Editor’s note: This is the second story in a six-month-long collaboration we are doing with the Interior Design Confederation Singapore (IDCS) to examine how the industry can up its game.

Are you guilty of giving away your designs for free?

We all know the arguments for doing it – but is it really right?

Obviously not.

Exasperated by the ubiquity of this practice, especially in the industry design industry, practitioner Ed Mun posted on social media in July last year that we should “say no to free design”.

Originally intending to start a movement in Malaysia, where he is based, Mun was amazed by the positive response he received not just locally but around the world.

On 1 August 2021, he officially launched the #NoFreeDesignMovement globally.

We catch up with him to find out more.