The Art Of Conflict

2017

Investigating the social, geographical and political dimensions of conflict, The Art Of Conflict held at ADM Gallery features contemporary artists whose works address and reflect on the tensions that emerge from societal ruptures, ranging from urban disruptions to violence and war.

Showcasing artistic responses to some of the most contentious crises in the past decade by artists from China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Japan and Pakistan, The Art of Conflict highlights how video has increasingly become a critical medium in portraying the immediacies and complexities of confrontational issues, both past and present.

The branding we've designed for this exhibition draws inspiration from the notion of escalating tension; the tipping point before conflict erupts. We translated this idea through a subtle use of abrupt gradient hues transitions, applied across spatial walls, text labels and exhibition print collaterals. The strikethrough across the exhibition brand mark highlights how conflicts affect society and humanity, as well as their consequences, as portrayed by the art in this exhibition.

Eden In Iraq

2017

Eden In Iraq is an interdisciplinary, environmental art and design exhibition tracing the evolution of the wastewater remediation project in the marshes of southern Iraq near the historic site of the Garden of Eden. The researchers, artists and designers involved in this project have used environmental art, design, and wastewater to create a restorative wastewater garden for cultural memory, education, and shared social space. Drawing on Islamic and Mesopotamian traditions originating in this historically and symbolically charged region, the Eden in Iraq Waste Water Garden is designed to be a syncretic container for ecological and cultural restoration.

We were tasked to create the branding and design of this exhibition, held at National Design Centre Singapore which showcases design/engineering drawings, models, photo & video documentary which helps visitors understand the tremendous effort gone into this process, as well as the rich history of the Marshes and its People.

Read up more about this project here: Eden In Iraq

Life of Objects

2017

With the advent of the engagement of ready-made objects and images as a legitimate mode of art making, artists have explored a wide a range of issues, using pre-established form and content in critical and innovative ways. The exhibition, Life Of Objects, presents propositions that reconsider the role of the object in contemporary art-making. These include the re-reading of formality and composition in sculpture, the activation of found material and contemporary assemblage, as well as the negotiation with digital technologies that destabilise the notion of medium specificities, as well as materiality in the work of art. Chun Kai Qun (Singapore) presents a philosophy of sculpture that uses humour and failure to play off the futility of ambition against the ideal of excellence in art. Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s (Thailand) work engages with repurposed objects as part of a larger narrative that combines personal memory and whimsical imagination. Martin Constable (United Kingdom) deploys images as objects, relying on established film imagery to reconstruct ways in which images are being made and consumed today. The videos of Hiraki Sawa (Japan) interweave object and space to create intimate psychological dimensions that shift with senses of motion and dislocation. By blurring material properties and function, the artists in the exhibition accentuate, and undermine perception and reality, through artistic devices that open up new contexts for regarding the relationship between art and the object today.

Inspired by ideas of physicality of forms and the re-reading of formality and composition in art making, we designed the exhibition using an exciting color palette and several large scale motifs which represents the objects of art found within the show.

ADM Prospectus 17/18

2017

The annual NTU School of Art Design & Media prospectus publication takes on a different format this year as it prepares its first intake of students under the new structure of its undergraduates programme.

We designed a multi-layered, blind embossed cover to symbolise what we describe as a synergy of creativity; a reflection of the school’s merger of its six majors into two new big umbrellas: Design Art & Media Art. As a nod to the spiral architecture of the school, the multi-layered cover when closed transform from blue to red as it dwelves into the introduction of the school and the new programmes.

Dragon Trails

2017

Dragon Trails Bespoke Bhutan Tours creates authentic, personalised itineraries for clients who desire a bespoke travel experience through Bhutan. The brand mark presents the imagery of a dragon rising through the mountains embedded within a single brush stroke. The colour palette embraces a rich hue of purple combined with gold, injecting fresh energy against the luxury associated with this destination. The overall effect is elegant, classic, yet hinting at a sense of adventure, hinting at what their clients would experience first hand as well as the fantasy associated with this destination.

HASS Graduate Programme

2017

The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at NTU, Singapore, is a growing academic community, home to about 5,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Ranked among Asia’s finest, it has a strong team of diverse faculty members from well over 30 countries, dedicated to achieving excellence in both research and education.

While disciplinary expertise remains critical, the College encourages interdisciplinary explorations that promise to break new ground and expand its intellectual horizons. Engagement with society is closely aligned with research in HASS. We designed speech bubbles as a main visual element as a nod to the conversations and collaborations that contributes to personal development and the flourishing of ideas. The multi-tiered interior of the brochure also symbolise the multi-faceted nature of the school’s programmes.

Miracle Kutchie Experience 3

2017

We were approached by TODAY IS THE DAY, a visionary non-profit making organization based in Japan, New York, Singapore and Zurich, for the third year running to design and brand the “MIRACLE KUTCHIE EXPERIENCE 3”, an art retreat exchange program in Singapore that uses art therapy as a medium to heal children who have suffered from complex trauma from Fukushima. The theme this year centred around ideas of love and hope, and we presented it in swashes of bright luminescent colors, with the logotype sitting boldly and proudly across a heart emblem.

Write a Christmas Card 2016

Akanga Films

2017

Akanga Film Asia was founded in Singapore in 2005, aiming to support all kinds of arts activities, from filmmaking and photography, to theatre and performing arts; and to create a cultural link between Asia and the rest of the world.

We were approached to design a brochure that presents the spirit of film making the company embodies, as well as a flexible system which allows the company to choose which films to showcase within their portfolio at various film festivals.

Inspired by the form of cinema tickets, each film that Akanga has produced is printed on a ticket, with the reverse side detailing the synopsis and awards it has won. These tickets are then bound together in a ticket book form using a screw post. The treatment of the cover also features a blind emboss of a film projector, a nod to the nature of the studio.

Iskandar Jalil: Kembara Tanah Liat

2017

The exhibition Iskandar Jalil: Kembara Tanah Liat (Clay Travels) held at National Gallery Singapore seeks to map Iskandar Jalil’s artistic practice comprehensively as a dialogue between the modern and traditional. Also, it aims to reinforce ceramics as an important but overlooked thread of history of modern art of the region through its adaptation of materials, literature; as well as a reinvention of pictorial idioms and forms.

In collaboration with Superfat Designs.

Gong 2017 Creative Circle Awards – Silver for Non Commercial Exhibitions
IDA Design Awards 2019 – Honorable Mention

Spatial

The exhibition design seeks to evoke the idea of an Archipelago, with the landscape re-imagined from the terraced hills of islands to overhanging curtains of fabric representing low clouds over the hills. Spatially, the scheme takes on curvilinear shapes with different treatments, heights and materials, leaving the exhibition open as visitors meander through it, discovering the art pieces with a view of what happens in their foreground, middle ground and background in their peripheral vision; a reflection of the viewing of a traditional landscape art piece. This allows a contemplation of Iskandar’s works through the ages and how his thinking has changed and developed over the course of his career.