TCDC showcases over 150 jaw-dropping ideas for sale at ‘Ploy Saeng Festival 4: Supermarket of Ideas’
Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) reopens the mall of design initiatives to continue grafting the success of Thailand’s creative economy via Bangkok’s most popular and critically acclaimed event of the year - ‘Ploy Saeng Festival 4: Supermarket of Ideas’. This ad-hoc idea-liberating supermarket unveils more than 150 exciting signature items of merchandise crafted by young designers and new entrepreneurs nationwide. It serves as a real-life market arena and an alternative way to tap future entrepreneurial potential for local pioneer thinkers.
Mr. Kittiratana Pitipanich, Design Advisory Director of TCDC, said: “Following the government’s policy on boosting the nation’s competitiveness through development towards creative economy, TCDC, as a governmental unit aiming to promote and foster a living knowledge-base for design, has launched a key event called “Ploy Saeng Festival” under the project “Creative Thailand”. TCDC hopes very much that the “Ploy Saeng Festival” will provide solid ground for knowledge and competency in the field of design whilst enhancing the concrete development of local creativity. Furthermore, the Festival will encourage the application of creativity to streamline the efficiency and productivity of any practical ideas as well as trigger the differentiating advantage for signature product development in order to reach greater business potential.”
The 4th episode of “Ploy Saeng Festival: Create/Make/Earn” - Supermarket of Ideas will undoubtedly mark a significant step in liberating creative minds whilst paving the way towards real entrepreneurship for designers and entrepreneurs
alike to capture public attention with their breakthrough concepts and stunning merchandise. It also widens the opportunity for a business cooperation network and an exchange of views of design initiatives. Selected from countless applications and portfolio of original design submitted to
www.tcdc.co.th/ploy-saeng, around 150 outstanding products with new signatures will make their debut at Ploy Saeng Space. Visitors can enjoy a shopping spree at Ploy Saeng Market where creative goods are on sale.
“The activities are divided into 2 sections: Ploy Saeng 4 Stage: From Idea to Profit - an open space for exhibiting up to 150 ideas from various fields that can be turned into profit. For instance, super comfy shoes made out of pig skin leather, upbeat mobile phone applications, the avant-garde packaging design of Thai traditional desserts, Braille-inspired costume accessories plus innovative furniture design that fits any decoration need seamlessly and many more. Meanwhile, Ploy-Saeng 4 Market: The Creative Shopping Universe offers a phenomenal shopping spree opportunity for visitors to browse through a myriad of creative goodies from manufacturers at reasonable prices, ranging from general goods, gift shop items, home furnishing items, bags, clothes, to technological products, and etc,” the Director of TCDC concluded.
Come and wow yourself at Ploy Saeng Festival 4: Create/Make/Earn – Supermarket of Ideas, Bangkok’s latest creative shopping destination where fresh, unexpected ideas from pioneer thinkers, designers and entrepreneurs nationwide across all fields are up for sale. See it for yourself at Ploy Saeng 4 Stage during Wednesday 9 – Sunday 27 September, 2009, 10:30 – 21:00 hr, and Ploy-Saeng 4 Market from Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 September, 2009, 13:00 – 21:00 hr, at Gallery 2, TCDC, 6th Floor, The Emporium Shopping Complex.
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