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Straightforward and subtle lines and unexpected details, have launched Li Xian’s Constructivism-inspired creations into the display space of the new-shop-on-the-block, Blackmarket.

“Inspired by Russian Avant Garde, my graduation collection takes cues from the curvilinear sculptural forms, to create designs with folds and interceptions at the most unexpected places,” Xian explains.

The 20-year old is a fresh off graduate from Temasek Poly, with a diploma in Apparel Design and Merchandising. “I am also a self-taught illustrator,” she adds. “Illustrating and doodling allow me to record what I see every day.”

Baby I Nicht You (Oil and acrylic on jute) - 2008

The Marina Mandarin Singapore recently invited Huang Lip to be their fourth artist-in-resident. 21-year old Lip is currently pursuing his honors degree in Fine Arts (Printmaking) in LaSalle College of the Arts and has been gaining much recognition with the arts community for his highly-bold style and individual voice.

During his residency, Lip will be working on a series of monochromatic works based on fragmented images from magazines, movie stills and other sources then re-juxtaposing it into a whole new dimension. This forms an expression of the artist’s interest to present the quality of paints, transition of figures into paintings and paintings into emotions, as well as the relationship between artist, art object and audience.

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Noise Singapore is a platform for aspiring artists, designers, photographers and musicians to be noticed by the industry bigwigs when their works and music gets showcased on a national level, and seen by the world through the Internet.

Noise is currently looking for submissions for its 2009 Festival showcase in the following categories:

Art & Design
Outlandish illustrations, ingenious graphic designs, charming paintings, edgy graffiti art – Noise wants them all! Selected works will be showcased on various platforms, including print publications, the Noise website and Noise television commercials during the Festival Showcase in March 2009. Click here for details.

Music
Noise is looking for raw, promising musicians, bands and voices to create original music to heat up the airwaves! Choose from pop to hip-hop, rock to country, jazz to heavy metal, classical to techno…or any other music you know of. If your music truly rocks, Noise Singapore might just come knocking on your door and yank you out of your bedroom recording studio and onto the concert stage. Click here for details.

Photography
Can you capture the “Decisive Moment” on your camera like the great Henri Cartier-Bresson? Do you see a world of possibilities through the lens? Here’s your chance to get your photographs noticed by top photographers in the Noise Singapore curatorial team. Click here for details.

Deadline: 15 December 2008.

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In 2006, 26-year old Interactive Designer Alan Swee received a bronze Crowbar Award in the Interactive CD-ROM category, with his project titled Linkin Park. “The brief for this project was to create an interactive CD-ROM for a music band that you love,” Alan explains. “I choose Linkin Park. The idea and concept of this CD-ROM was to create a park scene. Just imagine Linkin Park sitting on a bench in the park. Less is more, a minimalist style was adapted to showcase the band’s profile in a more stylized and focused manner. I gave it a darker and rougher kind of treatment - dark colored textured background, silhouettes of band members and objects as navigation and splashes of graffiti paint, to bring out the mood.”

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This December, local design collective Mimipong will showcase their Hug Your Sorrow plush toys in a month-long exhibition, titled The Saddest Place on Earth.

The project is a collaborative effort between Mimipong’s line of tear dolls together with international and local creative professionals. The writers – selected from a diverse range of backgrounds – were invited to pen their unique interpretations of sadness on the dolls’ cloth tags. Among the international luminaries are Swedish singer-songwriters Jens Lekman and Pelle Carlberg, senior writer of Frankie magazine Mia Timpano, UK indie songstress Laura Marling and Hong Kong-based toy designer of popular Treeson vinyl figures Bubi Auyong.

On the homegrown front, the exhibition features April Lee of ambient duo aspidistrafly, award-winning poet Cyril Wong, prolific filmmaker Wee Li Lin, singer-songwriter and frontman of The Observatory Leslie Low and Singapore Literature Prize nominee Ng Yi-Sheng.

The exhibition runs from 12 December 2008 to 12 January 2009 at BooksActually, 5 Ang Siang Road.