Singapore Design Festival '07 #2

An installation at Orchard Rd and the journey of exploring exhibition started here:














#1: 20/20 (*exhibition displayed works from 20 designers in S'pore)















#2: 10 Touch Points (*there're some winning brilliant idea found here.)



















#3: National Museum S'pore (*awesome architecture)

















Swiss and Kenny are busy reading directions and brochures.




















#3: National Museum S'pore : Architecture Design




















My favourite architecture display among all.




















#3: National Museum S'pore : History of Audi Car design















#4: Red Dot Museum
















#5: The Asylum @ Ann Siang Rd (*can't control from spending in this place )














#6: Swiss:Nordic @ Ann Siang Rd (*beautiful Swiss-imported goods sold here which I couldn't afford to buy yet.)













S'pore City Gallery signage inside the Urban Redevelopment Authorities (URA) building.



















#7: Singapore 1:1 @ URA (*The model display of entire Lion City's physical structure development.)
















Dinner with Ted Loong @ AngMoKio H

Singapore Design Festival '07 #3

Other places I've visited during Singapore trip are:

• La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore at McNally St.

A place where students would spend their whole day in the campus practicing creativity unlike TOA. Great architecture and its like the coolest art college I've ever been to.

• One of the must visit shop in Singapore is MUJI. Mr Kenny and Mr Henry's so into it.
























I bought a MUJI camera for SGD 7.90. There's gonna be 27 pictures shot and i'm gonna make them into a poster. There's still 1 more picture left to shoot.






























• Later at a night I went strolling at Clarke Quay with Mr Henry while Kenny, Swiss and MeiMun had gone back to Malaysia. It was Tuesday and there's no crowd at all. I like the directory in Clark Quay. So well designed and interesting presentation.





































Heneiken's Christmas's advertising decoration along Clark Quay.
























The G-Max reverse bungy thingy.

Léon, The Professional (1994)

Finally I have the time to watch a movie during a weekday's night last week. It was a very satisfying one.



















Léon, The Professional is a film by Luc Besson back in year 1994. It's slick and stylish, sometimes sweet, too when watching Mathilda playing with Léon. The flawless performance of the characters, Léon (Jean Reno), Mathilda (Natalie Portman) and even Norman "Stan" Stansfield (Gary Oldman) definitely made credits to the film besides the stylish cinematography.

Click here to view various poster versions of this movie .

p/s: Thanks George for your kindness to lend me your VCD. :)

Singapore Design Festival '07 #1

This is the most interesting place I've visited during my Singapore trip to its Design Festival back in early December last year. Namely Old School but it's not a school but it used to be a school. It's quite a new place or sort of an art hub founded by a group of Singapore designers. There was an exhibition, DUAL CITY SESSIONS: NULL held in its hall which Mr Henry and I visited and later on had our tea time in a tranquil cafe inside the hub. A perfect rest place after a long day of walking around in the city.






































I personally love the directory and signage in the buildings. It was formed by beautiful old serif typeface.




















There's a Sinema in Old School too. An independent cinema dedicated to Singapore films.

i'm a child again

I'll be freaking overwhelmed and obssessed with this toy.





Creatively produced by two funny looking guy, Tsukada and Hidechika from Dainippon Type Organization whom was being interviewed by ping-mag early this year.

The Fish version is selling at about RM286 including tax in Japan.

Noriko, may i ask you for a favour? :)

Red and Yellow Kills a Fellow

David Barringer says: Red and yellow kills a fellow.

Momojojojo says: No more fastfood for dinner, don't touch that dial anymore!!!

長崎県美術館 Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum

It's beautiful. A museum that breathes as describe by the design firm, ndc.
Using thin lines to create motion without using anything digital, to adapt the movement of nature into design, this is great idea. Natural and beautiful.
The landscape and environmental design of the museum got me drawn into stillness, being there I could feel no sense of time.
But too bad I'm not there, yet. :(










The logo that moves. (In the site, click on the thumbnail to view how the logo lines were formed.)

Great design is always simple.