//Thank You Note

Thank you!

The kindred support of all partners has been vital to the development and implementation of this inaugural festival. On berhalf of the KLDW ’09 Team, I would like to thank the individuals, corporations, independent groups and media supporters whose continuous support and generosity have helped the project in realizing its dream of elevating the new Malaysian Creative Economy.

For the very first idealization, I would like to thank SiJuan Ng, for the brief phone conversation that had sparked the urge to continue the international conference event sequels from MIDI in 2006 and Massive Territory in 2007.

Suzanne Loh and Andrew Lee Kian Guan, for their assistance in raising the initial huge fund to kick-start this project and sharing the financial nightmares with me.

The Friends who had helped in crafting the early-stage ideas:
Melissa Lin, for writing the first draft of this project
Jacky low & his team (Vvhy Yip and Wyman Yap), for backing-up the design works
Muid Latif, for spreading the word among the local designers’ community
Michael Chuah, for having sleepless nights in changing layout plans
Mike Ooi & Ivery Kooi of Pipit, for spreading the word through the internet
Michael Quay of Olé Café, for serving coffees for the initial operational meetings

The Project Ambassadors:
Dato’ Zaaba Chemat, Chairman of Axis Worldwide Sdn Bhd, for obtaining the support letter form Deputy Prime Minister, YAB Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Rashid Ab Harun, for lending a helping hand to promote KLDW ’ 09 on the corporate level and for his assistance in acquiring the support from Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur
Irvin Hanni, for sacrificing her love of TV in order to assist us with copywriting and media relations
Joyce Lua, for coming in at crunch time in order to assist us with the coordination of the whole project
Justin Ng & the team from BECOME (Edmond, Luke, Marcus, Allen, Cindy, Rina and Ling), for backing-up the KLDW ’ 09 promotional works
Crystal Ng, for blinking the urgency of all matters
Sook Fun, for continuously hosting super-good food for the team members
Manachart Paianan, for flying in and out of Bangkok just to help us.

A Special Thank You:
Y Bhg Dato’ Ahmad Fuad Bin Ismail, Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur, for allocating a fraction of his valuable time to officiate our opening ceremony

International Designers:
Chris Bosse, Jackson Tan, Felix Ng and Chris Ng, for attending our first press conference
David Carson, Stefan Sagmeister, Kuntzel+Deygas, Troika, Aya Kato, Heath Nash, Shun Kawakami, Angelique Spaninks, Supernature, Hexa Project, Umeric, JL Design, Studio 4 C, Tokyo Plastic, Graham Perkins, Rune Entertainment, Director Kobayashi, Nille Svensson, Nathalie Fallaha, The Center for Creative Communications, for making all these possible!

New Media Initial Support:
Hue Visualab, for homepage animation works Multimedia Art Workshop, for the information website
If interactive, for the ticketing website
MotioFixo, for the launching ceremony animation works
Think-lab, for the full documentation and statistical works
TCKL & Sharkprint, for rushing all our print communication materials

Official Venue Partners:
Dato’ Jagan Sabapathy, Dat’ Mohan Karthigasu, Wayne Wong, Joyce Chan and the rest of the team from CapSquare KL, for helping us from Day One of this project in being the main venue sponsor
Dr Mohamed Najib Ahmad Dawa, Director General of NAG, and Zanita, Director of Development of NAG, for hosting our Int’ Designers’ Exhibition and Master Classes
Peter Foreman & Cheryl Lum from LeMeridien KL, for hosting the delegation and support group of our international designers
Dato’ Zulkifli Mohamad & Nasharuddin Mohd Nor of KL Tower, for the kind assistance in hosting our launching ceremony
Faizol Abdullah of Jendela Batik, for hosting a dinner for our international designers delegation
Pang Kee Teik of the Annexe Central Market, for backing us up

Official Event Partners:
Dr Abd Rahman and Goh Chu Hiang of the School of Arts,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, for hosting the 7 Bintang Awards Night
Sunita Jana Mohanan of British Council, for hosting the Pecha Kucha Night
Dato’ Musa Bin Muhamad of MeCD, for the support in grants for the Bumiputra participants
Hafiz Othman of Japan Foundation, for the grant assistance of Japanese designers
Catherine Fong of Astro Awani, for putting us over the morning talk show with Suhaimi Sulaiman
Azilahaneem Idris of Children of Art, for helping to unite all the bumiputra designers
Michael Chen of KLUE magazine, for fast and quick response to our cry of media help
Abdul Naseer of Basheer Graphic Books, for selling all our tickets internationally

Friends from the press:
Nanyang Siang Pau: Soo Hoo Ling and Chee Nyuk Yan
China Press
The Star: Phui Yee
Malaysian Today: Lee John Salmon and Kiru

Friends from the stations:
NTV7: Suridah Jalaludin
Astro: Henry Tan, Vincent De Paul, Judrieana Jalamudin and Jacqueline Ho

International media partners:
Territory Magazine
IDN Magazine
Daybeds
Urban Collective
ASPIS
CG +
Lodown
Netdiver
Shift
Polkadot
Designers’ Association of Taiwan
Taxi
Youth Power

Local sponsors, supporters & media partners:
RKT Technology
Canon (Malaysia)
Laconic: Zack Low
Urban Attic
Modesto’s CapSquare KL
Red Square
Heineken
Don’t Panic
DDEC - Design Development Centre
Zero Three Solutions
Zero Three Degree
Children of Art
Digital Malaya Project
Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix City
Gempak
Utopia
All other print media friends

Special extra helping hands:
Aimann Faiz, Arfan Amaluddin, Hafiz Razak, Fariz Hanapiah, Fauzi Yusoff, Fayrus Efenndy, Muhammad Razif Nasrudin, Zachary Ong, Harith Riza, Firuzzamman, Shafizuan Shapiei, Effendy Nadzi, and many more!

Plus all of you who have directly or indirectly supported KLDW ’09 through and through, my apologies if I have left any names out.

Last but not least, ADAM, for unconditionally providing the sunshine on my stress days.

Signed,

lzuldin Hani Mohd Noor
President, KLDW ’09