A conversation salon for just a handful of people at 'the blue hour.' Read more about it at the event page, here. THE BLUE HOUR is the time after the sun goes below the horizon and the sky goes into deep blue for a while. That's the magic hour: it's…
PRINTED MATTERS is a conversation. About printed matters. And about matters of printing. Playfulness is a prerequisite but this is for word-nerds, print-nerds, design-and-arts-and-crafts-nerds. Atelier S P A C E is a zine-makery on-the-move, a global conversation about local voices, local stories. People getting together, sharing things, and creating something…
JOIN DK, DESIGN PHNOM PENH, and others in a conversation circle about: លេង Anyone is welcome. We are going to talk about the creative process, with a few simple exercises that you can try together with us on the day. Anyone can join. No special requirements. We will be talking…
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A conversation salon + atelier to *make something*. It's for those we discover, on the way, and on the spot. See you in the up. By invitation only.
IN RECENT MONTHS, parts of DK have been regrouping on the road, while some of us are in Phnom Penh. We are trying to sketch out the 'why' of DK. The purpose, the whole thing. I know we've been 'at it' since 1994, in various ways and shapes, but now,…
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LEARN DESIGN KOMPANY's top 4 tools to uncover the answer to a very important question: What will be your legacy? Get four top tools from our toolkit, which DK's creative directors developed in-house over more than 10 years while working with different kinds of people and engaging with their unique…
*** WHAT DO FUZZY LOGIC, quantum physics and Pop Art have in common? If I submitted that idea for a talk, would people want to hear it? Late at night. A form, online. Would I send it in? I would. (more…)
How we met... MAYBE WE JUST met, yesterday at the restaurant playing a game of cards. Or a design conversation, or I found you on the internet and emailed you to say hello. You might have met one of our team members out and about in Phnom Penh, over the course of…
FOUND THIS. From Culture360: In 1996 Michael Haerdter of Berlin's Künstlerhaus Bethanien called artists “post-modern nomads” or “wanderers between cultures”. Migrating artists, he said, "belong with the many transcultural messengers of a world whose keywords are nomadism and globalism." Goes on to say the fact that we see the invention (and…
MEMBERS OF S P A C E who are in Phnom Penh will be invited to this exclusive event, a reading and conversation about life in a rapidly changing Cambodia. Meet the author of Breakfast in Cambodia, DK's own Dipika Kohli. You'll be able to talk about publishing, editing, and…
DID I TELL YOU that when you join 'N', you get to choose a color from the 256-box color grid that is the RGB palette for web-safe colors? Yes. GRID. THIS MAY SOUND like garblety-gook to some, but to others, it's entirely clear. Of course one would enjoy with relish the opportunity:…
AFTER HOSTING THE JUNE SERIES OF EVENTS in Hanoi, DK are back in Phnom Penh as a team and curious to discover new people who might be newly arriving here. We just reset all our mailing lists, but there's a new conversation salon that is getting underway and some…
ON 27 JUNE 2017 in Hanoi, a mix of exactly 16 people got together for '16N', a traveling conversation salon on a theme that starts with an 'N'. This time, our topic was NARRATIVE. 'What are the stories we tell to the world? Which ones do we tell ourselves?' and…
IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE PREMATURE to start blogging about the next 'N' already, but it is here, in my heart, as soon as the last one finishes. There is, of course, the thank-you not that I am still writing. For those who joined us at 'N' in Hanoi... wow,…
[caption id="attachment_7550" align="alignleft" width="2000"] 'The Book of Red,' by Design Kompany // Đà Lạt 2015 // find it on instagram @dkompany [/caption] *** WAKING UP IN A NEW PLACE, not the train and not the bus and not the old house(s). Back in Phnom Penh, but seeing it from new…
*** THE KEYBOARD IS NOT connecting, somehow, so this will be short and sweet. (If you were there, the pic is coming. I'll email you.) I had such fun meeting you all, individually and then, together. A fuller, more articulated thank-you is in draft and I'll send, for…
