Nao, Japanese artist based in London

This is a very original art work of Nao. He is a Japanese artist but he currently lives in London. He graduated in 2004 from Fukuoka Design School in Japan.

Crisis of credit: the video

I've seen lots of powerpoint presentation trying to explain what the credit crunch is. But this explanation is both interesting and well designed!



The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.



If you became a fan of pictograms of this video, you can even buy the crisis of credit tee-shirt:

The art project "cities of our world" starts with Singapore

During the art affair at Wessex, we met Patricia Cabaleiro de Meuser, an artist whose work impressed us. She collaborates with a german photographer Britta Hagemann and the result of our common work is a collage of photos, paintings and other materials. The two artists started a project called cities of our world. They are going to make series of images representing different cities in the world. The first serie starts with Singapore. The other coming cities are Zurich, London, Beijing.

Blue Jazz Cafe

You would have noticed that we like to hang out around arab street. And one of our favorite place to have drink, dinner or both in Singapore still remains Blu Jazz Cafe. This place is always a good alternative to the crazy but a little bit too sanitized Clark Quay's bars. We like meeting friends there, especially those who wants to walk off the beaten track.

Blu Jazz Cafe
11 Bali lane

Come-in: Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany

Artist at Come-in exhibition are asked the complex question : Where design ends and art begins? This international exhibitiaon initiated in Germany is presented with the partnership of the Goethe Institut in Singapore puts out a complex question and is promising.

Free admintion until April 12 at the national musem of art in Singapore.

Fabrikade: online t-shirt shop from Singapore

I found Fabrikade thanks to twitter. Indeed, this platform of microblogging can be useful.
Now, you don't need anymore to go to Haji Lane to buy t-shirts designed by talented and original artists. Fabrikade sells t-shirts but also bags and toys. The designers are mainly singaporeans but some overseas designers are also represented. I love this kind of initiative. If you know other good shop like this one, just leave a comment!

Grannys Day Out, vintage shop in Singapore

What a refreshing e-shop and blog...For once in my short stay in Singapore (7 months today) fashion is captured in a Singaporean environement. I must say I really love the series of pictures by Grannys day out obviously made in a very vintage singapore HDB, with amazing taste and imagination to make the best of the colors of our everyday life to give live to the clothes worn by the model.

Grannys Day Out is a vintage clothing ship in Peninsula Shopping Center Singapore.


We will soon gi check out the shop, and will let you know more about it.

Archan Nair : digital artist

I spotted this artist because he creates a beautiful ad for Tiger beer. No comment (in fact, yes you can leave comment of course!)
And I must admit that his portfolio is quite amazing. His bio is on his blog is a little bit short. You'll learn that Archan is 26 years-old and live in New Dehli!

An Arts Affair @ Wessex -sequel

Well, that was an interesting saturday afternoon. As mentioned in our previous post, we went to see the Wessex estate artists exposing in their houses/lofts/galeries.

First of all the place is amazing, secluded yet a few stations away form the city center. The Wessex Estate is coverd in wast lawns and tall trees hidding beautiful black and white houses where artist from all over the world live a create. We could enter the places and understand how they create and get to the final result.

Now, not everything was beautiful, but we have spotted great talented artists, already famous...or not.

Among the ones we met and really liked, Yougoslavian artist Milica, Brasilian artist Patricia Cabaleiro de Meuser and Singaporean Chye Lim.

French and Singapore museum partnership

It would be quite pretentious to think that the partnership signed between La reunion des musees nationaux and singapore art authority was influenced by French-blast...most unlikely. But at least there is a trend there :)

This cooperation patnership was signed between French Bernard Kouchner (who has been a little bit attacked this week if you follow the news) and Singaporean Georges Weo, both ministers of foreign affairs on January 20th. This partnerships aims at bringing to Singapore major exhibitions from Paris. Just to give you an idea, the current exhibits in Paris are: Picasso and the masters is finished last week, shortly to come is an exhibition of Andy Wharol.

This is a great news! I can't wait to have some of it here in Singapore, we'll keep you updated!

An Art Affair @ Wessex - Singapore

This event seems to be very interesting and is going to happen this coming WE.
You'll find us there on Saturday, for sure!


via Falling in love with Wessex

You are what you eat

I found it on Tasarim. If you guys can speak this language, can you tell me who is the photographer? I found the serie very great!

Totes awesome poster of Kevin Tong

We had already presented gig poster earlier on this blog. Kevin Tong realised other posters that we found very creative and beautiful: