This fully adjustable stainless steel belt by Sebastian Bergne certainly is ‘cutting edge’ design.

A Week in the life is a visualisation of telecommunications data. The data sculpture represents my movement and communication made with a cell phone in one week. Artist: Andreas Nicolas Fischer.

This exhibition by The Institute of Critical Zoologists questions our views and relationships with animals. They are prey, pets, trinkets, trophies and pests. The exhibition makes subversive changes in the way we observe animals and illustrates how these changes can alter perceptions and interpretations and ultimately question the human to animal relationship. “Before the flood” is a live performance that features hundreds of mousetraps springloaded with ping pong balls. “Kings” is a collection of rare white Tottori cockroaches, from the Tottori sand dunes of Japan.  They include Zhao Renhui’s artist-led expedition into the Tottori Desert and Sokkuan Tye’s Japanese print. “Soon Bo’s Cold Room and Shelves” is a series of photographs of animals from the collection of taxidermist and biologist, the late Soon Bo. 2-20 May at The Substation Gallery.

When Rayson Tan and Joanne Lee graduated from LASALLE they went their separate ways. Rayson earns a living as a full time designer for a magazine and is working on his own fashion label in his spare time. Joanne decided to pursue her career as an illustrator. They recently decided to hook up and work on a new accessory line dubbed RibbonRabbit.

PHILOSOPHY

“RibbonRabbit inspires from the adorable critters skittering about in Mother Nature’s embrace. We pick on the structure of the animal kingdom and turn the fauna into playacting characters. Our accessories are a translation of this concept, and we mean it literally when we say RibbonRabbit creates conversation pieces. Our ‘faunal’ characters do talk, after all.”

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For about a month, the Artists caravan group (Joey Soh, Ong Xiao Yun and Michelle Tan) had the opportunity to observe, interact and engage with the environment and public in Bugis. Urban Playground forms a culmination of these exploratory activities, and through their diverse work methodologies and approach to content specific to the area, they present their own perspectives of this urban landscape. Admission is free.  1-24 May at Sculpture Square, Chapel Gallery.

Graffiti Taxonomy is an ongoing project by Evan of F.A.T., showing the diversity of graffiti styles as expressed in a single character.

The Glo Pillow uses light instead of sound to wake you up.

THE DESIGN

PY Chong’s Flaw or Flow chair, with its aluminum leg, carries an important message: “We should learn to accept the beauty of disability and deformity and appreciate how it can build a better personality and quality.” PY’s design received an honorable mention in the Student category at this year’s Furniture Design Awards (FDA).

“Flaw or Flow is not only a chair, it is also a piece of sculpture that speaks for a special group of people. There is a tension in human lives which results in the birth of a new life which is less fortunate, disabled or even deformed. I twisted and distorted the silhouette of a normal chair which results in producing a form which is visually unproportioned and unbalanced. By doing so, I created tension to the form but also an emotion. The chair now looks deformed and tired. I believe, I also gave the chair life and feeling. The introduction of the aluminum leg, which is designed to be more stable and conventional, causes contradiction in our perception. Visually, the aluminum leg is an artificial part, but emotionally it gives viewers a sense of confidence to sit on this deformed chair. We should not judge an object or a person by its superficial appearance. If we initiate to explore deeper, things may not turn out what we perceive them to be. The elegant lady’s chair is to test the perception of the viewers. A piece of sculpture should be speaking for itself. Perception has no certainty, you can choose to look at it’s flaw or it’s flow, or even it’s flaw and flow. My quote: ‘If flaw is an imperfection, let flow be the acceptance of the situation.’”

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