An impressive display of products demonstrating what can be achieved when pairing the design experience of international and local industrial designers with professional production capabilities was displayed at the PDP 2 booth at Kuala Lumpur's EFE exhinbition earlier this month.
Developed by the Malaysian Furniture Promotion Council (MFPC) in co-operation with MTIB (Malaysian Timber Industry Board), the PDP 2 project is a design programme is approved by MPIC (Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities) to help reach Malaysia's ambitious export targets.
After a six-month design and production phase, the PDP 2 initiative displayed 20 original products and systems. Azrizal Aziz, project manager, says: "I am extremely satisfied by the results, both by the international professional designers and by the local professional designers.”