A potent mix of sustainable design, social and environmental care, behavioural nudges, and future visioning bubbles beneath the surface at multidisciplinary design studio Forest & Whale. For Co-founders Wendy Chua and Gustavo Maggio, design for twenty-first-century realities is a process of interdisciplinary collaboration, conversation, and exchange.

How do we perceive of lines, space, and even fabric? What sorts of forms are possible with three-dimensional automated knitting?

The Co-founder and Creative Director of design and advertising agency Kinetic Singapore believes that creativity, like good storytelling, balances intelligence and emotion – and is key for everyone, regardless of whether or not they are a designer.

Few designers are able to navigate the complex matrix of identity and culture as deftly as Jackson Tan. From branding products to branding a nation, he has created visual identities so crystallising that they become part of culture.