by Michele Adriaens, 31 Jul 2008 |
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Two students from the Temasek School of Design won this year’s coveted D&AD Student of the Year Award, beating off international competition. The D&AD Student Award is a prestigious competition, identifying the best emerging creative talents within design, advertising and communication from institutions around the globe. In their 30th year, this is the first time a team studying outside of the UK has won the top creative prize. No small honor considering the breadth of competing talent.
Reinald Chee Weng Pin (Interactive Media Design graduate) and Jason Feng Jiesheng (Moving Images graduate), won the “Yellow Pencil” for their work entitled Modus Transposition Virus: Humoral 315, a boundary-pushing creative response to MTV’s brief: “MTV is a virus. What does it look like, how does it behave and where does it invade?” The work is a multi platform installation involving a short film, an interactive installation and a fully designed CD give-away kit containing interactive applications to help market the campaign.
For a full list of winners, visit the D&AD site.
by Michele Adriaens, 30 Jul 2008 |
Intricate chairs by Australian designer Lisa Jones.
by Michele Adriaens, 30 Jul 2008 |
Beautiful floor rugs by Esti Barnes.
by Michele Adriaens, 29 Jul 2008 |
23-year old Timothy Lee obtained his Diploma in Fashion Design from LaSalle-SIA College Of The Arts.
This is the story behind his Autumn/Winter 07-08 collection (above). “I once met a girl who lived in a refrigerator. She told me her name was “Refrigerator Girl”. She explained that it was constantly cold in the ice-box, like a continuous winter, but she liked it that way. She often played pretend, imagining she was of Inuit Eskimo lineage. And amongst others things (like tasting the different flavors of ice cream and soaking herself in chilled chocolate & strawberry fresh milk), she plays with ice cubes, building igloos of different sizes out of them. And she doesn’t ever get bored, because she hides and secretly smiles when someone opens the refrigerator door and doesn’t see her there.”
“Slacking with the slack-to-crats-boys-and-girls” is the title of Timothy’s Spring/Summer 08-09 collection. “The collection is about clothes for “hanging around” in town,” Timothy clarifies. “Clothes for boys who will be boys, and clothes for girls that will be girls. The story is poetic and lyrical, where colors play an exciting game with minor details peeking around and polite styles making whoopee with eccentricity.”
n.nchal.nt Designs are available from Front Row, Level3.
by Michele Adriaens, 28 Jul 2008 |
Artist Lena Gieseke has re-created Picasso’s 1937 landmark painting Guernica as a 3D movie using Maya, Shake and Photoshop.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Jul 2008 |
The band will be performing two sets on two days, starting with 7:15pm for the first and 8:15pm for the 2nd. They will be playing songs off our debut album ‘Forest Action Team’ and the to-be-released-in-2010 ‘Simply As Designed’. Biddy Low and Bryan Goh will be helping out for the performance. 13 and 14 Aug at the Esplanade Concourse. Admission is free.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Jul 2008 |
dA_art Site
Tempted to pimp your walls with faces of your loved ones? Thinking of hiring a contemporary artist to supply a totally unique birthday gift? Check out dA_art, a recently launched site specialized in hand-painted pop-art portraits.
Artist Brenda Lim about her project, “The idea came to me about a year ago, when I did a portrait painting as a gift for one of my friends. The people around me loved what I did and encouraged me to set up dA_art. I’ve always been a fan of Andy Warhol and I love the way Pop-art brings happiness to the public; the vibrant colors and its relevance in everyday life … it brings Art closer to the people. Same goes for dA_art, I am trying to bring Art a little closer to the people around me.”
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by Michele Adriaens, 26 Jul 2008 |
This solo exhibition by Foon Foono will feature selected works by Foon which he has been producing for the past several years. The audience will be offered visual delight through Foon’s work which is very compelling, dark and yet sexy. The subject matter of Foon’s work resolves around the many facets of human characteristics in their vulnerability and fragility. For those who are familiar with Foon’s works, in this exhibition we can see his consistence in presenting bunny-eared and red-nosed human characters in his works. From 15 to 30 August at Artoholic.
