Celebrating Emerging Design Talents K11 Design Month Collaborates with the Best Creative Forces in the Region
(14 August 2013, Hong Kong) In the vibrant arts hub of Hong Kong, K11 has established itself as a synergised platform for artists, designers and design-minded businesses to promote their work and services – creating opportunities to launch new products and contribute to the wider creative character of this city. Building on the incredible success of last year’s Design Month, this September, K11 is bringing back the popular event for the second time and incorporating it into an annual month long celebration of design and creativity. From exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, a pop-up design store to the celebrated annual Design Mart, this year’s K11 Design Month will offer a high calibre programme that promises to challenge, excite and broaden the horizons of all involved.
In a collaborative effort between K11 and the region’s best creative forces, universities and design organisations, K11 strives to create awareness of the achievements of the local industry as well as facilitate the public to think and discuss critically about design and living.
2013 China-Korea Outstanding Design Graduation Exhibition
Date: 7 September – 6 October 2013
Locations: K11 art space (7 Sep-6 Oct)
Atrium (7 Sep-2 Oct)
Artists: Final year students from:
Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, China
School of Design, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
College of Design and Arts, Hongik University, Korea
College for Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Korea
Celebrating the talent and innovative works of the best final year art and design students from four top universities in Seoul and Beijing, this specially curated group degree show presents an exciting juxtaposition of mixed-media dialogues on creativity and human issues across two Asian cultures.
From explorations on pure psychological states, homage paid to the simple things the world takes for granted to commentaries made against materialism, the copy-happy digital age and our tendency to tolerate homogeneity, this multi-faceted degree show is an opportunity to discover emerging artists and designers, but also an eye-opening experience into the region’s art future.
Ilha Formosa — Infographics Exhibition of Tien-Min Liao’s Works
Date: 3 September – 31 October 2013
Location: K11 Showcases (G/F – L2)
Artist: Tien Min Liao (Taipei/US)
Discover more about Taiwan with New York-based communication designer Tien-Min Liao’s book Ilha Formosa via Mobile APPortfolio, a travelling exhibition organized by APPortfolio. Harbouring an intention to promote knowledge and understanding of her beloved home country through beautiful design, Liao has produced a finely crafted booklet with beautiful paperfold landscapes and vivid infographics.
Mark Sanders Energetic Ride Exhibition
From Classical to Electrical
Date: 3 August – 22 September 2013
Location: K11 Design Store
K11 Design Store is thrilled to bring in a revolutionary design classic, the STRiDA foldable bike, to celebrate the Design Month. Invented by British innovator Mark Sanders to address his tough commute into the city, STRiDA completely re-shaped the bicycle geometry with its clean, elegant and portable solution. Since its conception in the ‘80s, the belt-driven A-shaped bicycle has remained as one of the most aesthetic foldable bike designs the world has seen.
Swap It With U
A Collaboration between Alan Chong and Hong Kong Design Institute
Date: 23-30 September 2013
Award ceremony: 26 September 2013
Location: K11 Design Store
Artist: Alan Chong and HKDI students
Hong Kong designer Alan Chong has taken a revolutionary approach to clock design, adding an element of whimsy to this mundane product with his Swap clock series. Designed with swappable clock faces, Swap is Chong’s studio’s best-seller design. This year, to celebrate his innovation, Chong launched the “Swap it with U” clock design competition together with the Hong Kong Design Institute. The 20 winning designs by HKDI’s students will be on view and audiences can bring one home from the K11 Design Store. All proceeds gained from sales will go to the Watchdog Early Education Centre.
Design Mart 2013
Date: 4-6 October 2013
Location: Atrium, G/F-2/F
Attracting 120 designers, 81 stalls and over 150,000 of attendees, the annual Design Mart, hosted for the first time ever at K11 last year, was hugely popular. Building on last year’s phenomena, Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) and K11 have come together again to hold this popular event at K11 Art Mall, the befitting crowd-drawing platform for artists, emerging designers, design entrepreneurs to show and sell their products to the public.
The theme of this year’s Design Mart is “Embracing Design. Embracing Life”. The underlying message is: how good design can help attain tangible and sustainable improvements to our living environment. A truly good design, as oppose to “consumer excess” design is created by everybody for everybody, and solving a real human problem on life, such as scarce resources and related environmental issues.
For enquiries, please contact K11’s Customer Service Hotline (852) 3118 8070, refer to the posters in K11 or visit K11’s official website: www.k11.com.
The latest happenings at K11 Art Mall will also be publicised at K11 TV (www.K11TV.com).
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