Business of Design Week

8 Dec 2012

What if you built a ping pong table with a belly and a reflective surface? What if you built a bicycle without wheels? What if you built a building that you would be proud to put on a postage...

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Design dreams for Hong Kong

7 Dec 2012

Denmark and Hong Kong have joined hands for this year's Business of Design Week, where industry big names rub shoulders with rising young designers.

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Danes the highlight of Business of Design Week

28 Nov 2012

When Copenhagen-based architect Rosan Bosch was commissioned to design the interiors of a school in Stockholm, she introduced a giant iceberg with a cinema, a room for relaxation and recreation,...

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40 events will highlight creative industry in 2012

20 Mar 2012

A year-long series of more than 40 events linked to design will put the growth of Hong Kong's creative industry in the spotlight.

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Creative types welcome some top-notch overseas talent and celebrate taking a good look at design

5 Dec 2011

A line-up of top-notch international designers gave the city's creative types plenty to look forward to at the annual Business of Design Week.

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Design experts to share ideas

28 Nov 2011

Some of design's biggest names will be in town to share their knowledge from today until Saturday.

For the ninth year, the Hong Kong Design Centre is holding the Business of Design...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Danish innovation centre looks to design creativity

The floor is covered by a grass print carpet, on which adjustable-height desks that allow workers to do their jobs standing up - improving blood circulation - are piled neatly.

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Design week focus on art of business

An annual design extravaganza taking place next week will showcase the best of local and international talent and their work, but it is not an all-purpose event for everyone, the organiser says...

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Showcase has designs on cultivating asia's rise

'I think it is a great effort to try and close the gap between design and business,' says the award-winning anonymous Japanese designer behind the Nosigner label, just one of the high-profile...

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City takes a DETOUR to discover new talent

Overlapping Business of Design Week is DETOUR (www.detour.hk), the annual flagship programme of the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design (HKAoD).

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Annual event designed for excellence

More than 100 eminent designers from around the world will bring inspiring ideas together at one of the city's annual design events next month.

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Capsule hotel the snug thing for those who just want to sleep and leave

If actor George Clooney had shot Up in the Air - in which his character lives out of a suitcase - in Kyoto, he could have checked into the Nine Hours capsule hotel.

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