Charles Fenoughty has just returned from China representing Clear Focus at the Dragon Design Festival in Dalian. We were invited by The Guanghua Foundation as part of a UK delegation put together by Dr Zhen Ye of the University of Hertfordshire and Xiamen University.
The Dragon Design Festival was part of the Chinocs 2008 programme of events and was a large trade show ranging across all design disciplines.
Speaking at a major roundtable discussion on design in China – a meeting which brought together several heads of industry, including Xio Yong
the designer of the Olympic medal for 2008 – Charles put forward to opinion that design in China and the UK aren’t as different as so many people say. Highlighting the cyclical nature of influence and dispelling the myth that we are more developed in the UK for design, after all China had printing 1000 years before us. For both countries there’s as much inspiration looking backwards as there is forwards.
Many interesting meetings were had in Dalian and as a result we’ll be looking to do more in China, so watch this space.
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