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Ken Tan
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For more than ten years, Ken Tan has worn many hats in the creative sphere. His experiences span a broad range from running a digital creative agency to branding the lifestyle store, Supplies & Co.
With a soaring passion for all things related to culture, art and design, Ken is not afraid to get his hands dirty with the craft of print, painting and illustration. He is also an established drum and bass DJ on the local circuit, going by the moniker, Doomer.
With a keen eye for design and detail, Ken has built interiors and created brand identity for a series of F&B establishments as creative head of The Establishment Group including Gem Bar, Manor Cocktail Room, Zui Hong Lou, and recently :pluck. His palate is unrivalled as well, having perfected the art of making the best vegetarian breakfast on this side of town.
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Kiat
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From a young age, Kiat has indulged his love of science fiction, music and art, culminating in a DJ residency at Singapore super club Zouk at the age of 20. In 1998, he met the acclaimed creative director, Theseus Chan. Under his wing, Kiat won his first four Creative Circle Awards; he would later go on to win awards at the One Show, Young Guns, Clio and New York Festivals, amongst others. Music continued to play a huge part in Kiat’s life, and while he won numerous awards in art direction, he made his mark as the first Singaporean to be signed to renowned UK label Metalheadz, run by Goldie. Locally, Kiat has also been a driving force in the electronic music scene, seeding communities through his co-founding of collectives including now-defunkt Guerilla and currently Syndicate. In 2012, he setup System Sovereign, a multi-disciplinary branding and design agency with Cherry Chan where they spend most of their time working on projects of love, both for clients and themselves.
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KiDG
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A resident DJ for Poptart, Sunday Artists Market, Life Is Beautiful Kitchen & Bar, and the upcoming Tiko Disko event, KiDG's eclectic tastes have always inspired the listener in the dancer to seek out more music. From indie rock and white boy funk, to soul, dub and mind-warping electronics, you can expect an untypical dance set whenever he takes the decks.
Apart from DJing, KiDG also dabbles in mobile photography and designing album covers.
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Kristal Melson + Ray Tan
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Born and raised in Singapore, Kristal Melson is a local angmoh that draws often.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries such as the Gallery Nucleus in the US, Ikkan International and recently, Above Second Gallery in Hong Kong.
Ray Tan is the founder of 29 Cornflakes (a local art/record label) and has been playing in a punk rock band for the last 15 years. He’s got a good head above his shoulders and is good with his hands.
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Michelle Yu
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Michelle Yu is a printer by day and drawer by night.
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Mindflyer
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Michael Ng aka Mindflyer (b. 1964) is a self-taught visual artist based in Singapore. Using the moniker "Mindflyer", he has been creating his art since 1989. His practice is embedded in concepts related to flight and escapism. Using a crazy mix of interesting aeronautical forms, bright colours, a mad dose of retro sci-fi and references to Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s "The Little Prince", he attempts to make everything "fly"!
Some of his recent work includes commissioned artworks for the Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board, Samsung, IBM, Starbucks, The Elephant Parade, Tangs, Starhub and Kalkitos. Besides painting, exhibiting his work and adjunct lecturing, he is a founding member of the illustrator group OICsingapore (www.oicsingapore.com) where he is actively involved in engaging and challenging young illustrators.
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Natalie Pixiedub & Jack Tan
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Natalie Pixiedub has been fuelled by music for as long as she can remember. Having grown up in a family of music lovers, she has an uncommon knowledge of songs and bands from periods before she was born. Her father Jack was instrumental in her musical education, having introduced her to rock n' roll through tapes of Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Chubby Checker and The Beatles.
His love of music pushed him to constantly be involved in organising events, from small gigs in the 1960s, to being part of the Singapore Country Line Dance Association team that organised Singapore's entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2002, having more than 11,000 people line dancing at the Singapore Expo.
Natalie is definitely her father's daughter, having worked with music her entire career, from humble beginnings selling t-shirts at concerts to reviewing albums for teen publications, to curating music programmes and hosting her own internet radio show.
This is their first artwork, both as individuals, and as a team. And naturally, it has to do with music.
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Nathan Yong
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In 1999, Nathan Yong started his first retail store called Air Division, selling his own creations made by Asian craftsman. For two consecutive years (in 2006 & 2007), Nathan won the prestigious Red Dot Concept Design Award with his conceptual designs of a mass production coffin and a portable room heater. Subsequently in 2008, Nathan received the prestigious Singapore President’s Design Award; Designer of the Year, the highest honour accorded to designers from all creative disciplines in Singapore. In the 2011 International King size supplement, INTERNI for Salone del Mobile, Nathan Yong was selected as the most promising Young Designer on the international scene.
Currently based in Singapore, Nathan is the founder and designer of FOLKS FURNITURE, a furniture brand that exports to the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia and more. Nathan is also the founder of GRAFUNKT, a forward-thinking company with 800sqm of retail space in Singapore that specialises in representing well designed brands.
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Neng Mohd / The Salt Lab
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Neng Mohd is a Singaporean artist, musician, and design director. Neng first turned heads when she won the Phillip Morris Singapore Art Award in 2005, and as former drummer for the band Force Vomit. Her work reflects her diverse experiences in architecture, print-making, music, illustration and design.
Neng is co-founder of design agency The Salt Lab, whose name was inspired by her mum's nasi padang stall.
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Patrick Ong
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Patrick Ong is a Singapore-based television commercial director and has worked for a varied list of clients including Levi’s, Sony, Coca-Cola, Djarum, Unilever, FedEx, Nokia, Mazda, MDA Singapore and Asia Pacific Breweries. He has directed for theatre plays, music videos and television programmes, including an award-winning documentary he co-directed for the inaugural National Geographic Channel/Economic Development Board's 'Showreel Asia' film initiative.
His continued passion for directing is exceeded only by his love for music, which has inspired him to photo-document Singapore's musicians, and in recent times, initiated an art collective ‘33a3rd’, that designs and uses age-old traditional printing techniques to make concert posters, t-shirts and album covers.
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Razi Razak
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A multi-faceted creative individual who is always looking to engage and challenge the sociality of life through work, Razi Razak is a brand ideologist, independent music promoter and art curator. Having produced multiple music events and festivals over the past thirteen years, Razi also co-founded the creative agency Villains, which he left as a partner in 2011 to pursue becoming an art curator. Subsequently, he launched the art brand ‘Statement’ which honours the immense artistic potential of the region, presenting artists whose works will be concentrated in two defined groups: conceptual and contemporary. Statement is a social art gathering that emphasises cross-disciplinary thinking, where attendees are juxtaposed and invited to interact, bringing forth contradictions, gaps, unclarity overlaps and affinities. Razi's work challenges the sociality of modern thinking by being culturally curious, adapting and practicing new forms of enriching expression.
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RIZIBÉ
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A side project of visual artist Flo-ox, Rizibe’s visual storytelling weaves narratives from abstractions of moments, vignettes and flashes to blur the lines between memory and fiction. Inspired by Southeast Asia’s mystique, vastly diverse tropical landscape and thriving mix of cultures, his work conjures up surrealist poetry and riffs on eastern philosophy.
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Roy Poh & Kyra Poh
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Beautiful is about looking at things differently. It’s about perception. It’s about beauty in imperfection, beauty in the ordinary, beauty in everything. Most of all, it’s about finding silver linings, living a happy life.
Beautiful is a design studio set up by creative director, Roy Poh. Nominated by Institute of Advertising Singapore as 15 most influential Creative Directors in Singapore for 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011, Beautiful was awarded Design Agency of the year at the Creative Circle Awards 2012.
Roy has proven that good work need not be given up just to survive in today’s market with awards like the D&AD, Oneshow, Art Director’s Club, Type Director’s Club, Canneslion, Clio Awards, Young Guns, Communication Arts, Singapore Creative Circle Awards, Singapore Designers Award and many more of his projects have been featured in renowned industry periodicals. Most recently, he received the President’s Design Award 2012, the most prestigious design award in Singapore.
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Safuan Johari
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After years of meddling in electronic music, Safuan Johari is a Singaporean sound-designer, music producer and performer. He is better known as Max Lane, a psuedonym he christened himself with for his production and performance adventures in the electronic realm. As a sound-designer, Safuan has worked on various visual projection-based multimedia art installations. This includes a range of commissioned projects for the People Association, Hewlett-Packard, Beijing Fashion Week, Fila and many more. The performer in Safuan has graced many stages around the world including the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Festival in France. Safuan is also the founding member of audio-visual collective, Syndicate, and is the label manager who oversees the digital releases and distribution for the collective’s music catalogue.
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Say Keong
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Currently working as an educator at Temasek Polytechnic's School of Design, Say Keong has been supporting the local music scene for more than 20 years. His music journey started off with the 80's cheesy big hair pop to 90's big hair rock, with his current main course consisting of heavy metal to death metal. His music has come full cycle from collecting records to cassettes to CDs and now back to records, not forgetting for the love of music and to give love to others, not just on Fridays.
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Selwyn Low & Grace Tan
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Selwyn Low and Grace Tan were formally trained in architecture and fashion respectively. In their current practices, they are involved in projects that range across various disciplines. Selwyn co-founded design office FARM, while Grace runs her art and design practice under kwodrent.
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Shang
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As an artist, Shang developed an interest in bringing digital interactions beyond the screen and began exploring creating interactive installations with platforms such as Processing and OpenFrameworks. His first collaboration was with Steve Lawler aka Mojoko. Their work “Reactive Wall” was exhibited in the Singapore Art Museum in 2010 and Reykjavik Art Museum in 2014, and was well received publicly and critically. Shang went on to create other interactive pieces with Mojoko including “The Incredible Magical Expanding Room” which explored pitch detection and perspective illusions.
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Shawnn Lai
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An ad guy by trade and a DJ-Producer during his free time, Shawnn Lai has been experimenting with music since his teens. After DJing in the late 90s, Shawnn's break came when Shin Nishimura of Plus Records Tokyo gave him the opportunity to release his own EP. This spurred him on to continue making and playing the music he loves. Following that, K'Alexi, a Chicago House legend, released a few of Shawnn's tracks on his label TecSoul Deep, giving Shawnn the opportunity to remix legends like Maurice Joshua and Terry Farley. Shawnn releases music on his own label SoulMatters Recordings with two other like-minded individuals. He believes that if one keeps doing what one loves even if he doesn't get paid, something good will come out of it. Music is the most rewarding medium of expression.
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Shing
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Shing, the creator behind Argentum, is perhaps one of the first few artist jewellers in Singapore. The St Martins-trained artisan challenges the boundaries of jewellery through her constant questioning of the very medium she works in. Much of her work deals with what she has witnessed as empty formalities in an industry which more often than not focuses on surface aesthetics and value. She draws inspiration by going inward and uses her pieces as emotive extensions of herself. Her jewellery transcends adornment; the divide between the material and spiritual seems to fade in her ethereal collections.
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Somewhere Else
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We are about the constant shift away from the ordinary; the persistent journey to create work that goes beyond the basal need to communicate. We are the dreamers, the outsiders and the shamans that conjure new stories and mythologies. Through our approach and processes, we provide distilled solutions for businesses.
Together with our broad range of selected clients, we push to create unique works that are idea-driven, relevant and intelligently crafted.
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Speak Cryptic
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Farizwan Fajari, professionally known as Speak Cryptic, is a visual artist working and living in Singapore.
He graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a Degree in Fine Arts majoring in Painting in 2007. His work has been seen in various exhibitions locally and abroad since 2005 and is one of the participating artists in the Singapore Biennale 2013. He is also a member of the Artist Pension Trust and plays the electric bass for the Singaporean based band, I Am David Sparkle.
Inspired by the visual language prevalent within the cultures of comics and underground music, his works primarily deals with the issues pertaining to the human condition. Utilising personal iconographies and a cast of characters that he has developed over the years, he applies them to various narratives inspired by his observations on current affairs and his immediate environment.
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Theseus Chan
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Theseus Chan was conferred the Designer of the Year at the inaugural President’s Design Award in 2006 – Singapore’s highest accolade for designers. He was also selected as one of the world’s top 100 designers in Phaidon's Area 2, 2008. Theseus’ accolades include several D&AD Yellow Pencils, New York Art Directors Club (ADC), Tokyo Type Director’s Club and the Singapore Creative Circle. In 2012, he became the first Singaporean designer to have a solo exhibition at ggg (Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo), a museum dedicated to contemporary Graphic Design. In Spring / Summer 2013, WERK Magazine was exhibited at Trading Museum COMME des GARÇONS in Tokyo, COMME des GARÇONS Hong Kong and COMME des GARÇONS Beijing. His work is also in the permanent collection of Cooper Hewitt and Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
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William Chan
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William Chan is an artist and a designer based in Singapore. He is the co-founder of PHUNK (studio), Asia's leading art and design collective. He is also the founder of TMRRW, a multidisciplinary design and motion studio.
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Yah-Leng Yu
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Yah-Leng Yu was formally trained at the Art Institute of Boston before moving to New York City where her creative career blossomed. In 2007, she moved back to the tropical island of Singapore where she co-founded Foreign Policy Design Group. Her works have been also recognised and honoured by numerous awards, accolades and publications. Yah-Leng is also an executive committee member of The Design Society Singapore and she also sits on the advisory board of the Temasek School of Design. She has often been invited to speak and judge at local and international design festivals, conferences and schools. She wears multiple hats as creative director, art director, designer, idea maker and problem solver.
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Yee Chang Kang
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By profession, Yee Chang Kang is an award-winning film director with Shooting Gallery Asia and has helmed TV commercials for an illustrious list of clients like Discovery Channel, Tiger Beer, Scoot, KFC, M1 and MDA. And as an independent filmmaker, Yee has also been actively writing, producing and directing short films since graduating top of his class from Temasek Polytechnic‘s School Of Design in 1996.
Yee is all about heart. His astute knack of empathising with the vast complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing between understated heroic romanticism and fragile vulnerability, results in work that has always erred on the side of passion and beauty. Through his keen observations, Yee is a filmmaker and musician who always remembers to tell the truth and wear his heart on his sleeves unapologetically.
Working on the story arc titled The Loners’ Trilogy, Yee has a consistent film output with Good Time (2004), Dai Bao (2005) and Peter Ho (2006). These quirky and honest films have travelled to film festivals in Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia, with Good Time and Dai Bao coming in as Finalists at the Singapore International Film Festival.
That consistent theme of heart continues with his music.
An advocate of the local music scene since his youth, Yee has used original music from Singapore extensively and exclusively in his films, and was a contributing photographer for the iconic magazine, BigO. In 1987, he started his first band, The Ordinary People who released two albums, It’s A Weird Existence (1993) and When Stars Collide (2000). A year later, Yee formed acclaimed indie-rock band TypeWriter and released a double-album titled Indian Head Massage (2010). As an active performing singer-songwriter, Yee is also a certified member of COMPASS, with songs published by Warner/Chappell Singapore.
He is currently working on his feature film debut, Sunlight Takes Over, as well as TypeWriter’s next album release. If the power of love and heartbreak are to be found in a film or a song, you will definitely not miss them, the hallmarks in Yee’s signature style.
On that, you can bet your heart.