Activities & Programmes

2019.07.25
Designer Sharing – Material Modernity
Join us if you want to know the interesting stories between design and materials of bamboo, paper and wood. Mr. Zhang Lei, founder of Pinwu Studio from Hangzhou and Mr. Freeman Lau, renowned Hong Kong designer will share their experiences in material world.
VENUE
3/F Exhibition AreaDATE & TIME
25.07.2019 / 6:30pm – 8:30pmNO. OF PARTICIPANT
50LANGUAGE
Putonghua/ CantoneseFEE
Free of chargeSpeakers
Mr. Freeman Lau,
Director, Board of Directors, Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong
Mr. Zhang Lei,
Founder of Pinwu Design Studio, Hangzhou, Mainland
Speakers
Born in 1958, 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). These years, he is devoted in promoting the design industry.
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).

Director, Board of Directors
Hong Kong Design Centre
Hong Kong
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 thinking of deconstruction to be in cooperation with traditional handicraft workshops.

Designer & Tradition Handcraft Researcher
Founder of Rong Design Library & PINWU Design Studio, Chief Designer
Curator of Rong Exhibition & From Yuhang Plan
Hangzhou, Mainland