Designers are known for their love of solving problems. With bright minds and lit up eyes, they are able to derive gaps and insights with ideas and concepts to follow through.

However, how do you manage stakeholders after presenting great ideas?

Social responsibility may be easy to say, but it’s harder to put it into practice. How can we be kinder to not only our neighbours, but to everyone in our society?

The award was conceived in 1988 and unveiled by then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at the first Singapore International Design Forum. It honours outstanding individuals and companies for creating innovative designs and applying a human-centric approach. This year, we’ve changed the game to acknowledge the evolution of a designer’s role.

What does design mean in business? How can we diagnose problems, discover insights and come up with creative solutions that may simplify processes or spring forth new business trajectories?

ASEAN Design Forum is a collaboration with ASEAN Design Center. The webinar aims to promote partnership between Japan and ASEAN Korea’s creative industries through introducing excellent design products in ASEAN.

For those interested in the creative industry and good design, those interested in importing and selling design products, educational institutions and research institutions related to design are the main targets. We look forward to seeing you.

Join our Singapore Good Design 2021 winners – One Bite Design Studio and M. Moser Associates in this webinar to consider how design can balance work and play in both social and office spaces. Siu Hei Court Playspace is a fine example of how small changes can lift us up and create a huge impact on community sustainability. Spotify office in Singapore shows us why listening is everything with the reinforcement of its identity as a vibrant, playful and collaborative company.

Inviting back our Singapore Good Design 2021 winners, let us delve deeper into understanding how they have used problem solving through design thinking to meet the needs of users. Lonesome Hotel, our Platinum winner, shows that design is more about empathy than mere aesthetics. Gold award recipient, Kohler Struktura Hygiene Urinal, satisfied an underserved need by directly engaging with users on their unique concerns.

It was such a delightful evening last Thursday to hold our first FTF members’ workshop & networking session in almost 2 years. We could feel it in the house at DBCS Circle Connects.

A webinar where conversations centre on how designers can nurture and strengthen empathy, compassion in our common spaces.

Designers have the power to create spaces that can foster stronger bonds in the community, to celebrate diversity, create meaning, and inspire change.