Interior Sketch Series: Indie Bookstores in Hong Kong
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Illustration by Ikey Poon, image courtesy to Rolling Books.
Small shops in Hong Kong often represent how limited spaces are maximized to the fullest to fulfill its retail functions. Among local indie bookshops, interior designers are often absent, it is the bookshop owners/operators who make critical design decisions about how bookshelves are positioned, how display tables are manoeuvred, and how every inch are utilized to serve the purpose of retail outlet but yet a community connection purpose. We embark on a journey to study a dozen of significant bookshops in various perspectives, illustrating the 3D floor plans of bookshops through elevating angles, enlisting the little decorations and hand-written notes ever present in those unique spaces. The published illustrated book is to challenge the design or non-design of the organic growth for bookshop space complexity, witnessing how shops’ interior grow to fulfil its connectedness purpose, and to pay homage to the ever struggling indie bookshops scene.
Small shops in Hong Kong often represent how limited spaces are maximized to the fullest to fulfill its retail functions. Among local indie bookshops, interior designers are often absent, it is the bookshop owners/operators who make critical design decisions about how bookshelves are positioned, how display tables are manoeuvred, and how every inch are utilized to serve the purpose of retail outlet but yet a community connection purpose. We embark on a journey to study a dozen of significant bookshops in various perspectives, illustrating the 3D floor plans of bookshops through elevating angles, enlisting the little decorations and hand-written notes ever present in those unique spaces. The published illustrated book is to challenge the design or non-design of the organic growth for bookshop space complexity, witnessing how shops’ interior grow to fulfil its connectedness purpose, and to pay homage to the ever struggling indie bookshops scene.
- 2022
- Grantee: Rolling Books and Ikey Poon
Rolling Books is a social enterprise to promote reading experience. With the concept of mobile pop-up libraries and events, we are bringing interactive and engaging reading activities to schools and caring communities, aiming to inspire children to seek their lifelong companionship with books. They partner with a diversity of organisations for innovation projects to promote reading accessibility and sustainable knowledge, aiming to connect a new generation of readers in the challenging digital age. Rolling Books aims to provide a platform of reading engagement to children, related projects include second hand children books collection and distribution, multi-sensory picture book publishing, One Seventh Bookshops incubation program.
Ikey Poon believes when words and visual images can combine in perfect fusion, great stories can be told, and strong messages can be delivered. After she expanded her career as an independent illustrator in 2020, Ikey wishes she could utilize herself in pursuing effective communication by combining writing and illustration through books as a form of art. As a writer and a book-lover who has been working in the media field for 9+ years, and started her career in illustration and design in recent years. Ikey Poon has gained interest in different aspects of Hong Kong society. She had experience in cooperating and working for Radio Television Hong Kong, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Hong Kong Tourism Board, etc.