Merry Christmas & Happy New year with 2 design events kicking it off!

We, at defunk would love to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are sure some of you will be working overtime (all those last minute clients..), but hope you will enjoy the beginning of 2007! Don't forget to make and not break your new year resolutions :)


It seems we are in for a double treat in early Jan 2007 with two design events.

Massive Territory Design Conference will be held in both Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur 13th January) and Indonesia (Jarkata, 20th January) boasting an international lineup of designers from flash guru joshua davis (who brought us praystation), Kusta Saksi, Niko Stumpo a.k.a aeiko, refreshing Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo lab, 123klan, Kinetic Singapore and Chris Lee from the Asylum. There will obviously be workshops and activities for those who choose to go for the event and the venue of this event will be held at Saloma, very near Zouk KL.
Please visit the website here to gather more information on the price of tickets and agenda by speakers on that day.

Another smaller event held at galleriiizu called 'Digital Expression' An Art Exhibition will be taking places on the 13 - 30th December, make sure you come and check this out. There will be selected participating artist ranging from designers to neographers to photographers to sculptors.

Hopefully we these events will live up to their expectations and we can start the new year with a blast!

We've also secretly heard next year there are plans of massive rennovation at Central Market, as millions have been spent on it to turn it into the new local arts hub as well as a new shopping mall opening near asian heritage row boasting of a new design hub specially for designers! We frothing at our mouths waiting for the new year already, so mark your new diaries and we'll see you next year :)

Hue Visualab Showreel 2006

"A picture paints a thousand words, a moving picture paints a thousand more"

With statements like that how can you not love one of Malaysia's favorite motion graphic company? Hue Visualab. On the reels you can see snippets of their works from cool video clips like Love Me Butch Video Hollywood Holiday, Ahli Fiqr's Angguk- Angguk Geleng-Geleng to commercials for Microsoft, and Ritz Carlton.

The Designers Directory

We've finally launched theDesignersDirectory! Here are the first few places that we've discovered for you readers. Please do take a look and as mentioned much earlier we will provide the following:

The purpose of starting 'the designer's directory' is to benefit and aware all designers (and the public). The designer's directory will contain the following:

*A Photograph of the outlet
*Address
*Content of the outlet (list of products?, list of services?, etc)
*Contact number & contact person
*Transportation to get there

De-funk Day Out!: Galleriiizu

It's drizzling outside. Seated around a rectangular wood finished table and surrounded by arts, designs, and crafts were the owner of galleriiizue, Izuldin, Suzanne, Halim and ourselves. The mood was very relaxed, with warm coffee served with quirky anectdotes.

Accessibly located on the ground floor of Menara UOA, Jalan Pinang adjacent to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, the gallery has been at the forefront of showcasing local as well as foreign design talents in the city as seen at the Art4Soul's Man + God exhibition and talk, SA'L'E - Sunday Art Lelong event, and EX201 Experimental Exhibition.

The space, all 4000sq ft of it, features a centre foyour where they exhibit 3d objects like sculptures, light and furnitures from contemporary designers, the artists pillars which on the day displaying work by established local artists, a mini galleri just for students, young artists and experimental works and that gift shop that where they sell sell stuff like dolls, t-shirts, and postcards made by fimiliar local names like Art4Soul, Lucideas, and Territory.

Over Coffee

Izuldin himself speaks passionately and enthusiastically from his heart about what he had seen of design, from his travel, experience and as a person directly involved in providing the space for design in Malaysia.

"We have plenty of designers but there is lack of support from the corporate sectors, and at the end of the day because of this the designs will remain as personal consumption"

Citing Italy as a country where established names would patron smaller designers. He points out to the gallery gift shop and got off the chair and took a functional looking orange plastic casing made by a local designer to show it off proudly to us.

"You need to go to the next city, like Singapore or London if you could afford it, to see the massive potential that Malaysia has in design" he adds.


(from right) Izuldin, Suanne and Halim surrounded by arts, designs and crafts

Visit Malaysia 2007

As 2007 will be Visit Malaysia Year, it is precise that we should discuss on how it will affect, hopefully in a positive way the Malaysian design scene. Izuldin highlight that tourists would want to take home with them one-of-a-kind Malaysian memorabilia and designers should take advantage of what is projected to be RM 40 billion coming into the country.

Even our regional neighbours are ready to take advantage of this by selling souveniers of our country that are made across borders.

"Same, same, slightly different" quirks Izuldin which had all of us around the table in stitches.