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One year have already passed and IFFS 2014 is here once again! This year the trade fair is much smaller as compared to last year's trade fair. But.... the size do not matter as 2014's trade fair was much more better than 2013's trade fair. Based on the layout and design items that were exhibited there.
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| Designers Field |
Came across this booth, the Designers Field. Their booth had gotten bigger as compared to the past year in IFFS. Designers Field is a Thai/Danish company located in Bangkok.
They design, source and produce home interior- and furniture products.
I really love their products, especially those lightings and home decorative products.
I am sure you will love them as much as I do! Take a look at their product in the website,
Designers Field.
Designers Field.
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| Green Pavilion |
The Green Pavilion brings the attention to the concept of sustainability in the business environment, in the form of a “Garden”. It will be a key attraction to inspire and provoke the thinking process of moving towards sustainability in businesses.
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| Do you guys remember the winner for FDA2013? |
Here are the platform exhibition by some of the schools. Its much more interesting as compared to 2013's platform exhibition. Their spaces were much more open compared to the previous years allowing more products and furnitures to be placed in a tight space. I enjoyed walking around looking at what new upcoming designers have created as well as what might be the new furniture trends.
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| Lasalle |
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| Nanyang Polytechnic |
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| Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts |
And of course, our alumni school. Their concept this year was much more playful and brings back memories to the childhood times. I think the product students did a great job with their finishing as it was much better compared to last year's batch. Good job and keep it up!
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| Matter & Matter |
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| Studio248 |
Stepped into Studio248' booth, I was immediately attracted to the quirky and lovely products. Some of their items are also being sold by Air Division, like the shelf you saw in the picture above.
Take a look at the lamps hanging on the wall, it was i think casted in metal and the front cover can be easily removed by just pulling it off as they were attached on by magnets. So it will simply attach back firmly when you place it back. I called it the "Iron Man lamp". HAHAHA...
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| Golf Jakkapun Charinrattana |
Our most favorable piece in the booth was the Three-legged magazine table that can be
used as a side table as well. This really cute and unique piece that can be dismantled and flat
packed. Golf a humble designer from Thailand was the one who designed this magazine
table, you can view more of his designs at Golf-JC.
- Pickers
Labels: Award, Bench, Chairs, Craft, Design, Exhibition, fair, Furniture, Furniture Design Award, IFFS, new, photography, Platform, Product Design, Products, Singapore, store, street picks, Studentworks, Wood
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Last Friday night, was the opening night of After 2 +10, a yearly exhibition held by NAFA 3D department to showcase furnitures designed by students during their first year in furniture design and this year event happened to be the 10th anniversary of After 2. So in this year After 2, beside showing works that were done by apprentices of the department. Alumni from the past decade were also invited to display their works once more.
The exhibition was curated in such the current students' works are placed in front and the alumni in the back, it is like a time passage where the audiences get to walk through. Personally we quite like the overall atmosphere of the exhibition. It was quite welcoming, and relaxing. So we urge you readers to take some time to go down and have a look, to see how ideas and thoughts have crystallized into something real.
Don't let self-doubts make you forget how resourceful and resilient you can be. We all have bucket load of creativity within us.
The event is open until 4th of November 2013.
- By Pickers
Labels: After 2, after 2 + 10, Chairs, Design, Division of Industrial Design, Exhibition, Furniture, NAFA, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Product Design, Products, Singapore, Studentworks
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We would like to invite you to the official launch of "after2 – plus 10” a collection of object & furniture prototypes, organised by Department of 3D Design at NAFA Campus 1 @ Lim Hak Tai Gallery on Friday, 25th October 2013 at 6.30pm.
Official Launch
Date I Time Friday, 25th October 2013 at 6.30pm
Venue NAFA Campus 1 Lim Hak Tai Gallery @ 80 Bencoolen Street Singapore 189655
Exhibition dates 26 October – 4 November 2013
Time 12pm to 7pm
Admission Free
Year 2013 is an important milestone, for it marks the 10th Anniversary of this signature exhibition by our furniture design major students from Department of 3D Design at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. It is an unique exhibition that has 10 selected alumni from the past ten years and 19 current students – seniors and juniors come together in a reunion to showcase to you - after2 plus 10. You will see works from alumni that were manufactured for the market place and also works by the current 10th batch that are handcrafted by the students themselves in the workshops.
Date I Time Friday, 25th October 2013 at 6.30pm
Venue NAFA Campus 1 Lim Hak Tai Gallery @ 80 Bencoolen Street Singapore 189655
Exhibition dates 26 October – 4 November 2013
Time 12pm to 7pm
Admission Free
Year 2013 is an important milestone, for it marks the 10th Anniversary of this signature exhibition by our furniture design major students from Department of 3D Design at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. It is an unique exhibition that has 10 selected alumni from the past ten years and 19 current students – seniors and juniors come together in a reunion to showcase to you - after2 plus 10. You will see works from alumni that were manufactured for the market place and also works by the current 10th batch that are handcrafted by the students themselves in the workshops.
- Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Labels: After 2, Alumni, Exhibition, Furniture, idea, Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Product Design, Products, Singapore, Studentworks, Wood
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Bestowed with an Ipad, but we were unsure of its purpose. We were told to look out for barcode and have them scanned for something really special. So we thought it was like searching for Wally but it on a different level.
On the same day, which we went to 8Q to gather information on the plates, which we had posted awhile back, we went to NAFA first to visit an exhibition held by both the Design and Media Department and the 3D Department. It was an exhibition whereby I would describe it as “Art meet Science”. The artistic flair and finesse touch of graphic design cross with the logical and practicality of furniture making. So maybe that was why it was named Alchemy-ism, it required precise measurement, creativity and innovation to cook up a mysterious concoction like those works that were displayed.
When we were given a tour by one of the alchemist, we were awed by that the main part of the exhibition was actually behind the screen.
Ok, ok maybe I was too excited to describe that part but the screen was playing the introduction of what the whole exhibition was about. And it just ended abruptly with a girl running beyond the yonder and we were like what? But it was meant for us to continue with the rest of the girl’s journey.
(Caught us slightly off guard there!)
As we carried on with the journey, we started off with the "Science" part of the exhibition, works made by former apprentices who were still learning the craft of furniture making then. Though they were made years ago, the furnitures were still looking sturdy and fully functional and not to mention that they still look modern despite going through the passage of time.
The petal looking stool was the one that really caught my eye. It reminded me of the Butterfly Stool, by Sori Yanagi (1954-2011). Simple pieces of plywood manipulated to form something beautiful.
The end of "Science" part of the exhibition brought forth the "Art". We were given a treat of the endless ideas inside the mind of the digital alchemists. And also, we had unraveled the true purpose of the Ipad, the moment we scanned the barcode. A video suddenly appeared before us. It was pretty cool. Real high tech stuff there.
Further back in, was short clips and their story boards. Those clips was very interesting, especially the one with the golden gummy bear. And two others that were very deep and intense. They have won several acclaims from the prestigious crow bar award(if I have remembered correctly.)
Overall the entire exhibition was very good, interesting and well curated. Throughout there isn't any drop in climax, we were totally impressed till the very end. Very well worth of our time, and beside this isn't the first NAFA managed to do up something this interesting. Looking forward to their next exhibition in October. Good job NAFA!
- By Pickers
Labels: Alchemy-ism the Wonder Kid, Craft, Design, Exhibition, Furniture, graphic, Interior, NAFA, Product Design, Products, Singapore, Studentworks, Wood
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Last Thursday, we went to 100% design, Singapore. A small exhibition that was held at Marina Bay Sand, a fair for the tradesmen to widen their goods and for designers to expand their network. The first stop was The Makers' Marketplace, several artisans' objects were on display and was on sale as well, these objects were all delicately crafted with the utmost patience and respect for their craft. Though they were the first that we came across, we were also most fascinated by them.
(A few examples of what amazed during the fair.)
Further in, we had gotten a glimpse of the future of manufacturing, 3D printer. We were taken for a quick walkthrough about the different types of 3D printers that were available now in the market, 3 different types of 3D printers ranging from the powder based to thread based. They were able to make the most intricate of products such as figurines of all imaginations to engineer parts with micro-precision.
(Furniture ranges by Jarrod Lim)
Last on our trip was a range of furnitures by Jarrod Lim, a designer known to the local design scene. They were his latest range of furnitures that were to hit the scene. Fully practical yet comfortable to sit on. We quite enjoy sitting on all of them, especially the one with the red cushion. It was so nice that the moment we sat on it, our blood just stopped flowing down the our legs and we felt so relaxed immediately. We did not managed to speak to him, as he happened not to be around to find out more about his work, sorry readers.
These were the things that we wanted to share with you all cause we felt this were the one that caught our attention the most. So we hope you readers enjoyed reading it as much as those booth caught our attentions.
- Pickers
Labels: Design, Division of Industrial Design, Exhibition, Furniture
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Today was the starting of the exhibition The Weight of Blue by Outofstock X Freiherr vonPoschinger Glasmanufacktur, a 450-year old glass factory in Bavaria, Germany. The exhibition was held at The Workshop Gallery.
The exhibition is about a set of vases called 'Captured' in different shades of blue. How long does it take to master the color blue? Well, it took them about 25 years to master it...
The blue pigments are defined by their weight measured roughly by hand. Unlike having it in a specific shade of blue like pantone colors, these are all base of intuition, and all the vases would not turn out the same shade of color. The metal band around the vases were incorporated from outofstock's previous exhibition 'Living textures' last year. Mixing metal and glass together brings out a even balance between the hard and soft, as metal has that edge and glass seems very fragile.
The metal ring around the vases and the mold that was used to shape the vase.
The vases, though they may have the same size and shape, the glass thickness are different base on how much air was blown into the vase and how much crystal particles were used.
There were also some experimental pieces that used different texture cloths and shapes to come about. Experiments were about finding out if they were able to press shapes into glass with hands, which materials can stand the high temperatures and also trying to embalm wood in glass.
All the experimental pieces were unique in their shapes, size and forms. Some had the '
texture of the cloths that was used to form the glass, others had burnt branches in them. it was super unique and interesting!
We do suggest you drop by yourself to look at the vases. its an exhibition not to be missed!
Exhibition Info:
16 to 21 August 2013
12.00 noon to 7.00pm daily
The Workshop Gallery
179A Telok Ayer Street
Singapore 068627
Labels: Craft, Exhibition, Germany, Glass Blowing, Metal, Outofstock Design, Product Design, Singapore, The Workshop Gallery, Vases, Wood