A novel response by OFFCUT & Meantime to reduce paper waste by minimising actual offcuts in the book production of Meantime Issue #4.
Triangle Notepad:
With a tailored book dimension, this book corner was supposed to be trimmed and thrown away, but instead, we’ve turned it into a notepad.
This is OFFCUT’s 2nd collaboration with creatives, this time round a publisher! We truly enjoy the idea where the creator and producer come together to explore the possibilities of waste!
About OFFCUT
OFFCUT is an initiative by Allegro Print to reduce paper waste and repurpose waste paper from our print production process. Excess space within a print job is utilised to minimise actual offcuts in production, creating our own stationery designs. Inevitable paper waste is repurposed into refreshed stationery.
Through its own retail space, the ‘Paper Thrift Store’, OFFCUT is able to inspire and demonstrate that repurposed products can be affordable and thoughtfully designed without compromising quality. 😊 ♻️
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SEP 2018 THE PROBABILITY OF VERACITY PART 2: THE RE-ENACTMENTS (FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL) Lower Gallery Gilles Massot is a multidisciplinary artist whose project The Probability of Veracity is …
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SEP 2019 SILVER FILMS 2019 Cathay Cineplexes Silver Arts, an annual festival dedicated to celebrating seniors and creative ageing, and organised by the National Arts Council, returns for an eighth …
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Over 10 days in January 2022, 12,888 people attended Happy House at Tanjong Pagar Distripark for Singapore Art Week. Featuring multimedia experiential installations that combined creative outputs from artists as well as the public, Happy House invited visitors to consider whether there was happiness in their pursuit of it.
Co-curated and produced by the late Eileen Chan (Cats On Crack) and Tulika Ahuja (Mama Magnet), driven by a shared curiosity of Singapore’s complicated relationship with the H-word. Happy House called on the famous observational joke with its origins in the 90’s, that Singapore’s markers of happiness, often conflated with materialism, could be boiled down to a handy 5 Cs – Cash, Condo, Credit Card, Car, Country Club.
As part of the exhibition, visitors were asked to fill in ‘departure cards’ with what 5Cs they associated with their own happiness. The answers ranged from curry to car sex and everything in between. 1802 entries were received.
Is cash still king? Do condos and country clubs feed our soul any more?
Data has been cleaned, sorted and visualised with responses from 40 artists and designers. And ready for your eyes as Happy Hows!?
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Discover the ethereal beauty of artist Sookoon Ang’s sculptures in the form of beautiful posters and stickers that capture the poetic interplay of materiality and impermanence. Featuring striking images of her works, these prints transform sculptural presence into a two-dimensional realm, preserving their quiet, dreamlike resonance. Each sticker and poster invites contemplation of form, texture, and the liminality between physical and metaphysical space.
Perfect for collectors and admirers of Ang’s practice, these items offer a way to bring her evocative, thought-provoking aesthetic into your own space. More info about her work – https://www.sookoonang.com/
When you purchase a poster or sticker set, the proceeds will all go towards Objectifs’ developmental programmes! We wish to thank Sookoon for very generously offering all proceeds from the sale of these works to Objectifs.
Sculptures featured include:
About Sookoon Ang
Sookoon Ang is an artist living and working in Singapore and Paris. Underpinning her work is existential anxiety and the desire to represent the condition of flux and momentariness. Centring around intangibles and their co-existence with the rational world, Ang creates from a fundamental belief that there is no singular, objective reality and responses to the transient and imperfect nature of things, emotions and ideas.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Palais de Tokyo, Beijing Biennale, Art Basel Hong Kong, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, and Fribourg International Film Festival. The artist has also been awarded several international fellowships including the Freeman Fellowship and Asia-Pacific fellowship. The residencies Sookoon Ang has participated are the Rijksakademie, MASS MoCA and ISCP to name a few.
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Discover the ethereal beauty of artist Sookoon Ang’s sculptures in the form of a beautiful poster that captures the poetic interplay of materiality and impermanence. Featuring striking images of her works, these prints transform sculptural presence into a two-dimensional realm, preserving their quiet, dreamlike resonance, inviting a contemplation of form, texture, and the liminality between physical and metaphysical space.
Perfect for collectors and admirers of Ang’s practice, these items offer a way to bring her evocative, thought-provoking aesthetic into your own space. More info about her work – https://www.sookoonang.com/
When you purchase a poster or sticker set, the proceeds will all go towards Objectifs’ developmental programmes! We wish to thank Sookoon for very generously offering all proceeds from the sale of these works to Objectifs.
This poster features Sookoon Ang’s work SPECTRE, a sculpture set amidst the snow-laden landscapes of Aomori, Japan.
“Spectre is a work of free-standing, hollowed-out brass panels. At two meters in height, the towering shape is reminiscent of a monster or ghost, and its shining golden appearance feels mystical, like a god or an angel. White traces on the surface enhance the piece’s three-dimensional effect, and its gentle shape recalls the form of both a bedsheet ghost and the draping cloth worn by the Virgin Mary. However, the shape is, in fact, that of a hanging bathrobe.
The shape of draped fabrics, together with the sheen and texture of brass, evokes common imagery of angels or demons. Ang points out just how much we subconsciously rely on memory for perception without observing what actually lies right in front of us.” – Excerpt from Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
About Sookoon Ang
Sookoon Ang is an artist living and working in Singapore and Paris. Underpinning her work is existential anxiety and the desire to represent the condition of flux and momentariness. Centring around intangibles and their co-existence with the rational world, Ang creates from a fundamental belief that there is no singular, objective reality and responses to the transient and imperfect nature of things, emotions and ideas.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Palais de Tokyo, Beijing Biennale, Art Basel Hong Kong, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, and Fribourg International Film Festival. The artist has also been awarded several international fellowships including the Freeman Fellowship and Asia-Pacific fellowship. The residencies Sookoon Ang has participated are the Rijksakademie, MASS MoCA and ISCP to name a few.
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Discover the ethereal beauty of artist Sookoon Ang’s sculptures in the form of a beautiful poster that captures the poetic interplay of materiality and impermanence. Featuring striking images of her works, this print transform sculptural presence into a two-dimensional realm, preserving their quiet, dreamlike resonance. The poster invites contemplation of form, texture, and the liminality between physical and metaphysical space.
Perfect for collectors and admirers of Ang’s practice, these items offer a way to bring her evocative, thought-provoking aesthetic into your own space. More info about her work – https://www.sookoonang.com/
When you purchase a poster or sticker set, the proceeds will all go towards Objectifs’ developmental programmes! We wish to thank Sookoon for very generously offering all proceeds from the sale of these works to Objectifs.
Sculptures featured include:
About Sookoon Ang
Sookoon Ang is an artist living and working in Singapore and Paris. Underpinning her work is existential anxiety and the desire to represent the condition of flux and momentariness. Centring around intangibles and their co-existence with the rational world, Ang creates from a fundamental belief that there is no singular, objective reality and responses to the transient and imperfect nature of things, emotions and ideas.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Palais de Tokyo, Beijing Biennale, Art Basel Hong Kong, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, and Fribourg International Film Festival. The artist has also been awarded several international fellowships including the Freeman Fellowship and Asia-Pacific fellowship. The residencies Sookoon Ang has participated are the Rijksakademie, MASS MoCA and ISCP to name a few.
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White Lover is a photobook exploring the feeling of being in love. When you can hold a whole forest in your tiny hands, when all you see around you is nothing but snow and each other. Taken across a few winters, White Lover aims to deliver a whisper of sweet nothings that only you can hear.
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This zine is like a lyric booklet of sorts, but without any words. And the artist is not a person, but nature itself. Opening up to A3, the zine is folded in a way that lets you read it continuously, without end. Inside, you’ll find photographs of flowers I’ve come across on my walks around Singapore – each quietly existing, yet too striking to pass by without capturing as a memory for the road. Accompanying these photos are musical compositions composed, recorded, and notated by Eugene Soh (@_pandamachine).
Just as we often give our voices to things, both living and non-living, have you ever stopped to wonder what a flower’s voice would sound like? It soon became clear that whatever it may be, it would transcend words. This zine lends a voice to these flowers – listen to how this project imagines each of them might speak by scanning the QR code at the bottom, and/or reading the notations at the top. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to have fun navigating the zine and collapsing them however you like. Enjoy!
About Mingli
Mingli (Ming) is a multifaceted creative involved in many fields including writing, photography, and design. At her day job, she writes about Art and Culture under the global publication Time Out. Outside of that, her main passion is very much centered around books and the printed matter. Some of the books she has designed and worked on, both under the design house WORK and independently, are currently housed in the collections of National Gallery Singapore (Singapore), DAIKANYAMA T-SITE (Tokyo), Thing Books (Singapore), The Book Show (Singapore), Printed Matter (New York), Mulu Office, ss space space (Taipei), and TACO! (London).
Her works and explorations in the form of images, zines, books and whatnot, revolve around the documentations of people, memory, nature, objects, thoughts, and the heart of life at large.
Ming also runs Serious Books – a personal platform spotlighting art books that she has collected from around the world and their makers. Additionally, she co-runs Part Time Book Club, a community-driven program that aims to bring book lovers together to connect and share about books.
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When holding on to a memory dearly, we face the inevitable nature of the human brain, where lapses eventually happen. However, I don’t see them as a bad thing. Instead, I view them as invitations – empty spaces waiting to be filled with more colourful memories. For me, it’s the memory of when I moved to Tokyo, Japan, just for a short period of time. That chapter in my life is etched deeply into my soul, and as the details blur, I’m ready to fill these gaps – represented here as slices of colour within a cherished image of my memory – with new ones.
About Mingli
Mingli (Ming) is a multifaceted creative involved in many fields including writing, photography, and design. At her day job, she writes about Art and Culture under the global publication Time Out. Outside of that, her main passion is very much centered around books and the printed matter. Some of the books she has designed and worked on, both under the design house WORK and independently, are currently housed in the collections of National Gallery Singapore (Singapore), DAIKANYAMA T-SITE (Tokyo), Thing Books (Singapore), The Book Show (Singapore), Printed Matter (New York), Mulu Office, ss space space (Taipei), and TACO! (London).
Her works and explorations in the form of images, zines, books and whatnot, revolve around the documentations of people, memory, nature, objects, thoughts, and the heart of life at large.
Ming also runs Serious Books – a personal platform spotlighting art books that she has collected from around the world and their makers. Additionally, she co-runs Part Time Book Club, a community-driven program that aims to bring book lovers together to connect and share about books.
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