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Student Award

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Worldwide Happenings

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Design Talents

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Bursting with ambition

HKDI alumni making a name for themselves

Every year, the Hong Kong Design Institute produces thousands of graduates across the many faculties it operates, including the Departments of Fashion and Image Design (FID), of Architecture, Interior & Product Design (AIP), and of Communication Design & Digital Media (CDM), to name a few. Among these outstanding design talents, a handful are already creating a name for themselves in the industry through competitions and awards. We asked some recent HKDI graduates what their long-term objectives are as designers. This is what they told us.

Denim Festival

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Celebrating nearly 150 years of denim culture

Case Study

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Co-ordinated communication path to Patchwork's success

Case Study

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Kudos for human touch of Kudoz

Feature Article

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Providing real-world services that actually work

Master Thinkers - Consultancy X Design - Iva Sladic Keco

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Master Thinkers - Architecture X Design - Aaron Tan

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Master Thinkers - Tech X Design - Bernard Suen

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Feature Article

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Governments opting for practice over theory

Studio Showcase - Layer

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Founded by award-winning British design entrepreneur Benjamin Hubert, Layer is a close­knit team of industrial and digital designers, engineers, artists, researchers and branding specialists from around the world. They create products that they hope will help define the way we live, work, travel and communicate in the future, from smart wearables and furniture systems to the next generation of Al and communication tools.

Situated in the heart of East London, Layer aims to "transform human-centred insights into evocative design stories that resonate with people and their lifestyles". The firm has received three Highly Commended accolades at the Fast Company's annual …

Studio Showcase - Way Studio

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Way Studio is an innovative architecture and design studio with a focus on coalescing architecture with art and technology. It has focused on discovering new possibilities through cross-disciplinary collaborations. Its scope of work covers urban planning, cultural projects such as galleries, museums and opera houses, mixed-use buildings, architectural renovations, residential projects, exhibitions and installation designs. Its collaboration with other disciplines "results in an adaptive, flexible approach and methodology in our work".

The studio has done a lot of inter-disciplinary work alongside artists, designers, consultants, engineers and others, always with a focus on finding new ways of doing things. It says …

Studio Showcase - Oppenheim Architecture

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Oppenheim Architecture is an award-winning architecture, planning and interior-design firm specialising in hospitality, commercial mixed-use, retail and residential buildings worldwide. It has received many honours, including some 45 AIA Awards and the 2018 National Design Award for Interior Design by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. The firm's work is built on "both a physical and spiritual contextual sensitivity, supported by evocative and economic design solutions that all serve to enhance life".

The company's buildings are "crafted to establish the perfect balance between artistry and economics - timeless architecture that is as beautiful as it is functional". With projects spanning …

Studio Showcase - Perceptual Thinkers

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Perceptual Thinkers draws inspiration from the behaviour and clothing preferences of people living with autism. Its clothing lines aim to give an insight into this specialist perception by using stimulating fabrics and playful design patterns to experience clothing as a sensorial phenomenon.

It believes that the clothes are a means of communication - that the way we dress is the way we interact with other people. And that clothes are capable of serving many different needs, either completely ordinary or special ones.

Because they follow the ethos of design for all, these clothes are as suitable for neurotypical people as …

Feature Article

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Muddied oafs or deep Design Thinkers?

Hkdi Happenings

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Table Of Contents

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Editor's Note

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Cover

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Issue Twenty One Full Text

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Back Cover

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Worldwide Happenings

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Margaret Morton - Fragile Dwelling

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Inspiring portraits of human resilience and ingenuity

Hkdi Alumni - The Spirit Of Esprit

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Hong Kong- and Germany-based fashion brand Esprit was actually founded in 1968 in San Francisco with the aim of bringing a “sunny Californian attitude” to its wares, now sold in 40 countries via 761 directly managed retail stores and some 6,332 wholesale points of sale.

Its Esprit Cares Trust, set up in 1993, provides financial support and charitable donations to various communities and includes an annual exchange scholarship for HKDI design students to participate in full-semester or short study trips to renowned design schools in Europe.

Three such award-winners were sent to Germany recently and here we report on how …

Feature Article

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Design Thinking is about finding out what works in the real world

Master Thinkers - Food X Design - Professor Michael Krohn

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Professor Michael Krohn has a background in mechanical engineering and industrial design. As well as his positions at the Zurich University of the Arts, he runs his own design agency. In the early ’90s he established the use of computer and media for the design education at Zurich, followed by several cross-disciplinary research projects with the food industry. After that, he led the industrial design programme for 12 years. He then developed the interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Design programme. He is also responsible for internationalising the Design Department. He was a member of the Cumulus executive board from 2004-2010. …

Master Thinkers - Enterprise X Design - Elaine Ann

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Elaine Ann is the Founder and Director of Kaizor Innovation, a strategic innovation consultancy that helps companies strategise, research and define innovative products and services for the China market. Born and raised in Hong Kong and having lived in the US for 12 years, her bilingual, bi-cultural and international background helps companies understand and strategise initiatives for the China market.

She is a veteran of the early dot-com era in the mid ’90s, having worked for companies including Razorfish, Philips Design and Henry Dreyfuss. Ms. Ann also trains executives and students alike, being the UX Instructor at Google’s Empowering Young …

Master Thinkers - Health X Design - Professor Ian Gwilt

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Ian Gwilt is Professor of Design at the University of South Australia and leads the Design Research in Health and Wellbeing initiative at the School of Art, Architecture and Design. He is interested in design for communication and knowledge mobilisation, as well as being an advocate of user-centred, participatory co-design methodologies.

For seven years, Prof. Gwilt was a key member of the Lab4Living Design Research in Healthcare Group at Sheffield Hallam University, and a founding member of the Design4Health international conference stream. He has worked on a number of research projects with healthcare providers both in the UK and Australia. …

Feature Article

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Why Enterprise Architecture Needs Design Thinking