EIRIAN CHAPMAN FOR DESKTOP MAGAZINE
Eirian Chapman has quite possibly illustrated the hippity-hippest contributor portraits to hit Desktop magazine. Seriously, we feel like we’ve grown a Ned Kelly beard just looking at these people. Check out THE SOURCE.
Ian Stevenson
NAME: Ian Stevenson AGE: 34 WHAT YOU DO: Art WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE? London WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: Learn from people and then listen to yourself. TELL US ABOUT REALLY SHIT, WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND IT: I was invited by Dutch visual communications studio Trapped in Suburbia to put [...]
GAO YIQIANG
See below for a selection of interesting furniture concept designs from Beijing-based creative Gao Yiqiang. ING// KROS /// IN & OUT /// ADAM & EVE /// MING /// BIG EARS – DOG /// BIG EARS – RABBIT /// SPIDERMAN /// COUNTRYMAN /// CRACKING /// For more from Gao Yiqiang on NeochaEDGE, link here. For more product / [...]
BEIJING BASED TATTOO ARTIST JIE ZI
See below for a selection of unique ink work from beijing-based tattoo artist Jie Zi. We love these. Enjoy! For more tattoo / piercing work on NeochaEDGE, link here. /// TS
GANTZ5
Here’s some awesome work from Macau-based graffiti crew GANTZ5 which is teamed up with PAT IBG ,Kelvin MAN, MCZ. Enjoy! For more urban art from NeochaEDGE, link here.
FLEX – SINGAPORE
NAME: Chew Ming Wee ( Flex ) AGE: 24 WHAT YOU DO: i’m a video designer, so i basically do post pro stuffs like video editing and motion graphics etc, an on ocassions i shoot too. WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: i’m from malaysia and i live in singapore WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE [...]
MALAYA RONALD PASION – MANILA
NAME: malaya ronald pasion WHAT YOU DO: film maker, designer, events WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: manila WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: “options is to idenity. contrast is balannce. to experiment is texpand. live large by knowing your freedom” , ‘dwell on whatever inspires you” WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR THIS [...]
BRANDON TAY – SINGAPORE
NAME:BRANDON TAY AGE: 30 WHAT YOU DO: MEDIA ART, ANIMATION, PROJECTION ARCHITECTURE WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: SINGAPORE URL: www.brandontay.net WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: no compromises, no regrets WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR THIS PROJECT: directing a short film with william from Phunk, has been a long time since I’ve done something [...]
TENGAL
NAME: Tengal AGE: 25 WHAT YOU DO: Media artist, curator, and composer. WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Mandaluyong City: “sa labas” (translates as: “I live outside” — a long standing urban inside joke about people who live in Mandaluyong city, because this city is where the largest mental health hospice is located. So I always have [...]
WILLIAM CHAN – SINGAPORE
NAME: William Chan AGE: 37 WHAT YOU DO: I’m a creative director / film director / visual artist. WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Singapore URL: www.vimeo.com/williamchan & www.phunkstudio.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: Do what thou wilt. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR THIS PROJECT: Writing and directing. HOW DID YOU CONCEPTUALISE [...]
DARREN LEE – SINGAPORE
NAME: Darren Lee (Director – UNIFORM) AGE: 30 WHAT YOU DO: Director at a bespoke communications and branding house I started called UNIFORM. WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Singapore URL: http://www.theuniform.com.sg (we’re still processing this at the moment) WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: Coffee, Cinema, Craft, Communicate WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING [...]
LINDA HAO – SINGAPORE
NAME: Linda Hao Liyuan AGE: 21 WHAT YOU DO: full time fashion design student at Temasek Poly, designer, freelance model, half of Dj Duo TWOFACE (with Grace sunami) WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Born in Shanghai, China/resides in Singapore URL: www.lhlystore.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: Life is really short, you gotta [...]
JASMINE TUAN (BLACKMARKET) – SINGAPORE
NAME: jasmine tuan AGE: 333 (yes.333) WHAT YOU DO: i do retail therapy on a daily basis. looking out for good budding designers and stir up any positive movement. WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Singapore! Love to travel and never stay put. URL: www.theblackmarket.sg personal: jsmntuan.tumblr.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: If [...]
CHARLES REZANDI – JAKARTA
NAME: Charles Rezandi AGE: 25 WHAT YOU DO: Art and fashion director WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: born in Jakarta, but grew up in Sydney and living in Singapore URL: www.charlesrezandi.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: one word , karma WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR THIS PROJECT: director / art director for [...]
NINA NIKICIO – JAKARTA
NAME: Nina Karina Nikicio AGE: 26 WHAT YOU DO: Head of Designer and a Creative Director for Nikicio WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Jakarta URL: www.nikicio.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: try everything you can. be spontaneous. never be afraid. you only live once baby. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR THIS [...]
GIAN ROMANO – PHILIPPINES
NAME: Gian Romano AGE: 29 WHAT YOU DO: I make clothes WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Originally from Iligan city Philippines now in Malate Manila Philippines URL: www.gianromano.com WHAT’S YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE: There is worse pain than yours -Trent Reznor WHAT’S THE OVERALL FEEL AND DIRECTION DO YOU HAVE IN MIND [...]
TERENCE KOH: NIGHTMARE
I’ve personally always enjoyed looking at personal work, especially something as intimate as a sketchbook. Bearing the seeds of an artist’s thought process, sketchbooks give us a closer look into their minds and somehow fosters a closer relationship to that artist in a certain way. Nightmare is Terence Koh‘s entry for the Art House Co-op’s Sketchbook Project [...]
RACE: TICKLE ME LOGO AND SHINY DISCO WALLS
“Some more fun with kinect. Tickle-me-logo is a piece that lets users manipulate a logo by the movement of their hands/body. what they do is represented on screen so it seems as though they actually touch the logo. Shiny Disco Walls is manipulation of the point cloud projected on a wall. with proper calibration the [...]
I AM DAVID SPARKLE – SINGAPORE
One of the pioneers in the instrumental post-rock scene in Singapore, I Am David Sparkle takes its name from a tongue-in-cheek anglicisation of popular ’70s Malaysian disco king, M. Daud Kilau. Their music however, is an entirely different beast. Best recognised for their hypnotic, dark sounds falling into the categories of indie, shoegaze and post-rock, talent [...]
RACE – FLORIDA
NAME: Race Krehel AGE: 25 WHERE YOU FROM/LIVE Jacksonville, Florida aka Duval WHAT YOU DO Well I went to school for Visual Effects for movies. I moved out here after college and worked at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore for a bit over a year. Since then I have been working with some friends on events work [...]
KRISTAL MELSON – SINGAPORE
Name: Kristal Raelene Melson Age: 27 Where you from/ live: Singapore Pasir Ris, Land of Bicycles and Weirdos. What you do: I am a drawer. What’s your philosophy to life and how you live it? Lets do it for the LOLz Tell us about your art. I am really bad at explaining things, but I [...]
9 fountains
A brand new webstore that seeks to promote the local design community, 9 fountains gives designers the opportunity to submit their artwork to their monthly online t-shirt competitions which will then be voted on by the public. Once a design receives enough votes, the designer is awarded a cash prize as well as their designs [...]
DREWFUNK – MELBOURNE
NAME/ AKA : Drewfunk AGE: 27 WHERE YOU FROM/ LIVE: Born in Malaysia, currently living & painting in Melbourne. WHAT YOU DO: I’m a trained designer, self-taught Artist Tell us more about your art: Self titled my art-form as ‘Orientally Fresh!”, i paint my chinese culture heritage fuzed & mix with my background in graffiti [...]
JUPITER
AWE50ME members James Khing of Bangers and Mash (graphic designs) did a fantastic collaboration with Adrian Yeo of ktone.fm (music production), Clara Teo of Fakenylon(interactive) and Ryan Lee of Frommetofu (video) in the form of an interactive site, Jupiter. The inspiration of the artpiece is designing for, from and with music. It stemmed from James’ background in Zouk and LifeBrandz where he [...]
