hong kong bamboo scaffolding

hong kong bamboo scaffolding

Kingsley Ng - Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards 2009

Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards 2009

DesignSmart Young Design Talent Award

Kingsley Ng

A diversified background in the arts has served as the foundations to Kingsley Ng’s progressive leap forward in design. Ng is a fine arts graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. His educational experience comprises applied studies in new media, architecture and the contemporary arts. Thoroughly multidisciplinary, Ng has practised professionally using interactive sound and graphics, interior, branding graphic and packaging design. In recent years, through his enlistment into Jack Morton Worldwide, Ng has honed his many skills to focus on the pioneering development of experiential design.

Space imbued with ambience created by light, sound, colour, texture, wind, water – well anything really – defines the work. As abstract as this may seem, experiential design can essentially be defined as the act of designing narratives within any given 3-dimensional space. With Jack Morton Worldwide, Ng has been able to invent messages within space for a number of clients across the globe. Refreshing approaches include creating an interactive lightshow that is electronically triggered by candle-lit paper boats drifting above a pool of water. Designed within the Fabrica Research Centre, the experiential design, which included a play of ambient sound, functioned as homage to Tadao Ando. Other notable works by Ng in the yet-to-be established field include a Musical Wheel in Hong Kong and a Musical Loom in France. The Musical Wheel is a large, six metre rotational wheel. While seated inside, participants rotate slowly in tandem with the wheel, which creates ambient sounds from all sides.

Ng admits that experiential design is still a largely unknown entity, and asserts the need for further development. To this end, he hopes to further himself with applied research and eventual practise of the discipline.

Ma Ke Wuyong

Ma Ke Wuyong - Victoria and Albert Museum

Ma Ke is one of the most prolific fashion designers working in China today, she graduated from the Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Technology in 1992 and four years later set up her own label Exception de Mixmind.

Ma Ke's interest in the crossover between contemporary art and fashion led her to establish the artistic brand Wuyong (Useless) in 2006. Wuyong is an examination of the concept of 'uselessness' and how this interpretation varies when seen from different points of view. In February 2007, Wuyong was presented at Paris Fashion Week for the first time and the innovative concept attracted much attention within both art and fashion circles.

Taking discarded items such as an old paint covered sheet Ma Ke transforms it into a dress, the cracked paint creating a beautiful pattern on the garment, and an old tarpaulin is constructed into a coat of magnificent volume. For Ma Ke this focus on personal interpretation and transformation is a way of highlighting the importance of the individual and the inestimable value of life.

Innovation Tower” will serve as a driving force in the development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia

Innovation Tower Hong Kong, Architect, Building, Photo

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid as Chief Architect of its new “Innovation Tower”.



Zaha Hadid has made a trip from London to Hong Kong to present her design concepts at a press conference hosted by Mr Victor Lo Chung-wing, Chairman of PolyU Council; and Mr Alexander Tzang, Deputy President of PolyU.

Addressing the press conference, Mr Victor Lo said PolyU’s new “Innovation Tower” will serve as a driving force in the development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia. The new Tower will also provide additional space to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and education in the field of design.

ART HK

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ART HK 10

ART HK is the leading showcase for international Modern & Contemporary Art in Asia with over 150 galleries participating from 29 different countries.  ART HK reflects Hong Kong’s ‘Gateway’ status in presenting a unique opportunity for collectors to see and buy work of a quality and geographical diversity not available anywhere else in the world.

Stitching Together, by Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindstöm

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Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindstöm, Stitching Together. Photo by Otto Von Busch at the Malmö Festival 2009

Stitching Together, by Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindstöm, is a "hacked" digital sewing machine. People forward the machine one of their personal SMS and it dutifully embroiders it.

Meat book - interactive flesh

Meatbook

The Meatbook, an interactive art installation, explores the use of a novel tangible interace to provoke a visceral response in the viewer. The Meatbook presentes the symbiosis of the mechanical and the organic as it simultaneously juxtaposes the conflicting materiality of these media. Sensors, motors and other mechanics are used to animate the meat, generating movements specifically designed to produce visceral, even cathartic responses from the user. By simultaneously generating revulsion and fascionation, the user undergoes an embodied experience in which the alien and the familiar come together in the form of a book.

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Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindstöm, Stitching Together. Photo by Otto Von Busch at the Malmö Festival 2009

Stitching Together, by Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindstöm, is a "hacked" digital sewing machine. People forward the machine one of their personal SMS and it dutifully embroiders it.