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/

23 November 2009 (Monday), 2pm at LR425

located on Level 4 of SDE 3, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

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.

This is the first TECHNIGROUP AWARD Design Competition launched by Technigourp.

The theme for this year competition is “Productive Workplace”. Since it was established in 1984, the products manufactured by Technigroup were developed in response to the changing needs of specific user groups. This underlies our philosophy – constantly striving to meet new and ever-increasing demands expected of office furniture.

The competition is opened to full time students from educational institutions in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, The Philippines and around the region.

Winning entries from NUS ID:

1st Prize: Arthur Lim

To design a set of furniture that harmonize and reflect the fusion of living and working in office spaces.

Special Mention Prize: Ang Weiquan

The Three is a series of modular low laying 3 –legged office tables specially designed for the new working population. This design allows people to rearrange their furniture in any manner they want based on the given amount of space.

Special Mention Prize: Chung Sui Fai, Cheng Siew Ming

We aim to bring along a playful and joyful atmosphere during the construction and utilization of the workspace. It comes as a modular unit which users can customize their own workspace, revealing a high level of versatility. The concept revolves around snap fitting between various parts, which makes it easy for building or dismantling and with which the elements on the workspace can be arranged according to one’s favor. In addition, besides using vibrant colors for parts of the modular unit to evoke a more pleasant workstation, there is the introducing of greenery in the office. Studies had been made that greenery is an important element that helps to contribute in improving work productivity. The greenery is placed at a prominent spot; on top of the panels.

For more information about the competition, please visit the competition website: http://www.technigroupaward.com/index.html