新 | New type of Design Firm: FUSEPROJECT

if you ask me, which design company I like most now. Not IDEO, not ZIBA (sorry for my formal colleagues), not PHOENIX DESIGN, but fuseproject, a San Francisco based design firm, which was founded by Yves Behar. 

Yves Behar, he was born in Swiss, studied at Art Center of College (one of the best design school worldwide) both in Europe and California, USA. His multi-cultural background makes his design always with a very different idea, strong character and open-minded. 

What else? If you visit his website and look at the products, you can know, why I like his design so much. His firm, fuseproject, doesn't only provide a single angle of view for design service, but a whole package, from Corporate Identity (the core of a company), Website Design, Graphic Design, Product design and finally Packaging Design. It means, they can make a new product, but also a WHOLE NEW SYSTEM around it. What I always say, no product stands alone. It has to communicate with Surround and lives in a environment. We can see how different they are.

I really wish, I were him ;). Here is a sample: the New Jawbone.  

食 | Linguine con cozze di nonno

I think most of you knew that, I like cooking and tasting different food very much. Since my buddies in Germany presented a Cookbook (see below) of Jamie Oliver, my favorite cook and designer. (For me cooking is like design. We all create thing in our own way. We all solve a problem and present it for the public.)

I like him because of his sympathy. He doe

sn't show off his skills and deal it like art. Cook is not that complicated. Every time he cooks, you can see his love, passion and fun with it. Besides, his kind and easy way for presentation, just like I am always doing. Let everyone join your presentation, let them understand, what is the idea about.    

Last week, we celebrated my sister's birthday at my place. And I chose Liguine con cozze di nonno to cook for the whole family. It is a dish with a lot of seafood (we love fish!!!). 

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Here are the materials: fresh shrimps, 2 kinds of mussels (big and small), small sardinian, linguine 500 g, sea salt, olive oil, garlic, tomato...and so on. Most people will take of the shrimps shells and throw them away. HOWEVER, these shells were one of the most important part of this dish. I used them in two parts. First, I cooked the noodle not only with sea salt, but also the shrimps shells and some small mussels. It can make the noodle with a little bit nature seafood-taste, that matches perfectly with other materials. And the other shells? of course for the source. Attention! use fresh tomato, very important!

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Then, it will look like this. It was rea really tasty :)

獎 | Good Design Award

Not a good photo, made by my iPhone. The resolution is low, and my haircut is ugly v.v.

Well..anyway

You already knew, that I just wan a Good Design Award one of the most important design awards on the world. I esigned this guy (an Automated OpticInspector) for a taiwanese company. We have been in Tokyo to setup the exhibition. Tokyo is a great city, very busy, modern, but also clean and you can't still find a lot of tradition.

here are some photos in Japan. If you click the picture, you can get more info about the product and award.

鄉｜back home or a new home?

Hey guys!

My blog is alive again! now I am looking for a method to merge all my three blogs together. I believe, it is a kind of energy waste, that I write three blogs at the same time. It means, I will just write, what I want. But I will still treat design as a core spirit. Though, what I am in Taiwan doing, is not only design...

It was almost four months ago, when I left Germany. It is really a strange feeling to leave Germany, where I have lived for six years. During this time, I really felt like, I am a German not a Taiwanese anymore. I though, I won't leave Germany (Europe). Still, life is very interesting. It changes. Now I am in Taiwan again ;)