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By ROBERT HORN March 6, 2019 Inclusion: It’s a worthy concept to encourage political participation, improve economic policy, and make life fairer in myriad other ways. But in the field of design, inclusion can be a source of innovation, too,…

BY: SHEERE NG, Tuck ShopPHOTOS BY: JOVIAN LIMPUBLISHED BY:  By Design: SINGAPORE Kitchen utensils are common across the world. But look closer and you’ll find variations born out of cultural differences. In Singapore, our hawkers have fed several generations with their tasty meals…

By ROBERT HORN March 7, 2018 Kashiwa Sato sees the world through icons, and just about anything can be an icon, the leading Japanese designer told the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on Wednesday. “The purpose of branding is to…

When Rod Farmer’s team developed Augmented Reality (AR) for a four-wheel drive across the Sahara, they found that people were uncomfortable when their view of themselves through the headsets was without arms. In the second version they gave them arms,…

What makes a building? Pillars to support the structure. A beautiful façade. And a roof overhead. At the Brainstorm Design Conference 2018, Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio gave a glimpse of how he has re-interpreted these. We set forward the unique…

Local designers can be found in a myriad of interesting locations, from restored heritage shophouses to 4-room HDB flats. If you’ve been following us on our feature series on designers, you may consider yourself experienced enough to skip past taking…

By ELI MEIXLER March 8, 2018 User experience has already been established as a battleground for companies to distinguish themselves in the world of digital design. But new technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and “Internet of Things” devices are presenting…

By DEBBIE YONG March 8, 2018 Grandiose architecture may help to put cities on the global design map, but it is in the spaces in between them that a city is truly nurtured, according to veteran British design Nigel Coates.…