Dear Reader,
I'm Kester, a Singapore-based creative working where industrial design meets sculpture. My simple goal is to encourage a second look, to make you pause and think about the world right in front of you.
I am a natural problem-finder, and my approach is rooted in speculative design. I spend a lot of time asking "what if," using that question to challenge assumptions and explore our relationship with tomorrow. Yet I ground this exploration in the tangible and the present. I'm deeply drawn to the everyday life of Singapore: void decks, shared corridors, and the ordinary objects we handle without thinking. My work seeks to bring these familiar things into the "present-at-hand," often through small material or formal shifts that spark curiosity and play.
I combine this research-led, speculative thinking with hands-on craftsmanship. My practice spans functional prototypes, installations, and participatory workshops, always anchored in materiality and human connection. I’m fascinated by how micro-behaviors shape shared life, and how gentle social nudges can be designed into objects so that daily routines might slowly become shared rituals. I love to create experiences that are not just seen, but felt, and I work through prototyping and iteration to ensure ideas are accountable to real-world testing.
At heart, I'm passionate about using design to speculate on the future and examine how the products and spaces we live with shape our behaviour and our communities.
When I'm not designing, you can usually find me with my Gu Zheng, immersed in the study of repetition and audio story telling. It teaches me how small gestures, consistently revisited, can change what a moment becomes.
With Love,
Kester