EVENT & NEWS
WINNER OF THE GGEF "ECO INNOVATOR AWARD"
Date: 18th October 2017
Location: Hong Kong
GGEF (Global Green Economic Forum) has announced four female pioneers who are the winners of its inaugural Women Eco Game Change Awards 2017. The award acknowledges and gives recognition to women who are leading and inspiring change in the community and environment through innovation.
At the ceremony on 18 October 2017, GGEF awarded Elaine Ng, the founder of The Fabrick Lab, the Eco Innovator Award.
CONFLUENCE 20+
BLOCK THIRTY SEVEN
Date: 14th October - 4th November 2017
Location: Block Thirty Seven, Chicago
A pilot project challenging the interdisciplinary relationship between designers, robot engineers and knitted textile programmers.
Confluence • 20+ is a multidisciplinary exhibition series that offers a perspective on Hong Kong's creative ecologies. The exhibition has sojourned in Milan, Hong Kong and Seoul. This Chicago Edition is the final stop of the exhibition series, and will continue to feature twenty collaborative and design research projects presented by Hong Kong’s design talent across disciplines.
CONFLUENCE 20+
DONGDAEMUN DESIGN PLAZA (DDP)
Date: 26 August - 16 September 2017
Location: Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul
A pilot project challenging the interdisciplinary relationship between designers, robot engineers and knitted textile programmers.
Confluence • 20+ is a multidisciplinary exhibition series that offers a perspective on Hong Kong's creative ecologies. The exhibition has made its debut at the internationally celebrated Milan Design Week in April 2017, and returned to Hong Kong in June 2017. This Seoul Edition continues to feature twenty collaborative and design research projects presented by Hong Kong’s design talent across disciplines.
CONFLUENCE 20+
HONG KONG CITY HALL
Date: 6-28th June 2017
Location: Hong Kong City Hall
A pilot project challenging the interdisciplinary relationship between designers, robot engineers and knitted textile programmers.
Confluence • 20+ is a multidisciplinary exhibition series that offers a perspective on Hong Kong's creative ecologies. The exhibition has made its debut at the internationally celebrated Milan Design Week in April 2017. The Hong Kong Edition will feature twenty collaborative and design research projects presented by Hong Kong’s design talent across disciplines.
CONFLUENCE 20+
LA TRIENNALE DI MILANO
Date: 4-16th April 2017
Location: La Triennale Di Milano
Sentient prototyping: The Fabrick Lab unveils Sensus at Milan Design Week.
A pilot project challenging the interdisciplinary relationship between designers, robot engineers and knitted textile programmers.
The Fabrick Lab, are in Milan to exhibit their innovative living prototypes Sensus at the internationally celebrated Salone del Mobile. The unique project forms part of the Hong Kong Design Centre’s Confluence: 20+, a celebration of the best design talents and creative ecologies of Hong Kong. The exhibition runs from 4th to 16th April 2017.
LANE CRAWFORD: THE MAKERS PROGRAMME
Date: August - September 2017
Location: Lane Crawford in IFC & Pacific Place, Hong Kong
To celebrate the modern Chinese craftsmanship, Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford brings three Chinese artisanal brands together, showcasing a special edit of furniture and home accents from X+Q, Shang Xia and The Fabrick Lab.
LONDON CRAFT WEEK: SEEDS GALLERY
Date: 10:00 - 18:00, 6th & 7th May 2017
Location: SEEDS, 3 Launceston Place, London, W8 5RL
Chi Wing Lo and Elaine Yan Ling Ng will be showing their collection at Seeds Gallery London sharing the theme of Time Travel Translation. Supported by the Debbie Lo Creativity Foundation.
LONDON CRAFT WEEK: UNFOLD EXPERIMENTAL WAX BATIK WORKSHOP
Date: 3rd May 2017
Location: ACE Hotel, 100 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JQ, England.
Elaine Yan Ling Ng, founder of The Fabrick Lab, holds a workshop which gives an insight into batik on wood and shows how she creates bespoke luxury products which keep heritage craft skills alive.
DONGLIANG x THE FABRICK LAB
Date: 29th Oct - 9th Nov 2016
Location: 184 Fumin Rd, Jingan Qu, Shanghai Shi, China, 200000
DongLiang welcomes The Fabrick Lab to their Shanghai shop on 29th October until 9th November 2016 for an exclusive launch of their Stellar Works bespoke furniture collection. The event will also include the launch of their lifestyle product collection and a film screening of their documentary.
ASIA SOCIETY - FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Date: 11th Oct 2016
Location: Asia Society - Miller Theatre & Courtyard, Admiralty, Hong Kong.
Design Trust Feature Grant recipient Elaine Yan Ling Ng will present a short film chronicling her project ‘UN/FOLD: A Stitch in Time’ which features her collaboration with the villagers of Guizhou. The project was initiated as a means to remodel the fast-disappearing minority craft skills and establish a new sustainable economic model. A panel discussion with other field experts will follow the screening.
PANELISTS
Elaine Yan Ling Ng, Founder of The Fabrick Lab
Richard Hsu, TEDx senior ambassador to China / adjunct professor Tongji university / founder of pan-asia network
Ikko Yokoyama, Curator, Design and Architecture, M+
Angus Watson, Associate Producer, CNN
Marisa Yiu, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Design Trust
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERVIEW
Date: 9th July 2016
Location: New Zealand
Kim Hill talks to Hong Kong-based designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng who interweaves technology with her textiles and furnishings at The Fabrick Lab. She visited Wellington as a keynote speaker for Nature Now, the 2016 Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand symposium.
SUNDEW 2.0 AT ART CENTRAL, HONG KONG
Date: 31st May 2016
Location: Art Central, Hong Kong.
Swarovski has unveiled ‘Sundew’, a spectacular kinetic crystal installation by British Chinese Designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng at the 2016 edition of Art Central. Exhibited at Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront, ‘Sundew’ represents Swarovski’s second successive partnership with Art Central, part of Hong Kong Art Week.
2015 SWAROVSKI DESIGNER OF THE FUTURE
Date: April 2015
Location: Swarovski's Headquarters, Wattens, Austria
During the prestigious Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Design Miami/ and Swarovski announced the winners of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award: Tomás Alonso and Studio Swine, both based in London, and Elaine Yan Ling Ng based Hong Kong.
They were invited to visit Wattens, Swarovski’s headquarters in Austria, to be immersed in the history of crystal manufacturing and explore the company’s cutting edge technology. New works by the winners, commissioned by Swarovski, will debut at the 10th Anniversary edition of Design Miami/ Basel June 16-21, 2015.
THE SWAROVSKI DESIGNER OF THE FUTURE
Date: April 2015
Location: Swarovski's Headquarters, Wattens, Austria
On April 16, 2015, Design Miami/ Basel announced Elaine Yan Ling Ng to be one of the three winners of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award on Swarovski's debut collaboration with Design Miami. As a recipient of the award, Elaine Yan Ling Ng will present a new piece of work, commissioned by award sponsor Swarovski, at the 10th Anniversary edition of Design Miami/ Basel in Basel Switzerland from June 16 to 21 in 2015.
CREATIVE WORKSHOP IN HONG KONG IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!
NATURE TECH
BioChromes
WE EXPLORE, EXPERIMENT AND EXECUTE WITH NATURE
NATURE TECH is a series of workshops that celebrate the amazing abilities of nature that broadly impact design, particularly in textiles. From the study of colour, structure, shape and form we celebrate the power of nature through biomimicy or bio-extraction design.
BioChromes is the first workshop series of Nature Tech, here we study nature’s ability from the fundamentals - COLOUR.
We offer a range of workshops to expand your creativity and help you to create your unique tools in design.
Bio Chromes- Juniors
Bio Chromes- Explorer
Bio Chromes- Expedition
CURRENT SHOW
Date: 26th June, 2014
Location: FAD (Edifici Disseny Hub Barcelona) / Pl. de les Glòries, 37–38 (Organized by: Materfad)
We are pleased to announce that the Naturology Collection has been invited to show at the Smart Flexibility Exhibition.
Naturology: VELCRO CHAIN is currently exhibiting at FAD, Balcelona, Spain
An exhibition that uncovers structures and materials capable of developing sensitivity and adapting their shape to the surroundings. The exhibition brings together projects from all over the world that allow us to imagine the functionalities that can be provided by intelligent, smart structures in any field of application. Perception of climatic, acoustic and light conditions in the surroundings and their adaptation to them; detection of users and the modification of the space in relation to their bodies, movements or even emotions; capturing of wind and solar energy; or the generation of electrical energy are some of the possibilities that these materials and technologies open up for us. On June 26th Materfad is welcoming three of the participants to explain the possibilities that flexible structures and active materials offer us.
THE SMART POD- A POP UP MATERIAL PLAYGROUND AT PMQ
Date: 28th Nov - 7th Dec 2014
Location: 35 Aberdeen St, Central, Hong Kong
An open window on our newly opened Kwai Chung based studio; the PMQ temporary capsule. Elaine Yan Ling Ng’s first Smart Pod, offered design enthusiasts, nature lovers, innovators and trendy crews a poetic sneak peak in to Elaine’s iconic projects and an insight in to a series of cutting edge workshops combining techno, craft and poesy.
BODW ASIA
Date: 4th Dec 2014
Location: International Convention Center, Hong Kong
Invited Speaker for Business of Design Week in Hong Kong.
Business of Design Week (BODW) is a flagship event organised by Hong Kong Design Centre since 2002. Each year, BODW brings to Hong Kong some of the world’s most outstanding design masters and influential business figures to inspire the regional audience on creative thinking and design management.
The Fabrick Lab was invited to present during BODW, to share their latest research and development. In particular, towards material design and the combination of craft and technology together.
PAN ASIA NETWORK
Date: 19th - 22nd Nov 2014
Location: International Convention Center, Jeju, Korea
The Fabrick Lab was invited as one of four presenters from Hong Kong, to share new prototypes at PAN2014.
PAN project is a learning and exchange
platform where diverse programs are tested, executed and distributed through collaboration, networking and peer learning.
Our purpose is to equip people for the post-industrial age, where creativity, open innovation and collaboration are the core elements of growth and development.
During PAN, The Fabrick Lab will be sharing various projects that are related to craft collaboration with local craftsman from China as well as highlighting some interactive surfaces.
RADIO REVIEW BY MONOCLE MAGAZINE
Date: 16th Dec 2014
Location: Monocle Hong Kong
David Plaisant takes us through the best bits of Business of Design Week in Hong Kong. Plus, we head to Milan to learn about the craft of design brand Porro and travel to Toronto for Iidex: Canada’s national design and architecture expo.
INTERVIEW WITH BON TV
Date: Nov 2013
Location: BON TV
It's was a great honour to be interviewed by BON TV 蓝海电视台 for their special cultural TV program, 'Amazing China'. Within the program, Elaine Ng Yan Ling reveals how she explores China and shares how China continues to inspire her in many different ways.
