TF Chan
TF Chan is a former editor of Wallpaper* (2020-23), where he was responsible for the monthly print magazine, planning, commissioning, editing and writing long-lead content across all pillars. He also played a leading role in multi-channel editorial franchises, such as Wallpaper’s annual Design Awards, Guest Editor takeovers and Next Generation series. He aims to create world-class, visually-driven content while championing diversity, international representation and social impact. TF joined Wallpaper* as an intern in January 2013, and served as its commissioning editor from 2017-20, winning a 30 under 30 New Talent Award from the Professional Publishers’ Association. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he holds an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University.
Latest articles by TF Chan
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Hayon Studio and Caran d’Ache embrace beauty in imperfection
For Wallpaper* Handmade X, Jaime Hayon and Caran d’Ache sought to break the mould with ‘Drawing Collectible Toys’, a series of figurines that went through an unexpected design journey
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Formafantasma design limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s August 2020 issue
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. For the August 2020 issue, design studio Formafantasma contributed a microscopic image of paper fibres to reflect on global wood consumption
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Yves Behar creates animated limited-edition cover for Wallpaper* June 2021 issue
Each month, Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our June 2021 Innovation Issue, designer Yves Behar juxtaposed previously unseen sketches with detail shots of his products for an animated cover design that reveals the journey of making
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Sustainability is not about designing less, but designing better
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Mecanoo’s National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts thrusts Taiwan into a cultural golden age
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Balloons fill a ticket office in Denmark with Martin Creed’s pink pop-up
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Balancing AI and beauty: the future of automotive design
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Pierre Yovanovitch’s desk accessories for Dior are inspired by the south of France
‘In the age of at-home work and virtual meetings, there is something very romantic about juxtaposing modern work life with well-crafted, tangible desk accessories,’ says Pierre Yovanovitch upon debuting his collection
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Super size: Adriana Varejão’s baroque tiles loom large in Rome
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The wit and whimsy of Serban Ionescu’s ‘objects of dormant utility’
The vibrant works of Romanian-born Serban Ionescu cut across the border lines between design and art, as featured in the April 2021 issue of Wallpaper*
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Taryn Simon to bring her seminal installation on mourning rites to London
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Sophie Calle creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s November 2020 issue
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. For our November 2020 art special, artist Sophie Calle presented a portrait of herself disguised as a tree, part of her ongoing project on hunting and the matrimonial chase
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Artist’s Palate: Ulla von Brandenburg’s orangettes
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The Oscar Wilde Temple opens at London’s Studio Voltaire
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’How could I forget you?’ Galerie Perrotin hosts a group love letter to Mexico
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In memoriam: Milton Glaser (1929-2020)
Remembering the American design icon who gave us the ‘I ❤️ NY’ logo and championed better citizenship through visual communication
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Snøhetta’s Kjetil Thorsen judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Snøhetta's Kjetil Thorsen, founding partner of one of the world's leading architecture practices on sustainabilty, joins the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021 judging panel
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Master minimalist Jasper Morrison pulls up a chair to the Design Awards 2018 judging panel
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Danish superstar Bjarke Ingels joins the Wallpaper* Design Awards grand jury
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Elmgreen & Dragset and Georg Jensen invite you to put your phones to bed
Explore the making-of ‘The Bed’, a Wallpaper* Handmade X project intended to protect lovers from digital interference
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Squaring the circle: the making of the treasure box, by RDAI and Lanserring
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Double vision: with a curated Fitzrovia space, an Aussie couple looks beyond Savile Row
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Last chance to see: Waste Age at the Design Museum
‘Waste Age: What Can Design Do?’ at the Design Museum, London (until 20 February 2022), presents design’s proposals and solutions to the issue of waste
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Alex Israel mines Batman lore for Marseille exhibition
The Los Angeles-based artist commandeers the brutalist rooftop of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation with an homage to the Gotham superhero
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