Design
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These Striking Advertising Matches were All the Rage in the 1970s Singapore (2022)
Eye on Design -
In Singapore, Residents Create a Social Distancing Wayfinding Language With Tape (2020)
Eye on Design -
When Design Met Technology (2019)
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The IT Revolution: Powering Up Singapore Design (2019)
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The Chair That’s Everywhere (2017)
Works That Work -
A Surprising Side of Singapore Design (2017)
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State Meddling, Government Funding, Drawing + Passion–Singapore’s New Illustration Scene (2016)
Eye on Design -
The Design of Sharing Food in a Connected World (2016)
Design Observer -
Design Studio Somewhere Else’s Craft-led Transformation of The Singapore Architect (2016)
Eye on Design
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Is the Fight to Revive Traditional Letterpress a Losing Battle? (2016)
Eye on Design
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The Dramatic Ways Having Kids Can Change Your Design Practice (2016)
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Singapore’s Currency Questions Commonplace Aesthetics (2016)
Eye on Design -
The Seriously Lighter Side of Design Criticism (2016)
Eye on Design -
How the “Type Geeks“ of Malaysia are Using Typography to Change Sexist Chinese Language (2016)
Eye on Design -
One Graphic Designer Challenges Viewers By Not Showing Any Work at His Retrospective (2015)
Eye on Design -
Neither East nor West: Rethinking Chinese Design Today (2015)
Eye on Design -
Malaysia’s Graphic Design Rebels Join Forces on Politically Charged Posters (2015)
Eye on Design -
A Maximalist Mag That Uses Clever Ad Speak for Social Good (2015)
Eye on Design -
This is What Happens When Graphic Designers are Paired with Nuns, Philosophers, and Mathematicians (2015)
Eye on Design -
Singapore’s Anonymous Design Studio on How to Survive in Business: Realllly Try (2015)
Eye on Design -
What’s This Thing We Still Call Design Criticism? (2014)
Eye on Design -
‘Browsing Copy’ Focuses on Unloved Books (2011)
Wall Street Journal Scene Asia -
A Room With Everything, on Display (2011)
Wall Street Journal Scene Asia
Cities
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Why Singapore Architects Need to Create a More Equitable Partnership with their Builders (2020)
FRAME -
East Coast Park: The Singapore Way to Recreation (2019)
The Singapore Architect #15 -
Constructing Singapore for the Venice Biennale (2017)
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William S.W. Lim: A Poet of Cities (2017)
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Saving Pearl Bank Apartments (2016)
BiblioAsia -
A Singaporean Architect Wants to Reclaim Land from the Sky (2016)
Rice -
The coolest underground spot in Marina Bay you never knew (2016)
Going Places Singapore -
Why Singapore’s Design Scene is Thriving (2016)
Metropolis -
Blank Slate (2015)
Design Observer -
Picturing Home, Wherever We May Be (2015)
TwentyFifteen.SG -
Can Cats Make us Better Designers? (2015)
Eye on Design -
Monocle Magazine: A Singular View of the City (2014)
Design Observer -
The Future of Architecture, According to a North Korean Architect (2014)
Metropolis -
How Chinese Urbanism is Transforming Africa (2014)
Metropolis -
Emerging Design Districts: Jalan Besar, Singapore (2014)
Metropolis -
From Garden City to Gardening City (2013)
BiblioAsia Vol. 9 Issue 1 -
In Singapore, Saying No to Sameness (2012)
Wall Street Journal Scene Asia -
Singapore Artists Fight for Old School landmark (2011)
Wall Street Journal Scene Asia -
A Walk on the Rail Side of Life (2011)
POSKOD.SG -
Playing with Dragons — Singapore’s Playgrounds of the Past (2010)
CNN Travel -
For Malls, Not all (2009)
Singapore Architect #253 -
It’s Time to Come Out and Play (2009)
Singapore Architect #252 -
See This City’s Voice (2009)
Singapore Architect #251
Culture
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Making It Together: From “Made in Singapore” to “Designed in Singapore” (2022)
Design & Made in Singapore -
Repairing Repair (2021)
Hans Tan Studio -
Defusing the “Big Bomb”: Modernisation and the Streamlining of Multilingual Singapore (2020)
Bangkok Art Book Fair CO-OP -
An Unequal Equation (2017)
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Singapore’s New Wave of Mags is an Injection of Hope + Diversity for Local Indies (2017)
Eye on Design -
The Design of Sharing Food in a Connected World (2016)
Design Observer -
Default Desktops: What’s on Your Screens? (2015)
D-Crit -
Art versus Design: What’s in a Name? (2014)
A Design Film Festival -
Enter the Dragon: Looking Back to the Future of Singapore Design (2014)
Design Observer -
East and West: Graphic Design in Singapore Today (2014)
Design Observer -
Got Singapore Design (2012)
The Design Society Journal No. 05 -
Mr Kiasu: Why You so Like Dat? (2011)
POSKOD.SG -
Your Singapore Icons (2011)
POSKOD.SG -
Danger: Keep Out! Remembering a Safer Singapore (2011)
iremember.sg
History
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Going International to Become National: William Lee & the Modernisation of Singapore Design (2021)
Further Reading Print No. 3
Profile on one of Singapore’s leading modernist practitioner. -
Becoming Modern by Design (2021)
BiblioAsia
Retracing the establishment of Singapore’s first national design school, the Baharuddin Vocational Institute. -
Stamping History (2018)
BiblioAsia
Looking back at how the establishment of the Stamp Advisory Committee in 1968 changed the face of Singapore stamps. -
Spectator Sport: The Cartoons of Sham’s Saturday Smile (2018)
The history of local sports editorial cartoons by graphic artist Shamsuddin Haji Akib. -
Design Archives Around the World (2015-)
Eye on Design
An on-going series on institutions and individuals around the world who are archiving graphic design and recording its histories. -
Design50: Iconic Singapore Designs (2015)
SG50 Pulse
Four iconic Singapore designs over the decades. -
Design History 101: Quietly Beautiful Work by the Illustrator Who Drew The Four Seasons Logo (2015)
Eye on Design
Putting Emil Antonucci into the annals of graphic design history. -
Powering the Art of Design (2013)
The Design Society Journal No. 07
How the independent arts centre The Substation became a home for Singapore’s graphic designers. -
A Vision Realised (2013)
The Design Society Journal No. 06
The role of the “20/20” exhibitions in establishing a “Singapore design” narrative. -
School Crests Examination (2012)
The Design Society Journal No. 05 -
Dangers and Dragons (2012)
FIVEFOOTWAY: Play -
The Rides of their Lives (2012)
FIVEFOOTWAY: Play -
Vote For Me! (2011)
The Design Society Journal No. 03
The role of political ephemera in Singapore’s elections. -
Where to Next? (2010)
The Design Society Journal No. 01
A survey on the evolution of public transport signage in Singapore. -
A Design of its Time (2010)
The Design Society Journal No. 00
Looking back at how The Straits Times has been redesigned over the decades. -
Interview with The Design Society: 100 Icons Exhibition (2010)
CNN Travel