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My childhood was distinctly marked by improvisation. In the days before screens and social media, we played masak-masak and make-believe, using the everyday things around us to bring our imaginary worlds to life. The corridors of our HDB block became a makeshift supermarket aisle, a blanket transformed into a fort,
There's something magical about childhood snacks. They're time machines wrapped in crinkly packages, portals to simpler days when 20 cents could buy happiness and sticky fingers were badges of honour, rather than inconveniences to be sanitised away. When I think about my own skittish excitement licking
One fine day in mid-2019, a little more than a year after Kontinentalist first launched, some of us sat down to discuss what was in store…
Last week, Pei Ying shared how we’ve rebranded from a map-driven studio to a data-driven storytelling studio… with a fresh new look to…
Let Dylan and Rifqi, our Lead Developer and Full-stack Web Developer, tell you why. Abandon ship! To answer why, let us travel back in time to when Konti started, as Peiying mentioned in her article on our rebranding. In the early days of 2017–2018, most of what we did
We’ve given Kontinentalist a makeover!! Gone are the beige-brown days, and here are the purples, oranges, and pinks.
Hello again! In this second post about our rebranding of notes for the equator, our visual designer Munirah spills the tea about…
Hello! We (Bella and Griselda) will be talking about the rebranding of our newsletter, notes from the equator, in two parts here in this…
Harim is a Korean nuclear engineer by training who has worked in Abu Dhabi. She learned data visualization on her own and is an avid…
“So you want to be a web developer?” “Yeah! I wish I could make stuff like this too!”
Ri graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a degree in Communications Design/Creative Industries/IT. She worked as a…