HKDC’s Design Incubation Programme Graduates 17 Companies

Hong Kong Design Centre’s Design Incubation Programme (DIP) Graduation Ceremony and networking event came to a successful end today at InnoCentre, Kowloon Tong. The guests of honour included Mrs. Janet Chu, Assistant Head of Create Hong Kong of HKSAR Government and Mr. Freeman Lau, Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors, Hong Kong Design Centre and Dr. John Lo, Senior Consultant of Hong Kong Design Centre and Chairman of Design Admission Panel, Design Incubation Programme. HKDC celebrated the graduation of 17 bright design incubation companies.
The guest of honour of Design Incubation Programme Graduation Ceremony, Mrs. Janet Chu, Assistant Head of Create Hong Kong.
This year DIP Graduation Ceremony presented the theme of “Talent, Business, Passion”, which are the elements possessed by a design-thinking entrepreneur. Dr. John Lo, Senior Consultant of Hong Kong Design Centre and Chairman of Design Admission Panel, Design Incubation Programme said, “this 2-year programme provides a conducive learning opportunity for incubatees to develop their “soft-aspects” of business that emphasize business knowledge, experience enrichment, as well as a well-balanced and all-round framework to help incubatees meet the challenges during their early and critical stage of development.” He continued, ”after having gone through the 2 year DIP program, the program has helped them to be better prepared to do good business in the competitive design industry and the business market on local and international fronts. DIP helped to nurture and has turned them into polished diamond from a raw diamond.”
Dr. John Lo, Senior Consultant of Hong Kong Design Centre and Chairman of Design Admission Panel, Design Incubation Programme.
Since the programme has started in 2005, the participated incubation companies have been awarded numbers of international design awards which include Red Dot Award, IIDA Global Excellence Award and HKDA Global Design Awards etc. Through DIP platform, industrial and business sectors can take this opportunity to develop business partnerships with outstanding design start-ups and young designers.
During the ceremony, two of the graduated design companies, Flamesquads Creative Limited and Chill Creative Company, discussed the experience of participating in the program, and how DIP nurtured their industry knowledge to develop into a successful creative venture.
The list of 17 graduated companies of Design Incubation Programme in the year of 2013-2014 are as below:
English Name |
Chinese Name |
Design Disciplines |
Aria Studio Limited |
悅創作室 |
Visual/ spatial arts |
BITE: design |
一口設計 |
Branding/ packaging |
Cecilia Ma Couture Limited |
詩馬時裝有限公司 |
Fashion |
Chill Creative Company |
- |
Branding/ packaging |
Coucou Bebe International Limited |
嗨嗨貝貝國際有限公司 |
Product |
Dimple |
店舖 |
Fashion |
Flamesquads Creative Limited |
火使團創作有限公司 |
Visual/ spatial arts |
Greentrooper Limited |
- |
Branding/ packaging |
Hangmade Design |
- |
Visual/ spatial arts |
HKMADE Co-Operates Limited |
- |
Product |
Invisible Park Design Limited |
- |
Other |
JuicyApp |
- |
Visual/ spatial arts |
Matisse Design Limited |
- |
Branding/ packaging |
ReProduction Co. |
- |
Other |
Studio Mango Limited |
- |
Product |
Twisted Sisters |
- |
Fashion |
Y-Axis Design Consultants |
逆思設計 |
Visual/ spatial arts |
Design disciplines of 157 successful applicants (From 2005 to end July 2014) are as follow:
Design disciplines |
Percentage |
No. of participants |
Product |
29.9% |
47 |
Visual/ spatial arts |
18.5% |
29 |
Fashion |
21.0% |
33 |
Branding/ packaging |
10.8% |
17 |
Interior/ architecture |
5.1% |
8 |
Jewelry |
5.1% |
8 |
Media & communication |
5.1% |
8 |
Others |
4.5% |
7 |
Total |
100% |
157 |