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frog Shanghai Move to 3.0

A month ago, a group of 40 frogs “migrated” from the Shanghai Lane House to an avant garde factory creative space in JingAn Temple District, the heart of Shanghai.  The new studio is 1650 square meters of gorgeousness with a 500 sqm rooftop and a Shanghai city view.

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中欧国际工商学院与青蛙设计联合举办2010“创意中国”国际MBA挑战赛 INNOVATEChina 2010 by CEIBS in Partnership with frog design

Singapore Nanyang Technoloical University, Nanyang Business School is the winner of the INNOVATEChina 2010 Preliminary Round Award for its biodiesel motorbike proposal. INNOVATEChina is a competition and platform created by CEIBS for top business minds to interact and create innovative solutions to business problems with a China focus. The insights and involvement in China’s emerging markets have made frog design a perfect innovation partner.

Business schools from all over the world were invited to hand in presentations about their innovative ideas for China after which the best 7 teams were selected for the Grand Final. Among the seven Finalists INNOVATEChina — together with frog design — awarded the most innovative idea on June 20, 2010 in the Belgian EU Pavillon at the Expo in Shanghai (Preliminary Round Award). frog strategy director in Shanghai office, Ravi Chhatpar, was invited to be the judge for this award.

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Design for the Disadvantaged

Last Saturday, for the launch event in Shanghai's Factory at 1933, frog sponsored Design for Disadvantaged (D4D). The event kicked off D4D's social responsibility program initiated by a group of social entrepreneurs and designers in the summer of 2009.