Check out the Visual Communications End of Semester show, featuring Publication Design works by SADM students in the library from 26th November 2009 onwards!

Many traditional forms of Asia are most eloquently seen in the everyday pots used in different countries. Refined over thousands of years, journeying through material and functional evolutions, the everyday pot of Asia is simultaneously practical and common, philosophical and symbolic.

The lota and the kalash of India, the chanoyu tea kettles of Japan, Chinese ceramic pots of everyday use – all are objects of deep beauty: both outer and inner. Ceremonial, functional, sculptural, festive, sublime, mystical, symbolic: the everyday pot is a container of potential and possibilities – an envelope for fluidity.

This exhibition of selected pots from India, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Philippines, and Malaysia, will give the local and international design community a direct experience of the rich formal traditions of Asia.

This exhibition is jointly curated by Prof. Kirti Trivedi (of IDC, India) and Prof. Suresh Sethi (of ADM, NTU).

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In 1972, a year before his death in a plane crash at 35, the artist Robert Smithson wrote, “I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day.” And with the creation of his greatest work — “Spiral Jetty,” the huge counterclockwise curlicue of black basalt rock that juts into the Great Salt Lake in rural Utah — he certainly put that conviction to the test.

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NTU Library invites you to attend the following talk:

Supporting Faculty Knowledge Production
Challenges and opportunities for information professionals in a digitally connected work
Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director,
Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School

Wed 25 Nov 09 :: 10.30am :: LT5 :: NTU :: MAP

This talk looks at some of the primary shifts in digital scholarship and the related changes in the nature of the information profession. It highlights the challenges of being in a time of transition as well as the opportunities to create new services and products that bring significant value to our constituents. Mary Lee Kennedy will refer to the work at Harvard Business School, as well as related activities with colleagues in other institutions, including the new opportunity for a Global Knowledge Exchange via GKEN.

Mary Lee Kennedy is the Executive Director of Knowledge and Library Services at Harvard Business School. She is responsible for the School’s knowledge and information management strategy and its implementation. Prior to Harvard, Mary Lee held knowledge management positions with global responsibility for Microsoft Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Please register @ https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09111015555229.

A children’s book illustration from the early part of Andy Warhol’s career is to go on sale in New York next month.

The delicate drawings of four story book animals are expected to fetch $600 (£355) at auction on 9 December.

The US artist, who became famous for his pop art creations including silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, was a book illustrator from 1957-61.

At a recent sale of contemporary art, a Warhol print of a series of one dollar bills was sold for $43.8m (£26m).

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The dust has settled for Crowbar Awards 2009 on 28 August 2009. The winners have cheered and celebrated their wins.

The Crowbar Awards highlights the best emerging talent in creative communications and design in this region. There are 6 categories – advertising, design, interactive, photography, film and the Crowbar Challenge. The results were announced and awards presented on 28 August 2009.

NTU came in 3rd in the Top 10 school ranking after Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts. One NTU entry also bagged the Best of Advertising category.

The effect and celebration live on through the roving exhibition of the winning entries. From 11 November 2009 to 2 December 2009, a selection of the winning entries is on exhibition at the Asian Communication Resource Centre.

The librarians have also compiled a list of books on advertising. Most of these books are on display now and a pdf copy can be found at the ACRC blog.

FLIP-FLOPS//JOURNEYS//PERSPECTIVES
Michael Tan in collaboration with Caroline Knowles
An Art-Sociology Investigation

6 November 2009 — 21 March 2010. NUS Museum

OPENING: Friday 6th November 2009, 6 pm

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Migrant Ecologies Project | Lucy Davis
5-22 November. The Substation Gallery

OPENING:  Thursday 5th November 2009, 7.30 pm

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