DK just discovered Silnt, a really intriguing design studio in Singapore.
We corresponded wtih Singapore designer Felix Ng, one of the co-founders of Silnt, whose design for a film festival they’re organizing there really caught our eye.
Check out the website for the film festival. It’s beautiful. Nice to use. Lovely interface, and very appealing.
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Singapore film festival designer talks to DK
Written by March 3rd, 2010 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 CommentsHow four generations built a 90 years strong brand
Written by March 1st, 2010 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
Building a solid brand takes more than hiring a great designer. It takes more than just an owner’s blood, sweat and tears. And way more than just launching a spiffy online presence.
Brand building takes time. It takes attention. Constant revisiting, adjustment, and recalibration.
And, according to what I learned yesterday from a very successful camp’s […]
What isotopes can tell us about anxiety
Written by February 19th, 2010 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.1 CommentThis is going to reveal some nerdiness, but I can’t stop thinking about halflifes.
Remember high school science? Uranium? Isotopes? Radioactive decay?
Halflife: the time required for something to fall to half its initial value. In particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
I was thinking about how we get to our […]
The more things change
Written by January 20th, 2010 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 CommentsI went to Askew Taylor’s yesterday for the first time in 10 years.
Cluttered with art supplies of all size and variety, it was exactly how I remembered it.
Of course, being a decade older made me a lot less intimidated by the Artists who Shopped There, plus I got to strike up conversation with the owner, […]
2012 shoulda been Japanese
Written by January 15th, 2010 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
Crashing waves, overturned Navy ships and blinding volcanics rendered in computer graphics at last night’s viewing of 2012 weren’t impressive enough for Akira.
I guess Akira is the same as Akira.
Here’s our post-2012 discussion:
D: I was hoping after everything was kind of okay they would cut to a creative future scene. You know, to see how […]
A 28 second short for lovers of abstraction
Written by December 30th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
Adj. 1. Abstractionist — not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; “a large abstract painting” nonfigurative, nonobjective, abstract. Nonrepresentational — of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature.
Inspiration comes in a flash sometimes.
Midafternoon light in the Southeast is overwhelmingly fragile […]
Ode to the old standbys
Written by December 13th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsThis post is dedicated to The Regulator, my favorite bookstore in the Triangle.
“I’m so glad you’re still here,” I said, 18 years after first setting foot in the place.
“We’re glad we’re still here!” one of the two gray-haired gentlemen working the register volleyed.
I didn’t say anything about how I thought they had used […]
Graffiti artist gets show
Written by December 9th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.1 CommentFun article today in the New York Times about the graffiti artist BNE.
