Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
When is it really that designers feel they can have total freedom to create awesome work? Rarely.
With clients being in the picture, the design process is always dialogic; purposeful to the solving of a problem or challenge. How then, can designers create creative context for themselves? To showcase new ways that design can be relevant [...]
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William Chua better known as Xiaobaosg is freelance illustrator from Singapore.
Pictured on the landing page is Monster of the Year, an image done in collaboration with Chinese artist, Shadow Chen. The character is inspired by “Nian” ( which means “Year” in English ), a furious monster that lived in ancient times. Nian was born to [...]
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Song-Ming Ang makes art about music. For our new landing page, Song-Ming put together video screenshots of Michael Jackson fans.
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We are proud to feature Troy Chin on our landing page this month. Troy had been kind enough to specially create this particular piece for us.
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Transitions. Change. Progress.
With so much static noise around us, how do we find any kind of order or structure to guide the way we navigate ideas and images today? How would one go about claiming the use of cultural signifiers as if it was his/her birthright?
Perhaps we have come to a point of space-time compression [...]
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Our new landing page this month comes from Jonathan Han, a fresh grad from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design, who is currently working at R/GA in New York City.
He was kind enough to design a landing page that reflects his perception of what commonpeople is all about. Jonathan is [...]
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Our new landing page comes from comics artist, Koh Hong Teng. The subject of Hong Teng’s compositions is uniquely Singaporean, and focuses on the common landscape of Singapore by enhancing the scenes through highlighting the interesting features that are often unnoticed.
After a short stint as a graphic journalist with The New Paper, Hong Teng [...]
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The comics by Troy Chin are deeply psychological, and in many ways, can be seen as a cross sectional investigation into the mindset of the Singaporean psyche. Deciding to leave his job in the music business in New York and return home to Singapore, Troy’s comic strips are a way for him to seek personal [...]
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Typewriters, uniformed boiler suits, and pseudo political slogans. Painting kafka-esque visions of a Singapore that is seemingly Orwellian yet Utopian, grim yet humorous.
The only artist without prior portfolio selected to participate in the 2008 Singapore Biennale, Commonpeople kicks it with Rachel Goh to talk more about her works and the emotional conflicts behind the production [...]
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Commonpeople peer into the future with Fortune Cookie Projects, a curatorial and art advisory outfit run by Howard Rutkowski and Mary Dinaburg.
After a successful run of the Singapore Showcase art fair in 2008, they decided to set up base in Singapore, with a view to contributing to the context of experiencing art here.
In this interview [...]
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Whether filming the sunset and sunrise simultaneously, or immersing laboriously-made fiberglass-cast mountain landscapes in tanks shrouded in mist, Mariele Neudecker’s works reconstruct breathtaking physical landscapes within a gallery space.
In this interview, Neudecker elaborates on the line between the physical and metaphysical, on how the basic physical and chemical contents of the ‘tank pieces’ can amount [...]
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