In this issue, we gather together some of our recent notable works, cumulated with sublime experiences and there's also first-hand whisky news from Shanghai to get the ball rolling. Celebrating the completion of these projects, we are still on adrenaline rush that can't seem to slow down after scurrying to meet deadlines. Till the next issue, au revoir!

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NEW PROJECTS

The Johnnie Walker House

The Johnnie Walker House - an experiential, interactive space created to host the most sophisticated ‘Whisky Conversations’. Housed in the 3-storey Sinan Mansion, located in the heart of Shanghai’s Central Business District, the space was conceived with the intent to engage and advocate loyalty amongst premium whisky drinkers. The concept incorporates the rich history of Johnnie Walker and whisky knowledge alongside essential elements and building blocks of whisky into the spatial design, using the 3-step approach to evangelism.

54th Venice Biennale

Commissioned by the National Arts Council, artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen has been selected to represent Singapore at the 54th Venice Biennale this year. His artwork, The Cloud of Unknowing, is an audio and visual installation piece sited in an old church, exploring the multiple roles of the cloud within art, “as an historical object, a representation of emptiness, as exercises for the imagination, as screens for projection.”

Ho’s exploration of the cloud is carried through with the accompanying catalogue and invite. The catalogue, meant to recreate the qualities of a cloud, features film stills of Ho’s current and past work and essays on a variety of translucent and lightweight paper stock finished with roughed edges. The invite, each assembled by hand, contains a crumpled book page as a reference to a scene in Ho’s film.

escentials

Breaking away from conventional cosmeceutical store, escentials’ 2nd concept store at Marina Bay Sands takes its inspiration from a woman’s New York apartment. Reflecting the persona of this modern woman, the shopping experience is re-imagined through the modern and fresh interior, imbued with warm and natural colours that soothe the mood. The full height centrepiece directly echoes the lifestyle of this lady, through the elements that were displayed alongside light birch floorings which adds warmth to the space.

Edited BLACK Comme des Garçons X Asylum

Edited BLACK Comme des Garçons and Asylum collaborated for the first time and launched a collection of limited edition tote bags and pin badges. Inspired by the naive nature within every child, the design direction of the tote bags revolves around 3 tenets - Black Bird Singing, Black Star Shining, Black Tree Growing. While they always fall asleep trusting that there will be the promise of tomorrow, such is the spirit that the designs hope to achieve with the graphics. An offbeat sense of optimism is also infused with the designs of the pin badges, incorporating images and drawings of hats, ribbons and hearts. Each pin badge is meant to lift the spirits while retaining the non-conformist attitude that is signature to BLACK Comme des Garçons.

Chocolate Research Facility - Spring/Summer 2011

Unveiling a range of cocktail inspired chocolate with flavours ranging from Tequila Sunrise and Whisky Rocks to mocktails like Shirley Temple and more, the new series celebrates conversations - absorbed in the obsessions, joys and addictions of life. Translating the theme, the packaging design documents the latter, with a range of beautiful cocktail stains with varied tinge of hues imprinted on clean white boxes that reflects the notion of glass stains left behind, interlaying on top of one another, like woven thread that magically bounds people at the bar.

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