In FEMALE's July 2024 edition, graduates Sadiq Shah, Rynna Shazrina, Lucas Tan and Ponni Ashok speak about their final year projects, what they love about their disciplines and the lessons they have learned as young creatives.
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Times Higher Education: New arts university key to Singapore’s growing creative economy
The opening of Singapore’s new arts university is “powerfully symbolic” as the country attempts to shift away from focusing on academic achievements to embracing a more diverse range of skills, according to scholars.
D&AD Awards
Graphite Pencil
(New Blood Awards 2024 – Google Fonts & The Typographic Circle)
Ng Kai Yun, Li Xinci, Tan Lay Yen, Si Jiaqi
Diploma in Design for Communication and Experiences, Class of 2024
Entry: The Lost Stroke
Young Artist Award
Winner
Choy Ka Fai
Diploma in Multimedia Art (Video Art), Class of 2004
Image credits: Photo by Bernie Ng, courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Cultural Medallion
Berita Harian: LASALLE student produces fashion inspired by the environment
BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles graduate Rynna Shazrina believes that sustainable fashion should be a norm, and all designers should try their best to promote social, cultural and environmentally sustainable ideas and products.
For her graduation project, Tropical Threads, Rynna sought to push the boundaries of traditional upcycling norms, and deconstructed old fabrics and its threads to reconstruct them into new textiles.
Berita Harian: His father's bold fashion sense inspired his fashion collection
BA (Hons) Fashion Media and Industries graduate Syukri Gray Ahmad did not take long to think about the theme of his final year project.
Berita Harian: A digital fashion collection designed to reflect feelings, thoughts
Puteri Navet, who is graduating from the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles programme, believes that fashion is in her DNA, and knew she wanted to pursue fashion while staying on the business side of it.
In this Berita Harian article, Puteri speaks about how she overcame the challenge of not knowing the fundamentals of design when she started her programme, the inspiration behind her digital fashion collection and her hopes for the future.