REMEMBER TO TELL YOUR CHILDREN
FEATURING KEVIN TOO OF TELL YOUR CHILDREN CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/ARCADIAINMAYHEM KEVIN TOO OR BETTER yet known as Arcadia, is an illustrator who graduated from Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Design with a Diploma in Visual Communication. His influences vary from his present surroundings, feeding everything he experiences. Evidently, his works depict forms of...
FOREIGNER AT HOME
FEATURING MEI KIMURA CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/MKMR BEING HALF-JAPANESE, Mei Kimura was born and raised in Japan before coming to Singapore at age 18 to study graphic design at LASALLE College of the Arts. Despite having a visual arts background back in high school, Mei struggled during the beginning of her studies...
TAKE THINGS WITH A PINCH OF SALT
FEATURING EUGENE OF LESS THAN POSITIVE AND SUPERWHITE WEARESUPERWHITE.COMLESSTHANPOSITIVE.COM EUGENE IS THE FOUNDER of local start-up clothing brands, Less Than Positive and Superwhite. His design background stems from him being a communication design student from an Australian university. While he humbly professes that he was just an average student with...
LET’S GO ON AN ADVENTURE
FEATURING ELLA ZHENG BEHANCE.NET/ELLAISWEIRD ELLA ZHENG, WINNER of the LASALLE College of the Arts Faculty Awards for Academic Excellence, is one not to be missed. Not a stranger to the design scene, Ella has been heavily involved in graphic design projects, creating incredible vector illustrations, and exploring the hidden crevices...
THE SPATIAL INFLUX
FEATURING MELVIN TAN HTTP://BE.NET/MELVINTAN IMMENSELY INTRIGUED BY the 21st Century Internet culture, Melvin Tan humbly explores the use of sculpture, image, and editorial making in reaction to the questions he has pertaining to the issue. Recently graduated, Melvin intends to explore life as a graphic designer before dwelling into art...
AN ARCHITECT’S DILEMMA
FEATURING TAN WEI MING HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/TWMARCHI THE LIFE OF an architect is definitely not all work and no play. Apart from being an architecture student at the National University of Singapore, Tan Wei Ming has had many interesting endeavours in art with a distinction in the Chinese painting Category for the Dr...
THE NOCTURNAL ONES
FEATURING JACINTHA YAP HTTP://CARGOCOLLECTIVE.COM/JACINTHA DARK ELEGIES OF the night are just one of the aspects the influences Jacintha Yap on her journey in visual communications. Being a recent graduate of Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Design, Jacintha has already been able to exhibit at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences. Influenced...
WORK IN TRANSIT
FEATURING MR RAJ HTTP://WWW.MR-RAJ.COM/ BEING IN TRANSIT through the year is all part of the job to Raj, as he moves between London and Singapore to establish his own brand. It was pretty easy to see the excitement on his face as he talked about the future of Works by Raj; clearly his...
SECOND SKIN
FEATURING DOTTINGHILL WWW.DOTTINGHILL.COMWWW.FACEBOOK.COM/DOTTINGHILLINSTAGRAM.COM/DOTTINGHILL IT’S 2015 AND temporary tattoos are all the rage– popular fashion brands such as Topshop and Lovisa sell their own variants of this unique self-expression, coined as “skin art” or “skin accessories”. But before these giant chain stores came on the scene, local company Dottinghill was the...
I’M HOME (FOR NOW)
FEATURING ANDRÉ WEE HTTP://WWW.ANDRE-WEE.COM BEING AWAY FROM HOME allowed André Wee to hone his artistry at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. Currently based back home in Singapore, André has exhibited and held workshops in numerous places such as Galerie Sogan & Art, Archifest, and Roots, a homecoming exhibition...