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Shin Min Daily News: Singapore fashion showcased in South Korea

SGFASHIONNOW, a collaboration between LASALLE and the Asian Civilisations Museum, returned this year for its third and largest iteration in Busan and Seoul. This year’s exhibition travels to South Korea for the first time and showcases 27 local designers, bringing the creativity and diversity of Singapore’s contemporary fashion industry to a Korean audience.

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Lianhe Zaobao: LASALLE and SUTD teams come up with electric sports car with insect-inspired body shell

Using 3D printing technology and drawing inspiration from the biological structures and characteristics of insects, Tithonus is a revolutionary electric vehicle design developed from a collaboration between LASALLE's BA (Hons) Product Design programme and Singapore University of Technology and Design's Project EVAM (Electric Vehicle Additive Manufacturing).

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Channel NewsAsia: SUTD and LASALLE students team up to build electric vehicle from scratch

A collaboration between LASALLE College of the Arts and the Singapore University of Technology and Design is attempting to revolutionise electric vehicle design.

Combining engineering excellence and design innovation, this joint effort has produced a cutting-edge electric vehicle prototype, exhibited at LASALLE as part of Singapore Design Week 2023.

Watch the report here.

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The Business Times: Focus on continuity, more than change, in updated Singapore arts plan

Singapore is a highly planned society: from the economy, housing, urban space and transport, to even the arts and cultural sector. In 1989, the watershed report of the Advisory Council on Culture and Arts noted the potential of arts and culture to contribute to tourism and our economy.

Since then, the government has built infrastructure, set up funding schemes and established the statutory boards National Arts Council (NAC) and National Heritage Board to shepherd the development of the sector.

National Youth Film Awards
Best Director (Student Category)

Hein Htut
BA (Hons) Film, Class of 2024

Entry: Pho Tha (Grandfather’s Son) 

Best Sound (Student Category)

Niranjan Bennet
BA (Hons) Film, Class of 2023

Entry: Dragonflies 蜻蜓 

Best Cinematography (Student Category)

Winston Hong
BA (Hons) Film, Class of 2023

Entry: Dragonflies 蜻蜓 

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The Straits Times: LASALLE, NAFA arts educators in the spotlight

Three private art galleries at Tanjong Pagar Distripark ­— 39+ Art Space, Art Agenda and Gajah Gallery — are focusing on the practices of arts educators at LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).

39+ Art Space’s Thinking About Abstraction, Part I exhibition features five artists from LASALLE’s faculty, including senior fellow Milenko Prvacki and lecturer Jeremy Sharma.

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The Straits Times: We should look at every student differently, because every student grows differently

After spending five years as an art teacher in Marsiling Secondary School, Mr Muhamad Lokman Mohamad, 35, found himself back as a student in 2020 at LASALLE College of the Arts.

BA (Hons) Fine Arts alumnus Lokman speaks with The Straits Times’ student publication about his experience going back to school and how his time at LASALLE has shaped his approach as an educator.

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BERITAmediacorp: Two LASALLE College of the Arts graduates pursued their dreams to achieve a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree

After waiting for so long, 35-year-old Muhamad Lokman Mohammad's dream of getting a degree has finally come true.

He was among 832 LASALLE College of the Arts students who graduated this year.

Lokman received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Fine Arts.

The father of two children returned to school three years ago to pursue a dream he had been harbouring for a long time.