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Yanda

 

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Preston Tham

A project by Do Not Design   


 

Repositioning Singapore's oldest architecture school

 

Do Not Design was commissioned by National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture to design a new graphic identity to redefine a unified voice and look, reposition and reflect the research-intensive school’s creativity and modular organisation, enthusiasm as well as its mission of ‘Nurturing creative global designers and critical thinkers for the built environment to shape Asia’s future and the world.’

                                       

Anchored by ‘framed’ typography; the identity system is derived from the structure of scaffolding on buildings, and thus conveys the idea of education as a foundation. The Architectural/Guest Lecture series posters primarily highlight two key points—name of the architect and the date of the event. 

To have a better understanding, of the how the rebranding of NUS Architecture was faring, we went down to simulate being a student at the school. Based on the rule of eye-tracking, we realised several things— getting people to look twice at our posters was a challenge, considering the visual overload of information in an institution. Because no one would really stop to read our posters, the headers were designed to be intentionally   oversized, allowing viewers to capture the essence of each poster at a glance.

Anchored by ‘framed’ typography; the identity system is derived from the structure of scaffolding on buildings, and thus conveys the idea of education as a foundation. The Architectural/Guest Lecture series posters primarily highlight two key points—name of the architect and the date of the event. 


 
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Do Not Design for Archifest— reimagining Singapore's visual landscape for an architecture festival

Archifest

for Singapore Institute of Architects

Services

Festival Identity

Communication Strategy

Creative Direction

Design Direction

User Experience

User Interface

Website

Creative direction

Yanda

 

Design & Art direction

Yanda / Preston Tham

 

Website Design

Yanda / Damien Chong

 

Illustration

Preston Tham

 

Collaterals Photography

Anton Tang

 

Printing

Allegro Print

A project by Do Not Design   


 

Archifest is an annual festival open to the public to celebrate architecture and the built environment in Singapore. 

   
The Singapore Institute of Architects is a professional organisation established in 1963 with the objective to promote the architectural profession and the built environment in Singapore. 
 

Do Not Design was commissioned to design and strategy the campaign and marketing collaterals for Archifest 2017. This year’s theme ‘Building Agency’ emphasises the facilitating and building up of agency and citizen participation through architecture, questioning the relationship between people and the built environment.

In order to celebrate the festive spirit and going with the theme, we customise the logo by adding a black figuring to the supposingly empty (and cold) building. This further ties back and link to the particular year when the festival’s partners are using the customised logo.

                                       

 

Initiated by the Singapore Institute of Architects in 2007, Archifest is an annual festival for the city to celebrate architecture and the built environment. Celebrating its 10th edition this year, Archifest 2017 is curated by Eunice Seng and Koon to offer a platform for all walks of life to discuss, debate and deliberate architectural issues.

Held from 4 to 15 October with over 50 events in a span of 2 weeks, events involved includes curated exhibitions, talks, discussion panels, workshops to open houses, architectural trails and even a cake making session.

 
An expressive and familiar illustration style was developed based around the theme which serves as the campaign visual for this year’s identity. The campaign visual takes on a human-centric approach by examining buildings as everyday objects. Instead of a top-down approach where citizens rely on architects to construct a building, it should be a shared responsibility among both.
Collaboration with the festival partners was shown by encouraging and inviting them to create graphics based on the set direction which inlines with the festival's theme.
To encourage festival goers to attend all the events at Archifest, 30 different stamp designs were conceived to differentiate each individual event.
       

FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT

Alongside the identity, promotional newsprint is introduced. Engaging interviews and essays are set as the primary focus whereas essential information on various events can be found alongside those content.

       
       

Inspired by colours from David Hockney’s impressionism, it has been derived as expressive, distinctive and complimentary, yet still in the family of the corporate colour — orange. 

 

Photography by Anton Tang


 
Do Not Design 
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©2009—2022


 

Do Not Design 

Work with us — write to we@donotdesign.com

©2009—2021