Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most well-known artists in the world. Her artworks are easily identifiable with the repetitive dots and nets. This visual consistency that the artist possessed was said to be attributed to her motivation behind the creation of her work because she is able to assert complete creative control over her obsessions. In addition… Read more →
The way I created my manifesto is largely based on the idea of creating the art that you yourself like to see. I referenced this article on 5 ways to write your own artistic manifesto for productive results to work on my own manifesto. My thought process is mostly about how I would go about making art and why do… Read more →
For midterms, I decided to explore the style of Alfred Stieglitz. After the presentation on pictorial photography, I was very inspired by the set of photographs that Stieglitz created with his second wife, Georgia O’Keeffe as the main subject. I was very inspired by how he shot a series of portraiture that showed parts of her body instead of just… Read more →
‘Of wildflowers and pigeons’ This design is inspired by the wildflowers and pigeons that we commonly see along the streets of Singapore. They are so common that I think Singaporeans do not take particular notice of them so I wanted to create an aesthetic pattern inspired by the art nouveau style to bring out the beauty of these common subjects.… Read more →
‘Homes within home’ This composition that I have created was inspired by the flats you see around Singapore. The semicircles at the top and bottom join together to form a circle while I made use of squares and triangles to form the flats. I realised that the hierarchy of the shapes in the art pieces of the bauhaus movement is… Read more →
I believe that the history of design dates way back during the evolution of homo sapiens where carvings were found in caves. The neandethal rock art is one such example. Archeologists have found out that it is difficult to carve onto such rocks thus they believed that it might be an intentional act. However, it is debatable on whether this… Read more →
For this assignment, we are suppose to create a low fidelity model of a mobile phone dock with speakers. The sketch above is my ideation. I wanted to create a multi-purpose mobile phone dock instead of it just being a mobile phone dock only. From my sketch, you can see that my mobile dock has 3 layers and they are… Read more →
Finally I started on the content of my zine! After the consultation, I went back and think about what are the site specific elements that make up Kent Ridge Park. After looking through the photos that I’ve took so far and doing further research, the elements and the places that I’ve included in my zine are: Kent Ridge Pond (Cover… Read more →
