Project: Bottom Up
Reimagining Hong Kong’s mosaic floor tiles as a pattern that moves from the ground into new cultural forms.
It started with a bandana.
I’ve always been fascinated by it — a simple piece of cloth once worn by American workers and cowboys in the 18th and 19th centuries. Something practical, worn by people on the ground, that slowly worked its way into global culture.
That made me wonder: why doesn’t Hong Kong have something like this?
So I started from the ground — literally. The pattern comes from Hong Kong’s traditional mosaic floor tiles (紙皮石), something we walk over every day but rarely stop to look at.
Instead of redesigning it completely, I play with the colours — small changes that give the pattern a slightly different attitude.
The bandana is just one way to show it. The bigger idea is about taking something that lives under our feet and bringing it upward — letting the pattern move, evolve, and appear in unexpected places. A scarf, a piece of furniture, even on a Rolex.
Seeing how a local pattern can travel beyond the street and into different forms.
From the ground of Hong Kong — to anywhere it belongs.
*DM me if you’re actually interested in getting one lol

