Product Designer Kai Hwei Kwok, will be graduating from the School of Art, Design Media, this May. Her work reveals her diverse interests in design, exploring different possibilities and pushing the boundaries.

Taking a more back-to-basic approach, the featured chair incorporates elements seen in the 1950s’s furniture design, presenting bold cuts and angles. “Through combining these qualities with a modern touch, it offers a brand new look,” Kai adds. “The unique V shaped cut at the back of the chair is the main essence of the chair. Getting inspiration from a flower core resulted in the extensive use of curvatures when designing it. Using teak as a medium, I hope to offer something nostalgic yet modern at the same time.”

Enjoy the heck out of the other beautiful designs on Kai’s coroflot page.

The Design Society opens a new chapter in Singapore’s history of modern visual culture with its inaugural Conference in 2010. Design junkies should brace themselves for a fix like no other.

FORUM: DESIGN LITERACY
A one-day only event led by esteemed local designers and educators to discuss the topic of Design Literacy and its importance for shaping the growth of Design in Singapore.

* Discount valid only for online bookings. Full-price tickets will be on sale at the door.

Disclaimer: while every effort has been made to confirm the timings and participation of speakers, please note that the schedule may be subject to change without prior notice.

EXHIBITION: 100 ICONS
Discover the origins and design evolution of some of Singapore’s most familiar visual icons through static and interactive displays. The exhibition marks our first effort to compile and document Singapore’s modern design history.

DEFINING THE PARAMETERS
The Design Society Journal is a biannual magazine dedicated to serious and professional discourse on graphic design in Singapore. Confirmed members attending the Forum will receive a complimentary issue. Additional copies may be purchased at S$15 each.

TICKET PRICES | BUY HERE
Members: SGD25.00
Public: SGD50.00

Top: Bod Mod by ELOHIM – Bottom: Escapism by Reckless Ericka

Starting today ‚UNCOVERED‛ will be Reckless Ericka and ELOHIM by Sabrina Goh’s one week pop-up store.

This collaboration between both labels, is the sequel to the Blueprint Fashion Show at the Audi Fashion Festival 2009 in May, where both labels shared the same stage.

Located at Stamford House #01-13 for one week only -7 to 13 January- Reckless Ericka and Elohim by Sabrina Goh will be retailing the Spring/ Summer 2010 collections, “ESCAPISM” and “BOD MOD” respectively.

The Painting that is Not, or, an Allegory of Futility in Conflict. Photographic prints, and oil on canvas.

Godwin Koay is midway through his BA in Fine Arts at Lasalle College of the Arts.  His initial specialty of choice was digital painting, and he even contemplated becoming an illustrator.

“Going through art school has changed much of the way I see things,” he continues. “Life cannot possibly be just about seeking comfort in endless consumption and the perpetual race for Better. Multitudes of these variably seemingly inconsequential predicaments come to mean an uneasy coexistence with the world, and this greatly informs the way I (try to) approach art and living – with criticality and discernment. Chief and current amongst these precarious relationships is my attempt to reconcile newfound anarcho-pacifist convictions with an indoctrinated militarist tendency, or to find out if that is at all possible. This occurs in parallel to attempts of subverting conventionalised ideas of image and art making and viewing, or again, to find out where such interests may lead as they converge.”

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Woon Taiwoon’s “Shuang Fan” is a fan with emotions. It helps to cool you down, and at the same time, it offers a liberating expression of your innermost voice. You can easily manipulate the thin red rope to transform the “Shuang” character on the fan face into any any possible design to reflect your feelings or thoughts.

“I was looking for an item in Singapore which is always used at home but normally ignored by all. It has to be the home fan … everyone in Singapore has one, but they look awful. Not something you would be proud to show to your friends when they come over. The design is inspired by some simple elements of daily life: the ordinary barbecue mesh, the elegant bamboo tim sum steamer, and the abundance of interesting Chinese characters seen everywhere.”

Happy New Year Ya’ll!

The first banner of the year is brought to you by Celesteanning. By day, Celeste is an Advertising minion; by night, she draws.

“I draw till daylight threatens to overtake the night. That’s how much I love to draw. It’s not easy, fending off the sleepy bugs. One day, I’ll figure it out. But till then, I can only be grateful for coffee.

With my pen, I bring Puddle to life. She’s a little girl; she’s just like me. She helps me to make sense of this world, and make other ones up. My nights with her are the best. She makes everything seem possible.

Like anyone who loves art, it’s always the simple, uncomplicated things that inspire me. To find those things, I only need to look at how life plays itself out.”

Departure, Mixed Media Assemblage

Amphetamine, Cloth tape on wood board. Click for full view.

KC Gan is a Fine Arts Sculpture student at LaSalle College Of The Arts. Appropriate to his obsessive nature, his entire life revolves around planning, producing, discussing and viewing Visual Art, and seeking the meaning of existence.

KC about his work: “As an artist, I create artwork with the intention of challenging people’s perception of the world around them. Sandwiched between familiarity and discomfort. Serving as a scope, my artwork gives others a peek into my own personal vision of the world. My personal vision of the world is an alternate reality, which resides only within my frame of mind. A world fortified with a thick layer of chaos, creating a strong sense of security, a personal “utopia”. Created through combining, replacing, reducing, imitating and repeating elements of the world around us. The consequences are visions, which even I myself, cannot comprehend yet accept unconditionally. Balancing on a thin line of uncertainty and refuge, my personal world would situate any viewer into a position of improbability. Subsequent to the viewer’s initial reaction, they would attempt to comprehend the vision seen before them. Through this attempt of making sense of the disarray, their imagination is jolted into full throttle.”

Christopher Lim’s watch immediately caught my eye at the SMALL THOUGHTS BIG IDEAS exhibition last November.

Through his design, called ‘Only 1’, Christopher has created the most personal watch. By allowing the wearer to lock in his preference of twelve dates for twelve special occasions on its external dial, no two watches will be the same.