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.

Bright Lights At Midnight

Bright Lights At Midnight is an independent design studio established to provide design and visual communications solutions to clients from a wide range of industries - from business and corporate entities, to social networking communities, to entertainment and arts groups.

Yes, this delightful place also happens to be where I'm currently making magic daily. Aside from all designing, we're also working on some personal projects that we'll be announcing soon! Exciting times.

In the works are plans of a project of having design trips around Southeast Asia (Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia by this year) with collaboration with Kakireka. We'll be happily teasing you now till May when you come back to read about it.