Design Incubator - by Patrick Chia (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This book selects and curates exclusive content from DIC's extensively documented seven-year archive and is presented here as a single body of work. Interspersed with insights and reflections from team members past-and-present, it is a handbook for designers that seek to incorporate unique, progressive methods and approaches into their personal or professional practices as well as a retrospective monograph on the Design Incubation Centre. Projects within the book are arranged and organised in a thematic manner and contain over 400 color photographs, charts, notes and sketches that illustrate with acuity how ideas and research are distilled and translated into polished prototypes and outcomes. Over the years, the Centre had its work featured and exhibited at The MoMA, New York, Maison et Objet, Paris, Salone Satellite, Milan and Ricordi & Sfera, Tokyo.

About the Author

Patrick Chia is one of the founding directors of the Design Incubation Centre (DIC). Established in 2006, DIC is Singapore's first dedicated industrial design research laboratory. DIC has exhibited extensively worldwide, garnering notable international and local awards from the Osaka International Design Competition, the RedDot Design Awards and the Singapore President's Design Award.