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This already award-winning collection, Travel Mahjong City, combines Hong Kong heritage with modern art design to provide a wide range of contemporary products with creative illustrations related to Hong Kong culture, is now featured in a pop-up store at Hong Kong’s K11 from Friday to Sunday during 28 September to 21 October. The products highlights the value of mahjong craftsmanship while explaining Hong Kong’s traditional ways of making hand-carved mahjong tiles. Hong Kong brand, ‘Travel Mahjong City’, is a collaboration between three Hong Kong artisans: Karen Aruba, an illustrator, and two designers, Connie Siu & Maggie Cheung. Their ‘Travel Mahjong City’ collection has been recognized by the Hong Kong Smart Design Awards 2018 this April, which caught the attention of the Hong Kong design scene for its unique and creative design. This interest is due to the new take on an activity – mahjong – usually associated with Hong Kong’s heritage and older generations, combin...

While travelling to beautiful places, Karen loves to illustrate her trip and makes her journey like a fairytale. She sketches travel experiences and pictures with different cultures of each city through visuals and amazing art journal. As a self-taught artist who comes from the East, Hong Kong, Karen draws beautiful sceneries with creative ideas. She has an art brand “ Karen Aruba Art ” illustrating amazing artwork with products in travel & cultural themes. Which are the new destinations in Canada that you've chosen for your 'Art Journal Travel'? In last December, it was my first time to embark on a challenge with an art journey to Japan. Recently this summer in May, I continued the art journey to Vancouver, Whistler and Toronto in Canada with another style of drawing. How did your art journal inspire (both others and also yourself)? If a picture is worth a thousand words, an art journal shows travel lovers thousands of words of an amazing trip in a...

Tonight our guest is Azure Lorraine. She is a serial-entreprenuer, founder, creative and vision director of Azure Design . It is a creative design firm. Azure is originally from Los Angeles but she has worked and travelled all over the world, including Hong Kong, London. She recently opened a second office of Azure Design in Atlanta. Headquarter is in Hong Kong. She builds brands and markets for corporate businesses and recently started working with artists (musicians) to help branding, online and offline marketing. We have conducted an interview with her. How did you grow from your Hong Kong headquarter to a second HQ for your creative design agency in Atlanta USA? It all exploded in 2016, with the work I did for one of my clients Foodpanda, one of the biggest food delivery start up giants based in Berlin, Germany. I was appointed to create their Hong Kong Foodpanda magazine, a digital lifestyle and food magazine. From concept and column creation, copywriting to photography...

Our guest today is Millie Leung from Hong Kong. She is an Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author and International Speaker. Mom of 2 young daughters. We have conducted an interview with her about her entrepreneurial story. What is your background? Today, I am an Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author and International Speaker. I am also a Wife and the Mother of two beautiful little girls. My passions are in Entrepreneurship, Financial Education and Women Empowerment . And I am on an unshakable mission to help people start their own business, escape the rat race and live a life they truly love! I absolutely LOVE my life! But it wasn’t always this way… I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up following the ’traditional path of success’ – ’go to school, get good grades, get a good job, work hard at the job and save money.’ Growing up, with sheer hard work, I became a straight A student, top of class and had my university fully paid for by scholarships. I went on to graduatin...

Orla Breeze is an author, columnist & parenting advisor who focuses on assisting parents with the transition from carefree child-free living to crazy, chaotic parenthood! She is the creator of the magazine column Rated PG! and have published her articles in a variety of websites both in Hong Kong and abroad. We have conducted an interview with Orla on her ebook for new dads - Daddy 101 . How did you become a parenting advisor? Before I became a parent, I was already treating individuals for physical complaints using Scenar Therapy, and facilitating regular meditation groups so it felt natural to focus exclusively on parenting once I had found my own parenting balance. Becoming a parent was an eye-opening experience for me, to say the least, and it quickly became apparent that parents don’t get the support they need to get them through the huge changes and challenges that come up for them when they cross the bridge to Parenthood. All energy goes into taking care of baby l...

Karen Cheung loves to sketch and paint. Karen Aruba Art is her new brand where people find amazing artworks and many home deco products with creative drawing and photo-taking features. Karen is a self-taught artist based in Hong Kong. We have conducted an interview with her. Where do you draw inspirations from for your artwork? I love to draw anything related to travel theme. My drawing of artwork is inspired by any creative things which can bring people with happiness. So far there are two main collections in my artwork: 'Travel with Pencil' & 'Travel with Color'.  ‘Art is a process of creation. We create happiness with heART’ – that is the reason why Karen Aruba Art is setup. Why did you name your shop Aruba? Aruba is a very popular resort place located in the Caribbean Sea, also well known as ‘One Happy Island’. It sounds not familiar in Asia because it is far away, however, this is a very famous tourist location among the Americans because ...

Nelson Cabán is a visual artist based in Hong Kong and New York City. We have conducted an interview with him about his artwork, recent exhibitions: How did you cope with two bases: in New York City and Hong Kong? Is it difficult to shuttle between the two locations? New York and Hong Kong both have their benefits. New York will always maintain a certain caché in the international arts market, although I feel that it is far from its creative peak of the 1980s. Hong Kong is the 3rd largest market for art in the world and its close proximity to mainland China makes it impossible to ignore for an emerging artist. The trip definitely takes a toll, every two months approximately, 16 hour direct flight but these trips allow me the time and the space to come up with ideas for shows and products..or just plain old sleep! Where can we see your recent exhibitions? What is the theme of your recent artwork? My most recent show was at City Hall in Philadelphia and will ...