Majalah Idea Mei 2007 = Raul dg Javana Spa

It's an old project lah...back in 2003!!! tapi baru di publish sekarang...hebatnya team Javana Spa adalah perawatannya...jangankan yang di kemang ini, bahkan yang di Sukabumi masih kinclong, bravo! Juga thanks buat Yuri (idea) dan Ardi yang membantu pemuatan ini. Buat Wulung, thanks bro...

Chris Bangle on TED = Design/Love

40mb! tapi worth to see...

Design = Love !

Pininfarina! = Maserati GranTurismo is BACK

Memang banyak mobil-mobil dengan desain yang sangat bagus dan punya karakter, Porsche, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Ferrari....

Tapi entah kenapa Maserati GranTurismo terlihat "solid"...

In Love with...Shuffle...

Butuh waktu lama untuk mencintai hal-hal yang kecil...dari sekian kali gonta-ganti IPOD, ternyata Need and Want memang hal yang berbeda...I WANT BIG IPOD, with VIDEO, Superduper GIGA songs...actually, what I need is..shuffle. Simple, select the songs that I really love..and keep on playing..gak pusing.

Awalnya beliin buat Istri tersayang...that's why warnanya biru..her favorite...ehhh...lama2 cinta juga dengan...ehm, ipodnya, I take it back (bad husband...) - hey I give her a better one lah, buat gantinya..

Better! Richard St. John

Passion; Design, I do it for love...not money.

Work;theres no such thing as "working hour/day"

Focus; focus on design

Persist;keep on doing it, no matter what people say...

Ideas; you know it when you get it...

Good; practice, practice, practice

Push; tired? sleepy? shy? get over it

Serve; do it for the people...

Senayan Bintaro Video...

Here's the video of Senayan Bintaro House...(Under design development)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshvwMUtj4w

Flood February Fiesta (Fiasco)! What we've learn...

February 2002..
Still fresh in my mind the day I arrived from Singapore to Jakarta, hoping to set up my own business in my home town, and yet the Jakarta was flooding! I also remember how tricky I am to choose the flight in hoping that Cengkareng Airport in free from flood...

Ferbruary 2007..
Marked how many years I've been in this place, I still loving it no matter what..

What I remember today is the image I did when I was in New Zealand, exploring about modernized Indonesian Vernacular architecture. The closest thing to that approach is Bintaro House ( in the design process) , but also still far from the real concept, that we should go back what our ancestor did in designing the building, high above the ground, let the ground be part of the natural habitat, and we, human with our capability to adapt live above it...

Media : Raul di Majalah Dewi (leading women magazine)

Thanks buat support dari Ibu Roos Farienna, Foto2nya menarik, menampilkan sisi rumah ini yang justru saya enggak kepikiran sebelumnya.... majalah Dewi edisi Februari 2007

Passion!

Stole from Guy Kawasaki interview with D.Trump:
"Question: What’s the most important real-life advice you can give to an entrepreneur?

Answer: You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn’t passionate about what they’re doing. People who love what they’re doing don’t give up. It’s never even a consideration. It’s a pretty simple formula."

NEW IPOD! 2007 IPHONE...at Macworld!

This is it!!!...
Kapan ya ada di indonesia? he..he..

	available: shipping in June
	8GB model - $599
	4GB model - $499 di asia 2008

KEYNOTE STEVE JOBS

9:42 am 1984 - first mac
2001 first ipod
today - introducing 3 revolutionary products

9:42 am widescreen ipod
9:42 am mobile phone
9:42 am 3rd
internet communicator
9:43 am one device, not 3 separate
9:43 am they are calling it the iPhone
9:43 am 3g with rotary dial
9:47 am nobody wants a stylus
9:47 am use fingers - uses multitouch
9:52 am 3.5 inch screen - highest res screen ever shipped
9:53 am ring'silent corol and vol up and down
on the back 2mp camera

I-ARCH feature Raul's Butterfly and Tsunamis

I-ARCH or "Indonesia-architecture" magazine features Raul Renanda's year 1999 works of "butterfly and tsunamis". I gladly to see that the 'issue' are still relevant even it was designed 6 years ago. The concept was developed by me and Liang Lit How (now Director Experience Design Center, Singapore Polytechnic) as he read and share to me 'chaos theory'. Thanks to Budhy Papeo (Managing Editor I-arch) for inviting me in his publication.

There's one thing that surprised me is that the magazine also pay tribute to Mr.Robi Sularto which is (was) my mentor in Atelier 6 and actually the person who "discovered" me 12 years ago....

Design : Watchismo Times...

Enjoy!

Sad Day, James Kim found deceased

That's a real Man, a real Father, a real Husband...
Makes me think, does it nowadays a "computer guy" becoming our hero? how many people will attend (someday) Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus, Wozniak funeral? will it be another John Lennon?

Who's your hero?

Rumah Tinggal...Blog?

"Rumah Rumah"

I'm writing anything you need to know about designing and building a house...in Bahasa Indonesia, with pictures and explanation, I'm hoping it will be a great help when you planning to build your dream house or in the making one... ;-)

Personal : James Kim

James Kim is officially MISSING.

When I read this post on Boing-boing and several Tech TV lovers blog, it is hard not to feel connected. Me as also a Tech TV fan miss the show, now the 'story' of the missing James Kim, while on vacation with his family really makes me worry...He is a CNet Editor.

Korean Design? China Design?

From Top Gear...
"The other thing I noticed in Henley Waitrose was how much better the old CR-V looked. Even dirty and battered as they mostly were. The one thing that isn't middle ground about the new CR-V is its looks, and that rear glass area is the stuff of Korean design nightmares."

It well said, somebody has to say it. We're not talking about Samsung here, where we can consider as the only Korean product that "gets it". I don't know why is so hard to understand the beauty of some product, I'm sure that even at the executive in Ssangyong, Hyunday and KIA agrees that Porsche, Ferrari, Acura, Lexus, Jaguar and the list go on, as a nice looking car(s). While I believe there are millions of young designer around the world, why is so hard to create such a nice looking car for Korean (and worst, Chinese) brand? I don't think there is a technology gap here, it is the brain matters.

So, while designing your own product, or see your company logo, or just simply dress to kill, think that does it enough to be sitting next to the 'world class brand' , and don't be so hard like Apple and Sony, but if you can, why not?

Simply Amazing....Jak Jazz

I am not happy the Jak(arta) Jazz Festival show "quality", the artist and bands not as great as the 'ol Jak Jazz...I was hoping this is more "into the core" of the Jazz performance compared to the commercialized Java Jazz...but there are "masters" who help saving my day, Indra Lesmana (me as a fan-atic) Bubi Chen, Jeremy Monteiro and of course Luluk Purwanto....

Indra play to discontruct his own music, maybe this time he'd rather goes to free jazz...as the song titled Joy-Joy-Joy brings back my high school memory, he played as he "whatever he like" last night, I'm not happy at all...little structured should be better I think, than too free..for the kinda song. Sadly I have to give thumbs down. On the other hand...My love with Luluk and Renee is greater ever...the song "Aisha" with African touch makes me a happy man!

Nevertheless, my first love was Indra Lesmana, and as a "lover" I think I better give him a break. ;-)

Curve is back....

Lambo....
..and Ferrari...
















It's been a while I haven't blogged about design, why, because it is actually I can't find new design topic. Everything seems the same, and stand still, those "minimalist" and "modernist" approach seems too much. Until today.

Yes these two cars been a while since it's debut, but I found something "moving" on, as you can see, the Lamborghini (the grey one) still based in "edgy straight line" design, which is a softer approach of the minimalist design, as you also can see that somehow it looked like the Boeing design for the US jet fighter.

Now, the Ferrari (yes, the RED one), shown in the picture, also their lovely 599, give us a glimpse where the design will going to, "sharp curve" design is Back. BMW's bangle, also looking to this direction, but he was doing it too early, no wonder lot's of people hate it (well I don't) , they just do not ready for something new (yet).

So, my prediction is that this Ferrari will set a new design direction for the near future., we'll see.

From Seth G ..with comments from me...

1. The greatest innovations appear to come from those that are self-reliant. Individuals who go right to the edge and do something worth talking about. Not solo, of course, but as instigators of a team. In two words: don’t settle.

Raul = Change is the only constant, some people asking me why I'm doing many things at the same time...designer, architects, graphics, photography, singing, music composing, painting, designing furniture, writing a novel, and yes, movie script...while at the moment only design/architecture that takes off, the rest just waiting the right timing. Luck = Opportunity + Preparation. I am preparing.

2. The greatest marketers do two things: they treat customers with respect and they measure.

Raul = It is not only being a marketer, hence we are all marketers in some ways...but it is indeed being a good human being is helping you to be become a good marketers, yes there are people doing dirty and get result quickly. No, I am not sprinter, I am a marathoner.Watch out.

3. The greatest salespeople understand that people resist change and that ‘no’ is the single easiest way to do that.

Raul = we can't expect people to change unless it starts from ourselves. And while we try to change ourselves, then we do agree that it's not easy.

4. The greatest bloggers blog for their readers, not for themselves.

Raul = me, not "that" great, maybe because my half intent doing this blogging "also" to remind myself.

5. There really isn’t much a of ‘short run’. It quickly becomes yesterday. The long run, on the other hand, sticks around for quite a while.

Raul = Back to the sprint vs marathon in point no.2

6. The internet doesn’t forget. And sooner or later, the internet finds out.

Raul = which brings you to right question, does internet remember the bad part or the good part? google "raul renanda" now, and finds it by yourself.

7. Everyone is a marketer, even people and organizations that don’t market. They’re just marketers who are doing it poorly.

Raul = Practice makes perfect. Doing it 'poorly' still better than not doing it at all, make mistake now! and learn from it, quickly, and doing it again..

8. Amazing organizations and people receive rewards that more than make up for the effort required to be that good.

Raul = just focus on beat your self. we are racing with ourselves. then the reward will come.

9. There is no number 9.

Raul = but it's written anyway. Not all that we read is necessary, to read.

10. Mass taste is rarely good taste.

Raul = don't tell me this. I KNOW IT.that's why you better to hire me, NOW. ;-)

It's good to know that I am wrong....

www.renanda.com has been online almost a year, and I also planning to revamp it next month for 2007.

It is still not consider as a perfect website, but at least it does the job, delivering my works to the world. Anyway, no one complaining about my website and I thought I works well, until....last night. It so amazing that while I chat whit two my best friend via online messenger, none of them, know what to do with the "menu" button.

If they don't know what to with it (that simply just clicked it and the menu expands to sub menu i.e. "gallery, contact, etc.) how can they access my gallery? and If those two which I believe pretty savvy with computer don't know what to do, how about the 'rest of the world'? surely there still many of the people visit the website know what to do, but then again, the purpose of the website is to show to ALL the visitor right? I rush to the website, and change the menu into the "traditional" one. The one that I believe "get the job done".

So now, I really, truly understand the words "bottom line design" means. So sorry. Again, how we can improve ourselves if no body tells us what's wrong with us? be open mind, and let people criticizing you, the people who tell you what's wrong with you, is your best friend....