Asian design

Top 6 events at Singapore Design Week

In just four editions, Singapore Design Week has already made its mark as one of the most important festivals on the design calendar in Singapore and greater Asia. Thanks to a combination of savvy curation, marketing and heavy-duty backers –...

Global design: inspired by China

Perfecting the high art of Chinese ceramics through 20 millenia

Thailand revealed: meet the designers shaking up its burgeoning creative scene

Singapore architects WOHA to debut furniture collection at Maison et Objet

Since they opened their Singapore-based studio WOHA in 1994, Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell (the practice is named from the first two letters of their surnames) have been lauded as much for the intriguing furniture and accessories they design...

Shifting perspectives: from Nendo to Naihan Li, a survey of Asian design opens at M+ Hong Kong

With its debut design exhibition open now, Hong Kong’s M+ presents an intriguing selection of 120 pieces of 20th and 21st century design, offering a tantalising glimpse of the museum’s impressive wider collection of some 2,500 works. The initiative...

Focal point: Alamak brings Asia’s design ambitions to the fore

Where is design in Asia headed? Yoichi Nakamuta has a few insights. The Tokyo-based designer and founder of Alamak – a platform promoting contemporary Asian art and design – has brought together ten leading designers from nine countries across the...

At Hong Kong Department Store, savour local design and the city’s forgotten crafts

Under the watchful eye of reform-minded Governor during the 1970s, Hong Kong – then still a British colony – was booming as a global manufacturing hub, exporting well-designed, high-quality goods. A decade later, the industry began to move northwards to...