CEO Doyoung Kim Founder of Asia Design Prize       Most people who start a brand devote enormous amounts of time to creating great products, beautiful designs, and polished content. Yet those who have built and sustained brands over many years tend to value something else even more. Numbers reveal how many new customers have been gained since yesterday, which service generates the most rev...

Keiichi Horibe & Naoko Horibe Co-CEOs, Horibe Associates "From the moment it is completed, architecture becomes intertwined with the people, streets, and environment around it, and remains in place for decades. Based in Takatsuki, Osaka, Naoko Horibe and Keiichi Horibe, the Co-CEOs of Horibe Associates, pursue architecture that goes beyond design and function, seeking buildings...

  Eunbin Choi CEO, de.blur       "de.blur is a branding design studio that lifts away the haze concealing brands and identities and brings them into vivid clarity. Positioning themselves as a 'value manifestation partner,' they use planning and design as the means through which every company and brand carrying untapped potential can find a distinct voice in the world. Moving fluidly acro...

INDEX offers a more dimensional view of the design landscape across Asia by introducing design studios and companies that demonstrate clear design philosophies and notable achievements. Spanning graphic design, branding, spatial design, product, digital, and motion, INDEX focuses on emerging practices and looks beyond portfolios to examine how they work, where their ideas come from, and what they ...

Keiichi Horibe & Naoko Horibe Co-CEOs, Horibe Associates "From the moment it is completed, architecture becomes intertwined with the people, streets, and environment around it, and remains in place for decades. Based in Takatsuki, Osaka, Naoko Horibe and Keiichi Horibe, the Co-CEOs of Horibe Associates, pursue architecture that goes beyond design and function, seeking buildings...

  Eunbin Choi CEO, de.blur       "de.blur is a branding design studio that lifts away the haze concealing brands and identities and brings them into vivid clarity. Positioning themselves as a 'value manifestation partner,' they use planning and design as the means through which every company and brand carrying untapped potential can find a distinct voice in the world. Moving fluidly acro...

Chatchavan Suwansawat Founder, Everyday Architect Design Studio “In the bustling streets of Bangkok, where conventional architecture sees chaos, Chatchavan Suwansawat finds brilliance. As the founder of Everyday Architect Design Studio, he defines himself not just as an architect, but as a writer and urban observer. His acclaimed research, documented in 365 Days of Thai Urban Mess...

  Junwoo Sim Head of SUNNY ISLAND       “SUNNY ISLAND is a design studio that goes beyond simple visual outputs to design the energy that allows a brand to sustain itself. Head Junwoo Shim deeply understands the environment and circumstances surrounding a brand, and aims for a flexible process that makes the design process itself into a final product. Recently, he garnered significant ...

CEO Doyoung Kim Founder of Asia Design Prize       Most people who start a brand devote enormous amounts of time to creating great products, beautiful designs, and polished content. Yet those who have built and sustained brands over many years tend to value something else even more. Numbers reveal how many new customers have been gained since yesterday, which service generates the most rev...

INDEX offers a more dimensional view of the design landscape across Asia by introducing design studios and companies that demonstrate clear design philosophies and notable achievements. Spanning graphic design, branding, spatial design, product, digital, and motion, INDEX focuses on emerging practices and looks beyond portfolios to examine how they work, where their ideas come from, and what they ...

Beomkwan Kim | Prof. University of Ulsan Jury Member, Asia Design Prize       Architecture appears as a single form when viewed from a distance. But as you move closer, it becomes clear that architecture is composed of countless connections. Structure is joined to material, technology is woven together with human perception, and lived experience meets spatial order within a single system. ...

Dr. Lee Jiwon CEO of Valueformer Today, music streaming services host more than 250 million songs. In 2025 alone, over 100,000 new tracks were uploaded every day on average. Yet nearly half of them were played fewer than ten times throughout the entire year, disappearing somewhere within an ever-expanding catalog. As the cost of creating and distributing music has effectively approached...