Thursday, January 31, 2008

All about Ann.

Running Addictlab has been a sort of rollercoaster experience.
This multilayered concept of creating platforms such as our books, or exhibitions, or consultancy towards brands, of being a gallery and doing trend research, it all makes sense to me. I realise that that's not always the case for everyone else. That's probably why running Addictlab sometimes was and sometimes still is a burden.

As opposed to my naive attitude of wanting to create a very creative global and fertile surrounding, of introducing creative chaos in a work environment as an asset,
I need an organisation and people whom I can build on.

And the last years, I've had the honour and privilege to be helped by Ann. She has the looks, but I won't go into that. She has also the brains. And above all, she has the emotional intelligence to take on life as it happens.

I realize that life is full of constant changes, and up until Addictlab has a major breakthrough and has the resources to create constant growth, it is quite normal to have a flux of people coming in and leaving the company. In Ann's case, it's a bit different. She has been watching over addictlab in a way I never could have hoped for. Reliable and loyal are understatements. A Beacon of Hope for people around her , that's more like it.

Today is Ann's last day on the job. She will go and take on other challenges. It wouldn't be fair to say the timing is wrong. That there are going to be some major changes in the Addictlab organisation, and all that. There are always major changes in a concept like Addictlab.
But there aren't always people like Ann to believe in it. To support it. To help it grow.
I'll miss her. And that too, is an understatement.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

You romantic twit.

'Follow me'. That is basically what all your GPS navigation systems are saying. But they do that in a functional, dry , engineery kind of way.
Now forget the engineery, go fairy.

Meet Dandella, A GPS direction pointing device that works with the GPS mobile
phone to find direction. The idea was to replace the complicated
digital interface with a physical and intuitive device that shows the
direction by pointing.
Forget Tom Tom, go ET.

This project received the Grand Prix from
Osaka International Design Competition 2006.






contributed by Design Lab Researcher Giovanna Massoni

The Design Incubation Centre is a design research
laboratory which investigates and develops tools to help
us better understand ourselves and our environments,
and to find new possibilities and new relationships
between man, objects and his environment. The
Design Incubation Centre is part of the Department of
Architecture, School of Design and Environment,
National University of Singapore.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Makes you think.

Pretty well done, if you ask me.