Lee Chi Wing

In 1998, product designer Lee Chi Wing founded Milk Design, a unique design force on simple and daily lifestyle products. Lee believes that design should be pure and basic just like milk. It is also a process to open up more possibilities and bring new experience to our daily life. For him, design is a continuous exploration of new ideas and solutions - which are also culturally, socially and environmentally relevant. The company’s works are found in a wide range of areas from products to services, and installation to exhibition. Lee believes design is simple and human. It is an important tool to provide various possibilities and experience to our daily life.

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In 1998, product designer Lee Chi Wing founded Milk Design, a unique design force on simple and daily lifestyle products. Lee believes that design should be pure and basic just like milk. It is also a process to open up more possibilities and bring new experience to our daily life. For him, design is a continuous exploration of new ideas and solutions - which are also culturally, socially and environmentally relevant. The company’s works are found in a wide range of areas from products to services, and installation to exhibition. Lee believes design is simple and human. It is an important tool to provide various possibilities and experience to our daily life.

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Brewing Tea, Brewing Conversations

When one thinks of Chinese tea, what instantly pops up in our mind might be a slow image of traditionally-clothed waitresses serving tea to tasters. Lee would like to redefine and bring into light this special tea culture that Hong Kong can offer to the world. In our ever-bustling city, a reinvented tea stall may be a unique chilling place to soothe your mind. It is a Hong Kong-style alternative to the cozy cafe where you goof your afternoon away and sip your coffee. In the project, young ceramic artist Joe Chan is working with Lee on casting the tea ware. They are working together on the mould design, with the aid of 3D printing. Lee’s mobile tea bar is a self-service counter that welcomes people to gather around and chat freely over a cup of tea. It leads us to reconsider the tea culture as a social and communicative behaviour. In the Chicago Edition, the tea bar will be transformed into a makeshift tea room, offering visitors a multi-sensory experience of “Hong Kong Style” tea ceremony.

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