Amidst the grand plan for a global city called Singapore is the small neighbourhood of Tiong Bahru, a place I like to go home to one day.
This is a piece I recently contributed to the project Civic Life Tiong Bahru.
The magazine market with its quick turnaround and fierce competition has always been a fertile ground for creativity. This is a latest incarnation (ok, I’m a little late in discovering this) of a magazine: Kult’s ArtCade Machine — 3D Magazine. It merges a magazine with a 80’s arcade machine!
KULT
Kult, is a free printed quarterly magazine by a local creative agency of the same name that uses visual culture to explore issues of our society today. The ArtCade was created for its launch issue last year that explored the theme of “Trust”.
In its second issue, Kult looked at the “Artificial” and also created an interactive online version of its magazine. Unfortunately, it is offline currently. The magazine edited by Brendan Graham and art directed by Steve Lawler recently published its third issue, which features some 29 illustrations by artists from all around the world that looks at the health epidemic AIDS. Compared to the first two issues, which came in forms that explored new boundaries in magazine publishing, this is a little bit more regular, but still an interesting read.
KULT
Kult isn’t the first local magazine that devotes itself to use visual culture to explore issues. In fact, its art director Steve worked on the last issue of a now defunct local magazine FL.ag that runs on the same concept. Interestingly, the issue of FL.ag that Steve worked on also looked at AIDS and its cover image is the same one done by Austin Cowdall found inside this issue of Kult.
FL.ag
One of the things that makes Tanjong Pagar railway station distinctly Malaysian for me is its signage. Like the Malaysian flag, the signs are in blue and yellow.
The typeface used in the signs also evokes memories of another era. The guys at Typophile have correctly nailed the typeface as ITC Serif Gothic, which was designed in 1972 by Herb Lubalin and Tony DeSpigna. This was forty year after the station was completed, so the signs are actually quite a recent installation.
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This sign was removed in 2004.
I recently interviewed Jackson Tan, Creative Director of Black Design, about 100 ICONS. It is an exhibition about Singapore’s brands, symbols, logos and icons that he curated as part of The Design Society’s initiative to document Singapore’s modern design history.
100 ICONS
On now till January 29, 2010. Admission is free.
The Plaza, Level 1, National Library Building
100 Victoria St, Singapore
A poster and schedule I designed for this soccer tournament that some friends and I hold once every four years to celebrate our birthdays. The poster was inspired to look like a leg kicking a soccer ball though some have commented that the “2009″ should look rounder to bring out the visual of a ball.
Size: A5 (Poster); A2 (Schedule)
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