Page 12 - NAFA Annual Report 2016/2017

Heartland Sketches I

The Heartland Sketches I project was initiated by Year 2 student You Siew Fong
and Toa Payoh East-Novena Community Arts and Culture Club (TEN CACC).
TEN CACC has always been interested in engaging resident artists to showcase
their talents and in bringing the arts closer to the community. Through this
collaboration, TEN CACC hopes that many residents will have the opportunity to
learn more about art and to create their own pieces.

The Grad Expectations and
Best of Best Show 2016

From 1 to 5 June 2016, NAFA’s School of Art & Design (SOAD) presented
its combined diploma and degree graduation show, The Grad Expectations
2016, at NAFA’s campuses and the Objectifs gallery. The exhibition
featured over 550 works created by students from the 3D Design, Design
& Media and Fine Art programmes. On 25 and 26 May, the Fashion Studies
programme held its combined diploma and degree graduation runway
shows and exhibitions. These showcased avant-garde and ready-to-wear
womenswear and menswear collections by students from the Diploma in
Fashion Design, Diploma in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing, Bachelor of
Arts (Hons) Fashion, and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fashion and Marketing courses.
The Best of Best Show 2016, held from 14 June to 17 July, showcased a curated
selection of ideas and works, by graduating cohorts from SOAD, showing
design thinking and artistic creativity at their best.

A Kaleidoscope of Spring at
Singapore Night Festival 2016

The theme for the ninth edition of the Singapore Night Festival, held during
the weekends from 19 to 27 August 2016, was Inventions and Innovation.
In this second collaboration with the Peranakan Museum, five students from
Diploma in Design (Landscape and Architecture), led by Senior 3D Design
Lecturer Shin Jung Hoon and Part-Time Lecturers Toh Yah Li and
Ong Sheng Hua, designed a variegated light installation inspired by
Peranakan motifs. This vibrant showcase allowed participants to manoeuvre
reflective panels to piece together a precious heritage and immerse
themselves in a colourful spring world created by light projections.

FurnitureORIGINS 2017

FurnitureORIGINS 2017 is the fourth consecutive collaboration between NAFA
students and students from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
(KMUTT) working together to create designs for a new furniture collection. This was
a unique learning exchange, which focused on developing design professionalism
and entrepreneurship skills and established a network between students from these
countries. This year, the students showcased their new collection Back to Basics
alongside collections from the previous collaborations. The students worked together with
Thai manufacturers Hawaii Thai and Deesawat, and were mentored by three established
designers Krit Phutpim and Pote Nilsa-ard from Thailand and George Soo from Singapore.
In this latest installation, a total of 16 students participated, eight of whom major in Furniture
and Spatial Design as part of NAFA’s 3D Design programme and another eight students who
major in Industrial Design and Interior Architecture at KMUTT’s School of Architecture and Design.
FurnitureORIGINS was part of a host of activities during Singapore Design Week 2017.