We’re pumped, and you should be too! Saturday Indesign is just a week away, and the Indesign Media team has been working closely with all of our Exhibitors, Partners, Speakers and Ambassadors to line up the best Saturday Indesign yet for 12 October.

‘Lichen’ – a collaborative installation by Journey East x Wynk Collaborative. Bringing new function and expression to vintage furniture. See it at participating showroom Journey East, Tan Boon Liat Building

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The Event Guide is now online

We’ve just released our Event Guide online. View and download it here! Use it to help with planning your day, and make use of the handy calendar and RSVP links on the Saturday Indesign website to bring it all together for a fantastic day.

You’ll also be able to grab a print copy on the day. It’s chock full of info about all the Saturday Indesign Exhibitors, Design Conversations, Partner offers, installations, workshops, networking opportunities, seminars, prizes, and more.

25 top Exhibitors, two central locations, and good times await you!

Fritz Hansen Lounge is a participating showroom at the Tan Boon Liat Building

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Register now and win!

There are plenty of prizes to be won – S$10,000 worth in total – alongside the win that comes from rubbing shoulders with Singapore’s design crowd. This is your very last chance to enter the draw for our early registration prize. Register to attend before 11:59pm (Singapore time) on Friday 4 October, and attend on 12 October, and you could win an ergonomic ‘IN’ task chair from Wilkhahn worth S$1,300! Winner must be based in Singapore.

Tappeti Fine Hand-Crafted Rugs & Carpets will exhibit at Theatreworks, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road

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Dive into top product showrooms and installations

Our 25 product Exhibitors are ready to dazzle on 12 October. They have really pulled out all the stops this year, helping us to assemble a full, action-packed day of design immersion with workshops, activities, talks, competitions, installations, and the promise of good times! See the whole day’s line up here.

At the The Tan Boon Liat Building, 15 showrooms will be opening their doors and offering special installations, workshops and activities for Saturday Indesign. Look for the Saturday Indesign balloons outside participating showrooms.

Commune is a participating showroom at the Tan Boon Liat Building

A short free bus ride or a riverside-walk away at 72-13 Theatreworks (Mohamed Sultan Road), 10 brands will put on their best displays with collaboratively designed installations, talks and happy hours. Get to know all the exhibitors here.

Check out our interactive map for venue information and background on points of interest around Robertson Quay. Or access it via mobile on the day as you stroll between our two venues.

Flokk Asia will exhibit at Theatreworks, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road

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Local knowledge on tap

The six Design Conversations panel discussions will give you access to thought leaders from Singapore’s workplace, retail, residential and hospitality sectors – and more. Seats have been filling fast for these free sessions, but there’ll be standing room available.

The workplace session ‘New Pathways To Wellness At Work’ will discuss how wellness has been targeted at two offices in Singapore’s new Paya Lebar Quarter development. The retail session ‘Today’s Retail Dynamics: Who’s Driving Consumer Experience’ will tap into the insights of retail design specialists and experience strategists to unearth how retail is shifting.

Four of the Design Conversations sessions will be held at Theatreworks, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road. This was also a key Saturday Indesign venue in 2017. Photo by Wilson Pang

‘Innovative Strategies For HDB and Apartment Living’ will explore the path to fresh living environs. ‘Designpreneurship In A Challenging Market’ will bring together three early-to-mid career designers and architects who are innovating with their practice models and business approaches.

Our session ‘Tourist Or Global Citizen? Designing Hospitality In The Climate-Change Era’ will cut to the chase on what can designers and architects (not just operators) can do to create the conditions for conscious, low-impact hospitality experiences.

The Saturday Indesign 2017 Debate team returns in 2019! From left: Hunn Wai, Josh Comaroff, Razvan Ghilic-Micu, Tan Szue Hann. Photo by Wilson Pang

And finally, the Saturday Indesign Singapore Debate returns in 2019! The original debate team from 2017 is back on board, this time tackling the proposition that ‘Designers Are Lazy When It Comes To Sustainability’. We excpect nothing less than deep insight delivered with hilarity and good friendly jibes!

They’ll need to be on their toes, because our Saturday Indesign 2019 Debate Commentator is none other than impressive industry figure Sarah Ichioka – Director, Desire Lines, and Curator, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2020.

Saturday Indesign 2019 Debate Commentator Sarah Ichioka

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“To have Indesign curate an event and have the entire community come down and engage in discourse and conversations about design – and of course the debate! – that’s a red-letter calendar event that everyone can look forward to. And I imagine it will only keep growing.”

– Tan Szue Hann (MINIWIZ Singapore), Saturday Indesign Ambassador

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Need a hotel? Sorted.

Need a place to stay in Singapore? Look no further than our Hotel Partner The Warehouse Hotel (Singapore’s only member of Design Hotels). It’s situated right in the heart of the action at Robertson Quay, and it’s offering special rates for Saturday Indesign. Find all the details here!

The Warehouse Hotel, River View Suite

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See you on Saturday 12 October!

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Register for Saturday Indesign Singapore now!

Find out more about the event at singapore.saturdayindesign.com