Designer-mentee

Elaine Yan Ling Ng, nicknamed the ‘techno fairy’ by Elle Deco, is the founder of The Fabrick Lab, which brings together textiles, electronics, biomimicry, interiors and installations. A British Chinese materialologist, Ng graduated from Central Saint Martins in London where she earned her MA Design in Textile Futures with distinction. An alumna of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Management in Leadership, she is a TED Fellow and has been globally recognized, by multiple design awards, including AD100 The Game Changer by AD Italia, The Influencer by INDE. Awards and received The Emerging Talent Award by Design Anthology, GGEF’s Eco Innovator Award, Swarovski’s Designer of the Future Award and Tatler’s Gen T Award. She has worked with Nissan Design Europe and Nokia Design Beijing and is one of the top 50 brightest connectors, creative visionaries, influential innovators and disruptive talents in Hong Kong. In 2020, Ng was appointed Nature Squared’s Chief Material Innovator.

Ng was a grant recipient of Design Trust. Her feature project includes creating an on-going textile experimentation, a synergy between traditional craft and modern understanding of material. Ng also participated in DTFS 2019 as Designer Mentee and created Dancing Phoenix (Feature Carpet Design) in collaboration with Tai Ping and mentored by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu.