Heading To Pung Gol

Back in the olden days, graphic designers manually adjusted kerning, which is the space between letters.
Kerning, done properly, is close to Godliness to some people. To others it’s invisible.
Basically the principle is this… if you take a word like “Kerning” as an example, some of the letters (the K and the r) have big gaps [...]

Superhero Supplies

It’s superhero week here on CreativeSpark, and a good bout of crime-fighting and do-gooding is made so much easier with the right gear. The Boston Superhero Supply Co. has you covered with an online catalogue thoughtfully sectioned for easy browsing into essential areas such as Capes, Secret Identities, Lairs, Lab Supplies and Invisibles.

Civilisation – Until You Try Hailing A Cab

Yesterday I hit the more gentile side of Shanghai… the M50 arts district and New Heights on the Bund.
Along Moganshan Road where M50 is, I managed to stop in at m97 Gallery who have been my penpals for quite some time. Well, not penpals exactly. They email me notices of their exhibitions and I read [...]

The Interlace at Gillman Heights

Isn’t this great? It hasn’t been built yet, but it’s an upcoming condominium in Singapore called The Interface, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
The stacking results in 8 interior courtyards and rooftop gardens for communal gatherings, encouraging residents to come out and play. It also harnesses the wind conditions in the area to channel breezes, [...]

Digital Burlesque

Products have life cycles, just like people. Not the individual products you buy in the shops and take home, although of course they have life cycles too (mine all tend to die the day after the warranty expires). Think bigger… entire categories, genres, industries. Some spread over generations, others are almost superseded by the time [...]

Design Management App

Trying to get your white space just right? There’s an app for that!
Head over to flickr to get lost for hours in lunchbreath’s photostream.

Alice In Wonderland Posters

All 120 Crayola Names (and how to build them)

Next time you’re in an argument with a kid over what a colour is called you can pull this up on your screen. It probably won’t make any difference to whether you win or lose the argument, but you’re an adult dammit, if your computer says it’s right, it must be so.
Complete with hex code [...]

Through The Mist

I don’t write about Spark Media Lab projects much here. I’m trying to maintain that carefree illusion that I’m independently wealthy and just flit around town taking photos and finding things to complain about.
But Spark’s extremely talented senior designer Liow Hon Sang played a backstage role in some success recently and I thought it was [...]

But You’ll Get Your Name In Print

A few years ago a local startup magazine contacted me to ask if I’d like to write a column for them. It was a nice enough magazine, actually probably nicer than most here, and I understood its market and what it was trying to do, so I said sure, I’d love to. When it came [...]