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September 25, 2005
tiring but inspiring
Well, I'm still recovering from this week's events. First, at work, we've had a week-long annual meeting with designers from the other branches in Asia, Europe and USA. Workshops and symposiums and meetings from 9-5, every day for five days, then afterwards followed by social events.
The main topic of the event was Design Sustainability and I found the symposium speakers to be really inspiring: David Kirkpatrick of Fortune.com, Prof. Anil Gupta, and Bob Adams of IDEO.
The social events were great as I got to meet a lot of colleagues from the other global branches. We would start off with dinner first, then had parties in the Klokkentoren, Clock Tower, in Eindhoven. I was happy to be meeting so many interesting people. Although I am really looking forward to going to Milano, it kind of made me sad because this is my last two months at the studio and I realise I am really going to miss working with some of the great colleagues I have here.
This week was also the Philips Simplicity Event at L' Espace Grande Arche in Paris. I've worked on the Next Simplicity concepts for a good part of this year and we were finally able to implement and exhibit here. So we came over for the exhibition and the book launch. Yippee! Everything looked fab, and worked fantastically and the public's feedback has been wonderful! So we are really happy :)
Posted by Yasmina at September 25, 2005 02:30 PM
