My First Vaio
Shoot a video, and within 30 seconds, you’ll have to tell why you should win the VAIO, and then upload it to YouTube. More instructions at the website. Deadline due 15th January 2007.

Enter One Show
It’s here again, time to prove yourself worthy. The One Club is calling for submission from around the world, to take on the challenge to obtain the gold pencil, as it says “Many will try, few will suceed.”. Deadline 31 January 2007(Professional) and 21 February 2007 (College). Have a sneak peek at the past year winners.

Epica Awards
With the recent announcement on the 2006 award winners, the film category won by the infamous work, “Happiness Factory” from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam and crafted by PSYOP, while the submissions has rosen compared to the past years, as mentioned on the site. Results in PDF.

PhotographyCorner.com 2006 Photograph of the Year Contest
Rejoice photographers! There’s this call for entry from photographycorner.com which due 12 January 2007. Great prizes in there. There is an ongoing discussion inside their official forum. Read more on what you need to do.

The ESTINGS Competition 2007
The ESTINGS is calling for submission on a logo redesign which is due 17 March 2007. Winning the competition will entitled you to receive a commission from E4, to make a series of idents with a £15,000 budget. Two runners-up will each receive £1500 worth of kit of their choice. Instructions on how to enter is available at their website.

Fabrica : I’ve Been Waiting For You
A really cool exhibition that Fabrica held comprising various works done by the interactive artists inside. Description from the site “I’ve been waiting for you is a group show which features recent works in interactive media developed by artists at Fabrica.”

And if you want to have some quick fun, why not head over to Penang Hokkien. Thanks TeckYew.

The cool dudes over HueVisuaLab just launched their site back for your viewing pleasure.

And they also send over a cool Christmas greeting. Thanks Newbie!

With the recent trip down to Singapore for a design conference, I’m glad to have Eugene and Vince contributed some of the interesting picture they spotted on the way back to their hotel.

The first one is from one of the MRT station, which a campaign promoting the company stationery’s variety, vibrance of the colour. Pretty interesting to see they setup a walkthrough gallery of works from children that you can see works from the participant.

Another one come from neighbouring hotel that they stayed. Which it looks pretty interesting how creatively both of the cyber cafe attracts customer.

How are you there creative souls! Hope you had a great rest and break from the Christmas holidays, and there’s another one yet to come.
And a bit of off-topic from design/creative news but to inform you on the recent massive connection slowdown on our country. Actually it’s not only affecting us locally, but throughout the entire Asia, due to a massive earthquake at Taiwan, measured at 7.1 Richter scale. More news at here, here and here. Is it just another natural disaster or a warning is coming? What do you think? There’s even an ongoing discussion on possibility that the problem is tough to fix.

A quick snippet of how stop motion has no boundaries from How Advertising Spoiled Me. A very kewl creative advertising site to check on regularly.

Interesting building drawing from Scott Teplin.

Make way for great idea

Heavy Backpack has this great article for your evening read on how you could sometimes look back on a different perspective to improve yourself as a designer. Excepts from the article says “…you have to let go of the things …to make way for even greater achievements…”

Very good read. Thumbs up.

Phiak says Merry X’mas
Our local dude from phiak says Merry Christmas early.

Santa & His ReinDeer Classic
Cheer up your Merry X’mas with the ol’ Santa via Neatorama

REAL or ILM?
Are you sometimes confused in between reality and fantasy that the people from ILM created for movies? Now you can clear most of your doubts by paying a sweet visit to their minisite.

Super*Nature
Yeoh is a member of Hyperthesis Visual Lab, which is a New Zealand-based art group and mainly inspired from the nature. He is currently in Prague and going to hold an exhibition on his latest work known as Super*Nature. Opening on 4th January 2007, 6PM, it will be held from January 5th until 15th next year. More information on the exhibit at http://www.skolska28.cz/en/07/01yeoh-supernature.php.
In love with Aya Kato’s miraculous work.

BigSpaceShip says Merry Christmas
Send a love today.

Chill out with some songs from The Designer Mixtape. I’m still in awed by PingMag’s article on Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture. (Hey, they even mentioned that there will be one skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur will be Greeni-fied. Wonder which one would it be)

footprints
Was lurking around for interactive projects on the web and came across this awesome one that won Gold at MobileAsia this year. The project itself is an interactive mobile project initiated by Mark Argo and Ann Poochareon. How amazingly simple idea can spark such a great outcome.
“Footprints” is a work that celebrates mobility and diversity of the connected community through digital technologies. Feet are a symbol of being mobile. A self point-of-view portrait of one’s own feet indicates authorship and the ability to document one self at any time, any place — an ability afforded by the camera phone. Shoes, as fashion, are an indication of class, culture, and generations. The participatory aspect of the installation reveals a portrait of a community, visually representing the connection amongst ourselves made possible by the digital devices.

I’m sure that there is some of us fond of beautiful craft and carvings, but have you ever wonder, how artists would take it so far to carve…crayons?

Peter Goldlust’s Carved Crayons
Some very interesting portfolio you can find at his site there, that includes really beautiful wall drawings for installation.

Diem Chau Storytelling
Another worthy one to look into crayon carvings, simply stunning.
An YouTube alternative?

Inspire07
Motionographers rejoice, there’s this upcoming event catered specially for anyone that likes moving graphic, and wants to be inspired to. I guess if you’re able to afford, it’s one of a lifetime event that you’ll find it quite hard to miss, PYSOP, SHILO, Exopolis, Trollback+Co…what’s better than this?

http://www.playstationseason.com/
The PlayStation Season is a partnership between PlayStation and 5 international public arts institutions renowned for an innovative approach to arts programming – BALTIC, the V&A, ENO, Sadler’s Wells and the BFI. via motionographer. I’m in Love with VOLUME.

There will going to be another big design conference hitting the town early next year. January 2006.

BigBrosWorkshop once again announce that they’ll have MASSIVE TERRITORY coming up this 13th of January 2006 at Kuala Lumpur

More information can be found at http://www.massiveterritory.com/

Very cool lineup of speakers, and if you’ve missed the MIDI Conference early this year, you shouldn’t give yourself another excuse for not going there.

Niko Stumpo http://www.weareaiko.com/ / http://www.abnormalbehaviorchild.com/
Wieden+Kenedy Tokyo Lab http://www.wktokyolab.com
Chris Lee, Creative Director, The Asylum http://www.theasylum.com.sg
123Klan http://www.123klan.com
Kinetic (Singapore) http://www.kinetic.com.sg
Kustaa Saksi http://www.kustaasaksi.com
Joshua Davis (TBC) http://www.joshuadavis.com

Thanks Sweii!

One of our local designers, Luk, creator of Dweey, hit the spotlight with an interview from Nanyang.com.

Full article at : http://www.nanyang.com/index.php?ch=164&pg=757&ac=678314 (Chinese)

Rejoice Malaysian designers and artists,

There’s so much upcoming event, gotten the information from Doxob. Events such as Rantai Art and Music Reunion 4 due end of this year. That’s so much fun coming up.

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Coming up First is the Music Reunion IV coming this 31st of December 2006.

We have flea market selling nice designing TEE, CD and etc
(calling for flea market participant, email megancat@gmail.com)
we have band performance
we have DJ performance
and we have free beer for first 200 early bird!!!
at chinese assembly hall MCPA theater 31 DEC 2006

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Coming soon this 16-17th December 2006, is the RANTAI event!
Time : 10AM – 10PM
Date: 16 – 17 December 2006
Venue : Lost Generation Space, 11, Lorong Permai, Off Jalan Syed Putra, Robinson Height, K.L.
Contact : +6012 354 2681 / rantai.art@gmail.com / http://rantai-art.blogspot.com / http://www.myspace.com/rantai
RANTAi can be defined as a collaboration between young designers from all kinds of art genre. RANTAi symbolises that although there are a lot of art mediums and different ideas, they still connect with each other under one name, which is art. It also proves that art will always be in us whether we realised it or not. Therefore, RANTAi would want to give an opportunity for these fresh talents to show what they are capable of and to make them believe that they are all in one link, RANTAi.

Discussion : http://forum.doxob.com/viewtopic.php?t=4091