From Jul 18-19 and Jul 25-26, this festival will screen 10 documentaries about design and production, each shown for the first time in theaters across Asia. All films have Thai subtitles. Check out all the trailers below. 

Pratarn Teeratada, 51, is one of the most influential figures in Thailand’s architecture and design community. In 1995, he was part of the team that founded Art4D, a pioneering art and design publication aimed squarely at creative professionals—and has been its editor-in-chief ever since. Here, we talk to him about how the magazine, which just turned 20, and Thailand’s design industry, has evolved.

In 2004, starchitect Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the illustrious Pritzker Prize. Here, things aren’t much better for female architects. But Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum, 41, co-founder of the Department of Architecture Co., Ltd., is behind some of the most exciting projects in Thailand, whether it’s the dramatic Hilton Pattaya or the new TCDC headquarters on Charoenkrung. She shares with us her optimism for the architectural profession and her vision for TCDC.

A new generation of designers are turning to traditional craft skills to produce cutting-edge products.

Bangkok's best shops to deck out your down-to-earth designer digs.