Category: Design

D&AD winner UNDERSCORE launches issue two

Fresh from winning a pencil from this year’s D&AD in the Magazine & Newspaper Design section, UNDERSCORE magazine, created by local design collective Hjgher, is launching its second issue at four venues this weekend. From Oct 21 to Oct 25, four versions of the The Constant Issue will be showcased together with four limited edition Vanguard bicycles crafted for UNDERSCORE. The magazine and four bicycles will be available for pre-sale at the installations.

You can view the installations at the following four places:

  • 2902 Gallery, OldSchool, 11B Mount Sopphia, #B2-09
  • Books Actually, 86 Club Street
  • Grafunkt, Park Mall, 9 Penang Road, #B1-21
  • Fred Perry Laurel, 19 Ann Siang Road

What is design?

Tired of design not being taken seriously in Singapore, Ziqq decided to seek out designers practicing in Singapore to get them to explain what ‘design’ is all about in front of his camera. His close to hour-long video, Design Says Hello, features a list of interviewees that include designers from the fields of graphic, product, interior, as well as design educators. Interestingly, despite the variety of interviewees, their view of design culture here turns out to be rather similar — a misunderstood profession, seen as just about aesthetics, thought of as peripheral… Design Says Hello brings out some very real issues in Singapore’s design culture today, but I’m not sure I had to sit down for an hour to just hear all that.

Design? from Design Says Hello on Vimeo.

Caught Moonlighting!

 

Moonlight

The personal project has become a necessary outlet of creative expression for many graphic designers out there today. Such a venture is very rarely about commercial viability. To some, the personal project is what keeps their soul alive while they sell out their creativity in their day jobs to bring the dough home.

In March this year, Asylum started an online publication that curates Question-and-Answer interviews with Singaporean creatives about their personal projects, or Moonlighting.

It’s already on its second issue. Flip through this online magazine here.