MCCM CREATIONS

22/12/2025

Discover our exclusive collection of LAST COPIES, featuring rare titles that are on the brink of being out of print. Don’t miss your chance to own these unique gems before they’re gone for good. Act fast and secure a piece of literary history today!

Also... they would make a great last-minute Christmas presents! Don't miss out!

https://www.mccmcreations.org/last-copies or use the QR

19/12/2025

Today, sorting out archive and reference materials for donation to the Graphic Archive of Hong Kong Design Institute - a full cabinet of overseas children publishers’ catalogues, a small collection of picture books from various countries, a couple of Bologna Annuals on illustration of children books, plus a few HK Illustration annual award year books… we spotted works of Maxim Lo, one of our picture book illustrators, as well as her video interview in a HK periodical 讀書好 on books.

Love Maxim’s lively, child-play illustration collage works! It was 2009, we invited her to illustrate one of our picture books ‘Oliver The Quiet Firefighter’ (2010) written by Sophia Paine, a French mother married to a British with two children, now grown-up university students. Back then, Sophia lived in Hong Kong and had published with us two picture books - Are you My Mummy? Es-tu Mon Papa (2006) and Sweet Words (2010). We thought a stronger color rendition and composition would fit well with story of Oliver the Firefighter. Maxim made it ! The following year after published, we sent this picture book to Jugendbibliothek’s (www.ijb.de) The White Ravens program in Germany. This book had been listed in ‘The White Ravens 2011’ as one of the annual outstanding international books for children and young adults.

Every year, this International Youth Library organises The White Ravens with a team of children literature experts who select over 200 picture books of different languages from all over the world. The selection will be toured in selected countries.

Yes, all our picture and illustrated books are in their library collection.

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Organising archive is quite a process of ‘down the memory lane’.

16/12/2025

16.12.2025
Last conversations this evening with prolific writer-architect Peter Cookson Smith and dean-professor Juan Du, wrapping up our near-one month pop-up bookshop at Wyndham Social.

Thank you to our part-timers, volunteers, and Wyndham team for their generous support and hard work.

16/12/2025

Today is our last day of pop-up bookshop. Final book conversations with architects Peter Cookson Smith and Juan Du on writing about urbanism this evening starting 6:30pm.
See you at Wyndham Social.

15/12/2025

15.12.2025
Not just a click. All in decisive moments, judgment and sensitivity. Thank you Vincent Yu for sharing your impressive photo documentation of some of the world and local landmark events.

14/12/2025

Reminder for tomorrow talk ‘From Photojournalism to Books’ by award-winning photographer Vincent Yu
6:30 - 8pm at Wyndham Social on 33 Wyndham Street.

How tens of thousands of “one-time-use” news photos, shot across three decades, are rescued from the archives and reborn as photobooks you can keep forever.

Vincent will share with us photography works and stories of his many overseas news assignments; and how these are evolved into books.

Limited seats. Sign up here:

Sign up: https://www.wyndhamsocial.com/events-register.php?id=118

14/12/2025

14.12.2025
three women poets
words, images, voices
warm and sincere sharing

13/12/2025

13 Dec 2025
Designers love books! An open-hearted conversation on book design this afternoon.

12/12/2025

mccm_pop-up at wyndham_social

Don’t miss our last four days_ up to 50% off till 16 Dec.

And our last round of book events gathering… with authors, designers, architects, photographers, poets and book lovers in conversations

12/12/2025

It’s tomorrow.
Saturday Conversations on Book Design
with Chan Hei Shing 陳曦成 | Benny Lau 劉紹增 | Eddie Wong 王銳忠

13 Dec 2025 (Sat)
4:30-6:30pm

Limited seats left. Sign up here 👇🏻

https://www.wyndhamsocial.com/events-register.php?id=116

Focus on the quiet, transformative power of book design—so often overlooked, yet able to reshape a reader's emotions, memories, and even a book's market destiny.

A rare occasion for three generations of graphic designers to speak about their design life and their passion in book design.

10/12/2025

Sunday Poetry Reading with Lok Fung 洛楓, Sou Vai Keng 蘇惠琼，Sonia Wong 黃鈺螢

14 Dec, 4:30-6pm, Wyndham Social

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LOK FUNG, poet and cultural critic. Her Chinese publications include poetry, cultural criticism, short stories and prose. Her poetry book Flying Coffin received the 9th Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature. Her cultural review anthology Butterfly of Forbidden Colors: The Artistic Image of Leslie Cheung received the Hong Kong Book Prize and The Best Book of the Year. Awardee of City Contemporary Dance Laureate by the City Contemporary Dance Company, and “Artist of the Year” (both in the Categories of Arts Criticism & Literary Art) by the HKADC in 2016 & 2023 respectively.
洛楓，詩集《飛天棺材》獲香港中文文學雙年獎詩組首獎，文化評論集《禁色的蝴蝶：張國榮的藝術形象》獲「香港書獎」及「我最喜愛年度好書」；曾獲「藝術家年獎」（藝術評論及文學藝術）和「城市當代舞蹈達人獎」。

SOU VAI KENG is an artist from Macau. Works include poetry, short stories and painting. Two poetry books: everybody has a pet (ASM, 2009) and Art of Ignorance (Flying Islands, 2023). She often takes part in collaborative projects, like Foodscape (MCCM Creations, 2008), and The Passenger (published with Martin Zeller, 2024).
蘇惠琼，澳門藝術工作者，作品包括詩歌，短篇故事及繪畫。詩集: 《everybody has a pet》(澳門故事協會，2009), 《art of ignorance 》(Flying Islands, 2023)。 也經常參與合作項目:《食事風景》(MCCM, Creations, 2008), 《吹呀吹》(和馬田 · 施勒聯合出版，2024)。

SONIA WONG is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher based in Hong Kong. Her work explores sexuality, identity, intimacy, and violence, within the context of Asian histories and colonial legacies. Sonia works primarily with text, presented through publications, installations, and live performances. Given the artist’s extensive involvement and exposure in different fields, her texts are border-crossing, often intertwining the personal and the political, the emotional and the intellectual. Her voice is one that is highly intimate and distinctively feminine, as she consciously draws from her lived experiences and personal texts.
跨界別藝術家、作家和學者，黃的作品由亞洲地區歷史和殖民後遺的出發，探究性/別、身份、親密關係、暴力等命題和呈現其中的思考。她的創作以文字為主要載體，結合出版、裝置、現場表演等形式的藝術表達，由於她以多重身份遊走於不同領域，使得其作品具跨界性，將個體和政治、情感與知識相互交織。她的作品往往由反思自身經驗出發，著重人與人之間的個體交流與現場性，使其聲音尤具私密與陰性特質。

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09/12/2025

Next Tuesday 16 Dec, 6:30-8:30pm
Book Conversations on Urbanism
對談：城市。歷史。故事
Speakers:
Peter Cookson Smith, architect, planner, urban designer
Juan Du, architect-professor
In English

A rare occasion for two architects in conversation about their approaches to books on urbanism. Dr Cookson Smith to speak his nine books on urban design, city planning and his collective insights on how history, art and culture impact on the urban development across Asia and Europe. And Juan to talk about her writing process of the award-winning book on Shenzhen.

Seats are limited. Sign up here:
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About the speakers :

DR PETER COOKSON SMITH is an architect, planner and urban designer, and a long-time resident of Hong Kong. In 1977 he founded URBIS – one of the first specialist on city planning, urban design and environmental consultancies in SE Asia, where the company has carried out more than 3,000 projects over the years. He directed some of the first new town and urban regeneration studies in Hong Kong and extensive range of projects across Asia. He was one of the first design professionals from the West to carry out city planning and urban revitalization projects for the PRC government during the early 1980s following the ‘Open Door Policy’. Over the past twenty years he has acted as an adviser on development strategy for large parts of the Greater Bay Area. For several years he was an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Past-President of both the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design. He writes and lectures widely on the subject of urban design, and is the author and illustrator of nine books - The Urban Design of Impermanence on Hong Kong (2006); The Urban Design of Concession on the growth and development of Chinese Treaty Port cities (2011); The Urban Design of Intervention on Asian cities (2014); Seeking Savannah on American Urbanism (2018); An Enterprising Path to Barrio Chino on the planning history of Barcelona (2019); After Dante – Divine, Design and the Cosmos focusing on Dante’s poetic narrative and the philosophical, artistic and scientific forces that engaged with the emerging culture of the Renaissance (2020); Shaping Canton focusing on the history and modernization of Guangzhou (2022); Writings on the Asian City covering its different urban cultures, commonalities and urban forms (2023); and Tales from a Contested City (2025). He is an appointed Honorary Adviser to the Hong Kong Qingdao Association.


JUAN DU is Dean and Professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She is also Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Architecture and Director of the Urban Ecologies Design Lab. Du has practiced architecture and urban design in the US, Europe, as well as China, and founded her Hong Kong-based office IDU in 2006. Her works have been exhibited and published internationally. She was the chief curator of Hong Kong’s participation in the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Her award-winning book, The Shenzhen Experiment (Harvard University Press, 2020) has been featured by academic and public media in Asia, Europe and the United States. She was most recently featured in the 100 Women: Architects in Practice (Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA), 2024). Du holds a Doctorate of Science in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Master of Architecture from Princeton University and Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida.