Behind the Seams: Wax & Stitch Workshop
How the idea started At Kontinentalist, most people know us because of our stories, but we’ve always been interested in making data more approachable and relatable to people’s daily lives. So it was serendipitous when we met Hafiz Rashid, an experienced museum docent and self-proclaimed “Nusantara otaku” at
Unearthing the age-old wisdom of Asia’s traditional architecture
Our latest piece on traditional architecture in Asia highlights the local knowledge and vernacular methods that once shaped how people built their homes. In their process of telling this story, our writer Zafirah Zein and designer Munirah Mansoor uncover a wealth of forgotten wisdom and contemporary research on building sustainably
Applying print principles to data visualization design
How can data viz design benefit from design theories like the Gestalt principles?