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COMING SOON White: Around the Table Join us as we gather once again to unpack mental wellness in our private, social and civic lives

COMING SOON White: Around the Table Join us as we gather once again to unpack mental wellness in our private, social and civic lives

COMING SOON White: Around the Table Join us as we gather once again to unpack mental wellness in our private, social and civic lives

WHERE WERE YOU? NOW IN PRINT! Saga, our award-winning podcast, is a book! We worked with indie publisher @factionpress to turn our podcast about the AWARE Saga into a book, titled The Saga Podcast Transcripts: Fury, Faith and the Fight for Justice in the AWARE Saga. It goes on sale in bookstores across Singapore on 20 March 2026, but you can preorder your copy now at Faction’s site at https://www.faction.press/product-page/the-saga-podcast-transcripts Book details: · Written by Saga co-creators Kelly Leow and Jasmine Ng · Foreword by Professor Tommy Koh · Introduction by Saga host Bharati Jagdish · Includes transcripts of all 12 episodes of the podcast… · …plus some bonus features: photographs, AWARE Saga timeline and a ‘dramatis personae’ of the full cast of characters We’ve wanted to have Saga in print for a long time, both for posterity and to make the story of the AWARE Saga more accessible. If you’re a diehard, podcast-addicted, repeat-Saga-listener (you know who you are), the book makes a beautiful companion to the audio experience. And if podcasts aren’t your thing, you can finally enjoy this wild and wonderful tale—about the mysterious 2009 hijacking of AWARE by a shadowy group of strangers—on the page in a gorgeous, elegant package. The Saga Podcast Transcripts will be out in a limited print run, priced at $45 for paperback, and $12.99 for e-book. All net proceeds from book sales go to AWARE. Also, Faction Press is throwing a book launch! Come down to @bookbarsg at 3pm on Saturday, 28 March 2026. You’ll hear from Kelly, Jasmine, Bharati and other familiar Saga voices, and pick up copies of the book. See you there! Special thanks to design practice @swellsg and print house @allegro_print for helping us bring the podcast to page.

We’re proud to share that our co-founder @sngfelix has been selected as a judge for Typography at the D&AD Awards 2026. It’s the award that makes creative careers, and the ultimate standard of creative excellence. Be part of the community keeping creativity alive; enter D&AD Awards now: dandad.org/awards @d_and_ad #dandad26

D&AD Trend & Insight happens tomorrow 5 Feb 2026 at the National Design Centre Singapore, featuring an esteemed lineup of speakers @kotoko_koya @theseuschanwork @kelleycheng It is a real pleasure to help bring this sold out event to fruition. We designed the visuals as tribute to the marks left by the many hands behind the work. Co-hosted by @d_and_ad @lasallesingapore @lasalledesigncommunication

ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛ ᴛɪᴛʟᴇ: NUS Architecture Notebook ʏᴇᴀʀ: 2025 ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴᴇʀ: Benson & Felix (SWELL) ᴛᴇᴄʜɴɪᴄᴀʟ ʜɪɢʜʟɪɢʜᴛ: OTA Bind with endpaper paste down + Round corner 6mm – For this notebook, Benson and Felix, the designers from SWELL, tried adding extra scoring lines on the spine to see if it would help the book open with a rounded curve. It didn’t quite change the spine, but the lines ended up creating a subtle, elegant detail that gives the book a little extra character and texture. This project is all about those thoughtful touches that make each book feel special. From the choice of materials to small details like these spine lines, everything is designed to create a tactile, meaningful experience for the reader. We tested 0.073 pt lines—the thinnest the printer can handle—so the effect is delicate, almost like a whisper, but noticeable up close. It’s these little experiments and considered details that really bring the book to life.

🎉Very proud to have birthed our book “Performing Normal: Party Tricks for a New World” with our brilliant collaborators and contributors!🎉 Designed by @swellsg , edited by Xiangyun Lim @tweedlingdum our book features an essay by writer and researcher Kirin Heng @kirihang , alongside reflections by anthropologist/artist Jill J. Tan @jillj.tan artist Jiaqi Quek @jiaqiquek and art historian Dr. Minna Valjakka @snowcrystals99 who each attended a different iteration of “Care Index: Performing Normal” at the Singapore Art Museum. Co-created with artists Claire Teo @helloclaireteo , Germaine Goh @germaine.goh.355 Jaspreet Kaur Sekhon, Chong Li Chuan @chonglichuan Zhuo Zihao @zak_taku and myself, the series explores how embracing caring practices can serve as a transformative approach to challenging ableism and the pressure to conform to societal norms. This small book hosts a vast universe of approaches to how each of us can do so. A year of collaboration, creation and reflection is captured here, along with an index of ‘party tricks’ we’ve’ learned from embracing everyone as legitimate and full of potential. In times of “banned words” and politicising of identities, we find much urgency in circulating and deepening care practices that hold space for differences. The Digital Reader is accessible for free at @singaporeartmuseum Access Showcase 2025: common languages till Sun, 13 Apr at the Engine Room, Level 1 of the museum. Physical books available for sale at @objectifscentre 📸 All proceeds go back to @art.dis.singapore , a non-profit organisation that champions disabled artists and their art. Publishing is not for the faint-hearted, and the editorial and design team most certainly pulled a rabbit out of a hat! Our deepest gratitude to Art:Dis Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and @dancenucleus for supporting our work; Angela Tan and Charlene Haridas @__littlemoments for making this book possible. #careindex #performingnormal #disability

In Short, Future Now on a post super future asia … a poem by @jasewee @greyprojectssg Co-published by @rockbundartmuseum and @sternbergpress_official In Short, Future Now, is a publication of a long-form science-fiction poem that paints a picture of Asia as a place of flooded ruins, mobile islands, and a period of self-reflection and repair. In this design, we explore and challenge the conventional architecture of the design systems revolving the book. Expressing visually traveling pages and shifting spreads, tilted typesets and the performative aspects of a book.

In Short, Future Now on a post super future asia … a poem by @jasewee @greyprojectssg Co-published by @rockbundartmuseum and @sternbergpress_official In Short, Future Now, is a publication of a long-form science-fiction poem that paints a picture of Asia as a place of flooded ruins, mobile islands, and a period of self-reflection and repair. In this design, we explore and challenge the conventional architecture of the design systems revolving the book. Expressing visually traveling pages and shifting spreads, tilted typesets and the performative aspects of a book.

In Short, Future Now on a post super future asia … a poem by @jasewee @greyprojectssg Co-published by @rockbundartmuseum and @sternbergpress_official In Short, Future Now, is a publication of a long-form science-fiction poem that paints a picture of Asia as a place of flooded ruins, mobile islands, and a period of self-reflection and repair. In this design, we explore and challenge the conventional architecture of the design systems revolving the book. Expressing visually traveling pages and shifting spreads, tilted typesets and the performative aspects of a book.

For @orehuiying We Were Farmers, presented on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name @objectifscentre in 2021. Ore Huiying’s family have been farmers for generations, from the 1960s till 2020. We Were Farmers is the culmination of her 12-year personal project documenting their experience and resilience, and a commentary on changing agricultural practices and urban development in Singapore, through photography.