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• YOU ARE HERE

  Thursday, Nov 26, 2009 7:24PM / Standard Entry

  ‘YOU ARE HERE’ is an exhibition organized by WHITESPACE as part of DETOUR 2009, an outbound programme parallel to Business of Design Week (BODW). The exhibition is open to the public tomorrow and will run until December 9th 2009 at the Former Police Married Living Quarters on Hollywood Road.

  The historical significance and the architectural qualities of the Former Married Police Headquarters inspired WHITESPACE to curate an exhibition centered around space — both physical and intangible, and to celebrate the diversity and creativity in Hong Kong’s thriving art and design community. Titled “YOU ARE HERE”, WHITESPACE invited 80 creatives to contribute artwork to a group show about charting journeys, visualizing stories, plotting out dreams and surveying landscapes. Whether real or imaginary, distorted or accurate, descrīptive or abstract, these individual maps will be gathered and displayed as one large piece to form a collective plan of creative energies.

  Artists include graphic designers from WHITESPACE, graffiti artist and painter L1ES ONE, illustrator Emily Eldridge, designer and artist Kate Barnett, GRAPHICAIRLINES, designer and artist Yuki Holland, painter and sculptural artist, Roy Man and graphic designer and illustrator Sum-Sum Tse, amongst many more.

  ‘YOU ARE HERE’ explores where you are on a ‘map’. Where you are in time. Where you are at this moment. Where we are, as a group, in Hong Kong.

  

  
  

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• reebok pump x juice

  Monday, Nov 23, 2009 7:14PM / Standard Entry

  It’s hard to believe but the Reebok Pump is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, Reebok asked a number of stores around the world to re-interpret the classic including Colette, Atmos, Undefeated and HUF. The shop they chose in Hong Kong is JUICE — which is run by my cousin Kevin who’s also responsible for CLOT Inc, his growing streetwear empire. Their version of the shoe looks like this. Here are some photos of the party at JUICE which included a lot of local stars, Vitamin Water, a lot of neon and a lot of Pumps.

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

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• decorate your tree

  Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 4:43PM / Standard Entry

  

  i think these christmas tree ornaments are hilarious! they are laser cut game console shape!
  they look surprisingly festive to me!

  
  

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• vanessa lam

  Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 9:48AM / Standard Entry

  Los Angeles-based designer Vanessa Lam’s proposed re-branding work for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is admirable, and a lesson in the complexity of simplicity. Let’s hope they embrace this redesign. Also check out her infographic zine about UFO’s.

  

  

  
  

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• premiere issues on SPD.org

  Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 8:37PM / Standard Entry

  The Society of Publication Designers has posted up our interview about our Premiere Issues Project. It’s a great write-up and we’re grateful to Robert Newman for taking the time to contact me. Here’s the full interview for those who want to read a bit more about the project:-
  
  1) When did you start the site?

  The first version of the site went up in 2002. I was living in New York back then, and working as a web designer. With some help, I designed and built a very basic site, and posted around 60 or so covers I had. Then people started contacting me, and submitting their first issues. As a young designer with little experience with the internet, this was a thrill.

  2) What was your motivation in starting the site?

  I guess I was eager to explore this medium of the web; I was a graphic designer and my first job out of university was in this field. I was working on fairly large and complex websites for financial institutions and record labels, but I was interested in the niche sites that were also sprouting up — the ones that were dedicated to a single passion or focus.

  I had already amassed a collection of first issues, and I thought it would be fun to share these with others. I love documenting and clearly I love communication and design. The site is my tribute to all the hard work and energy that goes into the creation of a magazine. The positive feedback and response I’ve received from the site fuels the project and keeps it going.

  3) How do you update the site? Do you do all the research yourself?

  The site was re-designed in 2008, and developed by Whitespace, the studio I started in 2004. We kept the archive format but added new features such as sort and search functions, and created a CMS platform so that all the submissions and updates are easy to manage. We’ve now got over 217 covers, and continue to get a couple new magazines each month. A lot of our friends and fans know we collect first issues, so every so often we’ll get a package of them, or an email telling us about a launch.

  The best part is still the hunt. It’s become a habit now. I can’t walk into a bookshop or an airport newsstand without scanning the racks for an ‘01’ or ‘premiere issue’ or ‘launch issue’. Sometimes I’ll contact the editor or ask friends to look out for a certain magazine. Earlier this year I arrived in London, and finally found Katie Grand’s LOVE magazine after hitting 3 cornershops in Notting Hill.

  4) What is your own design background? Are you a magazine designer?

  I have always loved magazines, and have worked as a designer and contributor on a few titles, but ultimately I have chosen to pursue design in other ways. I graduated from Parsons School of Design with joint degrees in communication design and writing, and naturally thought I would work in publishing or print. But the internet lulled all of us into the industry, and after 8 years in New York, I moved back to Hong Kong and set up Whitespace. We are now a team of 10 and we design brand identities and websites for clients, both here and abroad. We’re growing steadily but we take time to do our own projects — such as Premiere Issues — because this is where we have the most fun. We exhibited The Premiere Issues Project last year, and hope we can do a few more events or fun things surrounding this idea in the future.

  Check out 10 of our personal favourites and highlights from the collection at SPD.org.

  
  

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