MAKE A ZINE with just eight people. Meet new people. Make a publication. Short, sweet, and on the spot. Join us at Atelier S P A C E || Kärsämäki. Here's where we will be. Photo courtesy Kattilakoski culture cooperation. DESIGN KOMPANY are hosting a popup workshop, Atelier S P A…
WRITERS, designers, artists, business execs, marketing coordinators, communications consultants, and digital agency directors are all invited to talk in this new and different conversation salon. Arts & Letters Society is an open circle that will meet just two times. You are invited to connect with Design Kompany at two A&LS…
A NEW ZINE, 'BRIEFLY in Sheffield,' is set to release in June. Set in England, November 1998 and May 2016. Creative nonfiction based on real life encounters, told in third-person narrative. Zafar Imran is based on someone I met very briefly, but who inspired me to visit Sheffield mostly to see…
STAMMTISCH is MONDAY. Guest artist Mike Dynamo will talk with us about music and writing. More below. Ticket registration page is here. Salons: What are they? Design Kompany hosts conversation salons. This is what it looks like. Pictured, from left: 'The State of Publishing' in Durham NC with Mercury Studio,…
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On Saturday I'll be here hosting the #8 edition of 'Rooftop Philosophy in Phnom Penh.' Where time has literally stopped. Expect the unexpected, and come see. More info at our website, see 'Upcomings'. This time I'll kick things off with what the bright physicist HL told me, about holography, time…
Atelier S P A C E is DK's popup, zinemaking on-the-spot workshop. The idea is to gather a handful of people to meet and cocreate a short publication. A zine. So far, DK has hosted Atelier S P A C E in: Battambang, Singapore, Penang, KL, and a few smaller cities…
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'DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING. When you come back! It's not like people are going to come flocking around just to see you!' 'I know.' 'It's not like they care!' 'I, um. I know.' 'I don't want you to get it in your head that someone or something is going to come…
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'TRAVELING. SHOWS YOU THINGS.' 'Like?' 'It's kind of cliche to say so, but, well, when people saw us going on the world tour, they said, don't come back like, "I found myself."' 'Uh-huh.' 'Both of us are from small towns where no one ever leaves, so yeah. Kind of going…
DK hosts 'In Mixed Company,' a sequel to '16N' which happened in Bangkok in October, 2015. Meet new people in remarkable ways. Prompt-led, guided conversation in a way that opens you up to try new personas, play a little with identity, and brush up your imrovisation skills. Be prepared for…
A POPUP CONVERSATION salon, with snippets from our 2014-2017 highlights from the ezine, S P A C E. We will be hosting this in real life at a venue in Bangkok to be shared with registered guests only. Free with RSVP. To RSVP, contact DK through the form here.
DISCOVER YOUR SELF. Sounds crazy, right? You know yourself. Well, do you? In this era where layer after layer of facades keep us from truly relating to others, maybe it gets confusing. It's a good time to take stock and reflect on who it is you are, under all of…
PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY IN MOTION know that the hardest part about starting a thing is, well, starting. In classic high school Newtonian physics, the coefficient of static friction is greater than the coefficient of kinetic friction. Which means that if you had a mass on a flat surface,…
I THINK we have it. A theme. For our next zinemaking popup, Atelier S P A C E || Kuala Kumpur. Travel. Transit hub that it is, it makes a great setting for the kinds of meandering that wanderers love. Let's talk travel, new places, showing up, taking chances, favorite…
WHAT IS S P A C E about? Starting in Battambang in Cambodia in Sept. 2017, we are moving in Asia to discover people who are curious, creative, and ready for something new. Our cocreated Battambang issue was on the topic, Ennui. In Singapore (10-12 Nov) our zine was on…
PART OF THE PROJECT OF ATELIER S P A C E is, when I forget to be concerned about Programme design and making sure all the pieces are in the right order is letting things just happen. It has been not quite two weeks since DK shifted from Singapore to…
LET'S CONNECT. In real life. Meet Design Kompany for games over coffee. Bring your favorite game. Free with RSVP*. (*Exclusive of food and drinks). To RSVP, send us an email through this form, and we'll confirm your registration. If at least 4 say 'yes', we'll make it *happen*: [accua-form fid="1"]…
