Comments (0)     |   Read full article

Vietnam – A Case For Retro Modern Style

Van Nguyen
Wed, 30/06/2010 - 00:40

Retro is a style that evokes a previous period, usually the 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s. Vietnam youth is digging into the retro look (specially the 80s).  It has never been a better time to look retro and they don't have to visit a second hand shop to do it. There are some unknown stores and many more outlets selling retro stuff from fashion, accessories to motorbike, camera and so on. I spent the whole afternoon with Lukas Huynh, a fasion Guru Guru and had him educate me about Retro. Lukas Hu...

Comments (0)     |   Read full article

Teen Lingo - New Design In Writing and Speaking Language

Van Nguyen
Wed, 19/05/2010 - 11:57

  Its hard to define “Slang” as somewhat design.  But to a teenager, no matter how hip he/she dresses up, if he/she doesn’t talk like one,  it’s so out of the place. Identify teenager by this formula: Teenager = Fashion + Slang. By design, slang is wittier and more clever than standard Vietnamese. A lot may disagree with me at this point, since they are afraid of the fact that Vietnamese teenager new language will compromise students' ability to write and to communic...

Comments (0)     |   Read full article

What is Design? : Part 2

Lily Ruby
Mon, 17/05/2010 - 12:41

In my train of thoughts from part 1, I had another picture: defining what design is also like peeling an onion. Let’s pretend we see an onion for the very first time! Trying to find the core, or the fruit, of that onion, we keep peeling off the layers, but eventually the onion is gone. However, we know and taste what an onion is through each of those layers or through the totality of the layers, which is the onion. I think this picture can be applied to describing any kinds of essential tru...

What is Design? : Part 2

Lily Ruby

Comments (0)     |   Read full article

123456789next ›last »