As part of our ongoing education plans for promoting graphic design and nurturing young talents, The Design Society is launching our first Portfolio Review for young designers and design students. Get your portfolio reviewed by some of Singapore’s top creatives and get professional insights on what makes a good portfolio.
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Date: Saturday 17 July 2010
Time: Hourly sessions start from 4pm
Venue: Chatsworth Medi@rt Academy (CMA)
11E Mount Sophia #02-28 (Old School)
With the popularity of Facebook and the proliferation of hi-tech gadgetry comes an unexpected phenomenon, the embracing of sentiment sent by snail mail. Today’s creatives are rediscovering the joys of the traditional greeting card to convey messages of gratitude or condolence, deliver well-wishes, invitations or announcements, or quite simply to say hello. But it is not a step backward. Reinventing its form in unexpected ways, artists and designers take fresh, often playful approaches to greeting cards resulting in wildly original work.
International art and design book publisher Page One is keeping an eye out for the most inspiring designs for their upcoming project, Hey! Mr. Postman (working title). Displaying unusual techniques, curious material and clever concepts, the work selected will belong in a league of their own, inspiring the community in the graphic arts and thrilling lovers of the ingenious and the imaginative.
The full-colour title will be published and distributed worldwide in the first quarter of 2011.
Interested participants can download the submission form at www.pageonegroup.com.
Submissions deadline is Monday, 31 May 2010. Read more…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the cult science fiction comedy series created in 1978 has been adapted into a stage show, a novel, a computer game, a Hollywood film, a comic book and even a series of towels, making it a multi-media phenomenon. And next month, for the first time, 42 Singapore based artists will show their intergalactic visions in a series of artworks inspired by the famous novel.
The show, curated by Steve Lawler, brings together a wealth of local talent. From pixel pushers to product designers, all fans of the mind-bending world of Douglas Adams. Guests to the free exhibition can expect to see some bizarre and warped creations from this new wave of visual artists. Each piece will be for sale in exclusive limited runs.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy™ Exhibition
Date: April 16th – 21st, 2010
Opening hours: 11:00-20:00
Opening Night: April 15th 19:00-23:00
Place: BLOODGROUP+ Space
Address: 32 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199922
For more information, contact Steve Lawler on 9099 2989 or mojoko@mojoko.net
Let it be memorable, inspiring, thought-provoking and amusing, a unique invitation bespeaks the host’s heart and soul. With a substantial body of direct mails and private invites, By Invitation Only unfolds the different guise of prints, tricks and folds that gives a decent taste of things to come!
Spike Jonze’s latest digital short film, “I’m Here,” a collaboration with ABSOLUT vodka, is out!
“I’m Here” is a 30-minute robot love story set in Los Angeles, which screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival. The short stars Andrew Garfield (“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”) and Sienna Guillory in the lead roles. The soundtrack includes original music by Sam Spiegel and original songs by art musician Aska Matsumiya.
Msxi’s first solo exhibition, curated by Mr. Terence Yeung, showcases a newly completed series that has never been seen before; an outright documentation of: failure, process, training, suffering, bruising, determination and a toast to “the beginner’s spirit”. Serving as a reminder that success never comes easy and it is the journey that is truly more important.
So often in life we are used to seeing people celebrated for their successes but we rarely even get an inkling of the pain and suffering they have endured. Msxi uses the training life of a Chinese acrobat troupe to express the idea of behind-the-scenes training; the idea of having to try and try harder and harder again. As an audience, all we ever see are the acrobats performing all sorts of acts in perfection and grace but we have never seen them or been backstage, where the real performance is – the training to achieve the seemingly impossible.
This is a series seeking to encourage all who are in difficulty and those that trudge the tough road.
Event Details:
Venue:
The Art Studio, Old School, 11B Mount Sophia, Oldschool.sg Dates:
Opening Reception – 1st April 2010, 7.30pm
Exhibition Days – 2nd April to 15th April 2010, 12noon to 8.30pm daily Artist:
Msxi, T: 9007 3480, www.messymsxi.com, Curator:
Mr. Terence Yeung T: 8139 1133
DC Shoe is proud to announce the official release event in Singapore for the Spring 2010 collaboration with renowned Singaporean designer SBTG. The collection will officially hit Singapore retailers on Sunday, 14 March 2010;. Also available is a highly exclusive run of True Mids in a purple GALLERY colorway – there are only 12 pairs created for the sneaker store.
To celebrate the event, DC Shoe joins forces with Singaporean sneaker store GALLERY to launch the ‘Circus of Mutants’ Collection. The release event will be held at Rebel Boutique Club on Saturday, 13 March 2010;, where Mark Ong a.k.a SBTG will have an autograph session, and there will be appearances by members of the original ‘Circus of Mutants’ crew. There will also be a live musical performance by Southern California’s Renee Renee. In conjunction with the event, SBTG and GALLERY are selecting 20 artists to participate in an art competition that celebrates the roles of collaboration in culture and the connection between skateboarding, street art and design progression.
It has captivated thousands of fans around the globe over the past decade, now it has finally made it way to Singapore! Arguably the most intriguing of creativity contests around, the Red Bull Art of Can Singapore will mark the first time that the immensely popular pop art event is held in the Asia Pacific region.
To be officially launched on Monday, 1 March 2010, the Red Bull Art of Can Singapore will be only the
second one in the whole of Asia, since Dubai in 2008.
Brought to you by the company behind the famous tagline ìRed Bull Gives You Wiiingsî, the Red Bull Art of Can is an art competition that is open to everyone regardless of age or artistic background. The goal of the event is to engage consumers with the creative, or ìmindî side of the brand, whose brand positioning is ìvitalizes body and mindî.
Artists, students, grandparents and all of those in-between are invited to participate, although the competition is expected to attract more creative types of all ages and occupations ñ from students to industrial designers and professional artists to teachers.
Flying in the face of traditional art media, contestants taking part in this unique contest have to abide by only one single rule ñ they need to incorporate the famous blue and silver Red Bull cans from the Austrian Energy Drink giant along with some inspiration and a lot of imagination to conceive and produce an original work art. The final artwork could be anything from a sculpture, to a collage, jewellery, furniture, fashion accessory or interactive art!
In other words, they have a free reign to let their creativity run wild, as there are no constraints with the Red Bull Art of Can contest other than the limits of oneís imagination. All that is asked is the Red Bull can be the focus of the art work.
Generation Press presents a set of four posters – Edition No.1/100 x4 Posters for The British Red Cross Haiti appeal.
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‘We want to do something to help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Inspired by how other creative people and organisations have raised so much, we want to contribute in some small way. We feel the need to bring forward the release of our four new posters in order to raise as much money as quickly as possible for the horrific plight of the Haitians effected by such a terrible disaster. We know now, more than ever, that these posters and why they exist is not important, but if they can raise just a little that would be better than sitting by and doing nothing.
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Trivial as it now seems, but in order to give them some context, here’s how they came about.
The fourth generation of the family took over the business ten years ago. And in order to celebrate what we have loved during this time, we asked designer Michael C Place of Build to design a poster and also to set a brief around our tenth birthday to; Photographer; Timothy Saccenti, Illustrator; Sanna Annukka and Copywriter; John O’Reilly. Build then conducted the procedures making it all come together. The posters are a strict edition of 100 only, and are not for sale. So this is not only a great opportunity to help people who really need it right now, but to also have a chance of owning these beautiful posters!’
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The Rethink Scholarship is an $18,000 scholarship for aspiring art directors and designers to Langara College’s Communication and Ideation Design program. The winner will also receive a 3-month internship with Rethink.
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