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World Happiness Report 2023 and good design
The latest World Happiness Report gives the Scandinavian countries the top ratings. Finland first place and then Denmark, Iceland, Norway...
Frederick Rickmann


The new ChatGPT is my latest intern
ChatGPT is a new kind of digital text generator that is supposed to create text and information. It has been making quite a stir in...
Frederick Rickmann


Bring back the street!
We are constantly campaigning to bring back the "street" as an element of urban design. Cities and towns in times past have arranged...
Frederick Rickmann


Not an exceptional street
There is nothing exceptional about the architecture, yet there is something about the soul of this street in Nuremberg that is just...
70MEDiA


Street Signs from East Berlin
When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...
Frederick Rickmann


Corona and the new shape of cities
Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...
Frederick Rickmann


Corona and the Climate
Through the thick fog of today's politics and the blurry picture of fake and real news there is a golden thread emerging. You could...
Frederick Rickmann


After the pandemic
In the aftermath of the global virus, the old "normal" just does not exist anymore. So we cannot simply "go back to normal". The streets...
Frederick Rickmann


Colour in Washington DC
Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...
Frederick Rickmann


Lille in France is Blessed with Streets on a Human Scale
Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...
Frederick Rickmann


STREET ART AT A CROSSROAD
Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify...
Frederick Rickmann


設計是改善人類社會、促進自由平等的重要推手 Design is the Bridge That Connects Liberty and Equality
經常有人問我:「設計」是什麼? 簡單的回答:「設計」就是溝通。 這麼說吧:市面上銷售的商品是怎麼樣被製造出來的呢? 假設有一個人想要創業賣一件商品,他找了個工業設計師來並把這個點子告訴他,這時工業設計師聆聽客戶(創業家)的需求後,以其專業的設計思維結合大量生產的工程概念、充...
Judy Huang
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