Justin Zhuang is a Singapore-born writer and researcher with an interest in design, cities, culture, history, and media.
With its rectangular and pocket-friendly form, a matchbox reminds one of a popular contemporary object: the smartphone. Apart from physical…
I was taken on a tour of Singapore’s mass rapid transit system in early March to see its new signage…
Dots. Lines. Crosses. Boxes. They have popped up all across Singapore over the past few weeks. Plastered over furniture, floors,…
When graphic designer Indrek Sirkel first conceived Lugemik, he planned to translate and publish important texts about design and art…
Sometimes the best projects start on a whim. Just ask Singaporean graphic designer Darius Ou: his Autotypography project started six…
Two years into running his graphic design studio Liba, Aaron Wong hit rock bottom. “Business was so bad to the…
Around ten years ago, designer Dominic Hofstede witnessed the induction of veteran practitioners Alistair Morrison and Geoff Digby into the…
Over the last decade, some 20 titles have sprung up from Singapore, riding the wave of its cultural renaissance and…
Though the way Singaporean design studio Fellow describes itself on its website may beat around the bush a bit, the young practice…
Featuring virtual desktop windows, stickies, folder icons and even an open iCal calendar, the campaign collateral for this year’s Singapore…
What started ten years ago as drawing sessions for a group of illustrators in Singapore has grown into the inaugural Illustration…
When branding studio Somewhere Else was commissioned to transform Singapore’s oldest architecture journal into “the architect’s magazine,” there was one…
