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5 Minutes With… JJ Acuna

5 Minutes With… JJ Acuna

Hong Kong-based designer and consummate cosmopolitan, JJ Acuna of Bespoke Studio, muses on the changing face of hospitality and design across Asia Pacific.

5 Minutes With… Álvaro González of Cosentino

5 Minutes With… Álvaro González of Cosentino

Álvaro González, newly appointed Vice President of Cosentino Asia Pacific shares his strategic moves in driving the global architectural surfacing company’s growth in the region.

5 Minutes With JustCo’s Lu Liu

5 Minutes With JustCo’s Lu Liu

JustCo Co-founder and COO Lu Liu talks about the coworking brand’s rapid expansion in the Asia Pacific region and the new challenges and opportunities that come with it.

5 Minutes With… Bitte Design Studio

5 Minutes With… Bitte Design Studio

We chatted with founders of Jakarta-based Bitte Design Studio Agatha Carolina and Chrisye Octaviani about starting a design business and creating sustainable spaces.

5 Minutes With… Robert Warner Of Bosch

5 Minutes With… Robert Warner Of Bosch

Our urban centres hold more and more of our population. Our living environments are shifting. Multi-residential developments sit at a unique point of this state of flux. We find out from Bosch’s Robert Warner about what this means for the products in our apartments and how consumer habits are changing accordingly.

5 Minutes With… Rafael Miranti Architects

5 Minutes With… Rafael Miranti Architects

Jakarta-based studio Rafael Miranti Architects (RMA) brings a rigorous contextual approach to its work. Joanne Goh speaks to Founding Partners Rafael Arsono and Margareta Miranti to delve into the thinking behind the design.

5 Minutes With Adobe’s Vice President Of Design Jamie Myrold

5 Minutes With Adobe’s Vice President Of Design Jamie Myrold

Jamie Myrold, Adobe’s Vice President of Design, shares her observation on design ethics and the role they play in the creative workflow changed by AI and machine learning.

Bento Boxes and A La Carte: A Chat With OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu

Bento Boxes and A La Carte: A Chat With OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu

Partner at OMA New York office Shohei Shigematsu shares his observation on cities, today’s client-architect collaboration and how studying food culture influences his architectural approach.

5 Minutes With… Tan Szue Hann of MINIWIZ

5 Minutes With… Tan Szue Hann of MINIWIZ

Tan Szue Hann recently joined Taiwan-headquartered ‘RD&D’ company MINIWIZ as the Managing Director of its new Singapore office. We hear about his passion for producing architecture and design within the circular economy.

5 Minutes With… Narita Cheah Of Paperspace

5 Minutes With… Narita Cheah Of Paperspace

Narita Cheah is the Co-Founder and Director of workplace interior design collective Paperspace, and a keen proponent of shared design expertise for today’s increasingly diverse office spaces.

5 Minutes With… Chui Lai Judy Cheung Of Cheungvogl

5 Minutes With… Chui Lai Judy Cheung Of Cheungvogl

INDE.Awards 2019 Jury member Chui Lai Judy Cheung, co-founder of Cheungvogl (with Christoph Hoelscher Vogl), tells us about poetic pragmatism, progressive clients and what she’ll be looking for in this year’s entries.

5 Minutes With… dwp CEO Brenton Mauriello

5 Minutes With… dwp CEO Brenton Mauriello

dwp is an international practice that has established a foothold in Asia. The Indesignlive team speaks with the practice’s CEO Brenton Mauriello, from his office in Thailand, about creating workplace culture and the changing perspectives of the region.