Asian Champions of Design: Tiger Balm
The brand is an icon at least partly thanks to its bold and timeless livery. So why does it shy away from that strong design on newer brand extensions?
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Are the Design Lions badly designed?
The industry doesn't fully appreciate the commercial value of design, and the vague, all-inclusive Design Lions category isn't helping.
'Your hair is unruly': The most annoying idea from CES
The most valued technology is also the most invisible. It certainly doesn't criticise your grooming habits and then make a sales pitch.
Asian Champions of Design: TWG Tea
TWG Tea's delicious blend of luxury and old-world glamour is capturing the imagination (and taste buds) of tea drinkers from Singapore to New York City. Does anyone care that despite the brand's colonial-era trappings, it only dates back to 2008?
Asian Champions of Design: Hello Kitty
In which we ponder how the innocuous character (who is NOT a kitty, according to her owners) continues to enthrall millions and make billions.
Packaging as media in the age of digital printing
Thanks to advances in digital printing, packaging design no longer has to be set in stone. Katie Ewer of JKR takes a look at how brands are using this new flexibility, for better or worse.
Asian Champions of Design: Blunt Umbrellas
A simple observation about eyeballs in peril led to a true innovation that's not only functionally elegant but also visually distinctive.
Asian Champions of Design: Ayam Brand
Virtually unchanged for more than 100 years, Ayam Brand knows the value of an unmistakeable identity.
Asian Champions of Design: Suntory
The made-in-Japan whisky brand cultivates its own distinctively Japanese 'voice'.
Asian Champions of Design: Xiaomi
If you think the Chinese smartphone brand is all about aping Apple, think again.
Asian Champions of Design: ShangXia
The China-born maker of furniture, housewares and jewellery is out to prove it can create a strong luxury brand despite lacking a long heritage of craftsmanship.
Fresh yet familiar: The art of limited editions
How to get your brand noticed and chosen through limited edition design.
Asian Champions of Design: Jimmy Choo
The story of how one man’s keen design aesthetic propelled him from a Penang cobbler’s shop to red carpets of the world’s glamour capitals.
Design Lions reaction: Remarkable ideas and execution
A review of the classification-defying, beautifully crafted, complex and nuanced Design Lions winners.
Asian Champions of Design: Redheads matches
Redheads matches are a rare example of a brand that seamlessly ties together product, name and design.
Asian Champions of Design: Feiyue
A look at China's gritty, utilitarian shoe brand.
Asian Champions of Design: Asahi
The Japanese brand's bold brand identity unites ancient tradition and futuristic optimism. And it has a great origin story.
Asian Champions of Design: Taj Hotels
With absolute dedication to authentic design and craftsmanship, Taj Hotels ensures that each of its hotels provides a one-of-a-kind experience.
Asian Champions of Design: Shanghai Tang
Shanghai Tang has employed its unique design, rooted in tradition but with modern twists, to captivate western clients and native Chinese alike.
Top 1000 2015: Asia's design champions
Many Asian brands undervalue design. Here are six for whom design is not only identity, but also a driver of growth.
Asian Champions of Design: Uniqlo
With stores that feel like walking through an extremely cheerful computer program, the clothing retailer Uniqlo has cultivated a design aesthetic that is consistent without being confining.
Social media is saving outdoor
Or is it the other way around?
When to make it easy, and when to make it thinky
The golden rule of hacking the mind of the shopper is perhaps easier than we think it is.
Do as I say, not as I do
Why storytelling and 'story doing' need to line up.
The 2017 Design Lions in three words: Purpose. Trainers. Corruption.
Every year the festival challenges us to reassess what 'design' really is. And that's not exactly a bad thing, writes JKR's Katie Ewer.
Champions of Design 4: What does the future hold for homegrown Asian brands?
The author of the 'Asian Champions of Design' series comments on why finding companies worthy of that status has been disappointingly challenging.
Asian Champions of Design: Mikimoto
Is nature the ultimate designer? For many centuries in fine jewellery and fashion, that was the prevailing wisdom. Kokichi Mikimoto disagreed.