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Kontinentalist
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back to basics: learning from my roots— issue #67

In design school, I was taught very western-centric design theories. This made me think about other design conventions, especially ones that speak to my heritage.

Gwyneth Cheng
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The cost of mining Asia’s transition minerals

In this article, we detail the thought process behind our latest story about the world’s reliance on Asia’s transition minerals. We go through the reasoning behind how we designed and presented the piece, in a way that would be accessible and educational for the layperson audience.

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Mick Yang
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Mick Yang

I’m almost 3 months into my internship. Currently I’m writing a story about spicy food; specifically about chilies in Asia. The main thing…

Kontinentalist
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Real life is scarier than Halloween — issue #16

I want to talk about the monsters lurking under the bed.  The bogeyman scares kids all around the world—it stalks the shadows, silent until it gets you for your misbehaviour. Bogeymen are imagined as grotesque, vengeful, and dangerous, but nobody really knows what one looks like. We imagine them,

Isabella Chua
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Zafirah Zein

Today we chat with Zafirah, who in her short time with Konti has produced a slew of awesome stories on sex trafficking, racism against…

Griselda Gabriele
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Part III: Everything visual about the eighteen levels of hell

A few weeks ago, the Kontinentalist team published our narrative-based game, Hell’s Apprentice, based on the Buddhist-Taoist folklore of…

Mick Yang
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Eighteen levels of hell (Part II): Writing and designing

Embracing uncertainty and life’s surprises is a large part of growing up. Even then, making a game about hell two months out of university…

Kontinentalist
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Women hold up half the sky — issue #15

Was there a defining moment in your life when you decided you might be a feminist? Personally, I don't know when mine was. Looking back, there were fleeting moments ever since I was a young girl. I studied in a convent school, and I remember being perplexed at

Isabella Chua
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Eighteen levels of hell (Part I): Conceptualising our game

Kontinentalist created our first-ever narrative game, Hell’s Apprentice, based on the Buddhist-Taoist folklore of the eighteen levels of…

Isabella Chua
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Avel

It’s cliché, but we learn from our interns as much as they (hopefully) learn from us. One such was Avel, a design intern with us during…

Kontinentalist
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Have you eaten rice? — issue #14

The first time I tried Korean tteok-bokki, I hardly knew whom I was eating it with. We'd just moved into our new house, and it was one of our first meals together—the same week Singapore's COVID-19 lockdown closed all our favourite dine-in restaurants. My housemates

Mick Yang
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Conducting a virtual data storytelling and visualisation workshop

With a bonus peek into our writers’ dietary habits.

Isabella Chua
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Hiang Ling

Hey Hiang Ling! Tell us a little bit about what you do in Konti.

Siti Aishah
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Thoughts on Making the Migratory Bird Map

One of my work goals of 2020 is to work with Mapbox GL JS and Scrollama JS to create a decent scrolly-driven map. Born to fly: The life…