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Ever quite recently, we took a bunch of our students on a college field-trip over to Petrosains KL. One couldn’t help but wonder why of all the places would we choose to go to Petrosains KL and well for starters, I hadn’t been there ever in my life. However, what made this trip fascinating was…
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Being part of a design school means creating studio experiences using methods practiced by the ones who coined the various art movements and periods. In this article, we briefly give you a gist of how we break students into the game of multidisciplinary studio practice!
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A visual journey of love and friendship represented through symbolic turns in life and the colors of one’s love story. Read about my experience in creating a visual tale for two of the closest friends who met by chance and fell in love.
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As the learning never stops growing, neither does the growing stop evolving. This year’s Muse Exhibition showcases an expression of their personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The art show features 28 ICAD staffs’ expression and experience that reflects on one of ICAD’s Manifestos while responding to current issues.
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Whoever said you cannot teach art in the form of distance learning; really needs to cut themselves some slack and get inspired by some of the internet trending challenges. Through the last couple of working-from-home weeks, there have been a least a dozen of ideas trending on my social media feed. However, the most popular…
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It is finally completed! But it has taken me more than a month to pen my thoughts down. Honestly, it was more of being busy in the real life with any bare time to sit down and share my experience. Nevertheless, since I am here I will also share on my currently work in progress!…
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First and foremost, I must admit that this art is going to me a while to conquer and master. Nevertheless, I told myself I am going to master it and I will. So moving forward, I am going to share the update on my previously completed clay works. They have all undergone their first firing…
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So moving forward from Lesson 1, I was now introduced to making my own clay glue which is called a slip. A gluey substance that allows you to glue your pieces together. In a way, it is similar to cement for clay. So another creation was made a forest themed vase. But this was only…
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Yes tis’ be true! One of the many traditional skills I’ve wanted to master above all is the art of pottery. And no, this has nothing to do with the classic wheel throwing scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. So after months of searching around, I finally found a quaint little place…
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So this time around, I decided to write about my trip to the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (www.iamm.org) and along with me I tagged my students along. For them, it was research, but for me it was looking at the same things but for a different perspective at the arts on display. There is always…
