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An Open Letter to Professor Emeritus Tan Sr...

Jun 19, 2015Comments off

By Rachel Leow. First published in The Malaysian Insider, 15 April 2015. Dear Professor Khoo, You may not remember me and anyway, if you saw me today you probably wouldn’t recognise me. I was just a young student back

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Dossier: The State Of Design In Malaysia

Apr 09, 2015Comments off

The by-invitation roundtable discussion was chaired by Prof. Helmut Lueckenhausen and attended by board members of ico-D, Indigo Ambassadors, business and design educators, design associations and the executive committee members of wREGA. It is a discourse

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Apa Kata

Dec 29, 2014Comments off

Who builds the nation? We are often celebrating the iconic father figures of the nation: Bapa Kemerdekaan, Bapa Pembangunan, Bapa Pemodenan and so on. We read about them in our history books, and are reminded of

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CUTOUT magazine named best of Golden Pin De...

Dec 20, 2014Comments off

CUTOUT magazine among 21 innovative design projects named best of Golden Pin Design Award in 2014, puts Malaysia on the world map of design.

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Election Cereals

May 18, 2014Comments off

A pair of specially designed cereal boxes featuring the 2 main contenders for the highest office in Malaysia.

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PANGROK SULAP

Mar 23, 2014Comments off

Pangrok sulap merupakan sebuah kolektif yang berasal dari daerah Ranau di negeri Sabah.

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Women . Perempuan . Wanita

Mar 05, 2014Comments off

To celebrate IWD this year, Malaysia Design Archive has decided to create a new section entitled "Women" in its archive.

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Poster : Belajarlah! Pakailah! Sikho! Istem...

Feb 28, 2014Comments off

1940s poster in Chinese and Malay to persuade fellow Malayans to adopt the Japanese culture.

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Stamp: 1942 Japanese Occupation Stamp

Feb 28, 2014Comments off

To commemorate the birth of greater Japan. A series of stamps was produced in Malaya, with the underlying theme of "rebirth".

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Visibility as Power – Mascot, Logo, and I...

Feb 26, 2014Comments off

Competing Visibilities (Part 2): Visibility as Power – Mascot, Logo, and Installation By Tan Zi Hao, 2013 To make oneself apparent is to demonstrate one’s prospect of power. Even a suggestive appearance of power is greater