Posts tagged Thoughtful gifts
Meet the Qrafties II: Nick Tsao, Founder of Tsaoao Design

Tsaoao Design is a paper crafts studio aspiring to reintegrate traditional crafts into the digital age. Founder Nick Tsao is a practicing architect in Hong Kong living in the historic Wanchai Bluehouse where he shares his passion for traditional crafts.

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Meet the Qrafties II: Lindsey McAlister, Founder of Crafty Bitch and HKYAF

After 45 years of creating performing artworks last year, Lindsey delved back into creating visual art, she sees a strong correlation between both genres as she uses language, images, colours, textures, messages & emotions in her creations. Lindsey sees her work as a love letter to Hong Kong. “It’s a way to celebrate my home of the past 37 years. I like to describe my work as “Uniquely Hong Kong”.

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Meet the Qrafties II: Richard Crosbie, Hong Kong Urban Sketcher and Plein Air Artist

Richard Crosbie is originally from a small mining village near Caerphilly in South Wales. Ever since he was a young boy, he has been interested in art and crafts and spent equal measure playing outside, painting, drawing, and making things inside on rainy days. Richard graduated from Ravensbourne College with a degree in Product Design and started his career in Hong Kong about 25 years ago.

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Meet the Qrafties II: James Pauw, Hong Kong Sustainable Swim Shorts Designer

Originally from the UK, James moved to Hong Kong with work in 2018 after many years of asking to relocate to the Pearl of the Orient. Passionate about Hong Kong’s beaches and environment, and saddened by how polluted it has become.

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Meet the Qrafties II: Aaron Michelson, Talented Hong Kong Photographer

Born and bred in Hong Kong, AARON has been taking pictures since a teenager. After studying Film and Communications at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, Aaron has worked as a freelance videographer and photographer, documenting local theatre productions, weddings, private parties, and other events, and creating music videos and corporate documentaries.

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Meet the Qrafties II: Sharon Chong, Hong Kong Watercolour Illustrator

Sharon Chong is an independent watercolour illustrator who is born and raised in Hong Kong. Her interest in painting started when her mum bought her a sketching pencil set when she was a young teen. She called herself a shy person and as she was the only child in the family, she enjoys "alone time". She also enjoyed art lessons when she was in school and her artwork received positive comments from her teachers. Sketching has become her favourite activity.

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Meet the Qrafties: Penny Creedon, Creative Director and Illustrator in Hong Kong

Penny Creedon, a Brit who’s been living and working in Hong Kong for the past 12 and a bit years, used to be an actuary, working in an office, sitting at a desk all day. But, when her life took a different direction, she fell back in love with drawing and painting…and from creating a small range of Christmas cards to send to friends and family, Paper-Roses was born.

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Meet the Qrafties: Em Royston, Founder and Designer of Chasing Threads

Em Royston studied Design at University and went on to work for multiple product design brands in London, including Suck UK, where she designed a number of products for them. After a move to Hong Kong in 2016 and full of inspiration to create new products, Em was motivated to start her own brand building on the idea to 'Stitch your own way'.

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5 Easy and Fun DIY Ideas at Home

In the effort of social distancing, activities that we usually do to release stress and enjoy some goods time after a long day at work may not be feasible during this period of time. On this blog post, we would like share with you some easy and fun DIY ideas at home. These creativity activities do not require a huge time commitment and you can decide how much time to spend on it whenever you want.

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