Category: Culture

ArchvingSG: Document Singapore’s visual culture

To help grow the Singapore Visual Archive (SVA), we’ve set up Archiving.SG, a website that allows anyone to contribute images using using social media. All you have to do is to take a picture of something that represents Singapore’s visual culture and graphic design and tweet it to #archivingsg or upload to Flickr! and tag ‘archivingsg’. Your image will then appear real-time on our website (We’re still trying to resolve this for private Twitter accounts though). You should also include relevant information such as where, when, who, what and how so that we can properly catalogue the images when we integrate it into SVA.

In addition, you can also follow us on Twitter @archivingsg and ‘Like’ our Facebook page. Those are also avenues where you can share images too!

 

Singapore Flag Draft E

“Neither had I realised that our flag was designed initially to have three stars, until leaders such as then DPM Toh Chin Chye expressed concern that Singapore might be perceived to have associations with the Malayan Comunist Party, whose flag also had three stars.” — JASON LEOW giving a first-person account of a video shown at a localised citizenship ceremony in “History lessons with a few unfamiliar gems” (1988). The Straits Times. 12 January.

Singapore Flag Draft D

“Toh was also adamant about using the colour red, despite its association with ‘revolutionary change’.

“‘Although Singapore did not launch an armed revolution, we were mindful that in those years immediately after the Second World War, the Asian continent was fighting for independence from colonialism and imperalism,’, he said.” — THE QUIET REVOLUTIONARY: TOH CHIN CHYE (2008)