MINISTRY OF DESIGN IS AN INTEGRATED EXPERENTIAL DESIGN & BRANDING AGENCY
MOD has won Singapore’s President Design Award twice, New York’s Gold Key Award thrice, named “Designer of the Year” by International Design Awards (USA), and been featured in Deezen, Wallpaper, Frame and Surface. Headquartered out of Singapore, with MODers throughout the region, MOD was declared a “Rising Star of Architecture” by the Monocle Singapore Survey 2010 and “Designer of the Year” by the International Design Awards, USA 2010. MOD’s recent portfolio includes multi award-winning projects such as Citi Wealth Hub (11 awards), YTL Headquarters (9 awards), VUE Hotel Beijing (14 awards), and Race Robotics Laboratory (12 awards).
MOD’s foundational "Built Worlds" include Macalister Mansion Hotel (Best Luxury Hotel, Gold Key NYC 2013), Vanke Triple V Gallery, UOL Edge Gallery (World Architecture Festival 2012), Barcode Office (Best Office in WAF Barcelona 2011), BBH Office (President’s Design Award 2008), Sho-U Restaurant (Gold Key Award Grand Prize 2007), Leo Burnett Office (Interior Design of the Year 2010, USA), New Majestic Hotel (President’s Design Award 2006) & The Saporiti Italia Luxury Tower (Grand Prize & exhibited at Salone de Mobile Milan 2010).
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WE QUESTION CONVENTION BY REDEFINING SPACES & EXPERIENCES
MOD’s World Building explorations are created amidst a democratic ‘studio-like’ atmosphere and progress seamlessly between form, site, object and space. MOD prefers starting upstream, conceptualising holistic experiences in the creation of each unique World we Build, translating this into a wide variety of possible downstream mediums: from architecture, interior design, branding, graphics, to landscape, and where possible, the weaving of diverse disciplines into a single project. We love to question where the inherent potential in contemporary design lies, and then to disturb the ways they are created or perceived, creating unique and distinctive worlds. Fortified with these aspirations, we begin each distinct project anew by seeking to do 2 things: to draw deeply from the context surrounding each project, but also to dream freely so that we might transcend mere reality and convention.
“Question, Disturb & Redefine! This, we declare, is real change, not change for the sake of novelty. Each unique World we Build endeavours to be delightfully surprising but yet relevant, distinctly local but still globally appealing.”
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ALL OUR PROCESSES FOLLOW A NORTH STAR
At MOD, we are World Builders and begin the process of World Building far upstream - we employ strategic and conceptual design thinking, avoiding the immediate impulse for groundless downstream solutions. With each project, our aim is to establish a relevant design “north star”: a central notion and idea potent enough to guide us definitively through the entire design process. This upstream approach translating this into a wide variety of possible downstream mediums: from architecture, interior design, branding, graphics, to landscape, and where possible, the weaving of diverse disciplines into a single project. As a result, our work is holistic as well as bespoke. We call this entire process North Star Design:
Brand Strategy
Branding Design
Spatial Design
Architectural Design
Product Design
Wayfinding Design
Virtual Environments
MAGIC HAPPENS WHEN PATRONS BECOME PARTNERS
At MOD, we produce our very best designs when our clients are as keen as we are to transcend mere “patronage” to become real “partners”. As partners in crime, we blaze new design trails together and stare convention in the face, suspicious of its cloying familiarity. Bolstered by the faith that there must be more to be discovered beyond, our partners cover the gamut of fellow design junkies from established multi-national developers to virgin boutique hotel owners. A single passion binds us - to Question, Disturb and Redefine the experiences which surround us in order to create unique Worlds. Our stellar set of clients include:
The Standard | Design Hotels | Tribute Portfolio | Unlisted Collection
The Luxury Collection | St Regis | W Hotels | Curio Collection | Hotel Indigo
Keppel Land | Citi | YTL Corporation | Vanke | UOL Group Limited | TA Global
OCBC Bank | Ascendas | SOHO China | Leo Burnett | Holborn Holdings Ltd