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Designs For The Future
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
SIGNED magazine catches up with the five winners to discuss their inspiration behind their entries.
Home Ex Data, The Natural Of The Artificial
Home Ex Data, The Natural Of The Artificial
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Technology has become second nature to humankind. The Homo Ex Data exhibition at HKDI Gallery explored how we can no longer survive without it
Different Paths
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
HKDI Alumi Gary Lee and Chak Yun Hei have both been quick to carve out promising careers in design, but each has had to discover their own path to success
Game Changers, Leece Sharon
Game Changers, Leece Sharon
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
What does it take for an innovative design to become an influential one? We take a look at how and why some designs have the power to shape culture and reality and, in so doing, become defining points of our time.
Design Technology
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
These days, everyone can design, even on their mobile phones, thanks to innovative apps that allow consumers to use handy tools, broadcast their opinions and, more importantly, make purchases online. These technological advances may be assisting all design thinkers but are they changing the design landscape too radically at the same time? What does the future hold in the global design industry and is the new landscape a win, a loss or an own goal for designers?
Panoramic View
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Konstantin Grcic's exhibition Panorama is an innovative exploration of different lifestyle modalities and schools of thought
Change Agents
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Two recent visitors to HKDI helped students understand how design and a sustainable lifestyle can be good partners but as Summer Cao reports designers have to inspire consumers to adopt better habits before long term improvements in the environment will be possible.
Play By Play
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Hong Kong's toy industry has had a dominant role on the global stage in the past but after a recent exhibition that showcased some of its halcyon days one of the city's biggest manufacturers of playthings says it's time for the region to win back its place in the world's toy box.
Play Time
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Although Hong Kong was once the centre of the world's toy manufacturing industry, the city does not have a museum honouring these icons of childhood. But that will soon change, writes Daisy Zhong.
Designed To Last
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Issues of creativity and sustainability have usually been separated since the industrial revolution in the West over two hundred years ago. While most designers have thought about how to sell their products, rather than how to save the earth, an increasing number have begun to argue that this separation is untenable. The HKDI's Yan Yan Lam is one of them. As she explains to Daniel Jeffreys, a sustainable future for the planet is something that will only happen by disign.
Our Future Selves
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
In 2009, Dr. Yanki Lee initiated a series of projects to challenge the concept of ageing as a problem to be solved, choosing instead to cast the ageing process as unique experience for each individual and a culture from which design lessons can be drawn. Her research is leading to a series of innovative design projects that will benefit all segments of the community.
A World That Works For Every One
A World That Works For Every One
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
In 1979, twenty-six year old Patricia Moore disguised herself as a woman in her 80s and travelled to 116 cities throughout North America, to discover if urban design met the needs of the elderly. Dressed in her grandmother's clothes, she developed a unique form of immersion research that revitalised the role of architecture and design in our daily lives. Now she is working with the HKDI to develop solutions that work for all age groups. Here she lays out here passionate vision for the future of design.
Meals On Wheels
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
All around the world, food trucks are revolutionising the dining industry as well as becoming design attractions in their own right. We explore the phenomenon, as well as the entrepreneurs and designers who are redefining the term "moveable feast'.
In The Living Room
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Salone del Mobile is the biggest event in Italy's furniture design calendar -- and now the world. We explore the great innovations from this April's packed-out fair in Milan and look forward to its exciting Shanghai debut.
Interior Intelligence
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
In celebration of World Interiors Day, HKDI held a series of seminars with prominent interior designers and a workshop to promote this year's theme of intelligence.
In The Frame
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
A sneak peak at what's to come at the HKDI this autumn.
Breaking The Sound Barrier
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Known for his curves and natural shapes, emminent product designer Ross Lovegrove has returned to the audio world to create the best sounding wireless speaker.
Driving Change
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Chelsia Lau is the chief designer for Ford in Shanghai and is behind some of its biggest projects. We speak to the Hongkonger about the changes in automotive design.
The Crafting Of Design Minds
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
The cache of graduate projects from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne on display at HKDI reveals a wide-eyed curiosity that is characteristic of the renowned Swiss school's energetic approach to design education.
Mothers Of Invention
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
To explore the beauty of an object is to engage with the genius behind its creation and as Rik Glauert reports, the exhibition "Every Product Tells a Story" at HKDI is a window into the elusive mind of the designer.
Capability Town
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Patricia Moore is one of the world's most accomplished industrial designers. As Summer Cao reports, the American polymath uses socially conscious creativity to improve the lives of those who might otherwise be neglected.
Perpetual Emotion
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Charles Kaisin is a designer who wears his heart and intellect on both sleeves, embracing the world with passionate enthusiasm and challenging ideas. His role as the co-curator of the Dress Code and Design in Motion exhibitions that will be at HKDI through the spring proves that one man can be in several places at once, so long as he has enough imagination.
Drive Time
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
The Vocational Training Council, HKDI's parent body, has recently formed an alumni association that includes Chelsia Lau, a graduate of Lee Wai Lee Technical Institute who has become one of the world's most accomplished automotive designers. She talked to Summer Cao about her twenty years with the Ford Motor Company.
Let The Chair Speak
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Boris Berlin co-founded Komplot Design in 1987 with Poul Christiansen and in 2010 he joined with Aleksej Iskos to launch Iskos-Berlin Design. Together the two companies have focused on creating inspirational works that act as an antidote to the excessive noise of modern culture, expressing a "philosophy of silence" that Berlin explained to Summer Cao.
Thought Process
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
The HKDI's Department of Product & Interior Design operates on the belief that great designs only become fabulous products if they have good working principles behind them. As programme leader Bill Chan reveals to Summer Cao this approach helps create sustainable careers and a healthier design environment.