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5 Minutes With… JJ Acuna
Hong Kong-based designer and consummate cosmopolitan, JJ Acuna of Bespoke Studio, muses on the changing face of hospitality and design across Asia Pacific.
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5 Minutes With… Álvaro González of Cosentino
Álvaro González, newly appointed Vice President of Cosentino Asia Pacific shares his strategic moves in driving the global architectural surfacing company’s growth in the region.
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5 Minutes With JustCo’s Lu Liu
JustCo Co-founder and COO Lu Liu talks about the coworking brand’s rapid expansion in the Asia Pacific region and the new challenges and opportunities that come with it.
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5 Minutes With… Bitte Design Studio
We chatted with founders of Jakarta-based Bitte Design Studio Agatha Carolina and Chrisye Octaviani about starting a design business and creating sustainable spaces.
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5 Minutes With… Robert Warner Of Bosch
Our urban centres hold more and more of our population. Our living environments are shifting. Multi-residential developments sit at a unique point of this state of flux. We find out from Bosch’s Robert Warner about what this means for the products in our apartments and how consumer habits are changing accordingly.
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5 Minutes With… Rafael Miranti Architects
Jakarta-based studio Rafael Miranti Architects (RMA) brings a rigorous contextual approach to its work. Joanne Goh speaks to Founding Partners Rafael Arsono and Margareta Miranti to delve into the thinking behind the design.
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5 Minutes With Adobe’s Vice President Of Design Jamie Myrold
Jamie Myrold, Adobe’s Vice President of Design, shares her observation on design ethics and the role they play in the creative workflow changed by AI and machine learning.
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Bento Boxes and A La Carte: A Chat With OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu
Partner at OMA New York office Shohei Shigematsu shares his observation on cities, today’s client-architect collaboration and how studying food culture influences his architectural approach.
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5 Minutes With… Tan Szue Hann of MINIWIZ
Tan Szue Hann recently joined Taiwan-headquartered ‘RD&D’ company MINIWIZ as the Managing Director of its new Singapore office. We hear about his passion for producing architecture and design within the circular economy.
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5 Minutes With… Narita Cheah Of Paperspace
Narita Cheah is the Co-Founder and Director of workplace interior design collective Paperspace, and a keen proponent of shared design expertise for today’s increasingly diverse office spaces.
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5 Minutes With… Chui Lai Judy Cheung Of Cheungvogl
INDE.Awards 2019 Jury member Chui Lai Judy Cheung, co-founder of Cheungvogl (with Christoph Hoelscher Vogl), tells us about poetic pragmatism, progressive clients and what she’ll be looking for in this year’s entries.
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5 Minutes With… dwp CEO Brenton Mauriello
dwp is an international practice that has established a foothold in Asia. The Indesignlive team speaks with the practice’s CEO Brenton Mauriello, from his office in Thailand, about creating workplace culture and the changing perspectives of the region.
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5 Minutes With… Michael Seum Of GROHE
We caught up with GROHE Vice President of Design Michael Seum to find out more about the brand’s latest product, and how the GROHE design team has grown a few years after one of the biggest acquisition in the global bathroom industry.
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5 Minutes With… teamLab!
It’s been a busy year for the Japanese collective. We chatted with Toshiyuki Inoko and Takashi Kudo of teamLab about Singapore, digital art and the way their team works.
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5 Minutes With… Angel Yang And Mark Bickerstaffe Of Kohler
Kohler Experience Centre Singapore celebrated its first anniversary this year and we caught up with two of the brand’s most important people to find out more about today’s bathroom culture.
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5 Minutes With… Sean Dix!
On his recent tour of New Zealand, the Indesign Media team caught up with Sean Dix on the aspects of contemporary design that continue to influence his inimitable practice.
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5 Minutes With… LIXIL CEO Asia Pacific Bijoy Mohan
What’s next evolution or revolution in the bathroom? Is it a good thing if your toilet can give personal feedback on your health? How much do you want to know? LIXIL Asia Pacific CEO BIjoy Mohan shares.
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5 Minutes With… Yuichiro Hori of Stellar Works
We catch up with the furniture brand’s Shanghai-based Japanese founder and CEO, and hear about manufacturing with high volume and a crafted character in China.
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5 Minutes With … Benjamin Hubert Of LAYER
With AXYL, his new range of furniture in collaboration with Allermuir, Benjamin Hubert reinforces the importance of substance, style and sustainability.
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5 Minutes With… Myanmar Interior Designer Mya Myitzu
We speak to Yangon-based interior designer Mya Myitzu about her studio M.ID, what it’s like to practice in Myanmar, and what the profession needs for industry growth.
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5 Minutes With… Robert Price
The new HASSELL Principal talks about technology, fashion and taking a multi-disciplinary approach to design.
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5 Minutes With… Ron Gilad
Israeli designer Ron Gilad is known for walking the line between function and abstraction with great poetry. We chatted to him at the Molteni&C stand at the Salone del Mobile about his new Teorema cabinet.
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5 Minutes With… Tamaki Design Studio
They have two new products for Living Divani about to be launched in Milan and a profile that’s on the up. Ahead of the fair, we spoke to Tamaki Design Studio and confirmed why they’re solidly on our radar.
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5 Minutes With… Angelo Meroni of Lema
The made-to-measure Armadio al Centimetro – Wardrobe by the Centimetre – has been the hallmark of Italian brand Lema for 30 years. We chatted with third-gen owner Angelo Meroni about Lema’s latest innovations and plans for Milan.
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5 Minutes With… Patricia Urquiola!
We chatted with the illustrious designer Patricia Urquiola at the Space Furniture showroom and asked her to share her view of future living and why she thinks we are the last generation that will die.
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5 Minutes With… Ole Scheeren
Recently in Singapore to present a keynote at Art Stage 2018, Ole Scheeren shares some insights on some of his latest projects, Asian cities and creating an open relationship between a building and its urban context.
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5 Minutes With… Nina Maso
One of the founders of Spanish furniture and lighting brand Santa and Cole shares the company’s ‘editorial’ process and her thoughts on product fairs today.
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5 Minutes With… Daan Roosegaarde
One of the most colourful personalities in the 2017-2018 President’s Design Award jury, Daan Roosegaarde talks about upgrading reality through his works in Asia and beyond.
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5 Minutes With… Virginia Lung and Ajax Law of One Plus Partnership
One Plus Partnership founders Virginia Lung and Ajax Law share about retail design in the age of e-commerce, design awards in Asia and the latest of over 500 international awards the Hong Kong-based studio has won.
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5 Minutes With … Scholten & Baijings!
After the release of Herman Miller’s new ColourForm Sofa Group earlier this year, we sit down with the team that collaborated on this landmark design feat: dynamic Dutch duo Scholten & Baijings!
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5 Minutes With… Luke Yeung from Architectkidd
We find out how a Hong Kong-born designer finds design inspiration in the imperfections of Bangkok.
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5 Minutes With… Jean-Marie Massaud
Ever present in a conversation with Jean-Marie Massaud is a ‘big picture’ view of the purpose and potential of design in the world today. Indesignlive.sg caught up with him during his recent trip to Singapore.
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5 Minutes With… Landscape Architect Pok Kobkongsanti of TROP
Simon N. Ostheimer speaks with one of Thailand’s foremost landscape architects about luck, the future of his profession, and what needs to be done to improve Bangkok’s public spaces.
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5 Minutes with… Pietro and Giuliano Galimberti
Two of the most important members of Flexform’s founding family were in town to celebrate the opening of the brand’s Singapore flagship. We asked them to share some insights on their family business and the secret to its longevity.
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5 Minutes With … Keith Melbourne!
In the lead up to his launch of Pino for Zenith, we sat down with Keith Melbourne to get a behind the scenes glance of the designer at work.
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5 Minutes with… Chang Yong Ter, CHANG Architects
Meet the winners of The Living Space award: Chang Architects.
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5 Minutes with… Nani Marquina
Yvonne Xu catches up with Nani Marquina, who was recently in town for Singapore Design Week and to conduct a workshop at Space Asia Hub.
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5 Minutes With… Kenneth Cobonpue
Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue tells us what inspires him, and his thoughts on the Asian design landscape.
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5 Minutes with studioKALEIDO
Winnie Wu of up-and-coming design and communications practice studioKALEIDO shares with us her most memorable project, top influences and more.
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5 Minutes with Takenouchi Webb
Meet designers Marc Webb and Naoko Takenouchi, the husband-and-wife team behind Singapore-based studio Takenouchi Webb.
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5 Minutes With… Singapore’s Designers
Over the years, designers in Singapore have shared with us their work, dreams, hopes, and thoughts on design. We recap the moments.
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5 Minutes With… Ineke Hans
Dutch designer Ineke Hans has collaborated with some of Europe’s most recognisable brands. Her projects centre around pictograms and archetypes, and are often clear and almost graphical. We got her to spill the beans on work and life during her recent visit to Singapore.
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5 Minutes with… Chris Lee
Asylum’s founder and creative director tells Indesignlive.asia his plans for 2013.
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5 Minutes With… Koh Hong Teng
Singapore’s everyday spaces are a constant inspiration to artist Koh Hong Teng, who meticulously documents the ordinary.
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5 Minutes with… Louise Campbell
Louise Campbell’s recent LC Shutters pendant lamp for Louis Poulsen captured our attention for its bold and playful exploration of material and manufacturing processes. Here the English/Danish designer opens up to Indesignlive.asia.
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5 Minutes With… Larry Peh
&Larry looks to create works that are honest, functional and expressive beyond aesthetics. The studio’s diverse portfolio includes everything from posters and print campaigns to Singapore-inspired art objects. Here, its Creative Director Larry Peh takes 5 with Indesignlive.asia…
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5 Minutes With… Plystudio
Plystudio’s Victor Lee and Jacqueline Yeo operate within the inter-related fields of interiors, architecture and urbanism; they constantly seek to question prevailing types and redefine typological constructs in the work they do.
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5 Minutes with… FARM
The 4 founders of FARM collectively chat about their projects, favourite things, and how they work.
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5 Minutes with… PHUNK
The multidisciplinary collective chats about current and dream projects, their rock and roll ethos, and more…
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5 Minutes with… Studio Juju
Timo Wong and Priscilla Lui of Studio Juju talk about their upcoming projects, favourite landmarks, and more.