DESIGN SERVICES

12 October 2021

Architects and interior designers need to walk a fine line between addressing clients’ needs and asserting their personal style. Yet the latter seems to be more prominent in the approach of creatives such as Charles Kwan. More

life & style

Designers hit right notes

10 September 2021

The power of music transcends boundaries between languages, races and professions, and so it has brought a group of musicians and designers to work together at Musician Designer – a Hong Kong-based gift design and production company. Driven by passion, the team designs gifts with a musical theme to jazz up the lives of urbanites consumed by work. More

life & style

Creative toys take to catwalk

27 August 2021

Long popular among adults and children, especially males, the colourful and ever-changing LEGO toy brick set is striving to change its image as a lad’s plaything: the brand recently launched a number of products to make girls feel relevant. More

life & style

Space race fuels innovation

20 August 2021

“There’s never enough space for storage,” said houseware designer Yvette Robeck, who has spent the past 20 years in Hong Kong. She has experienced, first-hand, limitations of tighter living spaces than those in her home country, South Africa. Always up for a challenge, the designer started her line of homeware focusing firmly on practicality and sustainability for urban dwellers with an eco-friendly focus. More

heads-up

CENTRESTAGE

16 August 2021

The sixth edition of CENTRESTAGE will feature branded fashion apparel and designers' collections. More

first person

Innovation for art’s sake

05 July 2021

Many artists and artwork owners guard pieces from alteration or reproduction but an innovative Hong Kong consultancy is turning this notion on its head and deliberately streamlining the process of producing edited reproductions. More

first person

Service by design

15 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost all sectors, and services industries are not spared. When reimagining services, design is just as important as it is for physical items. More

hktdc research

Start-Up Hong Kong: Design Via VR Visualisation

03 May 2021

Local start-up Cube Present Limited uses an “unreal engine” platform to provide services in virtual scene designing, spatial designing and virtual visualisation. Deky Leung, the founder and chief operating officer, shared about how he had gone about starting a business. He said that because start-up entrepreneurs often feel enormous pressure and frustration, it is vitally important for them to stick to their beliefs. More

hktdc research

Expanding Thai Markets: Design Services, Digital Marketing and Software Market

23 April 2021

Thailand shows some of the region's strongest development of e-commerce and consumers’ engagement in social media. Taking profit from these trends, the demands of some relevant commercial services including design services and software application services are surging in Thailand. More

multimedia

Hong Kong Start-Up Survey: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ecosystem

01 April 2021

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