Tag: Singapore Design

Risograph

Cheaper, faster, and a new aesthetic — this is what Risograph printers can offer to the local creative scene, says two new presses offering this technology in Singapore.

This year, Push—Press as well as Knuckles & Notch launched separately to offer printing services based on this Japanese invention. Both press founders discovered Risograph printers in the West, where it has become popular amongst designers and artists, and wanted to introduce this tool to Singapore.

While this printing technology has been around since 1980, it has mainly been used inside schools and churches as a cost-efficient high-volume printer for documents of just one or two colours. In recent years, however, graphic designers and artists have caught on to this technology, introducing them into design studios as well as setting up independent presses. Both Push—Press and Knuckles & Notch claim to be pioneers in offering Risograph printing as a service in Singapore.

➜ Read the rest at art4d (Issue 215)

Hands-on Designers

Singapore graphic design studio, ACRE, plough the fields of craft and design to keep their creative passions burning.

ACRE

They came together to create a platform for creatives as a fun project, but the duo enjoyed working together so much that they started their own creative company as well.

Co-founders of ACRE, Zheng Tian Yu (better known as TY Zheng) and Jason Song, were friends in church when they created Hello Playground in 2010, an online website to showcase the work of talents in the creative scene. While the venture did not take off, the relationship between Jason and TY did. The former was jaded from his time spent as a copywriter in advertising agencies, and was planning to leave the industry to open a café until he met TY and proposed they open a design studio together instead.

“I felt this was the right thing to do as it resurrected my desire to do creative things,” says Jason. “I like his work and I saw the potential for a really talented art director to become his own creative director.”

The decision came less easily for TY, who was then in his fourth year working for local independent branding studio Foreign Policy Design Group. “If he didn’t ask me, I would probably still be there. It took me a long time to consider,” says TY. “He put up a very attractive offer, we clicked, and it was quite simple in that sense.”

➜ Read the rest at art4d (Issue 207)

Catalysts for Change

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

studioKaleido

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)