keeping an open eye to the audience and the world, designs will become ever more significant, especially when address confronting issues like sustainability of the environment, society, culture and market etc. 21st century designers should be “open” problem solvers for a holistic system.
–Do u think design can make the world a more beautiful place??
Design can make the world a more “considered” place - because design is “think before you act”. Qualitative designs provide much more consideration while quantitative designs spread consideration to much more places. Designs are “consideration” exist in some form, in some place. If “consideration” is a form of beauty, then, yes, design would make the world a more beautiful place in that sense, however, weather or not “consideration” is a form of beauty is subject to debate.
What will YOUR answers be if you were asked the same?
John@AARIVE’s MADE in China is featured on October’s Wallpaper* magazine~! (Issue October.2007) AARIVE is very pleased that our computer design is featured in one of the most internationally known magazine in the Design Industry. Very nice images of MADE in China too~! I’ve upload the scans. Just click on the above thumb nails to read the article. (Thanks Fei for the Scans!)
Final design presentation is next week for John and Recka. We are no doubt super-busy! Wish us luck and send us some Red-bulls!
One amazing & fun adventure! I did this over the past 2 weeks for a subject called Popular Art Design and Architecture. Watch the video, it’s the best assignment ever!! Don’t overlook popular culture, people! I’m sure all these experiences will play a role in my future. (Did you guys see the Big Brother reference in the video?)
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Hopefully you guys didn’t think that I gave up the commitment right after my 10th aCONCEPT. Haha! Sorry for the no-update in aCONCEPT aDAY for the last 2 days as I was a bit busy with personal things. But Thankfully, I’ve updated 3 concepts today! so you can see what I had in-store for you guys in the last 2 days! Click here to see them now! Bookmark our site! Check out our new concepts each day!! Cheers!
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AARIVE is featured on this issue of HongKong’s MILK Magazine~! (Issue 307/ 06.06.2007) MILK is one of HK’s top trendy magazines for Young Adults. We’re very pleased to be interviewed by MILK about MADE in China and hope to share this nice 6 page article with you! For those who are not in HK, I have put scans of it online for your preview. Click on the above thumbnails. For all AARIVE fans out there, buy a MILK to see our nice photo shot in the alley of Melbourne! (Thanks our photographer Joe Chan~)
Also, I (the god of AARIVE) am very greatful today that I have completed all my works for this uni semester. So you will see a lot of things happening on AARIVE.com coming up! so keep checking us out. On Sunday, something new wil be unveiled on our site! Cheeeeers!
MILK’s website: http://www.milk.com.hk/
14 days after the big announcement, here’s a recap of just a few of the many many news reports about MADE in China by Major News Mediums from around the world:
I’ve recently had an interview with PC World regarding MADE in China. It explains how, hidden underneath the oriental aesthetics, it is a $99 PC that only requires $1 a day to run, but as powerful as your current PC.
-It is definitely achievable in the next 10 years.
-It will also be the killer app for 4G mobile network.
-I think it goes with Bill Gates’s proposed “The Phone is going to be the PC” idea
-MADE in China’s holistically beneficial business model will definitely be the future of the PC environment.
For any PC & Telecommunication giants who passed by (Apple, Dell, Sony, Nokia, Vodafone etc) I hope you can have a good look at the 10 page MADE in China presentation at the MADE in China page.
I’m John@AARIVE and I’m back after the heavy workload from my architecture course!! I’ve been very pleased with all the reports I saw on the internet and the comments people have about MADE in China. To help you understand better, I will post up an FAQ regarding MADE in China very soon.
Many reports from Asia actually wonders where my ethnic background is… and here’s the revelation – I’m from Hong Kong (China), currently studying in Melbourne, Australia! I think my multicultural background has a great influence in all my designs and always take them to the next level, especially for MADE in China!
And as you see above, these beautiful photos of MADE in China shown in WinHEC. Thanks to the Industrial designer who made it and the photographers who attended the show!
This is the most exciting day for me because my design is on international press for winning Bill Gate’s Top award!! It’s an affirmation for my passion~ To celebrate this event, I will unveil 2 more of my designgraphy pages (Graphics/Industrial)!
This 3 years have been very exciting indeed - At 19, being able to win first in Sony Concept Design Award with “iDIO”… At 20, invited to Sony Japan for my ideas for iDIO, DYVI, & PLAY… And now at 21, being recognised by Bill Gates for “MADE in China” has been the most rewarding experience yet!! There are so many more things I wanted to design!! Check out what MADE in China is about and who are the other winners of this competition now via the press article!
“MADE in China“ won Bill Gate’s top award in Microsoft’s PC Design Contest!! During Gate’s First Day Keynote in Win HEC 2007 (15May2007), Gates announced his favourite entry which he personally selected himself. The winner of the Chairman’s award, was MADE in China by John@AARIVE.
Bill Gates: “One of the most interesting, in fact the one that won the top award, called MADE in China there in the upper left, and it’s kind of a Tablet form factor, very thin and sleek, and they even let you use a pen type thing or even a chopstick type way of getting input into the machine, so quite different. And those are all in the exposition hall. I think you’ll enjoy taking a look at those.”
15 May 2007 will be the winner’s announcement of Microsoft & iDSA’s Next Gen Computer Design Contest. I’m fairly excited to see what the outcomes will be! Remember to keep checking out AARIVE.com because we will have a lot of updates coming up - and of coz “MADE in China” Site will be opening very soon!!
It was about one year ago this time of the year, I was invited to Sony in Japan for a presentation to SONY designers. It was definitely an awesome experience…Here are my blog entries while i was there (they have never been made public!) It is in the order as it happened… Click on “more” below to view the entire adventure …!
Today, something happened which triggered John & Recka. We must quickly complete our AARIVE.com…. maybe this weekend? unfortunately impossible. coz I have some assignments due next week. Thanks for all those who shared our inciddent today! I told you we won’t disappoint!
OH~ We’ve been gone for a week, haven’t we? It’s coz Recka & I are both super-busy this week (and perhaps for the few weeks to come). The 2 gods of AARIVE are running around searching for houses. The renting scene is like a war these days - just as mad as the competitions AARIVE usually enters into. Wish us luck. I’ll continue to get AARIVE.com going thru this rough times!
