Tag: Graphic Design

Catalysts for Change

Only a year old, studioKALEIDO is challenging the boundaries of Singapore’s creative scene through its works and projects.

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Writer Amanda Lee Koe is ever ready for conversation, and enthusiastic to talk about her studio’s work. However, graphic designer Winnie Wu (formerly known as Winnie Goh) is more reticent, preferring to let her work speak for itself instead.

Together, they form studioKALEIDO, a Singapore communications studio that like their union of opposites, has been bringing together the city’s different communities through a variety of projects. From breaking cultural boundaries to fostering collaboration amongst creative disciplines, and even connecting the young and old — the studio has done it all in only its first year of operations.

➜ Read the rest at art4d (Issue 208)

Quietly Sinking Roots

After working for close to a decade in various studios, Jonathan Yuen started Roots, his own space in an increasingly noisy world of design.

His childhood ambitions were in this order: artist, scientist and businessman. But little did Jonathan Yuen expect to be working as all three when he became a graphic designer.

Like many in this profession, Yuen loved drawing as a child, but it was after encountering computers in the high school of his Malaysian hometown in Penang that he got hooked on to computer-aided design, and dreamt of a day when he could create animations and special effects for Hollywood movies.

This dream changed when he learnt his family could not afford to send him overseas to study. Computer animation was new in the ‘90s, and not taught in Malaysia then. Instead, Yuen took up graphic design in Kuala Lumpur’s then Limkokwing Institute of Creative Technology, which was close to his interest as it offered a specialisation in multimedia design, and more importantly, home.

➜ Read the rest at art4d.asia

Chicken Rice or Pasta?

Singaporean design is beginning to rise with a new generation of creative talents including Creativeans.

They have had stints as designers in Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and Australia, but when they started their design practice, the Creativeans chose to be in Singapore, the country where four of them started out.

Kimming Yap, Yulia Saksen, Khairul Hussin and Sharina Bi, first met in the industrial design programme of Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) a decade ago. In 2011, they created ‘Treasures of the Little Red Dot,’ their debut collection for Milan’s SaloneSatellite, which has won accolades and established the Creativeans as one of Singapore’s up-and-coming design collectives. But it merely started on a whim, when they came together after a class gathering in 2010 to design products for fun. “We didn’t intend to start a company. To be honest, we were quite bored with our work, so we decided to do something on our own,” says Kimming, who has a Masters from Domus Academy and was then working for Studio ITO Design in Milan.

➜ Read the rest in art4d (Issue 200)