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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

Artist Interview - Tsaruk & Ahmadova

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Belarusian designers Igor Tsaruk and Marina Ahmadova are not married, not a couple in love, not relatives, but they have been working together for more than five years. They have similar views on beauty and design in the broad sense and complement each other as professionals, which they think gives them an advantage over other designers.

They commented: “We are both architects and we were classmates at university. During the last year of our study we created our own project, ‘Fajno Design’, which specialised in industrial and interior-design work. In the summer of 2017, ‘Fajno’ started producing items we had …

Artist Interview - Studio Harm Rensink

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Harm Rensink is a Dutch designer who believes in making more human design by the use of empathy, context and aesthetics. After graduating in 2008 from the Design Academy Eindhoven, he founded Studio Harm Rensink, working on different projects for The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Dutch Council for Culture, Messe Frankfurt, Philips Design and the Swedish National Museum among others.

With his studio, Rensink designs spatial experiences: rooms and installations for exhibitions and interiors, and projects around relaxation and wellness. Core elements the studio focuses on are to create tactile surroundings and to awaken all the senses: sight, touch, …

Artist Interview - Sandrine Dulermo & Michael Labica

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Sandrine Dulermo and Michael Labica sparked off their creative collaboration at a photo lab in 2001 — and they haven’t looked back since. Dulermo, aged only 13 and with photography “running through her veins”, used to skip school to shoot her little brothers with her Zenit camera. At 18, her first perfume campaign was followed by her first solo exhibition. Labica, a former student at Louis-Lumière in Paris, was first enticed by cinema, later becoming entrenched as a creative in numerous advertising agencies.

The duo favours the “phantasm”, which a camera can summon under full light or shadows. For more …

Artist Interview - Lochner | Carmichael

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Lochner|Carmichael are Jillian Lochner, who has worked as a commercial photographer for many years in fashion and on brand campaigns, and Andrew Carmichael, who arrived in commercial photography via a fine-art route. Lochner’s past clients include the likes of Absolut vodka, American Express, Levi’s and the New York Times Magazine; Carmichael has shown art at the ICA in London and in Vienna and Madrid. They started to work together creating still-life photography in 2014 and their collaborations have been featured in Italian Vogue, Sunday Telegraph Luxury, Amica and Creative Review.

Their work together is a genuine collaboration: each has their …

Artist Interview - Chic & Artistic

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Corinne Black and Axel d’Harcourt call themselves Chic & Artistic, Paris-based creatives and directors, who conceive, direct and produce ideas for brands and artists.

They say that they “love to express our creativity across a large range of media, including commercials, digital content, music videos, motion graphics, opening credits, graphic design, visual identity and juggling. We are able to take on the whole creative process, from concept to direction, design, production and finishing, with our own creative production studio.”

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How Design Thinking made Tim a champion

Tim Yip

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Blue - Art, Costumes and Memory

Crouching designer, hidden cultural identity

Bouroullec Brothers

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Urban Daydreaming

Radical new slant on cityscapes from French design duo

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 Full Text

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The Complicated Family Reunion, Cameron Chabot

Bryant University Undergraduate Journal

Plastic has a complicated beginning and an even more complicated future. It is made from substances call polymers and while some can be made from plant cellulose, many now are synthetic polymers made up of petroleum and other fossil fuels. Most fossil fuels are formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, so it is quite disturbing that they are being used for plastics that get thrown away after one use. This story follows a six pack of bottles (The Cola Family) and their different journeys around the world after being discarded.

Back Cover

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Student Award

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HKT Smart Living Awards 2018

"Mirror" Sweeps Gold Prize in Student Category

Worldwide Happenings

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Hkdi X Zhdk: Flights Of Fancy

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Interactive and Playful: Swiss Design from Zurich University of the Arts

Swiss Roll Out Interactive Flights of Fancy

Hkdi X Uap: Imaging Poland

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Celebrating Half-A-Century of Polish Poster Art

Hkdi X Ive Lwl: Emerging Design Talents 2018

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Young Designers Push the Envelope in Exciting Extravaganza.

This year’s Emerging Design Talents, the annual graduation event organised by the Hong Kong Design Institute and IVE (Lee Wai Lee), was a huge success. The 11-day extravaganza was nothing less than spectacular — an all-in-one smorgasbord of exhibitions, catwalk shows including “New Fashion Force” and “Starry Night”, live music performances including “Music In Motion”, product showcases and film premieres including Dai Lung Fung. The main exhibition, titled “Change”, featured selected works of graduates from a host of design disciplines, including: Visual Arts and Culture, Advertising, Creative Media, Digital Music & Media, …

Artist Interview - Riccardo Sabatini

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Riccardo Sabatini is a graphic designer and visual artist from Italy. His production ranges from graphics and typography to abstract visuals that he has recently started to put on walls. He has participated in international exhibitions including the likes of Playmobil Art and the Beijing Design Week in 2015, and the 36 Days Of Type showcase in Barcelona. His style features the use of acid colours and geometric forms, alongside bold typographic choices, and copy with a certain sense of humour. He has recently won two prizes at the 2018 edition of Communications Arts magazine in the typography category.

Artist Interview - Mark Richardson

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Superfried is the studio alias of self-taught British designer Mark Richardson. Originally founded in a London bedroom in 2007, Superfried is now based in the centre of Manchester. Specialising in brand identity and experimental typography, Richardson designs bespoke print and digital solutions across all sectors. His clients are equally varied in both scale and location, from start-ups in Russia to global brands in New York, LA, London and Cape Town. When required to do so, he collaborates with trusted specialists to ensure that client expectations, analogue or digital, are “met and surpassed”. This enables Superfried to deliver the kind of …

Feature Article

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Thinking on the Edge, the Corner and the Flap of the Box.

Artist Interview - Yann Sadi

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Yann Sadi, or BlindSalida, is a former art director who turned illustrator. He loves illustration so much that he decided to explore its many pathways, such as explosive illustrations, infographics, flat design, mathematical diagrams, line works or digital lettering. He has collaborated on international campaigns (for Google with Anomaly, Renault with Publicis Conseil), editorial works (Daily Telegraph, Adweek), national campaigns (Duracell with Publicis, Ryanair with Dare), motion design (Honda with Nexus and Wieden+Kennedy, Fiat with Saatchi&Saatchi) and packaging (Chipotle, Azzaro with BPCM).

Artist Interview - Giga Kobidze

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Giga Kobidze is a designer and illustrator who is “constantly exploring and visualising his subconscious utopia”. He says that he “indulges in the unknown, challenging every project to absorb experimental ideas, to develop conceptual and progressive visuals, while comprehending existing infinity and embracing the digital age”.

Feature Article

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The Versatility of an Application that isn’t an APP!

Artist Interview - Zach Johnson

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Zach Johnsen is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, working both in the commercial sphere and fine-art world. He uses graphite, watercolour, pen and ink and acrylic on mostly 2D surfaces and by far his most trusted medium is the Micron pen. He uses them exhaustively to describe an ever-expanding world of ghouls, monsters and misfits — the shady characters in everyday life and how they expose themselves in our world. His work is frenetic and chaotic, an explosion of lines and colour influenced by infomercials, cartoons, sweets and the over-consumption of popular culture. Johnsen has lent his unique style of …