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After a hard week’s work, all the stress & mad rush, Fujiya & Miyagi’s gig was a fantastic reward. This year we had Múm, Broken Social Scene, the Bird and the Bee, and tons of other at the Mosaic Music Festival. I’m looking forward to next year’s lineup.

There’s tons of art exhibition and some travelling museum these days. But Karl Lagerfeld, the man behind Chanel, chose to bring the idea to a totally different level. A truely mobile exhibition, even the space is a piece of art itself. Karl Lagerfeld commissioned Zaha Hadid to design a mobile and collapsible container to house works from 20 brilliant artists around the world. This mothership had landed in Hong Kong, hopefully, more cities to go, so world can have a glimpse at this amazing mothership.

[Source: Chanel Mobile Muesum & Wallpaper ]
[Image from Wallpaper]

Keep it real – we are music lovers! Yes, this is what it’s all about: the music, the vibe, the people, the dance. We are back for more organic grooves (and lancing!) and playing what we love: funk and soul, electronica, indie, disco, afro, house classics, and whatever makes us feel alive.

No cover. Just great music and great food! And of ‘cos, cheap booze! All house pours at $7. Be there early! From 9pm till late.

Lineup
Kurt (Clash The Disko Kids)
Clara (how Me The Music)
Saiful (The Great Spy Experiment)
Ken (The Karl Maka)

21 Tanjong Pagar Road Sinagpore 088444.
www.tuckshop.com.sg

Singapore Design Festival kick starts this week. 53 exhibition and conference. 13 parties. With designers like KesselsKramer, Groovisions, Karim Rashid and many other renown designers from all over the globe. iSh has done up a quick guide to all the parties and events. Grab your off-iSh-al now!

In an exclusive Singapore debut, GROOVISIONS (GRV) is set to groove with its unique blend of full dimensional graphic designs. Enjoy the award winning motion graphics, innovative products and designs of one of Japan’s leading and most provocative design teams.

Based in Tokyo, GROOVISIONS will be making a rare international appearance in Singapore to share their expressive talents and display retroactive designs and products.

Meet the much-loved and much-talked about icon, CHAPPIE, the affable, multi-dimensional Japanese celebrity character, designed and talent managed by GROOVISIONS.

Exhibition starts 28 Nov to 6 Jan. Opens 1000-1800. Admission is free.

[Source: National Museum]

Utterubbish: A Collection of UseLess Ideas, an independently-curated design event will make its debut as the feature event of the Singapore Design Festival 2007 this November. Presented by DesignSingapore Council and produced by Utterubbish Pte Ltd and curated by Jackson Tan, Black Design, Utterubbish is a unique design event that presents ideas, works and exhibits by 30 leading international and local designers and creators unified in their exploration on how design can create value for individuals, society and the world, whether Social, Cultural, Emotional, Functional, Economic, Commercial or Intellectual. It fully integrates an exhibition, a conference, talks and workshops, a publication and a retail concept store to engage audiences as diverse as professional designers and design students to school students, community groups and families in presentations that dramatically highlight the role and direction design plays in creating a sustainable future. This landmark event runs from 28 November to 16 December 2007 at the historic City Hall of Singapore.

Jackson Tan, Curator and Creative Director of Utterubbish, stresses that “Many people still think of designers as only ‘brand names’ and that design is beyond the reach and involvement of the average individual. We want to show in a fun, witty and interactive way that everyone can understand and participate in the design process and how it can create value for ourselves, society and the world. We want to engage the audience in the design process and make design accessible to everyone. Anyone can come and look at the exhibits, interacting with designers at the conference, soaking in the experience at workshops, read design publications and even buy sustainable design products at the UseLess Shop. In my view, all this goes towards building and fostering design sensibilities and culture in Singapore.”

Utterubbish is founded on the basic premise that ‘less is more’, Utterubbish is a witty review of recycling, redemption and recourse through design. By transmuting the original meaning of “Useless” to “Use Less”, it demonstrates that what seems less sane can make more sense, less money can inspire more value, less machine means more human and less resources leads to more creativity. Over-arching themes include sustainable design and eco-design, design activism, a return to the promotion of craft and personal involvement and experience in the design process. The event also highlights how design can be intelligent, meaningful, useful and most of all, fun.

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Dual City Sessions is a platform for international collaboration and cross-pollination from the diverse creative disciplines. Its aim – to showcase the collaborative effort between two creative communities, bringing together emerging and innovative practitioners in the field of art, fashion, design and music.
DUAL CITY SESSIONS: NULL
Having exhibited throughout Japan in cities such as Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka and Nagoya. The first installment of Dual City Sessions marks the first overseas collaboration for null. This is the first time they are exhibiting out of Japan and also the first time it involves foreign artists.

The event will launch at DesignTide Tokyo on the 30th October – 4th November 2007 and will then travel back to Singapore Design Festival on the 28 November – 8th December 2007.
NULL
A conceptual unit by Japanese design studio, artless, “null” is also an Esoteric programming language designed to be zero- dimensional, and its Japanese pronunciation means both “paint” and “complete”.

null projects explore traditional Japanese aesthetics and graphic work dedicated to the idea that “- = +” (to subtract is to add).

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[Source: dualcitysessions.com]

For more details, visit http://www.theasylum.com.sg.

Bring your picnic mats and drinks! It’s Koop, Great Spy and Analog Girl!

Previously there was the mobile discos in shipping containers…
Now there’s popup nightclubs in Barcelona and Lisbon… I so wanna visit Kubik…

Designed by Berlin-based urban design agency ModulorBeat and light artist Andreas Barthelmes, Kubik is built from stacked, reused water tanks. Lighting in each cube is controlled separately, which makes for a spectacular backdrop that pulses to a DJ’s beats. Kubik operated a temporary club in Berlin last year and has now (wisely) relocated to warmer climes. Kubik Barcelona is located in two separate locations in the Parc del Fòrum: one venue is illuminated in green, the other in magenta. It won’t come as a surprise that Kubik Barcelona is sponsored by three beverage companies: Estrella Galicia (beer) Strongbow Gold (apple cider) and Burn (energy drink). Kubik’s 275 illuminated cubes house a bar and lounge from Sunday through Wednesday, and a club from Friday through Saturday.

Check out the videos:-

[Source: Springwise]