Design & Illustration Elective
Is the best elective in comparison to the other 2 free electives for DMC year 2 Students.
UCCD & TVSM students complain about theirs, dream about doing our work.
This elective, has sort of made me relive the times when I was younger. All the sketching, arts and crafts, playing around with colours and drawing. Bringing it all up to a higher level, seeing how our ideas can be developed. Working on a digital platform. The final piece of work I did was my sketchbook, a pity I forgot to take a picture of it before submission. It really brought me back when we used to cut and paste random pictures to form a collage.
One thing all our electives had, were field trips. UCCD had to go to a place of worship, TVSM had trips to a golf tourney, the indoor stadium. While we got to visit a real agency, the Singapore Design Festival exhibitions and the last one, the Singapore History Museum. All of which were totally fun and interesting, at least to me, I like to look at stuff, the way things are done, colours and texture.
Which I have never been to until that day. I thought I had been there before, turns out that was the Art’s Museum haha.
We had a terrific guide, who told us alot of facts of the structure and design of the museum at the start. Then as she progressed the significance of the building, certain designs like the coat of arms, why there were 50 window panel and that pineapples were a sign of wealth. Ms Nga pointed out that she told it to us in a sort of story like manner, which after looking back was kinda of true. It didn’t seem boring hearing all the facts because there was an underlying story beneath it all.
The winding staircase – leads up to extra storage area.
This is the balustrades, no idea how to pronounce it. There are only 2 like this in the world, this one and the one in London’s Royal Albert Hall.
The front of the Museum, contains alot of different architectural influence. I can’t fully remember all but the guide did mention that even though it had certain influence, the design was adapted to the climate. In sunny Singapore, the heat.
Just a random door which I like, very long and tall.
Swinging chandeliers, red in colour. There are 6 different swinging patterns in total, each lasting 6 minutes. Sadly I didn’t get a chance to see the ‘dragon’ one, which the guide mentioned really moved like one.
Yaohan bag – from the bags exhibition, pretty fascinating, the bags over the years. How they have changed from paper to plastic now. I was still very young when Yaohan was still around! so this bag was very nostalgic. 
Ice shaver
There was this wall, which had sort of like an LCD screen. It was supposed to tell the story of the building.
The Rotunda Dome – has 50 glass panels to represent the jubilee year of the Queen. 
From the new building, the black and grey colours were meant to show the excavation of the hill, along with the texture. Shows the ‘cutting’ into fort caning hill.
I guess this is the end for Design and Illustration. A great way to to end it of. No regrets taking it.
