The same object often carries different meanings in different eras. The “salted fish” was a meal staple generations ago but its popularity has since waned. With a twist in design, contemporary inspirations on “salted fish” will be born. Let’s revisit the pungent and delicious salted fish all over again in this year’s deTour!

Speaker

Kay Chan (Designer)

Facebook : @kaychan852
Instagram : @kaychan852

Kay Chan has been exploring sustainable social design, new design strategies and art projects that promote positive community and environmental values. In her recent collaborative community projects, she focuses on enhancing local public space to foster meaningful interactions within diverse communities and addressing environmental issues.

Speaker

Andy Dark

Facebook : @sirandydark
Instagram : @andy_dark

As one of the current curators at PMQ Taste Library, Andy started his career in the F&B industry by pursuing a diploma at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Institute and cultivated his own culinary sensibilities at various notable restaurants in Hong Kong and Canada. Today, he continues to cook with passion and advocate for food, creating flavours and recipes that inspire happiness.

Organizer

PMQ Taste Library

Facebook : @PMQTasteLibrary
Instagram : @pmqtastelibrary
Website : http://www.pmq.org.hk/shop/taste-library/

As Hong Kong’s first and only food-focused library, PMQ Taste Library uses food as the cultural bridge to support, inform and connect individuals, community projects and organisations. Through creative projects and cooking workshops, Taste Library promotes the design of flavours and encourages the public to see food with new eyes. Food is, after all, more than survival.

Three Loupe’s designers-in-residence will take the audience along on their journeys of “Trial and Error” in becoming independent jewellery designers. They will share with the audience their struggles of creating their own paths in order to follow their dreams.

Speaker

Aimee Lee (Founder, Paradeisos)

Aimee Lee is a Hong Kong-based jewellery designer and the founder of the designer jewellery brand, Paradeisos. As a gemologist graduated from the Gemological Institute of America, Lee has profound interest in gemstones and believes that every piece of gemstone has its own individual uniqueness and personality.

Lee founded Paradeisos to fulfill her dream of creating luxurious and unique jewellery art pieces crafted from natural gemstones with a competitive price. Citing influence from Lee’s studies at Le Arti Orafe in Italy, the main design concept of Paradeisos is simplicity. Lee has also credited her innovation process to years of working experience in a high jewellery team, and often incorporates dots, lines, geometric shapes and structures into her design for a refreshing twist.

Standing out from the crowd by blessing a touch of delicateness in gemstone jewellery designs, Paradeisos has a unique universal appeal that will prove its value through time.

Speaker

Alessia Prati (Jewellery Maker)

Alessia Prati is an Italian designer and jewellery maker. She graduated from the Fashion Design programme of Politecnico di Milano in 2014, and started working as fashion and graphic designer for Italian and international companies.

After taking jewellery short courses in Milan and at Central Saint Martins in London, she moved to Florence where she obtained another degree in Contemporary Jewellery from the prestigious Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in 2018. Her works have been exhibited in Milan, Florence and London during design festivals and jewellery fairs.

With never-ending curiosity and will of experimentation, she explores the possibilities for body ornament: mixing her contemporary jewellery research and fashion background to create a dialogue between the areas of the human body, gestures and movements.

Alessia is currently developing her own brand “Alessia Prati Jewellery”, which focuses on translating her artistic research into a more commercial line.

Speaker

Sam Wong (Founder, Mille-Feuille Fashion)

Sam Wong Hok Pan is a Hong Kong-based fashion accessories designer, also the founder of the 3D printing fashion accessories brand Mille-Feuille Fashion. He is a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University - BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product Design). Sam worked for a design studio established in Hong Kong by Italy’s Alessi family. The design style of Sam is strongly influenced by Italian minimalist design. He draws inspiration from the geometric elements, art movement and art history, combining them with 3D printing technologies nowadays.

Sam hopes to explore different design categories in addition to product design. Apart from the Mille-Feuille Fashion, he also co-founded the concrete craft fashion accessories brand – C3CraftStudio. He wishes to explore the possibility and variety of concrete.

Sam’s design has won Italy’s Bronze A’ Design Award and exhibited in Museum of Design MOOD. He hopes to raise the understanding and recognition for Hong Kong Design. He also wishes to crossover with designers from all over the world.

Organizer

Loupe

Facebook : @loupehongkong
Instagram : @loupehongkong
Website : http://www.loupe.com.hk

Taking reference from the magnifying glass used for gemstone examination and jewellery-making, Loupe is a design incubation space founded by Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group and fully supported by Chow Tai Fook Art Foundation to discover and foster new generations of jewellery design talents.

Located right in the heart of Hong Kong at PMQ in Central, Loupe houses boutique, exhibition space, workshop and teahouse to provide a platform for designers to further their crafts and skills and engage with the public.

More people are aware of typography in the recent years. It is always interesting to look into the stories behind each typeface and its applications. Afterall, words are read in context.

This conversation between typeface designer Calvin Kwok and Sunny Yuen, Artistic Director of Blackpaper, will focus on how typography communicates with its audiences.

Calvin will start with the current trend that brand names are departing from serif typeface to sans-serif typeface. By looking into the trend and the changes in technology and the contemporary society, the interrelations among typography, brands and design tools will be discussed.

On the other hand, Sunny will begin with his observation on the creation of message-driven typefaces and the practical use of calligraphy. He will also be sharing on the interactions between typefaces and their contexts in the community.

Speaker

Calvin Kwok (Type Designer)

Instagram : @cliko
Website : http://calvinkwok.co

Calvin Kwok is a type designer / typographer who graduated from University of Reading with an M.A. in typeface design. He joined Apple Inc type team as an intern for a year after his graduation. He now specialises in multilingual type design, lettering and typography.

Speaker

Sunny Yuen (Art Director, Blackpaper)

Sunny Yuen is a Hong Kong based graphic designer born in the 80s, who specialises in publishing, branding and loves typography.