CDSS Design for Future <Step-In-Style> Design For Community Competition aims to get HKDI & IVE(KT) students’ involvement in a local community project to foster the Hong Kong’s design culture, as well as to gain the public recognition of our design talents. Eleven local shops with different natures in Sham Shui Po district are invited to join this competition, each of them will be paired up with a group of students to develop a signature icon (logo) and branding prototype. 

An award ceremony and exhibition will conduct in June 2021

Mobile exhibitions will be held from June to August 2021.

Over 200 Student/Alumni from different disciplinary in HKDI will be involved.

Upcycling Capsule Collection "THE POWER OF WOMEN & THE ICONIC JACKET"

Content: An upcycling capsule collection will be designed by Johanna Ho with Green Ladies garments. Concept of pop up to be in line with Green Ladies’ concept of “I SECOND – REUSE, RESTYLE & EMPOWERMENT” to promoting eco-friendly life-style and women empowerment.

The collection will base on the Iconic Jacket design theme, students will utilize different ways or materials to re-style the selected collection from Green Ladies.

A popup store will be set up in CDSS & Green Ladies in April 2021.

CDSS collaborated with Advance Denim Limited (Advance Denim) to design and produce Mini Denim Bag for the CDSS Collection 2021.

A series of graphic design about Hong Kong Culture Elements will be launched for online order soon.

About “CarePlus+C”:

Advance Denim has developed a new antibacterial denim, named “CarePlus+C”, that uses Chitin as its active ingredient. Chitin is a polymer that is extracted from marine algae and shells. It prevents the growth of bacterial and fungal microorganisms when applied on textile products.

Materials & Production Sponsored by:

Advance Denim

A lovely Red Packet was sponsored by Advance Denim to celebrate for the Year of Cow and grand opening of Centre of Design Services & Solutions (CDSS).  

Artwork Designed by:  

Department: Department of Communication Design 

Programme: HD in Visual Communication  

Student Name:  Simon Lam  

CDSS invited the alumni of Diploma of Foundation Studies (Design) of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Kwun Tong) to collaborate in the design theme "Cultural Elements of Hong Kong" which also resulted in the creation of a collection of products to be put onto the market.

The Reinvention of Authentic Culture is one of the design projects from the Diploma of Foundation Studies (Design). Students employed the theme of “Cultural Elements of Hong Kong” through the use of mind mapping for data collection and research. Student TOBITA Syouei decided to introduce the Food Stalls Card Game as the theme where he adapted creative thinking, visual communication skills and various design software tools learned in the course to develop and create a unique design for the Creative Studio Project, which also serves as his preparation for further studies in the future.

Card Game Introduction

With a large number of food illustrations and two different gameplay methods,

players can easily recognize the local food stalls. It is a game experience suitable for all ages.

A team of student are working on the daily operation in CDSS. Job duties are including Products selection, monitor stocks and display, Visual Merchandising design & practices, Shop Decoration, Website design and Social Media Promotion etc

PersonTees Limited Company has a smart device and platform selling crossover and custom-made t-shirt. A series of capsule collection will be developed with HKDI students. Through this programme, students will participate from T-shirt design concept, production, promotion and delivery product to end user.

A mobile application designed by students is being implemented.  “WardrobeConnect” (WC) won Outstanding Award in the Innovation x Application 2.0 Competition.  WC is an e-tailing innovation project with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for scanning, recording and sorting fashion items for personal virtual wardrobe. Based on the framework of WC, CDSS developing an app for the retail environment to enhance the shopping experience and facilitate the big data on customer shopping behaviours for brand future development.