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Here’s some really pretty handmade pieces my local jewelry designer, Trixie Khong. Check out her website for more.

Uniqlo’s first store in Singapore is finally open! What’s ever better. This year’s UT collaboration list is even more exciting! With Miss Maki Nomiya (Pizzicato Five), PUFFY AMIYUMI, Creative Magazines Now (like Tokion) and of cos all time favourite record label, Modular People. Gotta start packing to make room for more tees!

Nooka released their new collection a while ago. From neon colors, camo, cocodile skin, gold to diamonds! These release also includes a full band model for ZUB. Price ranges from US$140 to US$3000 for the diamond!!!

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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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With Live Earth weekend just gone passed. Filling up the major cities stadiums will lights, music and garbage. And stuff like Anya Hindmarch’s “I’m not a plastic bag” shooting up to £200 on auction sites. This whole green campaign seems to be just another major “we’re green” propaganda.

Criticisms and media are all reporting on the green events, the bi-products (post-event garbage) to the unethical non-fair trade shopping bags. This whole “green” ideas had became a joke. Yes we all understand where the organisers are coming from but did they think hard enough? Or maybe it’s so well thought of, that it was planned for the media to come in and hype up on the whole idea thing all over again after the event.

Or is this whole “green” idea another product endorse ad? Are people doing all these really after the pure idea of being green? Or they just talking about it and seeming in it because it all seem so trendy and cool. And are people really going to use recyclable shopping bags or they’re just buying them for the sake of the brands?

Think.

Video from liveearth.org

A campaign by DDB Sydney for Sneaker Freaker 10.

[Source: HypeBeast]