A December night in Seoul is as bright as day, with streets adorned with colorful lights that greet the citizens and visitors. Luminaries, or festive light displays, were first used around 400 years ago in Italy to commemorate the saints. The ceremony is now sublimated to an art festival. Retailers including department stores and luxury boutiques have been the most eager to bring yearend festiv...

The fifth annual Design Week in Daegu kicked off Thursday at Daegu Gyeongbuk Design Center and will run until Sunday, organizers said. Co-hosted by the Daegu Metropolitan Government and Daegu Gyeongbuk Design Center, Design Week in Daegu 2017 will proceed under the theme of “Innovation, Caring and Empathy through Design.” Around 200 officials from South Korea‘s four largest design centers (Seou...

NEW YORK - A 500-year-old work of art -- believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci and depicting Jesus Christ -- sold in New York on Wednesday for $450.3 million, smashing a new art auction record, Christie‘s said. The whopping price dwarfed the previous record for the most expensive piece of art sold at auction, set at $179.4 million for Pablo Picasso’s “The Women of Algiers (Version O)” by Christie‘...

Design gurus from Korea, Japan and the US shared their thoughts on technology during a talk session of the Herald Design Forum 2017 that took place Tuesday in Seoul. Lampix CEO George Popescu, Daylight’s creative director Sung Jung-gi and Balmuda CEO Gen Terao came to the stage with moderator Kim Ji-hyun, editor-in-chief of The Investor, during a Design Talk session under the theme, design in th...

George Popescu, Jung Sung-gi, Gen Terao talk about new ways of thinking in design

Leaders of design world gather at premium dinner talk to share philosophies

In the era of the “fourth industrial revolution” characterized by hyper-intelligence, hyperconnectivity, and hyperconvergence, the role of creativity and comprehensive thinking is greater than ever. The role of design is also expanding at an unprecedented speed, as it is a key player in the development of new industries and convergence among industries. In the new era, empirical “design thinking...

Design rooted in playing, imagining and communicating

Renowned architects shared their design philosophy during a session of the Herald Design Forum 2017 that took place on Tuesday under the slogan “Design for Humanity” in Seoul. The first speaker for Herald X Dgit was Carme Pigem, a Spanish architect and member of the Pritzker Prize-winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes. He said history is the past which many people share in common but memor...

Carme Pigem, Seok Yong-bae, Aernout Dijkstra-Hellinga discuss environment, sensibility and consumers’ true needs

George Popescu, Sung Jung-gi, Gen Terao discuss ‘fourth industrial revolution’ and design transformation

Herald Design Forum session primer

Jaime Hayon, Claudio Bellini, Fukasawa Naoto explain their design philosophies

Breaking away from the conventional view that design is a decoration for products, it plays a key role in the emergence of new industries and collaboration of existing ones in the era of the “fourth industrial revolution.” The Herald Design Forum 2017 will take place on Nov. 7 under the slogan “Design for Humanity” in the country’s capital. Join us as leading designers, architects and CEOs from...

Ghanian artist El Anatsui’s monumental sculptures embody the fabric of African culture