The Asia Design Prize has formed an official partnership with the Spatial Designers Support Organization of Japan (SSOJ). Through this collaboration, the two organizations aim to build a new alliance that extends beyond Korea and Japan and expands the value and potential of Asian spatial design worldwide. SSOJ is a professional organization that supports spatial designers in Japan and ...

Prof. Yonghyuck Lee Editor-in-Chief, the Asia Design Prize The role of contemporary design is no longer limited to inventing entirely new forms or functions. Increasingly, its value lies in carefully reinterpreting familiar forms and established styles to capture attention and influence purchase intent and behavior. In other words, the competitive power of design today comes not only fr...

Prof. Ryan Jongwoo Choi Professor at Hanyang University       Give Midjourney a prompt such as “an object combining the silhouette of a Porsche with the cool precision of Leica’s metal craftsmanship,” and within seconds, it will generate a stream of highly polished images. By 2026, everything from a product’s sense of mass and the precisely calibrated markings on its dial to the su...

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 ...

Teruaki Ishimoto Founder / Principal Architect, CURIOUS DESIGN WORKERS Inc. “A storehouse more than a century old in Nagoya’s historic Shikemichi district has been reborn as a contemporary showroom that conveys the memory of place through light. In light wave, Teruaki Ishimoto of CURIOUS DESIGN WORKERS reinterprets the ripples of the Horikawa Canal as a continuous spatial mo...

Doyoung Kim Founder, K-Design Award "How did a design award founded in Korea grow into a brand that attracts designers from around the world? When Doyoung Kim established the K-Design Award, his priority was not scale but the creation of a brand that could earn trust over time. From a small online award to a global platform, the choices and standards he has developed over the past ...

  Youngha Park Head of Creative Center · CCO, FRUM       “Branding and visual design no longer remain within a single defined field. Across different contexts such as events, education, F&B, the defense industry, music competitions, and personal exhibitions, designers must interpret the purpose and character of each project and create a new visual language accordingly. Rather tha...

  Bhadri Suthar & Snehal Suthar  Co-Founders and Co-Principal Designers, tHE gRID Architects       “Based in Ahmedabad, India, tHE gRID Architects | Research & Design Studio views architecture as a continuous dialogue between people, place, climate, culture, and ecology. Founded in 2002 by Bhadri Suthar and Snehal Suthar, the studio works across architecture, interiors, landsc...

      The Asia Design Prize has formed an official partnership with the Spatial Designers Support Organization of Japan (SSOJ). Through this collaboration, the two organizations aim to build a new alliance that extends beyond Korea and Japan and expands the value and potential of Asian spatial design worldwide. SSOJ is a professional organization that supports spatial designers in Japan and ...

Prof. Yonghyuck Lee Editor-in-Chief, the Asia Design Prize The role of contemporary design is no longer limited to inventing entirely new forms or functions. Increasingly, its value lies in carefully reinterpreting familiar forms and established styles to capture attention and influence purchase intent and behavior. In other words, the competitive power of design today comes not only fr...

Prof. Ryan Jongwoo Choi Professor at Hanyang University       Give Midjourney a prompt such as “an object combining the silhouette of a Porsche with the cool precision of Leica’s metal craftsmanship,” and within seconds, it will generate a stream of highly polished images. By 2026, everything from a product’s sense of mass and the precisely calibrated markings on its dial to the su...

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 ...