CVO Chad Song Founder of  Crack the Nuts       For a long time, we believed corporate YouTube channels existed to explain the brand itself. A place to communicate what technologies a company possesses, what kind of business it operates, and how innovative it is. We assumed corporate channels should naturally talk about the company, and in reality, most brand content has been created on to...

  Songyi Han Founder / Design Director, flw8studio       “Spaces are no longer remembered solely through form. Only when the movement of the gaze, the response of the body, and the layering of light and material connect into a continuous flow does a space fully emerge as an experience. This interview traces a design practice centered on that very idea of ‘flow.’ Rather than creatin...

Director. Joonghyun Cho Founder of Duedance / Jury of K-Design Award There is a moment that arrives in almost every rebranding meeting. Someone says, “This time, let’s really make a statement,” and the atmosphere in the room changes. Shoulders relax. People lean back in their chairs. I have sat in rooms like that myself and I have also seen how often the results born ...

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 ...

  Songyi Han Founder / Design Director, flw8studio       “Spaces are no longer remembered solely through form. Only when the movement of the gaze, the response of the body, and the layering of light and material connect into a continuous flow does a space fully emerge as an experience. This interview traces a design practice centered on that very idea of ‘flow.’ Rather than creatin...

  Nobuaki Miyashita Founder / Principal Architect, MR STUDIO       “Architecture is not a mere physical structure, but a medium that conveys the thought and will of the subject embodied within it. The attitude of reading principle rather than surface, and interpreting essence before form, poses a profound question about the role architecture must play within society and across time. Th...

Sungmin Park Architectural Design Team Leader at IPARK Hyundai Development Company “‘PARK OASIS,’ awarded the highest honor, Design of the Year, at the Asia Design Prize, is a project that interprets space not as form, but as a flow of experience. Through the structural concepts of circulation, center, and connection, it weaves together the city, people, and everyday m...

Jarut Chanprapanont & Kumphol Ponpisute Co-founder, Studio Marketing Materials “Studio Marketing Materials (SMM) is a Bangkok-based design studio working across strategy, culture, and visual execution. Since its founding in 2015, the studio has developed a methodology that treats branding not as surface expression, but as a system aligning vision, process, and outcome. Through...

CVO Chad Song Founder of  Crack the Nuts       For a long time, we believed corporate YouTube channels existed to explain the brand itself. A place to communicate what technologies a company possesses, what kind of business it operates, and how innovative it is. We assumed corporate channels should naturally talk about the company, and in reality, most brand content has been created on to...

Director. Joonghyun Cho Founder of Duedance / Jury of K-Design Award There is a moment that arrives in almost every rebranding meeting. Someone says, “This time, let’s really make a statement,” and the atmosphere in the room changes. Shoulders relax. People lean back in their chairs. I have sat in rooms like that myself and I have also seen how often the results born ...

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 ...

CEO Doyoung Kim Founder of Asia Design Prize       Many people think of automation as a technology designed to reduce human labor. But for small brands, the essence of automation is entirely different. Automation is not about eliminating people, it is about creating structures that allow people to focus on more important work. For solo brands and micro studios in particular, automation is ...