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Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines
One of Asia’s premier design festivals that champions design thought leadership
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Design as a Force for Good

DesignSingapore (Dsg) Scholars Lim Si Ping and Ong Kian Peng harbour a profound passion for design and the transformative impact of technology. United by a shared commitment to harmonising art, technology, and environmental consciousness, their collective aspiration is to drive positive change through their design endeavours.

Our DesignSingapore Scholars

The DesignSingapore Council works with designers in Singapore to make the world better by design. Through the DesignSingapore Scholarship, we have empowered individuals to pursue studies in a wide variety of design disciplines all around the world since 2005. Meet our past and present scholars and be inspired by the impact they have made on Singapore and its design industry. 

Ng Fong Yee Wants to Empower Kids to Design a Better Future  

It is time that society takes children more seriously, says the designer who has learnt much from her years of teaching them. It has even led the DesignSingapore Scholar to further her studies in child culture design so she can eventually design with children as equal members of society.

Better through Design

Design is more than ideas given form. From product design, service design, and even user experience design, there are countless ways in which good design can create value—something which an increasing number of organisations are starting to recognise.

Reviving ageing malls in Web 3.0 

Find out how technology can be designed for ageing strata malls to connect them to a younger generation  Shop at familiar names such as Hup Kee Centre, which has supplied traditional Chinese wedding offerings in the Beauty World area since…

Cooler buildings through elephant skins

Why biomimicry principles for buildings are good for the environment, and good for you.  Architects and designers in Singapore have long designed with plants and foliage as inspiration as seen from the city’s lush green environment.   What is newer is…

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President*s Design Award
Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines
One of Asia’s premier design festivals that champions design thought leadership
National Design Centre