Categories: china design

A Chinese Designer Speaks Out on Chinese Design

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on August 07

I received this wonderful comment on my post on Chinese designers. Her analysis parallels my own--the quick-quick manufacturing culture of China shapes Chinese designers. The market for their talent is...

China's Innovation Moment--And NBC Blocks Us From Watching It Live.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on August 08

I'm having a strange sense of displacement. A momentus event is taking place in China that most of the world is watching live but I can't because a legacy network...

Davos--Senator McCain on China.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on January 27

I just had breakfast with Senator McCain at a media briefing. If I were still doing editorials, I would go into the details of his remarks on Iraq but I'm...

China Booms For US Exports.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on July 26

China is slated to become the third largest export market for the US this year. That is big news. US exports grew 36.5% in the first 5 months of 2006--from...

Innovation in China.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on June 17

The oddest story on innovation in China appears in Saturday's Washington Post. It combines a personal lead from a woman's fashion designer with quotes from Beijing bureaucrats about the importance...

Are Google And Yahoo on The Wrong Side of History in China?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on February 19

There is a wonderful story in the Washington Post Sunday morning--The Click That Broke a Government's Grip--that gives an hour-by-hour timeline to how Li Datong, a senior editor at the...

The true truth about design in China.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 05

After only five days in Beijing at Patrick Whitney's Design for the new China Markets design/innovation conference, I'm not going to pretend that I am any sort of expert on...

China Design Conference Paid Off Big.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 04

Patrick Whitney's Illinois Institute of Technology conference--Design for the new China Markets--that ran in Beijing on Dec. 1 and 2 was simply stunning. In my talk that concluded the conference,...

Innovation vs. design blah blah.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 04

I just got back from the Design For The New China Markets Conference to see the debate on innovation vs. design is heating up. The Fortune magazine conference on innovation...

China betting big on design.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 29

So within minutes of landing in Beijing for the Design for the New China Markets conference--and plugging into the web--I see that the city of Shenzen is turning itself into...

Innovation In China and Asia is getting hot.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 27

I'm off to an innovation and design conference in China put on by Patrick Whitney of the Institute of Design. Some 150 business people and designers, half from China and...