Category: Design
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The Year of the Dog – The Yang Male Earth Dog
The Chinese Lunar New Year starts on Friday, February 16th, 2018, in China’s time zone. According to the Chinese Fortune Calendar, after applying all the calculations, this is the Yang Male Earth Dog Year. Being an Earth year, the sign for 2018 is mountains over mountains. It reminds me of a Haitian proverb I stumbled…
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The former colleague and now inventor
‘I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.’ Ms Ngoc Hanh and I met for the first time at Sun Flower Media company where we both were art directors for different…
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Souvenirs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and what to buy as a memento
UPDATE 3rd January 2018 We no longer sell our lacquer products through third-party stores. Please visit our company website and contact us via the contact form. For regular poster prints, tote bags and t-shirt souvenirs, please visit our online web store. — Traveling to the Far East. The sentence has a magical sound to it.…
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SGN by SMM — Our first lacquerware collection by Studio MadsMonsen
2013 has been a busy year and Studio MadsMonsen can proudly present SGN by SMM, our new product range in lacquerware. Traditional Vietnamese handmade craftsmanship fused with Norwegian photographic vision and obtained British design skills. This is an unique gift set featuring famous motifs from SGN, Saigon, or Ho CHi Minh City, as the official…
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The Circle of Life, Art Direction revisited
Just off the presses, Word magazine’s HCMC and Hanoi edition for February 2013 are now available. It took the team a lot of work to make it happen, but we did. Regular readers may notice the design changes that we rolled out for the February editions. Yes, I am involved in magazine design again. For…
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The ice cream store and why a combo is better than a single strike
A combo is better than a single strike. I realised that when playing karate kid arcade games. The combo move was always better than the single kick or punch. Advertising agencies often have an art director/copy writer team. A killer combo of visuals and words. They realise that the team can be more creative than…
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Duyên Dáng Việt Nam – Charming Vietnam, the new magazine
It started with a phone call. Most of the time it just does that. A ring. Some vibrations. Then a “hello”, as a command line interpreter, spelling out “Hello World” It was an old colleague of mine. In need of some help. Design help. They had a new project, a magazine, and they wanted a…