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An information designer and renowned sculptor, our 2016 DesignSingapore Council Scholarship holder Qixuan Lim talks to us about her different creative pursuits, her enriching learning experiences in The Netherlands, and breaking new ground with user-experience design. Qixuan has always been…

Last month, Wildlife Reserves Singapore announced that one of its hornbills, Jary, had survived cancer and was courting a female Great Pied Hornbill. Read this story extracted from By Design: SINGAPORE, Reframing What Design Is to find out how designers worked behind…

Renowned designer Juliana Ong shares the instinctive genius behind her famous markings, working with Swatch and other big brand names, and the journey that started it all. Juliana Ong began her foray into a creative practice when she picked up…

This year’s Singapore Design Week will once again feature SingaPlural, which is organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council. This year’s edition, themed Unnatural Phenomena, explores the origins and evolutions of novel new design species, forged by unorthodox collaborations that…

Our 2018 DesignSingapore Council Scholar opens up about his award-winning designs, exciting adventures in dumpster-diving for project materials, and hopes for the growing industry. Kevin Chiam’s proclivity for design began as a child, where his curiosity about the world around…

Facing a career crossroad after nearly 10 years of chugging along in the print and publishing sector, Huang Weiming, a SkillsFuture Study Award for Design recipient, was re-inspired when he attended a course on user experience. He shares his story…

How do you add a touch of Asian culture to an iconic European design? Jarrod Lim Studio created one of the top designs at the recent Sacco Bean Bag for Design Showcase, organised by W.Atelier and Zanotta, and supported by…

When Kevin Chiam was a teenager, he saw his father fixing their sofa. The older Mr Chiam, who always loved DIY, had removed the sofa’s upholstery to fix it – revealing the furniture’s internal structure. This intrigued the teen enough…