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The First Campaign of Hong Kong Design Centre at 7 Mallory Street DESIGN SPECTRUM: A New Design Initiative Opens Today

• Debut Thematic Exhibition Features Nearly 100 Design Objects Made of Bamboo, Paper and Wood

• Internationally Renowned Local Architect William Lim Designs Unique Flower Plaque Installation to Honour Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage

• Workshops by Design Heavyweights Zhang Lei from Hangzhou and Richard Wang from Taiwan to Invigorate Hong Kong’s Creative Energy

(July 19, 2019, Hong Kong) Since its establishment in 2001, the Hong Kong Design Centre has been the key driving force in establishing Hong Kong as a centre of design excellence in Asia, promoting the use of design and innovation to drive value creation and improve the well-being of society while connecting Hong Kong innovative designs with the rest of the world. To further its mission, the Hong Kong Design Centre will partner with the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) ), with the sponsorship from Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government), to inaugurate the large-scale design campaign Design Spectrum at 7 Mallory Street, URA’s first preservation-revitalisation project comprising a cluster of 10 pre-war Grade II historic buildings built in the 1910s. Dignitaries including the Honourable Dr. Bernard Chan, JP, Under Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the HKSAR Government, Mr. Ben Lui, Executive Directors of the Urban Renewal Authority, Prof. Eric Yim, JP, Chairman of Hong Kong Design Centre, Ms. Amy Chow, Curator of Design Spectrum, Mr. Richard Wang, founder of Pinmo Design and Pinmo Pure Store of Taiwan, Mr. William Lim, renowned artist and Founder and Managing Director of CL3 Architects Ltd, Ms. Kim Hyun Joo, Founder of Kim HyunJoo Studio – KHJ of Korea, Dr. Allan Ting, Design Director of ADARC International Studio were among those in attendance at the Opening Ceremony today to officially kick off this campaign. The Honourable Dr. Bernard Chan, JP, Acting Secretary for Commerce and Economic Devel-opment of the HKSAR Government, said: “Located in this historic building-turned-creative landmark at No. 7 Mallory Street, this new year-round initiative organised by Hong Kong Design Centre will be yet another platform to nurture local creative capitals and cultivate a creative atmosphere within and with the community. Through a year-long series of thematic design exhibitions showcasing good designs from Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, ASEAN region and other international partners, the public will get a chance to enjoy and appreciate quality design from around the world right at their doorstep.” Prof. Eric Yim, JP, Chairman of HKDC, said: “As the first public platform of Hong Kong Design Centre, Design Spectrum is a new design initiative revolving around the theme of Asian design philosophy. We will organise a series of year-round exhibitions, workshops and seminars to showcase Asian arts and crafts, design and aesthetics while exploring how these elements are integrated into people’s daily lives, and how design culture contributes to the community and cultural tourism.” Curated by Amy Chow, a world-renowned interdisciplinary design expert, Design Spectrum will roll out a series of exhibitions with four unique themes, namely materials, reading, lifestyles and creative industries. The debut exhibition entitled Material Modernity: Incredible Bamboo, Paper & Wood looks at the visual culture and language of Asian design through material innovation. This will be

followed by the second exhibition that guides design enthusiasts through the rich and fine details of design by reinventing reading space and reading culture. The third exhibition of the series explores the role of design in connecting humans with life community. The exhibition series will be concluded with a showcase of the implementation of design that leads to the development of cultural and creative industries and promotion of Asian design. Material Modernity: More than 90 exhibits that demonstrate the happy marriage between traditional materials and innovative designs The debut exhibition Material Modernity: Bamboo, Paper & Wood, which runs from July 19 to September 8, 2019, looks into the visual culture and language of Asian design through material innovation. Bamboo might not be the finest raw material but its abundant use across Asian countries have been giving inspirations to generations of designers and architects as well as artists and craftsmen. Wood adds warmth and vitality and paper brings friendliness and charm. The exhibition explains how Asian designers have been making great use of these materials to appeal to and innovate traditional sensibilities. The exhibition features more than 90 award-winning designs by designers from across Asia, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, The Mainland, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Design enthusiasts will enjoy a design extravaganza that travels through the similarities and differences among different cultures while experiencing the individuality and cultural identities embodied in designers’ creations. A unique art installation by renowned architect William Lim to be unveiled alongside authentic Hong Kong designs by young designers Design Spectrum is honoured to feature a unique art installation by the internationally renowned architect, spatial designer and artist William Lim. An award-winning local architect and the recipient of 2017 Chinese Design of the Year, Lim utilises bamboo to build an artistic flower plaque installation, created especially for this campaign. Lim stated that bamboo is a versatile and environmental-friendly material, which is widely used in Hong Kong’s construction industry and bamboo is arguably the most symbolic material that can represent Hong Kong. Flower plaque, on the other hand, is another important cultural symbol of the city. Hence, the commission work “The Flower Plaque” is a key fixture of the local traditional celebratory and festive events. Commissioned by Design Spectrum, Lim skillfully unites bamboo and flower plaque together by creating an inviting flower plaque installation with bamboo, paying tribute to the art of bamboo scaffolding and Hong Kong cultural heritage. Innovative designs from homegrown young designers will be also displayed in the Design Showcase of Design Spectrum. Featured in the showcase are Aries Sin, founder of fashion brand MODEMENT, the recipient of the bronze award of “Design for Asia Award 2013”; candle and fragrance studio BeCandle founder Xavier Tsang, winner of the DFA Young Design Talent Special Mention Award 2013; and jewellery brand AOGP founder Maggie Tse, who was named one of the “Next Generation of Design Talent—40 under 40” by Perspective Magazine in 2014. Workshops by top designers from Hangzhou and Taiwan to invigorate Hong Kong design Design Spectrum will also offer a series of workshops and seminars to design enthusiasts and industry practitioners. Some highlighted workshops include:

Taiwanese creative studio Pinmo Design and Pinmo Pure Store founder and creative director Richard Wang Ching-fu will be hosting Sun Tanning Design Workshop to share design inspirations drawn from the glorious pathway of sunshine, in order to promote a simplistic lifestyle that brings humans back to nature. “Designer Sharing: Material Modernity” will be co-hosted by Zhang Lei, founder of the Hangzhou-based studio Pinwu, and renowned Hong Kong designer Freeman Lau. The two design heavyweights will respond to the exhibition Material Modernity while sharing their design stories about raw materials bamboo, wood and paper, dissecting the secrets behind developing design objects into a sustainable industry. Besides, Homegrown talents Aries Sin, Xavier Tsang and Maggie Tse will be taking participants on a creative trip to create the authentic Wan Chai flavour in Design Lifestyle Workshop. “Meet the Designer: Exhibition Sharing” offers a valuable opportunity to the public to learn about the creative inspirations and journeys of exhibiting designers. “IDK Design Thinking Workshop: Materials Inspired by Nature” will be offering design solutions in the style of collaborative creation, allowing participants to discover the possibilities of various raw materials. Design Spectrum will offer free guided tours to visitors. The tour will take visitors through the exhibitions on the ground floor exhibition gallery and 3/F gallery while explaining the ideas and stories behind the designs. For media enquiries, please contact: Dynamic Duo (DDPR)

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Attachment 1: Details of DESIGN SPECTRUM Exhibition & Activities Material Modernity: Incredible Bamboo, Paper & Wood Exhibition

Date： 19 July 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

Time： 10am to 8pm

Location： Rm 301, 303, 305, 307, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai

Free Admission

The Flower Plaque x William Lim

Date： 19 July 2019 – 27 July 2019

Time： 10am to 10pm

Location： Public Open Space, G/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai

Free Admission Design Showcase by Local Design Power!

Meet the Designer: Exhibition Sharing

Date： 19 July 2019 Quota：30

Time： 5pm – 6pm Language：Cantonese / Putonghua / English

Location： Room 311, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

Sun Tanning Design Workshop（I）

Date： 20 July 2019 Quota：15 Pairs (For children 10 years of age or above; All children must be accompanied by parent.)

Time： 10:30am – 12:30pm Language：Putonghua

Location： Exhibition Area, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

Sun Tanning Design Workshop（II）

Date： 20 July 2019 Quota：25

Time： 2:30pm – 4:30pm Language：Putonghua

Location： Exhibition Area, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

Date： 19 July 2019 – 15 November 2019

Time： 10am to 8pm

Location： Shop 7, G/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Free Admission

Designer Sharing : Material Modernity

Date： 25 July 2019 Quota：50

Time： 6:30pm – 8:30pm Language：Putonghua / Cantonese

Location： Exhibition Area, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

IDK Design Thinking Workshop: Materials Inspired by Nature

Date： 10 August 2019 Quota：20

Time： 2:30pm – 5:30pm Language： Cantonese

Location： Exhibition Area, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

Design Lifestyle Workshop

Date： 24 August 2019 Quota：25

Time： 2:30pm – 4:30pm Language： Cantonese

Location： Exhibition Area, 3/F, 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai Online Registration, Free of Charge

For more information, please visit https://www.designspectrum.hk/.

Attachment 2: About participating designers

William Lim As Founder and Managing Director of CL3 Architects Ltd. (CL3), he has held several solo exhibitions showcasing his public art installations, most notably the Lantern Wonderland 2003 & 2011, Venice Biennale’s International Architectural Exhibition in 2006 & 2010, as well as Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in 2007, 2009 and 2017. His works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Chengdu, the United States and Holland. More recently, his signature piece, “West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre”, was awarded the Grand Award and Special Award for Culture in Design for Asia Award in 2013.

Richard Wang Ching-fu Wang is the founder of Pinmo Design and Pinmo Pure Store. He was formerly a lecturer at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and the Department of Applied Arts, Fu Jen Catholic University. His project, Sun Tanning, was awarded the most influential design at the Hong Kong Design Week. Wang was a guest speaker at TEDxKowloon in Hong Kong, and one of the panel judges for the Golden Pin Design Award, the Young Pin Design Award. He was the lecturer at the eslite forum, Shopping Design Business Academy among others. Wang founded Taiwan’s first paper lab in Taipei in 2011, which was then developed into a sophisticated online retail network focusing on lifestyle products that offer consumers creative solutions.

Kim HyunJoo Kim HyunJoo is a craft designer-maker focused on lifestyle items, furniture, tableware, and public facilities. Having won the prestigious Red-dot Design Concept Award for her innovative furniture design in 2008, in 2009 she determined to establish her own Design Studio in Seoul. Her love and obsession is nature and natural materials, mediated through contemporary life and the timeless Korean ethos. In this spirit in 2013 the Kim HyunJoo Studio – KHJ - launched lifestyle items, and range of works focused on the potential of the ambient beauty of nature in product design.

Freeman Lau Freeman Lau is a renowned artist and designer in Hong Kong. Freeman is currently the Founder of KL&K Creative Strategics, the Vice Chairman for the Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia), a Director of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), and the Secretary General of Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations (FHKDA). Since 1984, Freeman has won over 300 design awards and his design profession is developed in several fields. His most recent design achievements include “The Best Asian Designer” at the 2014 Asian Designers’ Invitational Exhibition in Korea endorsed by ico-D (2014), “Grand Award of DFA Design for Asia Awards” (2015), “iF Design Award” (2016) and the “Hong Kong Culture Creativity Industries Award” by the Asia Pacific Creativity Industries Association (2017).

Zhang Lei Founder of Rong Design Library & PINWU Design Studio, Chief Designer and Curator of Rong Exhibition & From Yuhang Plan. Rong Design Library has finished its research on representative handicraft materials in 31 provinces (municipalities) in China. Its core mission is to deconstruct the traditional Chinese handicrafts into materials and processes, provide the results of materials research to the world's designers and artists, and encourage them to apply the deconstruction thinking with traditional handicraft workshops.

Aries Sin Aries was already a fashion design enthusiast recognized by the sector over a number of scholarships and awards. Some of which had offered her valuable overseas working experience such as Peclers Paris. In 2013, she was awarded by “Perspective magazine” as the Next Generation of Design Talent – 40 under 40, and bronze award of “Design for Asia Award 2013”. Over the years, Aries’ unique unisex collections have been the favourites of local artists such as Miriam Yeung, Candy Lo, Denise Ho, Andy Hui, Endy Chow and Ellen Loo. Mode Creation Limited was established by Aries in the year of 2010, high quality production and people service is the heart of its design. The company which carries a home concept to promote “100% Design from Hong Kong”. Following this mission, a unique fashion label – MODEMENT was created into two directions: pre-a-porter line and bespoke service, creating fashionable and fresh new looks by blending fashion with tradition and creativity

Xavier Tsang Xavier graduated from Automation and Design Engineering in The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Furniture Design in Accademia Italiana D’arte, Moda e Design. He has been awarded the 40 UNDER 40 Award from Perspective Magazine (2013) and the Young Design Talent Special Mention Award (2013) by HKDC. After practising in the design industry for few years, he founded artisanal candle and fragrance brand BeCandle in 2012. The material focused and experimental approach of his works let the brand gain exposure in major exhibitions like Fuori Salone at The Milan Design Week, Maison & Objet in Paris, DMY Berlin, Tokyo Designers Week, Bangkok Design Week and The Cheongju Handcraft Biennale, etc..

Maggie Tse She graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with first class honours in a BA in fashion design before completing an MBA with a concentration in fashion business. From there, she expanded her horizons and honed her craft by designing womenswear and accessories for international brands including Lloyd, agnes b. Sport b. and Anteprima. She received the Young Talent Award (Outstanding student) from the Hong Kong Designers Association in 2002, was recognised in the Ten Best Collections by the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designer Contest in 2004, and was listed in the 40 under 40 awards by Perspective magazine in 2014. She founded jewellery label a o g p in 2013, and in 2019 renamed the brand A O G P , to reflect its new holistic lifestyle focus: a crafted modern touch for exceptional living.

About Design Spectrum Design Spectrum is a new initiative organized by Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) and sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government) to foster a good design culture in the community. Located in a revitalised cluster of Grade 2 historic buildings at 7 Mallory Street, Wan Chai, Design Spectrum features year-round exhibitions, exchanges, design appreciation and other promotion programmes to cultivate a creative atmosphere, while nurturing local creative capital. It serves as a unique public face for HKDC to strengthen linkages with the community and partners locally, in other cities of the Greater Bay Area, ASEAN cities and overseas, and contributes towards creative and cultural tourism. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.designspectrum.hk . About Amy Chow Amy Chow is an interdisciplinary design expert and connoisseur with achievements in multiple roles. Trained in multiple creative hubs like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Rome, Amy joined The Hong Kong Design Centre as Design and Project Director (2005-2012), overseeing the DFA Awards, research, professional training workshops and exhibitions. Over the last decade, she has spearheaded numerous critically acclaimed design exhibitions to the local and international audience, including Creative Hong Kong: Project 9707 (2007) which was seen in Vancouver, Milan, London, New York and Seoul, the six-month-long Creative Ecologies of Hong Kong: Business Living Creativity (2010) at the Shanghai World Expo, Creative Ecologies+ (2012) at The Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Imminent Domain: Designing the life of tomorrow (2013), at Asia Society Hong Kong Center and Confluence 20+ (2017), a monumental roving exhibition series which has travelled to Milan, Hong Kong, Seoul and Chicago. As an intellectual and academician, she has lectured in many design institutions and coordinated academic programs. About 7 Mallory Street Established in July 2013, 7 Mallory Street is a preservation-revitalisation project of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), comprising a cluster of 10 pre-war Grade II historic buildings built in the 1910s. After refurbishment by the URA, prominent features of the project such as cantilevered balconies, tiled pitched roofs, timber French doors and internal timber staircases are retained and preserved. 7 Mallory Street also serves as a multi-functional community space for various community, cultural, art and design programmes to take place. For more information, please visit the website at https://mallory.ura-vb.org.hk/. About Design Centre Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is a non-governmental organisation and was founded in 2001 as a strategic partner of the HKSAR Government in establishing Hong Kong as an international centre of design excellence in Asia. Our public mission is to promote wider and strategic use of design and design thinking to create business value and improve societal well-being, with the aim of advancing Hong Kong as an international design centre in Greater Bay Area and in Asia. For more information, please visit the website at: www.hkdesigncentre.org . About Create Hong Kong Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) is a dedicated agency set up by the HKSAR Government in June 2009. It is under the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and dedicated to spearheading the development of creative industries in Hong Kong. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community. CreateHK sponsors HKDC to organise various projects to promote Hong Kong design. CreateHK’s website: www.createhk.gov.hk. Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organizers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, CreateHK, the CreateSmartInitiative Secretariat or the CreateSmartInitiative Vetting Committee.