CHINA
BO ZHANG / Desz
As co-founder of creative studio Desz, Zhang integrates materials, craft, design and culture in his practice. Ordinary materials are often used to evoke fresh feelings. Desz’s designs have been exhibited at 3daysofdesign, NYCxDesign Festival, Dutch Design Week and Milian Design Week.
Duyi Han
The Chinese designer creates objects and environments as neuroaesthetic prescriptions: visual and spatial compositions designed to alter perception, evoke emotion and engage with the psychological conditions of contemporary life. Han has collaborated with brands such as Dior and Tarun Tahiliani, and his work has been collected by the San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art.
Swirl Up
Founded by Wenny Chen and Marco Yu, Shanghai-based design studio Swirl Up is dedicated to meld environmental consciousness with artistic endeavours. Standing at the intersection of sustainability, technology and design, its works continually explore new possibilities in these fields.
HONG KONG
Didi Ng Wing Yin
Helsinki-based Hong Kong artist and designer Ng has established a woodworking practice, creating furniture and sculptural works using distinctive carving techniques. He aims to express the true materiality of wood, balancing its inherent qualities with the intuitive nature of craftsmanship and conceptual thinking. Ng was a finalist for the 2025 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize and was named Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2024 Dezeen Awards.
Studio RYTE
An innovative design studio based in Hong Kong, Studio RYTE comprises agile and passionate inventors, architects, designers and engineers. Its multidisciplinary team combines technology and craftsmanship to reimagine everyday urban objects, materials and spaces. Whether that’s prototyping in the woodshop, collaborating with engineers or working directly with factories, Studio RYTE’s practice thrives on hands-on experimentation.
Studio Yellowdot
Founded by Bodin Hon and Dilara Kan Hon, Studio Yellowdot is a design studio and creative consultancy. It stands at the intersection of technology and craftsmanship, creating products, lighting, furniture and spatial designs that bridge cultures — from Hong Kong to Istanbul. Through collaborations with artisans, industries and brands across Europe and Asia, Studio Yellowdot melds logic with emotion, art with science, Eastern philosophies with Western methodologies.
Ultramar Studio By Ewan Lamm
The work of Hong Kong-British designer Ewan Lamm bridges Eastern and Western cultures to create distinctive, narrative-driven design pieces. His passion lies in storytelling and spirituality, expressed through the medium of furniture and objects. He hopes that the outcome of exploring the myths and traditions of diverse cultures is a wider understanding of the world and a sense of shared humanity.
INDONESIA
Alvin Tjitrowirjo
Tjitrowirjo is an Indonesian-born product designer whose works are deeply rooted in his cultural heritage. With his furniture brand alvinT and his multidisciplinary design and strategy studio Shape of Thoughts, he seeks to create a new design language that reflects the evolving mindsets of contemporary Indonesia. Tjitrowirjo has also actively contributed to national creative initiatives, serving as the art director for Indonesia’s Agency for Creative Economy.
Binsar Priandika, WOF
Priandika is the founder of WOF, a design studio and furniture company that explores functionality through the lens of Indonesian and Asian cultures. All of WOF’s products are flat-packed and shaped by local craftspeople.
COWKA / Adhi Nugraha and NOSIGNER / Eisuke Tachikawa
Founded by Indonesian designer-maker and researcher Adhi Nugraha, COWKA turns discarded cow dung into stunning, functional furniture. Taking inspiration from nature’s cycles of renewal, it creates eco-conscious designs that are as beautiful as they are meaningful.
Domestic Mass
Radical thinking sits at the heart of Golim’s design studio Domestic Mass. An in-depth research process and multidisciplinary approach leads to visually intriguing solutions, with an emphasis on materiality and cultural context.
Eugenio Hendro
Hailing from Manado, Indonesia, Hendro is a product designer whose work weaves together culture, emotion and contemporary living. For him, design is more than form — it’s a medium for storytelling and crafting meaningful experiences. His pieces bridge tradition and modernity, in hopes of extending the legacy of Indonesia’s artisans.
Just Studio
Founded by Jesslyn Sutisna, Jakarta-based Just Studio creates objects — homeware, furniture and jewellery — that possess both function and beauty. It focuses on slowness and intention, which lead to honest and refined designs. Every piece is the result of collaborating with local artisans, bringing together contemporary design and craftsmanship.
Lana Daya
Based in Jakarta, Lana Daya is a textile studio that explores materials, forgotten traditions and recollections of the past — guided by a longing to revive them through modern articulations.
M. Taufan – Roa Atelier
Founded by Mohamad Taufaniari, Roa Atlier is a hand-weaving design studio which explores alternative sustainable materials. It collaborates with craftspeople in Magelang, Central Java, who are preserving the art of weaving with a traditional wooden loom.
studio banda
Founded by Cokorda Suryanata and Frans Sihombing, Studio Banda is a Bali-based industrial design studio whose work explores the space between restraint and delight. It is guided by curiosity, material sensitivity and a hands-on approach, which lead to new possibilities in contemporary design by recontextualising craft and uncovering fabrication methods.
Studio Dapur
Started by Mega Puspita, Studio Dapur is a design-led social enterprise based in Singaparna, Indonesia. It collaborates closely with skilled artisans in Mount Galunggung to create high-quality kitchenware and homeware from sustainably harvested local bamboo. The eco-conscious products support the community and promote environmental resilience.
Studio Hendro Hadinata x Floorstudio
Founded in 2016, the Jakarta-based creative practice develops meaningful concepts that promote cultural democratisation through design. It embeds contextual narratives into objects, preserving heritage while helping to shape its future. Studio Hendro Hadinata’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Salone del Mobile in Milan and International Furniture Fair Tokyo.
Threadapeutic
A Jakarta-based textile art studio led by materials and driven by process, Threadapeutic works with fabric off-cuts from local garment factories to create one-of-a-kind tapestries. Founded by Hana Surya in 2015, it has since grown into a collective of seven artisans and designers. Threadapeutic’s designs have been exhibited in Bali, Milan, Paris and Singapore.
ZULYO KUMARA
From interiors to products and furniture, Kumara’s interdisciplinary practice blends craft, artistry and a passion for vernacular materials. Driven by the belief in restoring the human touch to design, his soulful and purposeful works reflect Indonesian culture and timeless modernity. Rooted in solving design problems, every project carries a mission and a story, brought to life through imagination, cultural heritage and contemporary sensibilities.
JAPAN
Amy Lewis
Based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Lewis works in the field of textile design, art and interior architecture. By developing contemporary translations of traditional textile crafts, the British- Japanese designer finds ways to create sensorial experiences that bring joy to the everyday.
Hana Mitsui
Based in Tokyo, the founder of Hana Textile Design Studio and Hana Material Design Laboratory, Inc. explores material innovation through hands-on experimentation. Mitsui has reinterpreted traditional textiles across regions in Japan, transforming them to fit contemporary settings and creating new products in the process. She also teaches at Tama Art University’s Textile Design department.
JUNICHIRO YOKOTA STUDIO
Japanese designer Yokota founded his eponymous Tokyo-based industrial design studio with the aim of creating new value for objects using traditional techniques, as well as recycled and new materials.
PAN- PROJECTS
Founded by Japanese architect duo Yuriko Yagi and Kazumasa Takada, PAN-PROJECTS is a London-based architectural design studio. The firm works across a spectrum of media and disciplines, spanning from small-scale furniture to large spatial installations and architectural developments. The art of fabrication plays a central role in every project, where materials, memories and spaces converge through close collaboration with makers, communities and clients. Its recent research initiative, Architecture of By-products, investigates discarded materials as a medium for urban storytelling.
PULSE
Founded by Rikiya Toyoshima and Shomu Taki, design unit Pulse centres on the idea of introducing new rhythms into the otherwise linear flow of everyday life. In an age of rapid advancement, it believes in the importance of pausing — to reassess the essential value of making.
Shinya Kobayashi
Hailing from a family of tableware craftspeople, Kobayashi witnessed the decline of traditional craft from an early age. To him, it not only represented a loss in techniques, but an erosion of identity, family heritage and cultural continuity. His practice encompasses a series of interconnected spaces
— a design studio, cutlery workshop and tableware store — all of which seeks to reconnect with the craft industry and help revive it in a sustainable way.
Shioka Okamoto
Okamoto is a Japanese textile designer specialising in textile and surface design for spatial contexts. With postgraduate degrees in textile and interior design, and a background in academia, her practice merges material experimentation with a deep expertise in printing and dyeing techniques. Her works show how textiles can shape atmosphere and sensory experience and have won international awards, including the Red Dot and iF Design.
Tanpopo-no-ye
Based in Nara, Tanpopo-no-ye Foundation is a non-profit organisation that runs community art centres and welfare facilities. It has conducted a suite of programmes the meld the worlds of arts and care. With these initiatives, Tanpopo-no-ye Foundation hopes to help everyone engage in creative self-expression regardless of their disability.
Yosuke Shimano
Based in Osaka, Japan, Shimano brings a unique perspective from his experience as an eyewear designer in both Sabae and New York. His work — which spans from eyewear to spatial design — centres around sustainability, aesthetics and wonder.
MALAYSIA
BIG HAND CREATION SDN BHD
Established by Malaysian industrial designer Eric Tiau, Big Hand Creation is a gifting and product innovation company. It has partnered more than 100 Malaysian and international brands to craft emotionally resonant gifting solutions that blend storytelling, aesthetics and purposeful branding.
Evey Kwong
Kwong is a Malaysian, Berlin-based designer and researcher who explores craft-based technologies by connecting with the origins of material knowledge, the environment and related narratives. Her work has been exhibited internationally, such as the Museum of Decorative Arts Dresden, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Museum of European Cultures and Dutch Design Week.
Tan Wei Ming, Aureole Design
Founded by Kuala Lumpur-based designer Tan, Aureole Design brings craftsmanship to the fore, especially when it comes to materiality and production techniques. Tan also draws from his experience as a graphic designer to create pieces rooted in simplicity and geometry, bringing to life fresh takes on form, proportion and balance.
PHILIPPINES
Chini Lichangco
Manila-based designer Lichango explores emotion, memory and materiality in her practice. Guided by intuition and play, her familiar yet surprising pieces are often handmade and always personal. She has gained recognition both in the Philippines and internationally, securing several accolades in competitions worldwide.
Clark mendoza
Shaped by the quiet rhythm of Bataan and the dynamism of Manila, industrial designer Mendoza creates objects that bring to life local craft textures, time-honoured community practices and the vernacular Philippine materials. He designs with empathy, creating designs rooted in place. Mendoza’s work has been exhibited at Salone del Mobile, Style Fair Bangkok and Manila FAME.
e/lou – Edward Sibunga
Led by industrial designer Edward Sibunga, design studio e/lou creates contemporary furniture using traditional handmade wood joinery. Positioned at the intersection of heritage and innovation, it believes that ancient woodworking techniques are not a limitation but instead set the foundation for new ideas.
Margarita Viray
Designer Viray melds her graphic design expertise with product design in lifestyle brand Triboa Bay Living, which exemplifies the elegance of wood. A KATHA awardee, her works have been featured in exhibition in the Philippines and beyond.
Nazareno/Lichauco
Designers Rita Nazareno and Gabriel Lichauco have been collaborating since 2016, working across curatorial projects, product development, and design mentorship. Together, they bring a contemporary lens to traditional crafts and materials, pushing the boundaries of innovation while honouring their cultural roots.
Senseware Ph
Founded by Filipino designer and third-generation Capiz artisan Meyte Szita Chan, Senseware is an evolving design practice focused on creating a new Filipino sensibility. Capiz — a fragile, luminous shell — is its primary medium, employed as a vessel for stories centred on memory, materiality and cultural reinvention.
Viktoria Laguyo & Daniel Ubas (Krete Manila)
Krete Manila is a Filipino design studio specialising in handmade concrete objects, grounded in material exploration, local craft, and collaboration. Founded by designers Viktoria Laguyo and Daniel Ubas, it began as a shared pursuit to elevate concrete from an industrial material to one of expression and everyday utility. With backgrounds in industrial design, the duo transforms the humble medium into tactile, story-driven pieces, offering a fresh perspective on concrete in contemporary design.
SINGAPORE
Eian Siew
A Singapore-based designer and researcher whose work explores air as a material for shaping interaction and form. With a focus on pneumatic systems and digital fabrication, Siew’s practice spans healthcare innovation, product design and responsive installations. Through iterative prototyping and material-led inquiry, he investigates how atmospheric pressure can be harnessed to construct dynamic structures and reframe material systems.
Emeline Ong
Based in Singapore, industrial designer Ong sees the world through a whimsical and playful lens. Her creations, often inspired by a penchant for candy and confection, evoke a universe filled with wonder and excitement. Ong’s work has been exhibited internationally at events such as Milan Design Week, and featured in global publications, such as Dezeen and Design Milk.
Emily Sim
Founded by Emily Sim, graph sets a new standard for organising the way we live. In a fast-paced world where we don’t stay rooted in one place for long, configurable furniture are a mainstay — pieces that can be taken apart, put together and be personalised to suit an individual’s needs and preferences.
Gabriel Tan
Based in Porto and Singapore, Tan’s eponymous design studio operates at the intersection of craft, culture and technology, reinterpreting tradition through contemporary design. It has designed furniture and products for B&B Italia, Herman Miller, Duxiana, Design Within Reach, Audo Copenhagen, Blå Station and Abstracta. Tan is also the creative director of Japanese furniture brand Ariake and design-craft brand Origin Made.
Interactive Materials Lab & Genevieve Ang
A research outfit located in the Division of Industrial Design at the National University of Singapore, the Interactive Materials Lab explores new approaches to materials and making, with a focus on interaction and computational design. Artist and designer Ang’s work reveals the hidden structures behind material culture. Her practice centres on clay and its many uses. Through her glazing workshop, Other Supply, she experiments with ceramic glazes made from glass waste.
Ivan Ho / tizumuka
Singaporean designer and educator Ho is the founder of tizumuka, a material-conscious practice rooted in craft, sustainability and story. By blending intuition with critical thought, he transforms discarded and overlooked materials into meaningful objects. Waste is reframed with potential, elevating the quotidian through design.
John Tay, Supermama
Tay’s design approach is rooted in empathy. The Singaporean designer sees emotion as a core purpose of design — a means to help people express, connect and feel. He leads HyperProjects, a practice that employs design guided by inclusivity, meaningful impact and quiet change.
May Masutani
Masutani is an artist and sculptor from Singapore living in Toyama, Japan. Her works incorporate a subtle touch of optical play, which seemingly transform at different angles.
Ng Sze Kiat / Bewilder
Founded by Sze Kiat Ng, Bewilder is a Singapore-based mycological design studio that works exclusively with fungi. With circularity at its core, Bewilder’s central process uses fungi as a means of converting organic by-products into higher value food, medicine and sustainably-created innovations.
Roger Ng Wei Lun
Ng is an interactive designer whose work explores the poetics of machine logic through real-time generative design, coding and physical computing. With a strong visual sensibility, he creates playful and immersive experiences across interactive objects, spatial installations and urban screens. Ng’s work has been featured in Waves of Change Festival 2023, Augmented Reality Festival Kuala Lumpur 2024 and DEMO Festival 2025.
Seanspotfolio
Started by Singaporean Sean Lim, seanspotfolio crafts small-batch handmade ceramics. Inspired by snowscapes, he incorporates a unique firing techique and glazing combinations to create collectible and tactile pieces.
Shervon and Melvin Ong
Shervon and Melvin Ong share a deep curiosity: to reimagine craft through the interplay of code, machine and hand. Blending traditional techniques with emerging technologies, they explore how tools such as 3D printing and AI can shape objects that feel at once familiar and uncanny.
Sheryl Teng
Singapore-based designer-maker and Interactive Materials Lab researcher Teng works primarily with textiles. Her practice explores the narratives surrounding garment and object-making, often challenging established models of fabrication, craft and material culture. Through acts of unlearning and defamiliarisation, she shifts perceptions of what materials can do and become, grounded in a rethinking of the relationships between body, cloth, object and space.
Sophia Chin
Chin’s work is deeply rooted in her environment, drawing inspiration from objects relating to everyday rituals. Through keen observation, she uncovers quiet beauty in the ordinary — a sensibility that imbues her practice with warmth and intention. Guided by mindfulness, she considers not only how objects are made, but also how they are felt and experienced. For her, the act of making holds as much meaning as the final outcome.
Studio Karyn Lim
Based in Singapore, Lim’s eponymous studio experiments with a variety of materials. It collaborates closely with brands and craftspeople, launching products ranging from objects and furniture to clothing and accessories.
weareSuper
Singapore-based creative agency weareSuper makes an impact through inclusive designs. Using art and design to reframe how disability is seen and understood, it works alongside artists, designers and makers to create work that is both culturally relevant and commercially viable.
Zavier Wong
Wong is a Singaporean designer, maker and thinker based in the Netherlands. He views his practice as “gardening an industrial wilderness”, where he transforms overlooked materials into meaningful objects — pieces that carry narrative weight and explore new ways of experiencing materiality.
SOUTH KOREA
Atelier SOHN
Founded by Donghoon Sohn, Atelier SOHN’s design approach seeks out the inherent properties of objects and the variables that shape them with the goal of identifying opportunities where design can intervene. By redefining the making process, the studio pursues sensory experiences and new expressions. In the course of his practice, Atelier SOHN has collaborated with global luxury brands including Bottega Veneta, Vacheron Constantin, Rimowa, Christofle, Chopard and Hotel Trois Couronnes.
Bumki Song
New York-based Korean designer and maker Song has built a practice around craftsmanship, culture and quiet rituals. Trained in metalsmithing and grounded in industrial design, his practice bridges tradition and innovation through hands-on making and thoughtful storytelling. Guided by empathy and curiosity, his works blend Eastern sensibilities with contemporary functions.
Hyunggyu Rhee / Studio GYU
Founded by Hyunggyu Rhee, Gyu is an industrial design studio specialising in furniture and everyday objects. It adopts a contextual approach to design, which means that every project begins with a sensitive understanding of the relationship between object, human experience and the environment.
Hyunhee Kim
Seoul-based artist Kim explores future possibilities by combining old and familiar images with new and modern materials. Through her explorations with traditional Korean furniture, she hopes to tell fresh stories by reframing the past.
Jongjin Park
Park is a Korean ceramic artist whose practice navigates the intersection of craft, sculpture and collectible design. Renowned for his distinctive layered paper-clay technique, he creates works that defy material expectations, creating structural illusions to challenge conventional perceptions of the material. He collaborated with brands such as Bottega Veneta and Ader Error, and is currently a professor at Seoul Women’s University.
OKKIM STUDIO
Started by Korean artist and designer OK Kim, OKKIM STUDIO is known for its contemporary approach to lacquer work. Kim explores the space between art and function, crafting meticulously made objects and furniture that are both sculptural and tactile. Rooted in traditional Korean techniques and the use of natural materials, her work blends form, colour and texture with a refined sensitivity. Her pieces have been exhibited internationally, such as Frieze New York and Design Miami.
STUDIO SHINYOO
Founded by Yongsub Shin and Seungmin Yoo, STUDIO SHINYOO is a Seoul-based design studio that reinterprets traditional Korean forms through minimalist structures and layered narratives. Guided by a philosophy of “universality within distinct characteristics”, it translates cultural memory into contemporary design. The works explore the boundaries between object and architecture, oftentimes inviting quiet reflection.
Studio Word (Produced by WEKINO)
Founded by Kyuhyung Cho and Jungyou Choi, Studio Word is multidisciplinary design practice based in Seoul and Europe. It seeks to craft a creative and purpose design language based on close observations of one’s surroundings, a thoughtful balance between tradition and modernity, as well as a commitment to honesty and originality. Studio Word has collaborated with the likes of The Conran Shop, Hermès Petit H, Littala, and Audo.
Studio Yoon Seok-hyeon
Korean designer Seok-hyeon Yoon’s eponymous studio is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Seoul, Korea. His practice focuses on revaluing everyday materials and objects. Through close observation of familiar environments, he explores ways to connect such elements to broader contexts, bridging design with society, industry and the environment.
Text Sandwich
Founded by Jinsik Kim, Text Sandwich is a lifestyle label rooted in context and meaning. It curates objects, services and events across generations. More than making great furniture, Text Sandwich creates environments that shape life’s rhythms. Grounded in the philosophy of ‘minimal elegance’, the brand reimagines cultural heritage with a contemporary perspective.
Yongwon Noh
Noh explores contemporary Korean culture through the lens of contrasting values — tradition and modernity, vernacular and luxury. The tension between these opposing forces creates new sensibilities in his work.
TAIWAN
Tshioh Rushcraft | Jochieh Huang
Tshioh Rushcraft merges traditional rush weaving with contemporary design, creating high-quality, finely crafted products that celebrate Taiwan’s weaving heritage. Huang is a Taiwan-based product designer, curator and writer whose work explores the intersections of craft, local culture and food. She seeks to translate everyday moments into sensory objects and experiences. Her book Design Beyond Food was released in 2009.
Yellow Nose Studio
Founded by Hsin-Ying Ho and Kai-Ming Tung, Yellow Nose is a Berlin-based studio that creates handmade objects using organic materials in unexpected ways. It transforms the emotional into the structural, pushing the boundaries of contemporary craft and industrial design. The end result is “living tools”, which embody principles of slow living.
THAILAND
ELMTOLI x MOOQUE
Founded by Sarunphon Boonto and and Komtuch Tantiyuth, Bangkok-based design studio Elmtoli combines materiality with narrative design. By blending storytelling with forms, graphic elements and colour combinations, it creates emotionally resonant objects that are refined in composition yet carry thoughtful and playful gestures. The designs invite people to slow down and connect with beauty in the everyday.
Peeti Studio
A small craft studio based in Bangkok, Peeti Studio values experimentation and learning through hands-on making. It creates unique, functional objects inspired by quotidian details and moments of quiet joy, whether that’s flowers in bloom or glistening water droplets.
THINKK Studio
Founded by Decha Archjananun and Ploypan Theeracha, Bangkok-based THINKK Studio designs hotel installations, department store displays, exhibitions and furniture. Its approach combines research, experimentation and creativity with a playful touch, while considering the environment impact.
TIMOR-LESTE
LO’UD Design Collective
The LO’UD Design Collective is composed of the women-led LO’UD Cooperative (Timor-Leste), non-governmental organisation East Timor Women Australia, Bamboo Institute (Timor-Leste), Things & Stories Artisan Studio (Timor-Leste) and designer Melvin Ong (Singapore). By utilising digital design and communication tools, the international team empowers traditional Timorese weavers and markers through innovative, cross-cultural creativity.
VIETNAM
Amalgame Studio
Founded by Emmie Massias and Marine Col, Amalgame Studio is a design practice that explores the connection between locality and material culture. It collaborates with artisans and manufacturers to research and experiment with raw materials to craft products that celebrate their inherent qualities.
LAITA Design
Founded by Nguyen Thi Thai Hang, LAITA Design is a creative studio that uses architectural principles for interdisciplinary design. The firm has won Red Dot Design, iF Design and Good Design awards, and several of its works have been collected in design museums across Europe, Singapore and the USA.
Ném
Ném is an evolving design practice that explores the intersection of discarded materials, spatial transformation and communal making. Rooted in a deep curiosity for overlooked objects and forgotten crafts, it challenges conventional notions of utility, comfort and aesthetics by assembling the unexpected.
