In response to the theme of deTour 2018 – “Trial & Error”, this event explores whether “Trial & Error” plays a positive role in the design process or otherwise, especially in the context of Hong Kong where efficiency and convenience rule supreme. Is there room for “learning from mistakes” even though there may be a case for “refinement by iterations”? Indeed, which is more conducive for creativity? The motion for the debate “Linear Design Process = Efficient Design Process” will provoke the Proposition and Opposition Teams of speakers to challenge each other’s views on the value of “Trial & Error”.

Following the success of “TALK! 2016” and “TALK! 2016 – Retake”, this event combines the British tradition of serious debates with a contemporary twist, and promises to be an informative yet edgy, fun and interactive exchange of views around the engaging theme of deTour 2018.

At the beginning of the event, the audience will be asked whether they support the motion or otherwise before the speakers from each team will do their best to win over more support from the audience with their respective presentations. Then, instead of Q&A, two guest speakers selected by each team from the audience will go on stage to express their views to further strengthen the respective team’s case. The audience will be asked to cast their votes again at the end of the debate and the team with the greater gain in support will be declared the winners on the night. Prizes will be awarded to the guest speakers of the winning team.

Speaker

Host : Roger Wu (Council Member, RIBA | Chairman, RIBA Hong Kong Chapter)

Organizer

RIBA HK Chapter

Facebook : @RIBAhongkong
Website : https://www.riba.hk.org

The RIBA Hong Kong Chapter aims to promote architecture in Hong Kong and the region, showcase the work of Hong Kong members, raise recognition of their professional and technical excellence and stimulate engaging discourse on architecture and the built environment within the profession, the construction industry and the wider public.

The RIBA launched the Hong Kong Chapter in September 2012, representing the interests of around 900 members based in Hong Kong and liaises with members in China as well as other countries in the Asia Pacific region. The HK Chapter is run by an elected Committee of 16 members, for which Roger Wu is the current Chairman, with John Campbell as Honorary Secretary and Martin Williams as Honorary Treasurer.

Since 2014, the RIBA HK Chapter have been organising a series of annual architecturally inspired events entitled “EAT!”, “TALK!”, “SHOP!” and “CELEBRATE!’ that engage with what Hong Kong loves best, as well as the monthly series “Brick on Break: Professional Series”, all to raise the profile of the profession in the region.

Four F&B up-and-coming talents and entrepreneurs will talk about the “Trial and Error” process they have undergone in launching PMQ Taste Kitchen, Hong Kong’s first-ever F&B incubation programme, and the relationship between the food industry and design.

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Caleb Ng & Joshua Ng (Founders, Twins Kitchen)

Founders of Twins Kitchen, a Hong Kong based consultancy and creative firm focusing on the food and beverage industry. As F&B consultants, Caleb and Joshua provide professional advice, support and guidance to clients, including both forthcoming and existing restaurants. With their in-house graphic and design team, Twins Kitchen also work on visual design, interior design and the construction of brand identity. The twins currently own Common Ground, a slow-paced café and lifestyle store in Hong Kong, and the Chinese dumpling bar GAO in Copenhagen, Denmark.

On top of being young entrepreneurs, the twins also put effort into social projects, developing solutions in treating food and coffee waste. Their current project XCHANGE: Social Gastronomy at Oi! Art Space in Hong Kong provides an alternative way in tackling the local food waste problem through food design. They are also working closely with eco-experts to upcycle coffee grounds as materials for furniture and clothing.

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Stephanie Wong (Founder, Roots Eatery)

Stephanie Wong is the talented chef behind Hong Kong-based catering brand Roots Eatery. The banker-turned-chef was one of the first young talents joining PMQ Taste Kitchen’s incubator programme. Her “A Personal Affair: a unique dinner tasting menu”, and “Voyage from the Mediterranean”, won the hearts of Taste Kitchen’s diners as well as the city’s gourmets. After working as a banker for almost a decade, Stephanie quit and moved to Paris in 2015 to pursue her culinary dream.

In addition to receiving her Culinary Arts Diploma from legendary chef Alain Ducasse’s cookery school, Stephanie honed her skills at Michelin-starred restaurant Hostellerie De Plaisance in Saint Emilion before returning to Hong Kong to work at the two-starred fine dining temple, Amber, at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental.

Her catering brand Roots Eatery draws inspiration from humble root vegetables, which are nourishing, fulfilling and nutritious. It is little wonder that Stephanie’s decidedly simple culinary philosophy – to go back to the basics and give the utmost love and respect to every ingredient and let their original taste and beauty shine – quickly wins her countless fans.

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Claire Kim (Founder and Pastry Chef, Claire de Lune)

Korean pastry chef Claire Kim will be presenting her creations under her brand Claire de Lune. Kim is the first pastry chef of the incubation series where she will be running the restaurant as an all-day cafe / bakery.

Drawing from a decade’s worth of experience in top fine dining restaurants in Sydney (such as the acclaimed Tetsuya’s and Sokyo) and, more recently, Mizumi at Wynn Palace in Macau, Kim will showcase her brand of clever yet playful creations that feature both sweet and savoury elements.

Organizer

PMQ Taste Kitchen

Facebook : @pmqtastekitchen
Instagram : @pmqtastekitchen

PMQ Taste Kitchen is Hong Kong’s first-ever F&B incubation programme, supported by F&B entrepreneurial icon Twins Kitchen. The goal of the programme is to nurture and encourage culinary talents to follow their culinary dreams by providing professional guidance and support. The unique programme will begin as a first-of-its-kind initiative to help young and creative food talents to realise their dreams and test their ideas while being connected to the right audience.

PMQ Taste Kitchen will be transformed into an exciting new restaurant, starring a different chef and a different dining concept every month. By offering a restaurant space, experienced staff and business guidance from Twins Kitchen, it is an experimental restaurant incubator for future culinary stars to realise their dreams of starting and running their own short-term restaurant.

The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashion by Met curator Andrew Bolton.

With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the collision of haute couture and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events hosted every year by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano) as well as a host of contemporary icons from Justin Bieber to Rihanna, the movie dives deep into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as fine art and how misunderstanding and appropriation exist across cultures.

Director : Andrew Rossi
Duration : 91 mins

With after-screening sharing.

Speaker

Colleen Yu (Founder and Principal, EX-R Consulting)

With a deep business background as a former management consultant at KPMG and a private wealth manager at Goldman Sachs, Colleen understands the motivations of consumers and corporations alike, and brings new levels of professionalism to the experiential marketing space. In 2010, Colleen founded EX•R Consulting to pursue her creative passions and offer comprehensive marketing and communication services to a wide range of retail, luxury brand, entertainment, and Fortune 500 clients.

Under Colleen’s leadership, EX•R has become the agency of record for many of the world’s leading brands, executing more than 200 campaigns and events in 15 countries. Her global network and pioneering vision led EX•R to expand its presence into the United States and throughout Asia, with a home base in Hong Kong.

Colleen is also very active in her charity work. She currently sits on the board of Make A Wish Hong Kong and Hagar International. She is also an active member of HK ballet as a member of the Guild and co-chairing fundraising activities.

Colleen is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Marketing and Information Technology. She is fluent in five languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, and Korean).

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Polly Ho (Co-founder, Loom Loop)

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING is a creative project where music meets motion pictures. Apart from screening the two titles from the project and their behind-the-scenes, two creatives involved will share their “Trial and Error” experiences and discuss possibilities of two art forms crossing over.

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Anton Fung (Drummer, tfvsjs)

Anton Fung graduated from The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in the UK, majoring in drums. He returned to Hong Kong in 2010 and participated in different performances. As a drummer, Anton joins different bands to reach different audiences, such as Mensheng (heavy music), tfvsjs (math rock) and Empty (pop music). Since 2013, he has been the accompanist for different singers in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, including Coco Lee, Pakho Chau, Bibi Zhou, Kay Tse, Janice Vidal, Kary Ng, Jason Chan, Ng Yip Kwan, JW, Phil Lam, etc.

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Dan Fong (Digital Visual Artist and Visual Designer)

Dan Fong graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, and is currently a digital visual artist and visual designer. He is passionate about visual experiments on various media platforms all these years and has worked with many different creative units from theatre to popular music industry, including Zuni Icosahedron, Windmill Grass Theatre and W Theatre etc.

His works have been shown in many internationally toured events, and he began collaborating with various pop singers and taking part in the video/ visual design of their concerts since 2010, collaborating pop singers included Miriam Yeung, George Lam, Priscilla Chan, Pakho Chau, Hins Cheung, Edmond Leung, Endy Chow, Chochukmo, Joker Xue, Yoga Lin, Hebe Tan, Kay Tse, SHINE etc. He also started doing music video directing since 2014, current works include Ellen Loo’s Darling and Chochukmo’s 8.

Organizer

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING

Facebook : @ProjectKeepPushing
Instagram : @ProjectKeepPushing

PROJECT KEEP PUSHING is a project that focuses on the crossover between music and cinematography, produced by Anton Fung, drummer of tfvsjs and director Wong Chun. Together with other up-and-coming local directors including Wong Fei Pang, Lo Chun Yip, Annebell Chan, Dan Fong, Hayman Yip, Chan Hau Chun, Chui Chi Yin and documentary director Joshua Yiu, they exploit different cinematic shooting styles, live drum re-arrangements / recording, and document all that happens behind the scenes. They hope to transform six of tfvsjs’ songs and bring about a new visual and audio experience for their audience, as well as showcasing their full expedition behind this project.

Designers and businesses often encounter disputes relating to copyright, contract, licensing and sale of goods etc.. Is there an alternative way to resolve these conflicts other than long and expensive court battles?

“Decoding Mediation: Designing a Win-win Solution” will explain how mediation is able to resolve disputes effectively with greater satisfaction. It will comprise a drama on mediation, discussion by experienced mediators, and a sharing session by local designer Flora Leung on how mediation helped her to enforce her design rights.

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C.W. Ling / Yue Sze Hung, Beginla / Stephanie Cheung / Tang Cheuk Yan, Clement / Yam Cheuk Ling, Shirley / Ma So So, Josephine / Lam Wai Pan, Wilson / Nana Lui Lam Wing Kai, Isaac / May T.M. Chan / Sala Sihombing Stephanie Wong

Accredited Mediators in Hong Kong

Speaker

Flora Leung (Founding Director, Matter Matters)

Founding Director of Matter Matters; graduate of London College of Fashion, Cordwainers Accessory Design (2012), and Visual Communication, Birmingham City University (2004); one of “The Next Talents” named by Vogue in 2016.

Matter Matters is a Hong Kong-based brand, synonymous with innovative use of contrasting colours and geometric symmetry. Its design concept is influenced by Art Deco, Bauhaus and Post-modernist aesthetics from 80s Memphis. The originality and playfulness of the design of its handbags and accessories has earned wide coverage by international media such as WWD, L'Officiel, New York Times, Time Out, Vogue, Elle, Elle Décor, Nylon, Marie Claire, Now Fashion and Refinery29. Its products have been sold in Paris, London, New York and in Hong Kong at K11 Art Mall, Lane Crawford.

Organizer

Hong Kong Mediation Council

Facebook : @Hong-Kong-Mediation-Council-154673887902071
Website : http://www.hkiac.org/mediation

The Hong Kong Mediation Council is a division of The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), with mandate to promote the development and use of mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Asia.

The HKIAC is an independent non-profit institution established in Hong Kong since 1985 under Hong Kong law by businesses, professionals and the government to promote alternative dispute resolution in Asia. It is today one of the world’s leading dispute resolution organizations.

Think about how innovative designs happen, and who can bring innovative designs into our complex society?

DESIGN is a language and DESIGN is relation-building; this is why DESIGN has been an unparalleled tool for innovation and evolution.

The dialogue discloses how Japanese and Hong Kong designers cope with the complexity of the contemporary world through innovation and its corresponding process.

Speaker

Eisuke Tachikawa (CEO and Founder, NOSIGNER)

Facebook : @NOSIGNER
Website : http://nosigner.com/

NOSIGNER is a design firm based on the principle of “social innovation design”, or design that brings positive changes to society and the future. They have been working under the name NOSIGNER, which stands for “professionals who design intangible things”. Their works transcend typical design disciplines such as graphics, products, spatial design and the web, to provide comprehensive design on business models and branding.

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Shun Kawakami (CEO, artless Inc.)

Website : http://www.artless.co.jp/

artless Inc. is an independently owned global creative agency based in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. Founded by Shun Kawakami in 2001, artless focuses on art and design-based advertising and branding projects, and operates globally.

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Chris Cheung (Founder and Creative Director, XCEPT)

Facebook : @xex.com.hk
Website : http://xex.com.hk/

Chris Cheung Hon Him (artist name: h0nh1m) is an artist known for installation art and audiovisual performances, and whose artistic expression depends on electronic, sound, image and creative technology in new media.

He founded XCEPT (previously XEX) in 2008 and XCEED (a new media art group) in 2013, showcasing works worldwide in various international festivals and winning awards at Reddot, TDC, GDC11, A’ Design, Golden Pin, Design for Asia awards and New York Art Director Club Young Guns 11. In 2014 he was appointed as Artistic Director and Curator of the 1st HK-SZ Design Biennale and was invited to be a guest speaker at Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week in 2016.

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Otto Ng (Design Director, LAAB)

Facebook : @laabpro
Instagram : @LAABpro
Website : https://www.laab.pro/

Otto Ng studied architecture at HKU and MIT, and has worked in the UK, US and Italy where he designed smart cities and inventive architecture. Otto sees interdisciplinary teamwork as the driving force for innovation.

He cofounded LAAB in 2013, a laboratory comprising 36 architects, designers, makers, engineers, and sociologists. From public space and public art to transformative architecture and interior design, LAAB explores the relationship between people, nature and culture. Otto was named one of the “Young Guns” by the New York Art Directors Club in 2014 and was one of the “Young Game Changers Shaping Hong Kong’s Future” of Tatler’s Generation T in 2017.

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!

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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.

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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.

In this dialogue, four denim fashion designers from different backgrounds will discuss their design experiences with denim craft and design in the form of “Trial and Error”, the past and present of denim and their blue inspirations.

The dialogue is a prologue of the Hong Kong Denim Festival 2019 (HKDF), a 3-week cultural and design event that aims to promote denim culture, organised by Vocational Training Council (VTC) / Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI).

Speaker

Osmond Lee (Co-founder, Bleu•Kobo)

Osmond Lee graduated from the Department of Fashion & Textile of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He started his denim career in 2010, by working as a product developer at a denim garment factory. Lee then worked as a designer at a denim trading company which was owned by a Japanese senior denim washing specialist. In the past 8 years, he has been working with different internationally famous brands such as Evisu, Denham, Mastercraft Union, Kent & Curwen, etc.

In 2018, Lee and Ming Fan co-founded a workshop and their brand Bleu•Kobo.

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Janko Lam (Design Director, Classics Anew)

As the foundress of Classics Anew, Ms Janko Lam is well-known for her hybrid fashion pieces where the traditional meets the modern. After graduating from Caritas Bianchi College, Lam joined the Hong Kong Fashion Designers Association (HKFDA) and worked as a costume designer for stage and drama productions at TVB in 2008.

In 2010, Lam founded her first company, Mutt Museum Design Company Limited, and commenced a workshop at InnoCentre in Hong Kong.

In 2011, Lam won the championship of the EcoChic Design Award from a fashion design competition for Asia’s emerging design talents organized by REDRESS, a Hong Kong-based charity organisation which drives environmental sustainability in the fashion industry. As the champion, Lam interned at a top sustainable fashion brand in London.

In 2012, Lam collaborated with ESPRIT and launched the first local collection on recycled textile capsule. In February 2012, Lam participated in the “Fashion Visionaries” exhibition by invitation of HKFDA. Her showpiece was kept in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum after the exhibition.

In 2013, Lam was granted the “40 Under 40” (Fashion/Accessories) Award from Perspective magazine. Being actively engaged in the community, Lam has delivered seminars, participated in street shows, and given live demonstrations of her creation process in shopping malls. Her work has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, in Germany, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau, etc.

With her love and passion for Chinese costumes, the brand Classics Anew was conceptualised and launched in 2014. Lam subsequently started a retail shop with two partners at PMQ, a creative hub at SOHO Central, in the same year and kicked off her first online store in 2015. Lam is enthusiastic and devoted to her oriental fashion design, aiming at raising public interest in the Chinese heritage and modern aesthetics.

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Jason Lee (Founder, YMDH studios)

YMDH was established in 2018. Founding designer Jason Lee was awarded “Best Footwear Design Award” at the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers Contest in 2017. Jason collaborated with i.t. to produce a capsule collection for his “Kingdom of the Underground” collection.

Lee has been guiding his brand YMDH with a sense of individuality interweaving street fashion with oriental and historical graphics to redefine contemporary urban styles. The brand essence of YMDH rests on the journey of searching for infinite possibilities and novelties on the street. Lee advocates that fashion is more than just design; in YMDH, fashion is always an audacious explorer and reflector.

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Sonic Lam (Fashion Designer, Start From Zero / Vintage Lover & Collector)

Start From Zero is a street art group which has been promoting street art for 10 years.

Recently, Start From Zero has transferred street art into different kinds of design, such as interior design, graphic design and fashion design. Their “Happy Workers” love to wear denim and canvas because of their durability. Denim and canvas are always considered as the main materials for Lam’s designs.The originality of clothes is the foundation of Lee’s design, on top of that he is keen on exploring the possibility of denim.

Organizer

Hong Kong Design Institute

Facebook : @HongKongDesignInstitute
Instagram : @hongkongdesigninstitute
Website : http://www.hkdi.edu.hk/

The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is a leading design institution under the VTC Group. It provides high-quality education to cultivate knowledge and professionalism, and produces emerging talents who underpin the creative industries in Hong Kong.

With years of experience in design education, HKDI brings together the strengths of four design departments – Architecture, Interior and Product Design, Communication Design and Digital Media, Design Foundation Studies and Fashion and Image Design – to offer 20 design programmes.

Highly flexible in articulation and advanced education, HKDI offer students a three-year university degree pathway from a Higher Diploma to Bachelor degrees offered by reputable universities in the UK. HKDI adopts a “think-and-do” approach through its contemporary curriculum and active collaborations with local and international academic and industry partners. Students are given opportunities to acquire hands-on experience and participate in global exchange programmes to expand their horizons while enhancing their creative thinking and social sensitivity.

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.

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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.

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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.

Our common perception of maps is that they are accurate and scientific, but in fact the act of mapping and its content can be speculative and creative. As James Corner puts it, “Mapping is perhaps the most creative act of any design process.” Artists, architects and designers usually use mapping as a tool to explore and represent social, economic and political values in the city and our urban life.

While the creative team is working on the first stage of “Revitalising Village through Art project” in Shunde of China, they would like to share with the audience their plan of conducting a creative research through mapping in the village and how they will end up developing a feasible yet innovative masterplan for its up-grade.

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Bong Yeung (Design Principal, littleurbanmountain)

Facebook : @littleurbanmountain
Website : https://www.littleurbanmountain.hk/

Born in Hong Kong, Bong Yeung studied Architecture and graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2011. During his final year, he received Dean’s List for “Distinction in Design” and Merit in Thesis, and was selected by Blueprint Magazine as “one of the Best of the Student Shows”.

Yeung worked on several projects in London, Oxford and Exeter and became a UK Registered Architect in 2014. From 2011 to 2018, he worked at the Foster + Partners Hong Kong office, responsible for high profile projects in Asia such as the Murray Building Hotel, Ocean Terminal Extension and Wuhan masterplan. He has also taught part-time in a design module at HKU SPACE and was a guest critic at CUHK and HKU.

In 2017, Yeung won the UNESCO UCCN Shenzhen Design Award For Young Talent. He is the Founder and Design Principal of littleurbanmountain, a studio that focuses on architecture, interior design and art projects. His work has been selected by Drawing Prize and was exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin and Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 2017 to 2018. Yeung received a special mention from the jury in ArchiGraphicArts Drawing Competition 2016-17 in Russia. In 2016, a team of three from HKU SPACE led by Yeung gained an honorable mention for the Flexible Housing Society Contest in Spain.

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Raymond Chan (Founder-Director, Crevice Design Ltd)

Raymond Chan is a Founder of Crevice Design. He received an Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree in Environment and Interior Design at PolyU in 2012 and 2014. During his studies, he was employed by his PolyU tutor and Assistant Professor, Manfred Yuen, as a designer in Groundwork Architecture Studio. He was involved in several social design projects including Wu Chi Qiao Bridge to China Project 2011 and 2012,Hawkerama - Carnival Workshop 2012, and ArtAlive @Park 2014.

Raymond has followed HKPolyU Assistant Professor Alvin Yip to co-curate the Annual Flagship Programme 2014 and 2015 organized by Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. He received a scholarship to study in Shanghai Tongji University.

Raymond has many innovative design ideas on sustainable interior and furniture design. He designed a series of showcases and displayed shelves which were made of up-cycling materials to propose and promote environmental protection to the society.

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Monti Lai (Founder, Farm Side Art Research Lab / Artist / Farmer)

Monti Lai is a local environmental artist whose art has a clear focus on the relationship between art and the environment. Her works range from site-specific environmental installation to drawing and participatory art. She is now based at Lai Chi Wo Village exploring the subject with farming practices (paddy rice planting in particular).

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Lai Sim Fong (Founder and Dramaturg, Artelier)

Lai Sim Fong graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Practice at University of Exeter (UK), learning from master Phillip Zarrilli in psycho-physical approach. She studied German, Cultural Studies and Art History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Freiburg University and UC Berkeley (USA). Lai has presented her work in Liverpool, Manchester and Poland.

She works as a dramaturg in theatre and contemporary dance. Recent works include Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s “Red” and “Attempts on her Life”; Hong Kong Arts Festival’s “Nook”. She was the dramaturg of Hong Kong International Blackbox Festival (WKCD/ HKREP). In 2018 Lai worked as the assistant to director of Rimini Protokoll to produce “Remote Hong Kong” for Tai Kwun.

Organizer

littleurbanmountain

Facebook : @littleurbanmountain
Website : https://www.littleurbanmountain.hk/

littleurbanmountain is a young design studio focusing on architecture, interior design and art in Hong Kong. Founded in 2017 to start a few self initiative projects related to sustainable design and social architecture, the studio has begun to create works from luxurious café, pavilion to public installation art. They try to gather people from different disciplines that enable interesting, experimental and visionary work to happen from big to small scale.

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films.

Then one day, his father donned a puppet — Lago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin — and asked, “What’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

Winner of Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award (Documentary) and Oscar nominee for Best Documentary.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Casts: Owen Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Ron Suskind
Duration: 92 min

With after-screening sharing.

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Bianca Lee (President, Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists)

Bianca is an artist, advocate, Registered Art Therapist (USA), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (USA) and Licensed Professional Counselor (USA). With 10+ years of practicing in the mental health field, she connects with a multitude of diverse populations. Bianca is the current president of the Hong Kong Association of Art Therapists and an honorary lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.

How can we introduce art and creative ideas to Hong Kong? MobArt Gallery is dedicated to connecting artists with the society. In this dialogue, MobArt and their collaborating artists will share their experiences of bringing art into the local community, and how art might survive in this city.

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Steph Chung (Founder, MobArt)

Steph Chung, a post-80, is the founder of MobArt creative agency, who graduated from the University of Oxford studying Economics & Management.

Started off as a “stranger” to the Art world to crawling galleries and art fairs in London/ Hong Kong/ globally, Steph has a different take on Art as an “outsider”. Because of this “outsider” status, it inspired her to start MobArt, with the objective of bringing art to the people, injecting art into our everyday life.

Juggling between her finance job and her art passion, she has not diminished a bit in her strive to bring Art to the local community and has continued this journey in the last 10 years.
MobArt will continue to elevate people’s interest and appreciation for Art by making it an integral part of everyday life.

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Travis Ying (Artist)

Ying Man Hon, Travis was born in Hong Kong since 1980s. Growing up in Hong Kong, Ying has completed his studies and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree majoring in Theatre Stage Design from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2015 and graduated from the Hong Kong Institute of Education majoring in Visual Arts in 2007. Ying is working as a freelance artist now whose expertise is in illustration and graphic design, theatre design and arts education.

Ying is devoted to visual arts education with 8 years of solid teaching experiences. In 2014, he was invited by the 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival Artists-in-Residence Programme to be the local artist who collaborated with Paper Cinema, renowned artists from UK to organize and execute art workshops with targeted secondary students. Ying used to organise and teach different art classes targeting people from youths to adults. He was the judge of an open comic competition for kids. Ying collaborated with different organisations in art-related projects including theatre stage design and visual arts. In 2014, Ying co-exhibited his work with other artists in Jockey Club Creative Arts Center.

Recently, he won the Best Graphic Cover Design of the Lenovo laptop computer competition and he is the illustration artist of Mingpao Smarties' Power English, by collaborating with Jeffrey CHAN, the author to introduce arts and cultures to primary school students.

Speaker

Neil Wang (Mural Artist and Illustrator)

Neil Wang is a mural artist and illustrator based in Hong Kong. He is a self-taught artist and begun his mural painting journey in 2017 and leave fashion visual merchandiser field at the same time.

Now he become a full-time freelancer and provide eye grabbing art works to his clients and lead the audiences to dive deep and get to know his story. He is deeply inspired by Japanese art, culture and collage art. His artworks are a combination of abstract flow of lines, patterns, textured collages and create illusion for type or lettering.

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Noble Wong (Founder, Noble Sketchbook)

Noble Wong is a Hong Kong illustrator, mural painter and urban sketcher. He graduated from PolyU with an MSc (with Distinction) in Multimedia Entertainment Technology.

He takes pleasure in sketching things around him, because they embody the shared culture of Hong Kong people. He established his illustration company Noble Sketchbook in 2015. Apart from commercial illustrations and murals, he has worked on community art projects including HKYAF’s “HK Urban Canvas” to illustrate the story of old shops through paintings of the shops’ shutters. In addition, he is working on a revitalisation project of Tai Kwun to illustrate the history of Tai Kwun and Hong Kong Police on the walls inside those beautiful buildings.

Organizer

MobArt Gallery

Facebook : @mobartgallery
Instagram : @about_mobart
Website : http://www.mobart.net

‘We are the bridge connecting artists with those who seek creative talents.’

MobArt strives to foster an environment that supports and nurtures creative talents. Their ambition is to promote art as a lifestyle and act as the bridge between artists and those who value and seek creativity.

MobArt started as a “mobile” gallery in 2008 curating art exhibitions in public spaces with the aim of elevating people’s interest and appreciation for art by making it an integral part of everyday life, which will in turn foster an environment that supports and nurtures creative talents.

They have since evolved into a platform, showcasing artists and acting as the bridge between creative talents and those who value and seek creativity - working collaboratively with private and corporate clients.
This year they have launched a new brand - Draw On Wall ( drawonwall.com ) which is an artist hub with a repository of creative ideas to inspire custom space designs. Their goal is to transform dull walls into an unique piece of art! Draw On Wall focuses on connecting artist with those who seek to fill their walls with life and colour.

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.

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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.

Urban myths about craftsmen:

“Good wine needs no bush. ”

“It’s impossible for a full-time craftsman to earn a living.”

Are they true or not?

Trial and Error Lab will look into the myths based on their observations of local young craftsmen and the creative industry.

Speaker

Wong Yuk Kuen (Senior Media Project Curator, Trial and Error Lab)

Organizer

Trial and Error Lab

Facebook : @trialanderrorHK
Instagram : @trialanderrorhk
Website : https://trialanderror.hk

Trial and Error Lab HK is a youth vocational development project organised by Breakthrough since 2016. The Lab encourages young people to explore possibilities for their careers and the future of our city by providing a lively coworking space, relevant trainings and other innovative events.