Ever wonder how some of your friends have created gorgeous Facebook Timeline cover images? You probably need some design skills to create a really good one. But Timelinecoverbanner.com, an Indonesian based startup has a solution for that. At Timelinecoverbanner, you can find plenty of usable cover images ready to be uploaded to your profile page. The cool thing is, it also allows you to add in text, lines, and brushworks. For users who are picky, there is an option to upload your own background and use Timelinecoverbanner’s tool to customize your ...
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Feb 3 2012
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Mocku.ps, a Slick Tool for Designers
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here. Mocku.ps is a Singapore-based startup that aims to make the lives of designers and their clients easier by streamlining the process of sharing designs. Aen Tan (Mocku.ps founder and a career designer) took the stage this afternoon to pitch his startup to the panel of judges. Traditionally, a designer would simply email a design image to a client; however, Aen ...
Jan 19 2012
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Concept Lifebook Laptop Unifies All Your Gadgets
When Asus announced its Padphone last year, it turned more than a few heads with its phone-inside-a-tablet design. Say what you will about the appearance, but the idea of shared hardware is a clever notion. India-based industrial designer Prashant Chandra appears to have one-upped Asus designers with his concept Lifebook laptop, which has three sub-devices – a camera, a phone, and a tablet – all built in. What’s clever here is the placement of those gadgets. The tablet, which would have a virtual keyboard, would take the position of where ...
Dec 15 2011
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Video Games on Train Handles? Yes Please!
Here’s a great design concept from Chinese designer Jiang Qian, who has a vision to gamify the straps that passengers grip while standing on trains. His idea for a Game Strap is a pretty creative one, and we hope that one day it becomes a reality. The design would include a display is powered by the grip of your hand, and when you let go the game is over. It would also alert you via the display and a vibration when you’re arriving at a station, so that you don’t get ...
Dec 7 2011
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An Interview With The Founder of Hongkiat.com
If you’re into design, art, and/or tech, you’ve likely drawn inspiration from Hongkiat.com before. Hongkiat is a design-focused weblog based in Malaysia and is founded by non-other than Lim Hong Kiat himself. The blog is ranked highly on Alexa (above 1,800) with a Google Pagerank of five. Hong Kiat also revealed that his blog generates a whopping 6 million page views per month and is profitable just by selling ad spaces. I find his story interesting and thought it would be great to contact him to find out more about his background ...
Nov 23 2011
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Sribu.com: Crowdsourced Designs for Just About Anything
Sribu.com was founded back in June by Ryan Gondokusumo and has quickly become one of the hottest startups around in Indonesia. It crowdsources designs almost for anything you can think of, from logos to t-shirt designs, brochures to calendars. We talked to its founder to learn more about Sribu. 1. What is Sribu.com? How does it differ from a service like 99designs.com? Sribu.com is a crowdsourced design website between customers and the creative community. Crowd-sourcing is a concept of using a community of people to accomplish tasks traditionally performed by an employer or ...
Nov 2 2011
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Unitedstyles Can Make You a Fashion Designer, Put You in Business
The unique fashion e-commerce site Unitedstyles might not have won the TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing 'Start-up Battlefield' prize yesterday, but I found its fashion design and manufacturing service the most visually impressive and captivating of the six finalists (see who won here). And so I felt it’s worth an overview. As a bonus, it’s based in Shanghai, despite having overseas (Dutch) founders. What makes Unitedstyles spectacular is that it allows users to design the entire outfit, preview it with 3D online modeling, share your designs socially, and then finally order the production ...
Jan 11 2012
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Tokyo-based AQ Wants to Help Start-ups Design Better
Today Tokyo-based design house AQ announced the launch of a new user-experience design program to cater to start-ups who need help in that area. The program is called AQ Lift, and in order to find out a little more about it I sent a few questions to AQ co-founder Chris Palmieri. How did the idea for AQ Lift come about? AQ Lift emerged from a number of observations and needs from within AQ and within the web startup community. In Tokyo, we've noticed the beginnings of a new wave of web businesses ...
Sep 29 2011
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In Pictures: Evidence Samsung Stole From Apple?
As the Samsung vs Apple legal battle over design infringement continues, we just stumbled across a pretty crazy graphic over on Reddit. It outlines a number of striking similarities that Samsung products (specifically the Galaxy lineup) have with Apple devices. But if Samsung has indeed copied/borrowed its designs from Apple, it certainly looks as though that was a good idea. The company’s expected year-on-year smartphone growth for 2010 to 2011 is about 190 percent. We noted earlier this week that Huawei’s new Honor smartphone bears a pretty striking resemblance to Apple’s iPhone ...
Sep 26 2011
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200,000 Users Strong, Cacoo Launches a Stencil Store
When we last spoke to Japan’s Cacoo, a web-based diagram and mind-map creator, in March earlier this year, they told us that they would soon be launching a Cacoo Stencil Store. And now they finally have. Apart from its default templates, Cacoo’s stencil store will provide users with more design options — including Android icons, flowcharts, and brain-storming templates. These templates and stencils are designed and uploaded by its users. Massanori Hashimoto, the co-founder of Cacoo, explains that users are demanding all sorts of designing stencils and templates from his team. So, ...
Aug 19 2011
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Wowsai.com, Packed Full of Handicrafts, is China’s Etsy
China has a clone of the iconic American arts and crafts sales site Etsy - it’s Wowsai.com. With a similarly eclectic mix of handmade crafts, Wowsai is a small fish up against the blue whale that is Taobao. But of course, Wowsai has a whole different ethos to most e-commerce platforms. It’s about handicrafts, original design, and environmental mindedness. This start-up’s founder is Zhao Jing-wen (pictured below), who admits to having studied Etsy’s progress since the seminal ‘maker’ site first set up shop in 2005. In a profile and interview on Techweb, ...
Aug 15 2011
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HappyFox is a Gorgeously-Designed Customer Support Web App
Every journalist and blogger loves to receive a confident pitch. I got one today from Shalin Jain, the founder of Tenmiles, an India-based company which builds web apps for enterprise purposes. But the pitch wasn’t about Tenmiles. Rather, it was about HappyFox, a customer support web app that has just been launched. Well, it might sound kinda stupid because there are so many similar services out there - Zendesk, Freskdesk, eSupport. But in his email, Jain said, “We don’t mean to sound clichéd, but it’s hard to be modest with something ...
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Feb 8, 2012
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