Hasta La Ideas

Some more designers that I met at the Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC) in Bangkok were Wednesday Garden – a design team doing product and graphic design, who showed me some of the bags and stationary they create and distribute. For example the Wet Paint Bag Family – a series of graphically appealing bags in different sizes that also work as a laptop bag (but certainly don’t look like one). Another product I would like to introduce you to is their ingenious Cassette Tape Notebook – a paper notebook for “recording ideas”, paying tribute to (as the name suggests) the much loved and missed cassette tape.

Be Our Friend is a design collective that started off as a group of friends, but now brings together 15 people (and growing) from different design disciplines (graphic, interaction, set and exhibition design). They do commissions and commercial projects but also more art based ones, saying that they are interested in the mixture of “craft and high tec”. Featured above is their paper stage set for a performance of “The Nutcracker” as well as a sketch for the “Modern Thai Architecture Exhibition” that they designed. Featured below is Cheunpis Suwanbhanu – a graphic designer and Illustrator working for various clients. She also creates self-initiated projects in her distinct style that she distributes herself (such as her cow calendar for 2009 – the year of the cow).

(more…)