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Journal #2, Trisha Fontan

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Voice, Lauro Vazquez

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Letters From Bootcamp, Lauro Vazquez

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Untitled, Lauro Vazquez

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The Secret Redux, Anonymous Author

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Remembering Mom, Joan Baranow

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Worst Date Ever!, Lauren Rigor

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P-10 Painting Horizons, Kari Friestad

Celebration of Research and Creative Scholarship

My current work investigates the limitations of paint and mark-making that carries the potential to be read as various aspects in various types of oil painting, such as the particular tenants of landscape painting that evoke surface or atmosphere. These material explorations look at how the various types of marks and texture indicate recognizable forms or space that can be attributed to various qualities of the textures of nature, such as the surface of water or the fog of a hazy morning. Simplification allows stroke, texture, and value, or the inherent nature of the paint, to be isolated and thus …

Impact16 Transdisciplinary Symposium, Pact Zollverein, Essen Germany, Conor Mcgarrigle

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IMPACT16 is an encounter with HOOD, RYBN.ORG und FORMATIONS, three expert collectives whose diversified forms of cooperation and flexible working practices transcend disciplinary boundaries.

How and where do alternative realities come about both in and between different fields of knowledge? How can we productively uncover contradictory ›rift zones‹ in today’s world? What kind of frameworks for action can we cultivate?

Informed by multiple perspectives and practices in the arts, politics, technology, sociology, economics and science, the contributing collectives’ inquiries and strategies circumvent disciplinary limits and constraints and open up new spaces for thought and action.

The transdisciplinary symposium offers 30 …

Weekly Art Invasions, Kim Bernard

Artist in Residence: Kim Bernard

Description and images from Kim Bernard's weekly, student-produced art projects during her time as the fall 2016 University of New England Artist in Residence. Kim invited all interested students to meet on Wednesdays to complete an art "challenge" which changed weekly and resulted in an artwork crafted by the students and visible to the UNE community.

Turning Thirty

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The Hong Kong Design Institute played host to the kick-off ceremony for the Vocational Training Council's 30th Anniversary on February 29th 2012…

Change Agents

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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.

Matrix Of Delights

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Using skills from the 21st century scholars are putting digital techniques to work in an effort to preserve the endangered artefacts of China's Dunhuang region, where the Mogao caverns represent one of the world's most important repositories of ancient art. As Daisy Zhong reports, part of their solution has been to digitally recreate the caves in Hong Kong.

Fit To Be Tied

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In conjunction with the 8th International Shibori Symposium, HKDI presented The Animal Fiber: Art Informs Shibori from 13 December 2011 to 14 January 2012, revealing how an ancient technique has grown into an art form revered by couturiers and a medium of experimentation loved by children of all ages.

Colour Code

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In November and December this year, HKDI will collaborate with The Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia) -- one of Asia's most extensive creative networks -- to host an exhibition entitled "Colours of Asia".

Master Strokes

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A new exhibition at HKDI will reveal how one of China's most famous contemporary artists created a unique synthesis between East and West

Daily Sketch

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Dereck Marks is an artist who draws his inspiration from the people around him. After spending three months at the HKDI as a visiting fellow he tells Daniel Jeffreys that Hong Kong is the perfect place to find subjects for his work.

Tailor Made

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Aesthetics and practicality make fine dancing partners at the HKDI's Department of Fashion and Image Design, where Liz McLafferty encourages students to explore the boundaries between the inperatives of art and the needs of society.

Shining Stars

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Hong Kong has become one of the most important jewellery markets in the world and the region's success has attracted top-designers. Summer Cao met three of the industry's most charismatic talents to learn what direction it will take next and what role the HKDI can play in maintaining the city's reputation for creativity.

Just…Do It

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Fourteen years after Hong Kong was promised a purpose-built cultural district the site of the project in West Kowloon remains a blank canvass but the new Chief Executive, Michael Lynch, has promised to break through the inertia and make the dream a reality.

Play By Play

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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.

Contents

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Editor's Letter

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Transform

Cover

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Signed Issue 2 (2012) Full Issue

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Play Time

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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

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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

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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.

Jean Genie

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Koyo William is now an internationally recognised fashion designer with his own label, but his story began at the HKDI, where he first understood the power of creativity and jeans that fit in all the right places.

A World That Works For Every One

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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.