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Call for submissions for DESK :: LAYERS
Are you a photographer, poet, writer, or illustrator in Phnom Penh? Submit your work to our next issue of DESK, with our theme LAYERS. A call for submissions is here: https://designkompany.com/call-for-submissions To get an idea of the kind of images we’re looking for, listen this fun interview DK’s Dipika Kohli did a few years ago…
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Protected: DESK | What is good editorial design?
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‘We must not cease from exploration’
… a T. S. Eliot poem was always a great inspiration for me. We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place where we began, and to know it for the first time. It’s a time of revisiting old things like this.…
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DESK Issue 3
DESK is DK’s new magazine of essay and original illustration. At the time of this writing, DK is three issues in to our monthly publication DESK. The idea is ‘new illustration and matters of opinion from the desk of DK’ but it’s looking like mostly essays and long-form pieces about choice, making them and choosing…
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DESK Miniparty in Phnom Penh
Make an evening of conversation with us about publishing, design, zines and Phnom Penh. Independent publishing is having a revival all around the world. Come talk with us about it. Old school, offline exchanges. Newspapers to blogs to zines… I have stories. I’m imagining you do, too. We can discover, discuss, and link up to…
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DESK Issue 4
Excited to release the newest issue of our first-ever volume of the A4 zine DESK. It’s Issue 4. Matters of opinion and new illustration from the desk of DK. What is it about? A philosophy of identity. Event picks, first-person essays, and an interview with type design consultant Donny Troung, are all in this 50-page…
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Going analog in a digital, fast, money-obsessed world
Found this article published last fall in South China Morning Post about zines, written by Salomé Grouard. Why zines are thriving in a financials-obsessed town like Hong Kong, for example, is part of it. “Culturally, we’re not encouraged to invest time and money into alternative media,” says [Zine Coop co-founder Beatrix] Pang, who uses the…
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Found in the Field: Seoul Design Festival
Founded in 2002 and connected to the magazine DESIGN, the festival has promoted over 2,600 brands and 5,600 designers. Organizers write: Seoul Design Festival is a design-specialized exhibition based on contents accumulated by DESIGN magazine since 1976 and networks of domestic and foreign design industry. The first Seoul Design Festival was held in 2002. Seoul…
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Desk :: Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party
A launch party for DESK Magazine. Your ticket comes with a coy of the new limited-edition publication. Tickets are USD 7.80, book via ABA ( ask for link). Thanks!
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Paperjams
A 3-day weekend bookmaking workshop in Phnom Penh in real life Spend 3 focused days working with paper, structure, and book form. Each morning, you’ll learn how specific folds, bindings, and structural choices affect how a reader moves through a book. We’ll look at examples, break down how they are made, and discuss when…
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Art & Copy
Art & Copy Zines: Read and make them.
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Art, Design & Architecture
Phnom Penh and Southeast Asia-based designers and writers are invited to meet with Design Kompany in a small series of conversation salons to invite discussions on ‘creative process.’ These will kick off online but we may host real life ateliers in Singapore, Bangkok, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, too. The first will be held soon,…
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Kbach Zine Club
After a long hiatus, Design Kompany is returning to the Phnom Penh aesthetic as an area of focus, for a time. The big idea is to go deep into this place that we have been based for more than a decade, now, and make some use of the new ambient awareness of a culture that…
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Can I find out what I don’t know I don’t know? Yes, with ‘discovery learning’
A philosophy of learning by discovering isn’t just something that’s all fun; there’s real merit in it, for hte purpose of findig out what you don’t know you don’t know. Why does this matter for self-design? Sometimes we hold ourselves back because of the lack of awareness of the range of possibility of who we…
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Solopreneurship & Co-Storming
Hosting a virtual mastermind for solopreneurs to co-think and co-brainstorm. ‘Co-storming’ is for guests to think together, in a guided facilitation that’s hosted by Design Kompany’s Dipika Kohli. Reviews Format. What’s a challenge you’re facing? Get fresh, non-judgmental takes from your fellow participants? You’ll be part of small group conversations, for gaining new perspectives. Share,…
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Template Design for ‘Art & Copy’
Our monthly publication is a zine.
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Protected: S P A C E | Play’s role in the art of Ideation
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Protected: Em vẫn ổn ở đó không
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What clients say about working with DK
Here’s what clients say about working with us. Working with you is comfortable – like working with close friends. This keeps ideas flowing and anxiety down; and there’s never any pressure to conform to a previous expectation that you have. Things are open and awesome.” —Sean Patrick, Million Monarchs, Portland Ore., 2010 Read more Thank…
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Newsletter Design + Editorial Curation | Is ASEAN adapting to climate change?
How is ASEAN adapting to climate change so far? Several reports and articles published this month reveal the realities of the situation here in the region. A few links showcase the urgency of the moment. Below is the link to a PDF, of the stories gathered so far from outreach efforts on LinkedIn and cursory…
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Book Design | Kismuth & the Way
Book design is fun. This is an in-house project, but the writing inside this book was a commissioned column I wrote. When it was the start of 2024, and I had a blank slate to start a fresh series, I decided to approach it anew. Which meant, designing it. That starts exactly as with any…
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Design |「Atelier S P A C E 」九州
Atelier S P A C E creates popup events, conversation roundtables, and a weekly e-mag, S P A C E. Over the last 7 years, Atelier S P A C E has been producing zines in the cities of the regions where we go. Some of them include: Singapore, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Denmark, Sweden,…
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S P A C E | Autumn 2024, ‘Curiosity’
Let’s talk about being curious. That’s the theme for our 12-issue zine set, ‘Curiosity,’ this season. Members of S P A C E will get the first batch of curated stories from S P A C E | ‘Curiosity’ on Tuesdays, but I’ll post select isues to our online shop, too. Volume I: ‘How am…
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Curiosity | In flow
These days we are in good flow. Planning the Atelier S P A C E tour for Japan, where we will discover stories for ‘The Way’, a winter series of the S P A C E mini-mag. That season’s stories are those I am really jazzed up to happen upon, and how this will take…