Singapore Screening Spaces

Lost Screens & My Last Kacang Puteh

“Singapore Screening Spaces” is a documentation of archives and affection, charting a century of the city-state’s film exhibition spaces from 1896, when the first travelling cinema arrived, to 1992, when the first cineplex opened. The brief was to design a publication with a robust editorial system capable of carrying this long history, accommodating a dense collection of archival photographs, long-form essays, and infographic tables charting milestones in cinema history.

The cover presents a meticulously structured mosaic of archival imagery, using a grid of square tiles with cropped film posters, advertisements, typography, portraits, to reflect the fragmented yet interconnected histories of cinema in colonial Singapore. A robust editorial system is also designed for long-form essays, archival photographs and specimens of varying formats, and a timeline of key cinema milestones within a single coherent structure.

Creative Team
Creative Director : Melvin Tan
Graphic Designer(s) : Claire Boon
Lim Zeherng
Gerald Lai
Publisher : Pagesetters Services
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Heritage Business Scheme

Heritage Business Scheme

Heritage Business Scheme

National Heritage Board

The National Heritage Board’s SG Heritage Business Scheme is an initiative to celebrate and sustain the local establishments that preserve Singapore’s living heritage and remain committed to the survival of their craft. The brief was to devise an infographic brochure robust enough to showcase all 42 enterprises, organising them by product and service category while introducing local and foreign consumers to the brands that furnish everyday Singaporean life.

 

The concept extends the heritage business scheme’s existing emblem into a livery of woven coloured lines creating a fabric that represents the many cultures interlaced in Singapore’s local brands and products. From the cover, the vibrant lines unravel into braids that frame each page. Colour coding sorts the collection by district, placing each establishment where it is located. With a set of custom icons marks its trade the  reader navigates the 42 businesses by place and by product, a single woven field resolving into its distinct threads.
Heritage Business Scheme