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The Jury Session of President’s Design Award 2016 has ended, following three days of sparkling presentations by shortlisted nominees, intense deliberation by the jurors and full-house audiences at the Jurors’ Forums. Here, a photo album of the best moments of…

Architects Chan Soo Khian, Kerry Hill and Richard Rogers took a reprieve from appraising the nominees for President’s Design Award 2015, to present to a full-house audience at the URA Centre on 1 July, their perspectives on the state of…

“Can the designer save the world?” A panel of international speakers – in Singapore for the Jury Session of the President’s Design Award 2014 – presented their perspectives on the topic to a full-house public audience at The URA Centre,…

On 1 Aug at the URA Centre, an international panel of speakers (in Singapore for the Juror’s Session of the President’s Design Award 2013) addressed a full-house public audience, the transformative role of design. In this second of a two-part series, we…

On 1 Aug at the URA Centre, an international panel of speakers (in Singapore for the Juror’s Session of the President’s Design Award 2013) addressed a full-house public audience, the transformative role of design. In this first of a two-part series, we…

Owners of food manufacturing and food services can use design thinking to help expand their operations, develop off-shoot businesses or even invent yet-unknown flavours that tantalise the taste bud. The Design Thinking & Innovation Academy (DTIA) and Enivrance, an innovation…

Professor Masayo Ave, a renowned design educator from Japan, held 50 school children in awe at the recently-concluded ManyWaysOfSeeing series of workshops. Conducted at the DesignSingapore Council, the objective of the sensory-based design workshops was to cultivate wonder and imagination…

Asian designers should rise to the demands of flourishing Asian markets through design and innovation. International design experts at the inaugural President’s Design Award Jurors’ Forum urged the 250-strong participants to tap on their cultures so as to innovate and…