Mexican government sponsored program “See Better to Learn Better” partnered with FuseProject to develop a line of free eyeglasses, Collección Escolar 2010, especially for students aged 6-18. The glasses are customizable, fashionable, and nearly unbreakable with seven different colors, five shapes to choose from, and three different sizes. Lovely! Well reported at Core77, FastCompany, and Good
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Yves Behar’s FuseProject: free eyeglasses
Posted by Tiffany Wan on May 25, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/05/yves-behars-fuseproject-free-eyeglasses/
I want: Chinese Military Shovel
As multi-function as a Swiss Army knife! On a larger scale. – shovel, dig, cut and chop, saw, peel, measure, climb, hammer and much much more… – 铲(chan3)，挖(wa1)，砍(kan3)，锯(ju4)，削(xiao1)，量(liang2)，攀(pan1)，锤(chui2)…
Posted by Tiffany Wan on May 17, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/05/i-want-chinese-military-shovel/
VisionUnion: Chinese design blog
I’m well aware of many of the US based design blogs, but was recently directed by a friend to VisionUnion: Visionunion.net was found in June, 2008 with responsibility to introduce China Design to the world, report important affairs in China, promote China’s design firms/school of design/designers, present China’s original design works and articles. Have a [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on May 4, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/05/visionunion-chinese-design-blog/
wanderlust posters
Wonderful Wanderlust graphic posters of the 7 continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, South America, North America, Australia and Europe. I want! via JoshSpear
Posted by Tiffany Wan on April 30, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/04/wanderlust-posters/
this city needs a bike rental system
It’s been about 2 months since I’ve arrived in this sprawling city of Beijing. I find myself keeping quite active with exploring and meeting some great people. Though, I continually wish for a more walkable city and more manageable scale. I wonder how long it will take me to fully adjust, or if I will. [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on April 23, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/04/this-city-needs-a-bike-rental-system/
flagged umbrella
A tour guide with her flag and umbrella.. clever and inventive way of combining the use and function of 2 products:
Posted by Tiffany Wan on April 7, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/04/flagged-umbrella/
China aims to move away from OEM
Interesting article with growth of Chinese design and moving from OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to ODM (original design manufacturers) to more importantly, OBM (original brand manufacturers). China’s design industry experts are calling for greater government support in order to help the country’s manufacturers raise the competitiveness with innovation. Zhu Tao, president of China Industrial Design [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on February 28, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/02/china-aims-to-move-away-from-oem/