Our Guest Critics, Jemery Sun, Director of Orcadesign would like invite you to their latest  “make dreams” exhibition at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009.

As you may know, the Icsid Congress is a high-profile international event of the industrial design industry. The exhibition will be showcasing how design empowers our dreams and will take place at the Suntec Exhibition Hall from 24th to 27th of Nov.  For more information about orcadesign, please visit http://www.orcadesign.net/

Exhibition Opening
22 Nov 2009
5:00pm onwards
Open to public (Opening drinks kindly sponsored by Bombay Sapphire)
Free admission

Exhibition
22 – 29 Nov 2009
10:00am–7:00pm daily
Free admission
The City Hall, Level 4, Waiting Room 2

An exhibition which showcases the outcome of a workshop jointly held by the National University of Singapore and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI-Les Ateliers). The theme for the workshop was ‘water, its relationship to everyday life, the cultural aspects, and the challenges facing sustainable development’. The exhibition presents five different innovative concepts based on the following themes:• Conservation in conversation – how can we involve customers in saving water in a social dining environment?
• How can cities turn rain into a good opportunity through energy?
• Water power – taking a not-necessarily-ecological viewpoint?
• Can we control the dryness in homes by harvesting humidity or rainwater?
• Rain like you have never seen before

This exhibition is made possible with support of Region Ile de France and Embassy of France in Singapore.

What do you get when you release 15 accomplished industrial designers from their strict corporate guidelines; and give them permission to “design anything they want”?

To find out, visit the “Small Thoughts, Big Ideas” exhibition, held at The Arts House, from 20-29th November 2009 (Opening hours: 11am to 8pm daily). The exhibition showcases the broad range of work designed by these talented individuals, and is a fringe activity of the Icsid World Design Congress 2009, organised by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA).

Known as The Little Thoughts Group, the participating designers are practicing professionals, working for electronic, automotive, computer, furniture, sports and other companies – in Singapore as well as various parts of Asia. Their work is the expression of their different backgrounds and deeply personal perspectives. And the exhibition was conceptualized as a look into a designer’s mind when he’s not at his day job!

From electrical appliances to furniture; from decorative ornaments to fascinating gadgets, the work on display includes experimental installations and even ideas that never saw the light of day – concepts in the form of models, idea sketches and art-work.

Every design has an engaging story. Some are fascinating, some moving, some inspiring, some simply amusing. Come view the designs and discover the stories of how small thoughts grow into big ideas.

NUS ID Guest Critics, Lee Leong Chye, Jeremy Sun, Tan Lun Cheak and NUS ID graduate Lee Yun Qin will showcase their works in the exhibition. For more information, please visit the exhibition website: http://www.littlethoughts.org/index.html

“V for Vase” presents the processes and results of a workshop collaboration between Hans Tan Studio and the National University of Singapore Industrial Design Programme.

The “imaginative thinking” workshop directed by Hans Tan consists of a series of progressive exercises aimed at unraveling one’s imaginal thoughts and developing one’s lateral thinking abilities. “Vase” was chosen as the subject for the workshop where each of the 24 final year industrial design students apply aptitudes harnessed from the workshop to reconceptualize the notion of a ‘vase’ and develop a design proposition in the form of an object or an installation.

The exhibition reveals 24 conceptual vases and documents more than a hundred unique vase definitions developed during the workshop, which would prove more telling than that found in the dictionary – “An open container, usually used for holding flowers or for ornamentation.”

For more information about Hans Tan Studio, please visit: http://www.hanstan.net/

Visitor Information

Venue
Old City Hall Level 3 Courtroom 17
3 Saint Andrew’s Road
Singapore 178958

Opening hours
21 November Saturday to 29 November Sunday
11am – 7pm daily

Opening party
21 November Saturday
7pm – 9pm

Free Admission

The Old City Hall is located within a five minute walk from either Clarke Quay or City Hall MRT station.

NUS Design Incubation Center (DIC) will exhibit the second edition of its [Objects Around the Tablescape] collection at this year’s Maison et Objet, now! design a vivre.

Date
January 23 – 27, 2009

Location
Maison et Objet
now! design à vivre
International Home Design Exhibition
Paris-Nord Villepinte
Hall 7B, Stand M5
Paris, France

For more information about the DIC and this event, please visit http://www.designincubationcentre.com/index/

Hunn Wai, a NUS ID graduate,  will present a dining chair from the Tre di Una family of chairs and the WOOD X PLASTIC shelf at Design-e-space design/art gallery during the Architecture Biennale in Venice this year.
 

If you or your friends are in the area, do drop by and have a vino by the canals with Hunn and his design pieces! He will be contactable by info@hunnwai.com or the telephone numbers listed on the design-e-space website.  You can find Hunn’s work at http://www.hunnwai.com/