Published on 07/09/2013
Thaksin’s visit to Italy The reporter reported that on 6 Sept, Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister, has published a post on the wall of his facebook regarding his visit to Italy. “Today I came back to Dubai. I will tell you why I went to Italy. I went to a meeting with the team that I’ve hired with lots of money. I want to find the way to bring out the potential of Thai people to produce products to the world market with high quality and good design. Finally, how can we establish world class brand names like those of Italy and France? Head of the team is Peter Arnell who is co product designer of the new Samsang including Re-design for McDonald’s. He also does the market for DKNY and Giorgio Armani. There are many people in his team. One of them is the one that Jack Weich, the former president of GE, sent to China 20 years ago. In that time china is not yet ‘boom’ like nowadays. He has always seen China grows by leaps and bounds. Another is an architecture who has built headquarter for a famous coffee shop, Lavazza. It has numerous shops all over the world. Other is Project Director of IBM Thinkpad. Together with Peter, they invented Creativity Program for employees of Samsung.” Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra said. He also added that “Another interesting person is the designer of Ferrari cars and Eurostar new trains that will be released very soon. It is a very good team. He has a friend that might join the team in the future. He is Frank Gehry, the world number one architecture whose competitor is Norman Foster. Frank is designing headquarter for Zuckerburg or headquarter of Facebook. For Norman he is designing headquarter for Apple.” On 14 October 2013 Frank will come to Voice TV at Voice Space to talk about his world class designs. He will talk with Professor Pansak Vinyarat, Policy Advisor President of the government, and Peter Arnell. Frank has designed a very famous museum in Bilbao, Spain. Many people went to visit it. The city was completely changed from a city filled with rubbishes, drugs and criminals to tourist attraction. Now he is designing a museum in Abu Dhabi which its construction is almost finished. He might come to work with the final project of his life for Thailand because he is already 85 years old.
“In conclusion, I’ve hired this team to help Thailand because it will be more difficult to do the business like we are doing now in the future. We have to prepare ourselves, especially, SMEs and OTOP. Thai children that will be the future of our country will also have to prepare themselves to Creative Economy. From the meeting, we found out that if we produce whatever according to the world standard both in term of quality and design, our product will surely be sold out. Now we are also thinking about Thai cuisine to world cuisine including of the safety of our products in every producing steps. We are calling it ‘From farm to Table.’ The team has talked to every kind of accreditation and standard bureau all over the world. This could help standardize our product and augment its price also.” said Mr.Thaksin.