“Who [in this day and age] believes that the Hippocentaurus or the Chimaera ever existed? . . . The years obliterate the inventions of the imagination, but confirm the judgements of nature.” - Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2. 2 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.).

“The human form as a subject of celebration and beauty has...

Read more: Spotted! Bestiarum Vocabulum by Shi Chun

(from the press release)

Sew Searching is an exhibition about rejecting mass production. It features handmade plush toys and lifestyle products by local crafter, Sandy Ng of ‘Cookie Cutter’, and is curated by Yanda of ‘Do Not Design’.

In the face of cloned mails, machine regurgitated products and a prescribed route of convention, one treads a path...

Read more: Exhibition: Sew Searching

Our next creative takes you to dizzying heights. Introducing Bryant Lau Liang Cheng, a year 3 Architecture student at Singapore Polytechnic.

Bryant was named Emerging Designer of the year at the 2011 International Design Awards (IDA) with the featured project “Amalgamation”. The project was also shortlisted for the BE OPEN AWARDS International...

Read more: Spotted! Bryant Lau Liang Cheng

Tough Day At the Beach are Darrell a.k.a Quite Quiet and Sharon a.k.a Percy Plodand, and together they seem to be going for sun-soaked tunes, writing songs with intentionally meaningless lyrics and cool phrases.

You guys met online. How did that go?

Darrell: We met through MySpace and Facebook. We each had our own act, but pretty soon we just...

Read more: A Tough Day At The Beach with Sharon and Darrell

Comic Sans is a typeface that has inspired an actual palpable hatred. There are even groups dedicated to the removal of the font. Not so for Singapore based designer Tetuko “tukitoku” Hanggoro who makes the font look cool and sexy with his ‘I ain’t that bad’ project.

“A lot of people don’t like this...

Read more: Spotted! Tukitoku

Good start of another Culturepush year with this totally joyous and bright banner by Low Zirong.

A self-trained illustrator and animator, Low Zirong is a massive multi-talent within the Collateral Damage Studios doujin team. Manga, animation, you name it; he can do it and he has done it all. Eschewing an updated public portfolio, he works...

Read more: Banner Shuffle: Low Zirong

“An onerous exploration of the mind. Languid and religious. Guitars traverse the ambient atmospherics that uncover the veneers of human fortitude.”

Piblokto, a solo project by Alexius Cai, recorded mostly at home over a span of two years. The outcome is Colourless Fields, an album that reflects on the tenacity of human fortitude and the...

Read more: Colourless Fields by Alexius Cai

Image: Leanna Maksymiuk

Culturepush is now off for its holibobs.

Three cheers for the crazy-good creatives of 2012!

And to paraphrase Jimi Hendrix, we will go on and be crazy next year.

Craziness is like heaven....

Read more: See you in January!

(from the press release)

OH!, Singapore’s only art walkabout, makes a foray into the high powered boardrooms and offices of Marina Bay. Alan Oei, co-founder and curator, explains the shift away from housebased exhibitions: “I thought Marina Bay was all office, glass, steel and mirrors. But there is a secret and fascinating life beneath all that. In...

Read more: OH! 2013 The Happiness Index

Browsing though Jon Lim‘s work for the band For This Cycle offers insight into his talent for graphic design.

“Sometime after I finished my A levels, I realised that graphic design’s the only thing I see myself doing for the rest of my life. To quote Yann Martel, I had found an endeavour into which I was willing to pour all my...

Read more: Spotted! Jon Lim