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

He was a speaker at the Educational Round Table Discussion. a key-note speaker at the U-Design Workshop, and he reviewed Conference Papers and was a moderator of the Presentation of Papers at the Design Conference.

Since designing the Danish Pavillion at the 1st Taiwan Creative Design Expo in 2003 Scandinavian Designers has designed:

Nordic Window's first flagship shop (2005) in the Eslite Commercial Centre by the 101 Building in Taipei and a booth for them at the 2006 Young Designer's Show at the Taipei World Trade Center pretty much next door.

 A Show House for Chen-Jia Construction Co. in Douliou, Central Taiwan (2007)

A Family House in the same complex (2007).

And, most recently, the Remodelling the Museum Shop at Korea National Folk Museum (2008).

Currently, we are working on a Brand Development, Retail Design and Packaging Project with the Taiwanese restaurant and herbal gift -store chain "Lavender Cottage". The first store with our new design is planned to open before 31st March 2009.

We have also been asked to design a luxury home just beside the new City Hall building (under construction) in Taichung's chic new Chi-Chi District.

We expect to receive video from the conference from GS soon and will post clips here as soon as they are edited.