When the world was in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and most borders were closed in 2020, the catwalks of Paris were enlivened by a dash of Indonesian culture thanks to the Christian Dior spring-summer 2021 ready-to-wear fashion show, which featured traditional Ikat Endek fabric handmade by weavers in Bali.
Also known as Wastra or Kain Endek, this style of textile involves dyeing the warp
Makan means “to eat” in Malay, and as the title of a cookbook featuring Southeast Asian cuisine, it’s pretty perfect. So it’s not surprising that London-based chef Elizabeth Haigh – who was born in Singapore and whose mother is Chinese Singaporean – named her first cookbook Makan.
When it arrived in bookstores earlier this year, “Makan was billed as something of a culmination of Haigh’s ascent
For a company that made its name by designing gaming hardware beloved by gamers worldwide, this review of Razer’s first gaming chair last year perhaps stung a little: “It looks like Razer decided to largely copy one of today’s oft-cited favorites: the new $499 Razer Iskur is a dead ringer for the similarly-priced Secretlab Omega and Titan,” said The Verge of Razer’s entry into the red-hot gaming c
The recent announcement of a collaboration between esteemed publisher Penguin Classics and comics giant Marvel is the latest proof that comic book content is dominating the zeitgeist.
Later this year, they will be publishing special editions of Black Panther, Captain America, and The Amazing Spider-Man under the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, which will mark the first time comics have bee
A recent survey conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an eye-opener for innovators, indicating that while the global content market has grown to US$2.4 trillion, the number of specialised mechanisms for resolving B2B digital IP disputes have not caught up to market needs.
More than 60% of 1,000 participants (65% claimants and 45% defendants) from 129 countries wer
No Time To Die is the 25th entry in the James Bond movie franchise, and like every 007 flick made by Eon Productions since this debonair spy appeared on the silver screen in 1962, it features the iconic James Bond theme. You can probably hear it in your head right now — “the one with the dum-dee-dee-DUM-dum surf guitar line and the walloping orchestral charts dripping with danger”, as Chicago Trib
In a digital world, where economic value is created before products are manufactured and before services are executed, the value of IP should get much greater emphasis than is currently the case. Ironically, this is often least appreciated by the innovators who create this value, especially when they pitch their ideas to prospective clients and investors.
The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, known as AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle), is the world’s leading non-profit association dedicated to the development and improvement of laws for IP protection.
Based in Switzerland, it has over 8,000 members from 131 countries, and works to promote the protection
A creative who specialises in illustrations and animation, Tienny The has been fascinated with visual and narrative storytelling since she was a child. “From a very young age, I enjoyed drawing and creating stories whenever ideas inspired and spurred my imagination,” she shares.
To turn this interest into a career, she entered Lasalle College of the Arts to train in Animation Art. She later ear
With a lifestyle-centric focus and a palpable lack of toxic arguments, image-sharing platform Pinterest is a favourite for social-media users who like to spend their Internet time browsing and curating visual inspirations rather than having fraught conversations.
It turns out, however, that even Pinterest isn’t drama-free. Former blogger Christine Martinez has sued Pinterest co-founders Ben Si
The latest viral sensation from streaming platform Netflix is South Korean series Squid Game, and it has taken the world by storm. A mere 11 days after the show was released on September 17, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos went on the record about its blockbuster numbers, stating that it had become the platform’s biggest non-English language show in the world, and could very well turn out to be Netf
Content theft is common phenomena in social media, and it is not uncommon for influencers with large followings to take content from less popular creators without permission.
Shristi Das, an Indian Instagram influencer with over 142,000 followers, creates different characters with unique voices. She was extremely annoyed when a famous TV actor with half a million Instagram followers used her v
