Euro 2008 + design

A series of t-shirts has been designed for the nations who qualified for euro 2008 comissioned by NIKE. In my opinion they all look pretty, and I am sure most people would rather collect them and not wear em out cause they look just too good. Just check them out at Steve Rura to look at this pretty faces.

honda

The people at W+K London has done it yet again for HONDA. The campaign called "DIFFICULT IS WORTH DOING". The TV spot named JUMP amazed me the most, its just amazing how much effort and time they put into the whole shoot for the spot. From how they gather the parachuters to the camera crew for the whole production its just mind blowing.

The cinematography is great, I think it could well be compared to This is a big AD BY George Patterson Y&R and Fallon London's SONY Bravia Ads. Just to fill you guys in, this is also the same agency who did the Honda Car Symphony Advertisment.

So here enough of talking check it out yourself:

silenced by silnt

Have been browsing frequently on silnt.com a website by a local creative Felix Ng, who goes by his agency's name SILNT. The young art director is a graduate of Temasek Design School, pretty awesome work he has done.

Wait did I mention hes the same age as me…well he really put me to shame looking at the achievement's he has made to the local art scene.

He happens to be the dude who brought in and curated the much talked about art+design+sound show last year called THE DUAL CITY SESSION, if you haven heard of them then your really so so so not cool.

This year it started with a new destination in their tour which has just recently ended in BERLIN Germany, venue DMY Berlin. It is a show like no other. Yu can get to see Some of last years events highlight in SG and Tokyo via SILNT's Flickr.
Can't waiting for this year's event to happen during Design Festival 2008.




Some highlights of this years touring artist:
jpn;
artless + noiselessly
adapter + the samo
merry + reo sato
raku gaki + soothe
tycoon graphics + merce death(W+K Tokyo Digital Art Director)

sgd;
4femmes + fugu.san
djohan + fezz
phunkstudio + victor.low
silnt + muon
steve lawler + antigravitychocolate

I would say my favourite would go to muon and silnt...muon has really some good tunes coming up from them, very soothing and refreshing drumb and bass check them out at their official website MUON.

Silnt's latest project also included helping to revamp the cyber home of design firm EQUUS-design one of the biggest name in corporate design house in SG, where they sit alongside the likes of local annual report design firm EPIGRAM and the infamous Kinetic Interactive which is now known as Kinetic SINGAPORE. Well kudos for Felix Ng whose achievement's motivates me to press on and stretch on mine.

Dubai is really coming up slowly, where architecture of the 21st century is trully taking place in this country that is full of sand and sea. Dubai a state where it was once a small fishing city has slowly flourish into a city where it is trully modern and cosmopolitan, where wonderful architectures could be seen touching the skies. It all started with Burj Al Arab which was designed by UK disciplinary consultancy ATKINS. From there, everything started coming together and the latest one is out to challenge Sydney's opera house. Jorn Utzon a Dannish architect designed Sydney's opera house in 1937 at a time where it awkward shape was a eyesore to many, but look at it now almost a century later people celebrate the success of his design and with that Zaha Hadid came up with one of the most astonishing structures for Dubai's own Opera House and Cultural Center.


Exterior 3D view.


Interior View.

Interested in Dubai's Opera and Cultural Center read more at dezeen….

Well I guess I am more or less done with this rounds entry.

parting shots!!

Jumps, jumps and more jumps!!

Alrite this will probably be the last jump in NAFA's photography studio. This is like the last attempt for me to do something as crazy as this in school at my age…well I think I am still up to it!

Here are some of the photos that we have taken in the studio, alittle berzek but anyway still sane when we were doing the shoot!!

Talents: Gordon, Chris and Ashish(Crazy guy from India)









Well like all good entries we have to end it in a sensational way…or you might take it as being artisitic!! Hahaha…



Thanks for viewing!

DONE!!

I am done with the course but I am not feeling the exciment. Well maybe its due to finishing the course means back to reality time, but of cause I am glad that I finally got time to actually focus on my driving lesson which I had delayed like so so long. So well at the mean time it means sending out more resume to more prospectful employers. So for all you guys who are reading this and those know me, please pray for me and wish me luck.

There is so much to blog about man, this entry would be a long one man.

Read Jeff Ng's(STAPLE DESIGN) blog yesterday night, well some pretty neat stuff coming out from the dude from NYC. In case some of you might not know him, his name is pretty huge in New York's underground hip hop scene. A veteran designer himself, who is also the Creative Director of his own design house Staple design. Some of the big international clients that has engaged his services are NIKE international, Louis Vuitton, Zoo York, Uniqlo, Tokion Magazine and even Weiden & Kennedy just to name a few.

Jeff comes up with his own line of clothings which are always appealing to me at least, but sad thing is I haven got any since Jason sold away his store SKOOL. They most recently blasted a close door preview of their latest 08 Fall preview, with the likes of many well known artists and designers like Marley Mar the hip hop legend, John Jay Creative Director of W+K and many more check out his blog to view more of Staple design's fall collection.

Yea bottega has got kicks that are so similiar in design with Vans but very much much more comfortable. Bottega Venetta's products has always been so diserable with their elegantly waeves on their products perfect and meticulous finishings in their design.



well i will stop here for nw, cause the urge to go for an evening jog has kicked in again!!

a man of great words!!

A man that I come to know about recently Mr. Paul Arden has passed away recently!! He was one of the great men that I came to know about from friends. He was an ex-executive creative director of Saatchi Saatchi London, one of the most awarded and acclaimed agencies of the century. It was his books that was really inspiring to me, titled " WHATEVER YOU THINK, THINK THE OPPSITE" and I am thinking of getting my hands on his other best seller " IT'S NOT HOW GOOD YOUR ARE , IT'S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE."

The d&ad student awards judging has started, but I still haven got a reply from their admin dept on the status of my work has it even reached their office in London. There was so much uncertainty about the courier and payment portion that is getting me all so hysterical. Just read their blog last night, and a spokesperson mentioned that all shortlisted entry will be be informed next week!! I dun know my chances but still got to keep my fingers crossed. Wish me luck!!

all things beautiful

Tom Dixon has done it again!! Putting things together simple yet edgy. He is one of my favourite contemporary product designers. Here are some furnis from his latest collection, pretty mind blowing for me... Check it out:

Black Oat Armchair

Personally, I love all things black so naturally I would say this is pretty!!

Oak Armchair


Oak Bench


Images via: Dezeen



Another interesting news, alittle dated but still something to share...famous french product designer Philippe Starck(known for his series of furniture and GHOST CHAIR and iconic orange squasher) says he is retiring from designing see what hes got to say: DESIGN IS DEAD!

its paula!!

Back to back post…yea thats me!! I love to do things like that, when I don't write, I don't write and when I write cases like this happens Haha!!

Been looking at Pentagrams stuff for a long while, though they are not really "ADVERTISING AND DESIGN" related I still love the work that is coming out from all 5 office (New York, San Francisco, London, Austin and Berlin). They are made up of a large group of partners who manages and design…the design agency is made up of mainly Graphic designers, Architects and Industrial design(product design). They are really strong in North America and Europe! By the way they've got a new book called "BLACK BOOK", which is a compilation of over 400 projects of the years. It covers all aspects of design from architectural, branding, graphic design, interior design, product design, exhibition, packaging, publications, product design etc etc……you got to get the book to check it out for yourself if your a design junkie like me!!



My influences in designs: Paula Scher, Micheal Bierut and Abbot Miller all 3 of them hail from Pentagram's New York Office. All are great masteros in design!! Their work has always been a source of inspiration for my own…

A short interview of Paula Scher by Hillman Cutis Inc. :


Hillman Curtis Inc.

Worrying solves nothing!

Worrying indeed dosen't solve anyting…i find my entries title so true!! Well been looking at Stefan Sagmeister's new book titled: "Things that I have learned so far in life".





The maxims he has for each experience he encountered made me think a little more. Heres a video of what I have watched on Hillman Curtis the interactive mastero's website http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/fof/sagmeister08.php, it is a documentation of Sagmeister's latest exhibition at Deitch Project. The whole vid is very nicely shot…so even for you guys who don't do design or don't know him, heres the time to know this fella alittle better.

Maxims from his latest book see if they make senses to you…

1. Helping other people helps me.

2. Having guts always works out for me.

3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.

4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.

5. Being not truthful always works against me.

6. Everything I do always comes back to me.

7. Assuming is stifling.

8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.

10. Money does not make me happy.

11. My dreams have no meaning.

12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.

13. Trying to look good limits my life.

14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.

15. Worrying solves nothing.

16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

17. Everybody thinks they are right.

18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.

19. Low expectations are a good strategy.

20. Everybody who is honest is interesting

Busy and here we go again…

I have been so busy recently, everything seems to be piling! Don't seem to know why my projects aint moving at the rate I intended to! I struggled a little or maybe for quite abit, but at the end of the day I manage to tide the storm.

My Final Project is a killer, I have no idea how much work I am putting myself into, but I am really excited about how the outcome would look like. Personally I think I did enough research on my topic and hopefully it will all but reflected onto what I want to say. I feel at times I over think and thats the cause of many of my own downfalls, or to put it simply I am ambitious, where I pack too much of my thoughts and ideas together.

This question popped up on monday night while we were having our booze, chris kept saying I want to do advertising, but my question back to him was "What is Advertising".



While I was reading the book by Micheal Bierut on the 79 Essays of design, it wrote about what advertising design is about and its purpose of how it persuades its audience and to some large extend creating a false impression of how a product or service works , and a graphic designers like an artist creates a form as the canvas/medium to express and relay their messages.

So what is it different from doing graphic design and advertising and design, are we all not graphic designers or artist in a way!

Well I guess I will continue to search for an anwser for this question that I have!

no sweat

I had a sweaty day today…well I had my 1st annual IPPT(INDIVIDUAL PHYISCAL PROIFCIENCY TEST) at the old Police Academy with my new vocation the PNSmen Fitness Trainers.

Everything was going well for the other 4 stations where I attain maximum points, but what shattered my dreams of getting a gold for the first time in IPPT was my 2.4km run. I was so unmotivated by looking at the stadium lookalike tracks. But apart from that really disappointing run, I managed to break some of my own personal best, like my standing broad jump and also shutter run, where i got 239cm for standing broad jump and 9.8secs for my shutter run.

Anyway do away with all this rants i have, i finally cleared my IPPT for this FY and so again I will again wait for the FY's Annual IPPT again.

Cheers.

I am like so drunk again!!

Well I think I am like getting myself so drunk every week man!! Thats like so crazy, I know its not right but i guess its the only time u unwind urself, and this time i got myself drunk at loof (http://www.loof.com.sg/rooftopbar/).

Well just thought of hitting an entry... I am like really dead man, too much to drink!


Good nites.

What sort of a designer am I?

Yea that was the question pose to us by my lecturer Beng. Can you imagine, I have never given serious thoughts about it. Maybe I am just plain lazy or I just refuse to do any thinking.

But this question really started to bug me after this morning's tutorial. I think for this last semester, I have to really do some soul search and ask myself what is it that I really want to do and what sort of a designer am I? I hope I can decipher it and of cause from there progress further. Its always easier said then done…so I hope I am able to discover more as I go on…


Cheers

why is lorem ipsum so interesting?

Is it because it enlightens the job scope of all creatives? Or is it plainly because we are so lazy thats why we need it so often?

Maybe I have been working too hard on my Listening Vs Hearing Topic for the D&AD brief that I sort of screwed my mind, I am never a person who is interested in anything? Or maybe i Just exaggerated but well this is a blog and this is my space I can simply write and rant whatever I want! (*evil Grin*)

For those who are reading this entry and don't have a clue on what all this rant is about? Well Lorem Ipsum is a nicely laid dummy text, which is commonly used in Ad agency and graphic design house pretty it helps us as Art Directors and Graphic designer in coming up with SCAMMies(draft) for print advertisment's visuals.

But its only recently that I found beauty in this DUMMY TEXT which are so smartly put together the flow and etc etc…though it may look and sound latin but I personally think they are thrash language from another world. Well I think by now you guys must have realize what a fool I am!!!

Should anyone of you can decipher the passage's meaning or it does mean something. Don't hesitate to look for me where there is a reward awaiting. Well here it goes:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."


Back to work again!!

I am 25

Yea I am trully offically 25th nw!! I got to admit I am getting old now…But still many thanks to all those peeps out there who actually remembered me, love ya all cheers!

Actually I have been really busy with school work that I actually didn't really remember my birthday, maybe I felt that there wasn't any significance to this day anymore. But anyway this year was a real quiet one for me, where I celebrated with 2 buddies from school on Sunday and also not forgetting yesterday spending time with my really really old time buddy Mr. Chan and Ian. You guys RAWK!!

Been having many thoughts and I guess its natural for an aging man to do…think about stupid things!!

Was chatting to a very good friend back from Secondary school just then!
I just felt that I did really many bad and irresponsible things back then…and I think I let someone who was nice to me down, I felt really bad till now and I think I really have to take this opportunity to apologies to her.

I hope if your reading this post you will know who you are!!

I JUST WANNA SAY SORRY TO YOU!

Though I know you might not have taken it to heart or it maybe some insignificant event that happen, but I felt like a complete JERK.


Good Night!

project manifesto

Its a new year!! Which meant New Briefs, New Assigments and of course New Objectives for this semester. Its gona be a year of uncertainties again…and for awhile I thought I had pass this stage, oh well its back to haunt me again!

This is my 1st week back in school…and guess what I was excited about coming back to the studio, meeting up with classmates talking about life.

But we soon had to face the music, projects were heading our way again.

I guess this blog will be a place where i vent all my thoughts…

Everything look so different after I came back from UK, things work differently like everywhere yea I know I am only there for 3 months but still I felt the difference like the weather and the culture and like how fast of a pace the peeps at UK were moving compared to us in Singapore, that really got me interested in motion and movements…

Ermm maybe thats the subject that i will work on…

MOTION=MOVEMENT
or
MOVEMEMNT=MOTION

Is Motion a scentific term!
Is Movement an asthetic term!

What is Motion Graphic-----what is the relationship between motion and graphics!!


I got to get this above equation right first!! Been thinking about it since I came back, hope fully it would turn out to be the right subject to read on…if not you will see mince gordon!

Can this motion be something that help to synergise our earth's resource one day! All this sound so raw at the moment…whether anything will happen i would guess its for me to put on my thinking cap after 2 months of vacation and making it happen!!

I got a feeling i am gona be myself into a shoes of an explorer rather then a designer…

This will become a process diary for my journey into understanding this topic better… wish me luck!! Ahoy!