tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54204162245890343642012-01-26T16:39:04.355+08:00been listening to the mellifluous tintinnabulation of the opulent bells since aug 2008.notaboutwillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04900916230113287110noreply@blogger.comBlogger921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420416224589034364.post-72494866879887907302011-09-06T03:03:00.001+08:002011-09-06T03:03:08.842+08:00

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I have just gotten a free domain while helping my client, Accsense Consulting Pte Ltd, get her's. Therefore, I will be moving my portfolio to that new domain. However, I still cannot decide what to christen my domain since www.not.com was already taken. Right now, I have these options: www.notaboutnot.com, www.wearenot.com, www.notnotnot.com, www.nothere.com, www.notandyou.com,

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Founded in 2009 by Jordan Crane, What Things Do is a web comic site featuring comic artists such as Steven Weissman, Sammy Harkham and Jordan Crane himself. Weissman's This Already Happened is definitely my favourite comic on any medium right now! Hark! A Vagrant is an extremely funny web comic by Kate Beaton. If you want to learn about western history, literature and Canadians in a

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Beautiful series of vases, called Variations on a Theme, by Piero and Barnaba fornasetti. Via designboom.

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I already cannot believe they won Best Art Direction. Update 12:15pm SG. My only 2 gripes for Oscar are winners for best art direction and female in a leading role. Final update 1:21pm SG.

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Yummo Yogurt + Smoothies by Tad Carpenter via design work life. Why are yogurts so fun?

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Ok Go's video for the song This Too Shall Pass off their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. My absolute favorite part starts at 2:37 until the end. Okay that is it. There is only one this week.

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This is a front cover illustration was for an annual report pitch which we didn't get while I was at the company after Orbital. This is one of the spreads from the concept that was accepted by Meridian Junior College. However, I left Orbital before it was complete and, hence, not sure if it finally ends up in the yearbook. I edited the original verson with the style I use now. A proposed

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As one of the founders of the MDIS Student Council (SC), I had the opportunity to create its branding. concept + art direction + design + illustration + photography Even though they had switch from an institution for working adults, who studies part-time, to a college that includes a majority of teenage full-time students, there was a lack of student body that represented the needs of

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Art directed and designed a saleskit and weekly promotion flyers and posters for a local tapas bar, Zsofi. Using colours and illustrations that are synonymous with Spain, a visual branding was created to differentiate and stand out from other similar themed bar. concept + art direction + design + illustration + photography Above is the cover of the salekit and the following are the inside

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A stop motion video by Nobody Beats the Drum [Via ChangetheThought]. After watching the video, I spent the rest of the day wondering how they plan for such a shoot. Kanye West has redesign his blog, and on it a new music video. Michael Moloney, a filmmaker, and John Hooper, a photographer, collaborated on this video for If You Could Collaborate. Watch out for the part when they filmed

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I was at the Henderson Waves last Wednesday. More at my flickr set.

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My sketches for February. More at my flickr page.

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Here is Jan - Feb's collection of free printed materials I picked up. The ones that caught my eyes are the Ettusais' (jp, sg) collateral: Nice clean, light and clear typography throughout their marketing collateral sort of reminds you what their products are suppose to do. Hallmark of a good brand identity.

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New Old Spice television commercial by Wieden+Kennedy. [Via Kitsune Noir] Behind the scene of The New Yorker cover. [Via Drawn and Quarterly] A series of video by Wieden+Kennedy Entertainment about creative (and facial hair) people and their love for skateboarding.

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This is a good example how to humanise a corporate organisation. A business doesn't need the mythical "corporate look" to project the professional and reliable look. This project was done by Michael Wolff & Company. Michael Wolff was half of WolffOlins before he left in 1983. The following is he on branding: 1. customers create brands. 2. organisations create brand identities. 3. brand

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I was sick (feverish, headache, sore throat) at the end of the third day of Chinese New Year. I suspected it was tonsillitis but the Dr Mark Flores (who, coincidentally, happens to be my Dad's tenant) at the polyclinic diagnosed otherwise on the fourth day. At the end of the fifth, everything pretty much subsided except for the headache which reached its peak. And, on its peak, bad thoughts

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Photography © Ken Lee and Skorj / Magnesium All Rights Reserved. Battleship Island is an English translation of the Japanese nickname for Hashima Island, Gunkanjima (gunkan meaning battleship, jima being the rendaku form of shima, meaning island). The island's nickname came from its apparent resemblance to the Japanese battleship Tosa due to its high seawalls. It also is known as the Ghost

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Reads Xin (in mandarin, heart and new sounds the same) Nian Kwai Le!

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Hello visitors, notaboutwill is now part of NOT: Creative and has gone under NOT's branding of the magic hexagons. NOT: Creative is a visual communication studio which does visuals, communications and shit like that strate-magically™! More about NOT and its branding soon.

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Tom Gauld x W+K x Coke. Via Ads of the World

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This a beautiful short animation film that is too short. Garuda by students of Gobelins: Nicolas Athane, Meryl Franck, Alexis Liddell, Andres Salaff, Maïlys Vallade, students at Gobelins. [Via Kitsune Noir] Nice animated illustrations by Andy Rementer. [Via Drawn!] Interview with Saul Bass. Not sure if I totally agree with on a few of those points but its nice to know even the best face

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The Magner™ Ferrite Magnetic Plaster packaging was designed with two things in mind: 1. To differentiate Magner™ with the other medicated plaster brands in the market and 2. To pave the way to future Magner™ products. Solutions were no-brainers. The first was solved by give the packaging a cleaner typographic treatment (most other medicated plaster brands have those screaming-in-your-face

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The Design Society had their inaugural conference at The Drama Centre located in the National Library last Saturday. The line up includes 10AM, :Phunk, Temasek Polytechnic School of Design, The [Press] Room, Make Studios and, last but not least, Work. This was a very Singaporean-flavored event (much more than the Singapore Design Festival, I feel) as the speakers were Singaporeans who did

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Every year start since 2007, there is one annual report I eagerly await to read. No, not on a corporation but that of an individual called Nicholas Feltron. Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I

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Via Generation Press, UK. Being print designers, it is important to find inspiration for the production of print projects. This is because, mainly, we like to "wows" the clients with terms like hot-stamping, embossing matted varnish or diecuts. This is because print materials and processes are very important part of design as it determine the feel and look of the medium which carries the

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Thinking that I am some great smartypants doing something no one is doing, I wrote an entry in my drafts listing down urls of local creatives. However, until recently, I discovered the directory is being compiled much more comprehensively by Yanda of the blog theartistandhismodel. You can check out theartistandhismodel for more Singapore creative related news and design/art/fashion related

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I have a habit of collecting beautiful brochure or free printed materials everywhere I go. So, here are some of the nice ones I found (I slipped in mine (-;) between November - December 2009. Above is a brochure for Singapore Fringe Festival 10 beautifully designed by local design studio "multi-disciplinary creative communications company" fFurious Bureau for the Advancement of Lifestyle

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I absolutely want this. I lost my keys, dbs dongle and keychain recently, and even though totally irrelevant, I deserve this thumb drive that is so beautifully crafted as a key. Via 5.5 designers.

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This is one of my submissions for Eyeka's Dell Laptop Skin Competition: Celebrate you, celebrate your individuality. Why follow and be the same when you can be one and only? Here's how you can truly call a laptop yours. Please vote for me! Eyeka Asia Dell Competition Page Thanks! Here are some detailed views (Click to enlarge):

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The video is for The Salvation Army (TSA) Singapore for their annual fund raising luncheon. I was one of the producers and the video editor for the 9-minute video hosted by 95FM's excellent DJ, Yasminne Cheng.  In order to show meeting needs (which is the concept of the annual report developed by TSA), I suggested the front cover to have die cut shapes representing each of TSA’s services and

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1. Wiedan + Kennedy Got a New Website 2. Fontshop turns 20 3. So did the beautiful FF Scala (Martin Majoor) by the same foundry

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Illustrations by Serbia based Nebojsa Cvetkovic. See more of his juicy illustrations over at Behance. Also, he maintains an excellent sketchblog and his website is here. It seems that he hates Celine Dion. On that admission alone, I like him already.

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Use your Legos wisely instead of wasting them on some useless and emotionless national building campaign. Look at how Muji does it with the plastic brick maker that had the whole internet buzzing. [Via Today and Tomorrow] Being made for people 6+, it is just right for me and I can't wait to get them. But for now, here are just a few other better things to do with your Legos instead of wasting

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To suggest that only certain designs can benefit from using a grid is to suggest that a structural foundation can only benefit a certain type of building or that grammar is only useful for a certain style of writing. A grid is a foundation, and like with any architectural structure, it’s a vital part of the process.Aisle One's Antonio Carusone clarification on the grid after he read this article

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1. Hellen Jo’s Lady Gaga [Via The Beat] 2.You Are Not A Gadget cover by Olly Moss [CR] 3. Interview: Universal Everything [Unit Edition] 4. Ayamari Bijin – Beautiful Girls Apologize Online [Via Japan Trends]

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Even the best make mistake(s): Now we see this poster again, we see our great mistake. While designing, some of the letters must have fallen off the page: as you can see, the alphabet in the right column misses the letters 'g' and 'r'. The strange thing is that, around that time, nobody noticed it. Not us three, not Gary, not the printer. It's such a stupid mistake, and we are fully

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Safety@Work Creative Award is a yearly poster and animation competition organised by ST Engineering and Ministry of Manpower for tertiary students in Singapore. The idea was to use pictograms and colour that are synonymous with safety at work. We submitted several other ideas but I was extremely glad that this was chosen. The reason is that I have always enjoyed illustrating pictogram and,

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My computer just came back from the dead. I have so much stuff that I wanted to post. Stay tune.

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I always judge a book by its cover and, at Page One, one book illustrated by Harry Clarke, for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe, caught my eyes this time. Harry Clarke's art are really something sublime. A Journey Round My Skull via But Does It Float

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One of my favourite illustrators Frank Chimero share a bit of his creative process with us: Fooling around is serious stuff, whether it’s for the sake of our work or for the sake of our sanity. Don’t get me wrong: design can be serious stuff, and every professional has the right to take their craft seriously. But, somewhere in the myriad of analysis and tight deadlines, we’ve revoked our

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I think serious shit whilst showering... and lathering. When I came out of the shower, so happened that I noticed a Facebook status update by my good friend, Nick “if the whole network grid fails, I might just go offline for once!” Foo. He asked: How would you measure your wealth? In other words, the condition (th) of your well-being (weal)? I am always thinking about that in the shower. I

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Applicable to most other professions including design.

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Ah Lady Gaga. You will continue to shine as long as you keep up with all those masonic allegories and those A Space Odyssey: 2001 references. The little girls had some attention for a while and now the woman is back. I am glad.

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Clean, modern and minimalistic interiors,  that I absolutely adore, designed by French architect Joseph Dirand, the 30 room Distrito Capital hotel is located in Mexico City. Check out more interior photos at the Contemporist. Check out the hotel's stylish website too.

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1. Mr. Beaks chats with 2012's Chin Han [Ain't It Cool] 2. Growing penis tissue in the lab (I wish I have an image to show.) [BoingBoing] 3. Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike [Gizmodo] 4. Starbucks, but not as we know it [Moving Brand] 5. 21 Writing Prompts for Design Students [AIGA]

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Three great videos this week. Let me start this week with the trailer of the movie based on a book by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man. Directed by ex-Gucci CD Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Immersion: Porn by Robbie Cooper. It is quite interesting to listen and watch people talking about porn and masturbation. It is amazing to see their expressions and actions

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I love chaotic scenes of workspace or humanscape without the human. I am glad I am not alone on this. This image of an industrial office space is a series called Workspace by photographer Joseph Holmes. More at here. Via A Continuous Lean.

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CMYK Magazine is where aspiring creatives showcase their talents to an industry driven by inspiration and new ways of creative problem solving. CMYK magazine is getting ready to launch its redesign issue. Check out a preview. And, hey look! Another Christoph Niemann article.

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"The problem is when people have too much time on their hands. Because then at some point everybody’s going to question, “Why did you make it red, not green?” and “Could we try it upside-down, or left to right?” and then at some point it becomes arbitrary." Christoph Niemann is an illustration god. Blogs for the New York Times in his free time when he is not illustrating for them and others such

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New website to plagiarise find inspiration. It is a TOKION Magazine X Behance Network collaboration called Tokion Served. Above is work by Craig Redman of RINZEN. It is just cool okay?

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Headed by President's Design Award winner Colin Seah, Singapore's Ministry of Design is: An integrated spatial-design practice, MOD's explorations are created amidst a democratic 'studio-like' atmosphere and progress seamlessly between form, site, object and space. We love to question where the inherent potential in contemporary design lies, and then to disturb the ways they are created or

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1. La Charcuterie Business Cards and Stationary [Kitsune Noir] 2. Atheist Damien Hirst to display oil paintings in St Paul's [Times Online] 3. What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt) [Gizmodo] 4. Denver to Singapore (and back) in 5 minutes (technically, a cool video but what the hey) [Kottke] 5. Neither Fish Nor Fowl interview [Grainedit] 6. Porter for Monocle [SLAMXHYPE]

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Need. To. Watch. Objectified.

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I am going to micro-rant about the local design industry in this post so if you are interested click "» read on...", otherwise, here is this week's link to the coolest videos of the week: Thirty Conversations On Design via formfiftyfive. Every week, I scour the intertube for cool videos and try to release them every weekend. However, I noticed that I have not blogged for the whole of October.

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Burodestruct, maker of many wonderful and unique typefaces, has updated their website (I think previously they weren't using a weblog format) and flickr with a few new work.

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Where The Wild Things Are x Medicom introduces this 400% version of the Max figure. This cool shit is not available to me at thoseluckyfrenchies'colette for an unaffordable to me price of 110 freakingEuros. Via SLAMXHYPE

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The effects of waste floating off Pacific on the population of albatross as documented by Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan. I kind of wish that these were human babies instead. Even then we might not react. I will let the images speak for themselves. Via CR. Via Guardian. Via Jordan's site.

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1. 'Ora' Concept Watch by Alexandros Stasinopoulos. [Designboom] 2. Starbucks Marketing Push for Via Begins With Taste Tests. [Adage] 3. Nice old book cover found flickr. [Via We Love Typography]

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This is a Buddhist temple in Singapore. I am an atheist/pastafarian but I am always interested in the Buddhist ideology. More at my Make Something Cool Everyday flickr set.

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1. The Week In Type. [ilt] 2. Tomasz Opasinski Interview. [Psdtut] 3. How I Got 294 Comments With One Blog Post. [Copyblogger]

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Exceptional editorial design for Domus issue 928 by German design power house, onlab. Domus is, generally, quite expensive here in Singapore but Basheer @ Bras Brasah tends to sell them at a huge discount after a few months. Was tempted to buy one for 15SGD just two weeks ago but bought IdN's extra 01: cut&paste for 20 bucks instead.

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[Via +Kitsune Noir.] Five excellent videos for Week 39 including a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis. [A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis. Via Computerluv.] [A collection of projection mapping examples. Via Computerluv.] [Disembodied head shows off Diesel helmets. Via AdFreak] [Portugal The Man "Do You" music video by Decoder. Via Motiongrapher ]

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1. Urban Planning Integrated Into a Volcano. [Archdaily] 2. An Oldie But Goodie: 9 Ways to Improve An Ad. [welcome to optimism] 3. Seven Lies About Lying Part 1 & 2. [nytimes's Zoom via kottke] Lies are effective because we are insecure about many of our beliefs and are quite vulnerable to the suggestion that those beliefs might be false. 4. Blood Powered Lamp by Mike Thompson. [Apartment

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Very nice modern update of the characters from The Masters of the Universe illustrated and dressed by Adrian Riemann. These here are Tri-Klops and Teela. As I grew older, I realised that the villains in MotU are extremely scary and dark.

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More at my Make Something Cool Everyday flickr set.

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The above pork bun are one of the six sandwiches New York's Xie Xie (as in shay shay, mandarin's "thank you") offer. Xie Xie is "an energetic fast-casual restaurant celebrating the vibrant flavors of Asia". It cost 8.50USD (12SGD). OMG. LOL. Xie Xie managed to package a relatively cheap Asia delicacy into about six times its original price. Culinary experts loved it and liked the price. We

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Free by xkcd. Reminds me of an episode of Mad Men season one. The one about marketing cigarettes as being toasted.

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I have blogged about Rilla Alexander, of Rinzen, on my tumblog before and, now, she has a new website.

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1. Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter. [Popwise, Fast Company] 2. Beggars Can Be Choosers Although conventional wisdom suggests that SPAMmy pleas, such as "PLEASE RETWEET," would be generally ignored, Zarrella found the opposite. "Please" and "retweet" were his third and fourth "most retweetable" words, preceeded only by "Twitter" (duh) and "you." Also worth noting: "

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The Singapore government has just appointed 17 people they think qualifies to discern contents which are suitable for Singaporeans and which are not. And, as usual, they will try to provide salvation for young ones from the unholy internet: To study whether there is a need to introduce additional content standards and guidelines that would be relevant to the emergence of new technologies and new

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Ken Leung, an UK-based Malaysia-born designer, who spent much of his life in Australia, was an art director with Monocle before he went freelance. He is the latest featured designer by Grain Edit. He was asked to shed a little light on the direction he chose for Monocle's layout grid: Monocle’s design philosophy is an unquestionable nod to Swiss graphic design. The Brockmann-style grids provide

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A song with Jonny Greenwood, his Radiohead pal, that "Reckoner" was said to have roots from. Check out the album designed by Stanley Donwood and Tchock (Thom Yorke) at Stereogum.com. [Via SLAMXHYPE]

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No expectation. That is the key to watching any movies nowadays. Even though, I must admit I did have some level of anticipation when I watched Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds two days ago. I mean it IS a Tarantino flick and my expectation are always high when it is a Tarantino flick. Although I am not a hugh Tarantino fan, I loved Reservoir Dogs (I considered this as his best) and

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More at my Make Something Cool Everyday flickr set.

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A little freelance illustrative piece for Eyeka Asia's Facebook banner. Inspired by many many famous illustrators which I will blog about soon.  This is the kind of style I always like to try. I decided not to use the standard revolutionary-type images from the communism era or anti-war protests. Felt it was too cliche. The next one here was not selected. I actually preferred this one but I

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I do not have many chance to do illustration for Orbital, which was very unfortunate. However, when I do, even though this was actually directed by our client in some sense as they picked the style, I enjoyed it. The project was a brochure for courses on basic employability skills such as writing, reading and communications. For more images of the illustration, visit my Orbital Group flickr

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Function: adjective Etymology: Greek tautologos, from taut- + legein to say — more at legend Date: 1714 1 : involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant 2 : true by virtue of its logical form alone — tau·tol·o·gous·ly adverb

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I was there. I was free. So, MDIS let me to do their branding for their 2008 open house. My idea is to create a clear recognizable character so as to differentiate from the rest of the schools who were having their open house at around the same time too. I definitely had fun designing the character, aptly named Spaceman. I don't know if it was successful, however, I got two free

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Atlas, the Singapore authorised dealer for Bose, wants a large format light print advertisement to showcase their new in-ear earphones. Therefore, the above visual was conceptualised to show superb sound quality and weightlessness of the earphones. For more images of the my other work done at Orbital Group, visit my Orbital Group flickr set.

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After much deliberation, I have decided to depart from tumblr and come back to Blogger. One of the biggest reason for me is that Blogger has incorporated the "insert jump break" function which is great and neater for a (free) portfolio weblog. Two things I will miss surely are the Bookmarklet function and twitter component, both, which I got very used to. Those were the reasons I blogged very

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SAFRA Sports Adventure Centre (SASC) needed a better way to present their brochures via a saleskit. This saleskit targets the corporate segment that ain't so bonded therefore a teambuilding session is deemed necessary. For the photo, a idea of having the corporate drones  dwellers employees, in their office gear, enjoying one of the activities was conceived. This concept was very direct and,

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This was my second full and last publication which I complete from start to finish for Orbital. The prospectus was targeted towards prospective students and, mainly, their parents. The front cover was a macro shot of the school tie. It was to imbue a sense of prestige from being able to wear the tie. From a branding perspective, it was definitely strong since the prospective students and parents

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My first publication and was lucky enough to lead, conceptualise, design and produce this project with the help of my creative director and senior designer. Anderson Junior College wanted a year book which was less financial annual report looking than the one we did in 2007—I have yet to join Orbital Group then. So, I thought, for the front cover, we can have a bit of fun by making the students

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