Hi! The summer holidays are over, and hopefully the typhoon season will not give us any new surprises this year ...
At the moment we are working on:
1) PRODUCT DESIGN: Health Management Weighing Machines for OSERIO - the brand of Charder Electronic Co., Ltd., in Dali City,Taichung County.
2) INTERIOR SPACE DESIGN: A 250m2 luxury, private interior in Taichung City's 7th Development Zone.
3) COMMERCIAL SPACE DESIGN: Two retail spaces, one kiosk in the Taichung High Speed Railway Station and one large store on the shore of Sun-Moon Lake, Nantou County; for Taiwan OTOP (One Town, One Product), a government-run local-speciality promotion project.
4) STRATEGIC, PACKAGING & GRAPHIC DESIGN: We are on stand-by to pick up our on-going collaboration with Lavender Cottage to develop their brand and design, this time with Strategy, Packaging and Graphic Design of their product range.
In the middle of August, Loewy was in SINGAPORE with Chao-Yang University of Technology to visit various Design Institutes to discuss possibilities for collaboration and exchange programmes. He also paid a personal visit to Milton Tan, the Director of the Singapore Design Council and discussed among other things the upcoming ICSID'09 Congress to take place in Singapore 23rd - 25th November and the following Singapore Design Festival.
At the end of August, Loewy was judge of the IBDC (International Bicycle Design Competition) the only global competition of its type, and speaker at the following Bicycle Design Conference, both organised by Edward Liao of the CHC (Cycling & Health Tech Industry R&D Center) here in Taichung. Other judges were Han Goes of Qsquare Consultants, Nederlands; Mark Sanders of MAS Design Products Ltd., UK; Jack Tigh Dennerlein of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA; Uwe Weissflog of inMotion (Marketing Communication Services); Michael Tseng, President of Merida Industry Co., Ltd.,and Chairman of A-Team, Taiwan. They were supplemented as speakers at the conference on the following day by Dr. Jay Lee of University of Cinncinati and Director of IMS (Intelligent Management Systems), Cinncinati, USA.
Over the coming months, Liao will be giving speeches about Scandinavian Design around the country for DAVIDOFF.
Finally, look forward to our new look ... we are redesigning our web-based communications: both our website and newsblog, and hope to upgrade in the coming month!
by Gideon Loewy, Design Director, 3rd September 2009
