WORKTECHT & Co.

After working at the architect design companies in Hong Kong and Sydney, Andy joined WORKTECHT. After the HK branch was established, and he has been working in his position from September 2010. Since that moment, he has been in charge of the projects in China, Indonesia, Philippines and etc. If Andy has time or chance before a project starts, he always wants to have a walk in the country which the project is located in. Because he believes that using flexible ways to think about light by respecting the local cultures and histories is a very important key point for making good light.

Katrine Riekstina has an interior design background from Tokyo Gakuin Design Collage, MA from Waseda University Tokyo, Japan in Japanese Culture & Language. She joined WORKTECHT in 2005 and in 2012 did move to Tanzania to extend the WORKTECHT lighting design brand in Africa. Since 2008 she is an Associate member of IALD International Association of Lighting Designers. She thinks that "Shadows do shape the building and space. Lighting does shape the human mood and feelings, it unites and integrates all people around the world. When I design I think about how the space will feel and functionality. In Africa I do focus on energy saving sustainable lighting design solutions maintained by power of nature.''

Graduated from Taiwan, Shih Chien University, and Tokyo designer gakuin, major in industrial design. With working experience in industrial design and interior design field, Sean joined Worktecht as a lighting designer in 2014. He believes that "The most beautiful light we have ever seen must been the first light we saw when we were born if we could still remember”

IALD Professional member The Illuminating Engineering-Institute of Japan The reason why I funded WORKTECHT is because I had been working at a project management department for hotel projects since the late 80s. There I had the chance to work with interior designers and lighting designers from different countries. At that time, Japanese lighting designers were only used for light-up or facade light. For the interior lighting, people only used foreign lighting designers. Therefore I thought there will be a market for Japanese lighting designers in the future. Now our company is not only receiving offers from Japan but also many job requests from other countries. We also have offices in Hong Kong and Tanzania at the moment.