Singapore down below.

When we dropped down to Singapore a few months ago, we visited two amazing companies. The first we visited was Asylum at An Siang Hill, beautiful street with old preserved or renovated colonial architecture with pubs, old movie houses, bookshops, designer goods and of course Asylum. Asylum has been at the forefront of small leading design companies in Singapore with award winnings from all over the world, since opening its doors from 1999.

The interesting thing about the Asylum is the office is in the basement, with a very big reception area above which usually transforms itself into various different venues from restaurants, ice carving exhibitions to a design shop selling various local and international goods. Asylum has a refreshing array of work that is somewhat whimsical but also well conceptualize. Going beyond just the means of graphic and multimedia, they work themselves into designing spaces.

We'll be having more info on this place with the very overdue Singapore trip update.


We also had the pleasure of visiting another one of Singapore's leading design firms, the hybrid company Kinetic. Part of the mothership Adplanet, Kinetic appears to be an experimental lab from the advertising area. Having span a variety of work from musicians, furniture companies to real estate and Nike, Kinetic is an adaptable, innovative and has a somewhat playful approach to their work. Kinetic also has won various awards, and has some pet projects that is conscious of trying to aware the public of children abuse by creating books that potrays images and short stories that talk about this issue.

Andrew and the creative economy

If you missed British Council's shindig, last week where Andew Senior drop down to give a talk fear not! Do check out this week's dosage of the Fairly Current Show, as they invite Andew Senior, Head of the Creative Programming at British Council. He indulges us on the subject of creative economies in UK and other regions and further elaborated on how the industries can play a pivotal role in the economy.

Do check out http://creativeconomy.org.uk

more updates soon!