David Ericsson (b 1977 in Sweden) has always been fascinated with the process of creating products, from idea to delivery to the end user. After graduating as an engineer from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, he started to work for one of Sweden’s largest industrial design firms, where he gradually shifted his attention towards design. With a technical background, his design approach is often to keep things as simple as possible, but with a unique twist.

www.voidwatches.com

Catalyst is a lifestyle accessories brand founded by adventure enthusiasts Josh Wright & June Lai to create innovative products that inspire people to go outside, experience adventure and connect with nature. As avid climbers and surfers, our values are to stay true to our roots, encourage people to explore, have fun outside, connect with others in our global community, and from a design perspective, to create products that are fun, pure and functional. Above all, we want to always be guided by our emotional connection to things that matter to us and our community.

The genesis of Catalyst began with our desire to make great products that we would love to use. We started in the waterproof space out of sheer interest. After extensive product development we launched our first waterproof iPhone case on Kickstarter called the EscapeCapsule. After being successfully crowd funded by an amazing community of backers, we have since been engaged in the relentless pursuit to innovate and improve upon our creation to bring you the best waterproof case on the market. Our new product is the culmination of everything that Catalyst is. We are committed to creating iconic products that enable you to stay connected no matter what your environment.

Stay tuned, there are much more to come.

www.catalystlifestyle.com

Innovation is always king!

C’monde Studios is a Swedish award-winning industrial design studio based in Hong Kong. Located at the doorstep of the world’s factory we assist our clients to brand, design and to develop their products in the most dynamic region of the world.

Our designs take its shape where business, technology and culture intersect. The process always begins with collecting knowledge from an array of different disciplines. The insight gained from this process is then used to structure the creative development.

The benefit we gain from this process is that it widens the space for innovation and our close vicinity to production increases the ability to take advanced concepts to the market.

For further inquires about our services please contact us direct, either by phone +852 9158 7315 or by mail to johan@cmonde.com

www.cmonde.com

entendre. (verb) to hear, to understand.

Entendre Studios: a creative consultancy specialising in the realisation of innovative and original ideas. Through engaging concepts, designs and brand identities, we are committed to the craft of creativity.

We’re born from a collective commitment to craftsmanship. Our team of artists, designers, brand gurus, new media whizzes and storytellers are woven together to provide you with a flexible and fresh approach to tangible and engaging creative solutions.

www.entedrestudios.com

Strategic conceptualist and a thinker who will follow through and deliver when thinking comes to doing.

With my years of experience in different creative disciplines I bring a powerful mix of industrial design, graphic design, brand management and a genuine passion for people and their relation to objects and services to the table. A few years in Hong Kong and China has also taught me the value of efficiently turning great designs into great products by being close to the production.

I believe that a healthy mix of brain, heart and hand topped off with a constant thirst for more knowledge about the world that surrounds us are the key ingredients for making a great designer!

Specialties:Industrial Design, Brand management, Graphic design, Packaging design, Ideation, Co-creation, Market analysis

Office for Product Design is a Hong Kong based design studio formed by Nicol Boyd and Tomas Rosén, who originally began their collaboration while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. With a focus on exploring and developing thoughtful objects and their associated experiences, the office works in close collaboration with a diverse but discerning clients list across a wide range of product typologies, including home ware, consumer electronics, furniture, lighting and interiors. Their work has been widely publicised and recognised with several international design awards, like iF Gold Award, Good Design Award (G-Mark), Red Dot, Designpreis Deutschland, Design Plus, Design for Asia Award, HKDA Award etc.

Nicol Boyd was born in Scotland and studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. After working for Alessi in Italy, IDEO in the USA and Nokia in the UK, he established himself as a London based freelance designer working with international clients.

Tomas Rosén was born in Stockholm and originally studied philosophy and mechanical engineering before completing his postgraduate design studies at the Royal College of Art. He has previously worked for Volvo and Scania in his native Sweden and also as a senior designer at Nokia in London.

www.officeforproductdesign.com

Mass production is no longer the only game in town. Small bands of visionary designers in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and home offices around the world have bypassed corporate clients to reach consumers directly through the Internet. Outsourcing their production directly to low-cost Asian and digital suppliers, they are realizing the creative potential possible with personal control of your own micro-brand.

Drawing on his experience as a designer and educator living at the crossroads of East and West, Roger Ball, with his colleague, Heidi Overhill, brings you a vision of the myriad opportunities waiting for designers and entrepreneurs as they step forward into the new era of DesignDirect.

www.designdirect.com.hk

To photograph, is to confer the importance of humanity.

Photography pretty much fell on my lap. When looking back at how I became a photographer it’s almost like it rained on me. I am a self-taught photographer, I used to play around with my fathers old film cameras when I was a kid, and I picked up my first digital camera in Montreal towards the end of 2004. I’ve never really stopped shooting since. I have worked as a brand manager, designer, dancer, brand consultant, bubble-artist, and as a creative director before taking the leap and committing myself as a full time professional photographer in 2012. Frankly, I’ve never been happier since.

I was born and raised in Hong Kong, I’m 27 years old, my birth name is Victor Yu-wai Chiu and my friends call me Vic, I studied design and marketing in Montreal at Concordia University for 4 years, and had some truly inspiring teachers in and out of university across different industries that changed my goals along the way and have helped shape me to become the photographer, dancer, designer, creative consultant and bubble-smith that I am today.

What remained consistent throughout the years was shooting pictures, and trying to make the ones today better than yesterday. To date, I have had the pleasure to work with notable companies, brands, and artists, photographing for Lululemon, Savills, Li & Fung, WeSC, Gem Tang, David Escoe, Prodigy pianist Tsung Tsung, Varia Bortsova of Moscow City Ballet, and so on. Currently, I have also started a personal fine art photography series entitled “Dream-ville”.

Capturing subjects in their element, and keeping an image honest, is at the core of all of my images. Whether it’s a family portrait, a fashion editorial, a wedding shoot, fine art photography, or collaborating with another artist, each image tells its own story. I am completely soaked up in the idea of being a photographer and being able to tell stories through a lens, its rather beautiful. I think there are no ordinary moments.

– iamyu

www.iamyufotos.com

www.moustachehongkong.com

Tangram is a Hong Kong-based contemporary fashion label. We create beautifully functional clothing and accessories for women, crafted with great care using handpicked materials and unique prints.

www.tngrm.net

“We´ll Do The Battle – You´ll Get The Fame!”

BORIS has Swedish roots and a mind of a Globalist.

We are a strong design team made up by in-house designers and a network of talented consultants. This makes Boris able to take on the BIG challenges.

Hong Kong is considered to be our home but we like to travel. Flexibilty is the key to make international product developments a smooth ride for all parts involved.

www.borisdesignstudio.com

Always the entertainer, Ceet, can often be found telling an animated tale to a crowd of wide-eyed listeners. The ending is always the same as the audience doubles over in laughter, and a big grinemerges from the face of the world’s leading graffiti and contemporary artist, Ceet Fouad. Ceet’s voracious appetite for life began in Toulouse,France, where he was born 40 years ago to parents of North African origin. He spent his early years painting graffiti on any and all inanimatesurfaces in his home town with his street crew, Truskool and Trumac.

His graffiti style reflects his energetic personality and approach to life. Largely based on an interplayof colors and wild style lettering, the finished product is controlled and mechanically executed, yet sophisticated in the design style and finish. Ceet is not one to sugar coat the truth, and his work often reveals a brutal honesty about experiences from his own life. He has experimented with a variety of mediums; murals, sculptures, graphic design and canvases, through which he exposes his hopes, failures and opinions with his audience.

Since the mid-80s, he has focused on his canvas work through a mixed use of acrylic, oil and spray paint. Striving for perfection, Ceet pays meticulous attention to each canvas detail and uses every inch of space to reveal his expressions on life. The quality of his creations have not gone unnoticed, as invitations from galleries, contemporary art shows and lifestyle brands have confirmed his place on the international stage of contemporary artists to watch and follow. A trip to China in xzy captivated his love for raw energy and in 2003, Ceet left France to share his talents and passion for contemporary art with China. Since 2003, he’s been very active in China with diverse exhibitions, events and artistic performances. Advertising companies and lifestyle brands also call on his talent and has been an art ambassador to global brands such asAdidas, Airbus, Ecko, Loewe, Moiselle, and Prada as an art

Ceet belongs to the group of internationally acknowledged contemporary artists, his work is shown in numerous international graffiti and street art exhibitions around the globe.

www.megaceet.com

My name is Taura Edgar and I started Digital Devotee to help businesses express their brand and get things done on the web. That starts with identifying their target audience, crafting the message that will achieve their business goals while maintaining a genuine brand voice and translating those into a digital marketing strategy that goes places.

Digital Devotee provides digital marketing services from designing and building simple websites to creating complex social media customer service capabilities.  I work with my direct clients to create digital brand and customer experiences or in-house as a consultant to improve digital business and operations, train staff, and analyze resourcing. Clients include: Haymarket Media, Burson Marsteller PR, ICLP loyalty agency, Howse Williams Bowers law firm, Blue Mount visual merchandising agency, Stanley Veterinary Clinic. See our recent work.

I am a digital marketing professional based in Hong Kong since 1998. My experience spans digital marketing, branding, PR, advertising, customer service, loyalty, and media. I have developed and led digital teams to grow brands and I have a keen interest in brand communications, digital strategy, customer service for social media and how those can work together with CRM to enhance customer experience / retention.  I value long-term vision of enriching customer experience to extend loyalty above short-term fixes (though we all get to do those too!)  Clients in my previous life include 7-Eleven, Chloe, CNN, CSL mobile operator, Intel, Jebsen luxury and industrial products group, SunLife insurance, Synovate research, ZUJI online travel.

www.digitaldevotee.com

What started me as a junior copywriter in London many many many years ago was the challenge of the creative brief. Solving client problems with fresh ideas. That passion remains with me over 25 years later. Throughout the (relatively) few companies whereby I have applied this passion, and having reached the top several times over, including worldwide creative board, I have never been afraid to go back to square one and start the challenge, and prove myself, all over again. I believe you never stop learning. I also believe in dedicated client relationships built on mutual respect. And that is the drive that was the catalyst for Kymechow.

www.kymechow.com

We aim to connect with traditions whilst always having something new to say. We identify ourselves as a link between craft, industry, design and users and seek to stimulate a dialogue through our work.

Latitude 22N is a Hong Kong based design company established in 2008 by designer and artist duo Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin. Named Latitude to reflect on the diverse backgrounds of the founders and of their collaborative partners, and 22N for the latitude of Hong Kong, we offer a range of contemporary and creative porcelain dinnerware, home decor, accessories and lighting under our brand Latitude 22N, very unique limited edition and experimental pieces under our label Julie & Jesse as well as bespoke designs.

We like to create our own, personal line of latitude, drawing upon our different cultures and experiences to find a new, fresh perspective on our own traditions. Our roots are anchored in local traditions and time-honored values. Our story is one of making. We create ceramic collections in which design and skill come together always seeking to work in places and with people with amazing history, stories and expertise. The creation of each item stems from the collaboration between the designers and the makers– it weaves and forms Latitude 22N’s story.

www.latitude22n.com

We aim to connect with traditions whilst always having something new to say. We identify ourselves as a link between craft, industry, design and users and seek to stimulate a dialogue through our work.

Latitude 22N is a Hong Kong based design company established in 2008 by designer and artist duo Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin. Named Latitude to reflect on the diverse backgrounds of the founders and of their collaborative partners, and 22N for the latitude of Hong Kong, we offer a range of contemporary and creative porcelain dinnerware, home decor, accessories and lighting under our brand Latitude 22N, very unique limited edition and experimental pieces under our label Julie & Jesse as well as bespoke designs.

We like to create our own, personal line of latitude, drawing upon our different cultures and experiences to find a new, fresh perspective on our own traditions. Our roots are anchored in local traditions and time-honored values. Our story is one of making. We create ceramic collections in which design and skill come together always seeking to work in places and with people with amazing history, stories and expertise. The creation of each item stems from the collaboration between the designers and the makers– it weaves and forms Latitude 22N’s story.

www.latitude22n.com

Henry Steiner is an Austrian graphic designer, best known for his corporate identity designs. He has created designs for some of the most identifiable brands, such as IBM, Hyatt Regency, Hilton Hotels, Dow Jones, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Unilever, and was commissioned to design the city’s bank notes by the Hong Kong government in 1975. Steiner was educated at the Sorbonne and at Yale. In 1964, he founded his own consultancy firm, Steiner&Co, in Hong Kong. Henry Steiner pioneered the expression of identity through branding, particularly in Asia where his skill for incorporating Eastern cultural symbols into Western design has garnered international acclaim. Steiner was included in Icograda’s list of the Masters of the 20th Century in 2002, and was named a World Master by Idea magazine.
www.steiner.hk

Angel investor-17 years in Asia-Part guru, Part student. CEO+Founder of NEST, investing in founders in Hong Kong, China www.nest.vc + Founder of www.fluidhk.com

Michael Young was born in 1966 in Sunderland, a small industrial city in the North-East of England. He graduated from Kingston University in 1992 and the following year, he founded the Michael Young Studio with the aim of providing exclusive, quality design services across an eclectic range of markets – from interiors to technology.
Michael Young quickly became one of the UK’s most sought-after young designers and revered retailers and institutions such as the Conran shop and the Pompidou Museum began demanding his work. He became known in the industry as a sophisticated minimalist acclaimed for his elegant, pared-down aesthetic design, which was in direct opposition to the elaborate style dominating London at the time.
After nearly a decade working across the UK and Iceland, Michael was enticed to Asia by his passion for pioneering technology, and in 2006 set up a studio in Hong Kong. Today Michael Young Studio is considered to be one of the most exciting and formidable design companies operating in Asia, responsible for designing award-winning icons for its clients that last a lifetime and are presented in museums globally.
Over the past 20 years Michael Young has established himself as one of the leading international figures in his field continuing to push the boundaries of experimental design. The studio specialises in creating modern design through exploring the endless possibilities Asia’s technological ingenuity provides. Propelled by the momentum created through collaboration with Chinese industrialists, the studio captures the strengthening ties between local industry and design, and exemplifies the skills of Asia’s industrial innovation.
The result is work that transcends design by harnessing some of the highest and most innovative manufacturing skills to create Industrial Art. Michael Young’s vibrant imagination and his continued ability to innovate and take a fresh approach to a seamless blending of East and West is what keeps his work relevant and increasingly in demand across all continents.
“It is design as Industrial Art that interests me, not just as a limited edition, but on a scale of mass production.” – Michael Young
www.michael-young.com

Sandy Choi Associates Limited opened its doors on July 5, 1997,immediately following Hong Kong’s handover to China, making it the first graphic consultancy to be established in Hong Kong, China.
Sandy Choi Associates Limited has won local and internationalaccolades including awards from British D&AD, New York Art Directors Club, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, HKDA and HK4As.
Founder Sandy Choi earned his degree in graphic design at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, England. He is also a member of British D&AD,New York Art Directors Club and the Hong Kong Designers Association.
www.sandychoi.com