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

Click here for the press release statement.

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.

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.

This year the GO-FAR students visited Bangladesh for two week-long trips in July and September. Do drop by Asian Communication Resource Centre and Lee Wee Nam Library to visit their exhibition!

Join us for the talks held in conjunction with the e-Resource Fair on 12th & 13th Oct 2009!

Click on the respective schedules below to register for the talks.

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GraphicDesignBlog.com shares some of the attractive and creative package designs which tempt customers to purchase these grocery products not only for the product but for its enticing package designing as well.

	Successful food packaging designHargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2006. Call No: NC1002.P33H279S [check availability]
	Eat me : delicious, desirable, successful food packaging design Hargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2004. Call No: NC1002.P33H279 [check availability]
	Package design Savoir, Lou Andrea. Daab, 2008. Call No: TS195.4.P119PD [check availability]
	Packaging : design successful packaging for specific customer groupsStephenson, Keith. RotoVision, 2007. Call No: TS195.4.S836 [check availability]
	Packaging makeovers : graphic redesign for market changeKing-Gordon, Stacey. Page One Publishing, 2005. Call No: PN1993.8.U5G848 [check availability]
	Package form and design : encyclopedia of paper-folding designsPIE Books, c2007. Call No: Z261.P119 [check availability]
	What is packaging design? Calver, Giles. RotoVision, c2004. Call No: NC1002.P33C167 [check availability]

Join us for this informal sharing session as three of the volunteers involved in Project UnLibrary share their insights and perspectives about the design thinking behind the installation designs.

This sharing session is held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition of the UnLibrary installations at the Art, Design & Media Library and is jointly organised by NTU Library and the National Library Board.

About the speakers:

Ms Cheong Yian Ling graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Industrial Design from NUS in 2008 and was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal for being the top graduate. During the course of her studies, Yian Ling has received recognition in various competitions, including the Lite-On Award 2009, Core77 Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008, OSIM-NUS ‘Imagine Healthy Living 2010-2015’ and DELL-NUS ‘Integrating IT into Future Retail Spaces’. Upon graduation, she joined DIC as a design researcher, actively looking for new tools to facilitate all creative processes and design workshops in the centre.

Mr Qiu Wenhao graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 2006 and worked with DP Architects upon graduation.  Wenhao is currently with the National Parks Board promoting Skyrise Greenery in Singapore. His loyalty remains with architecture and believes that the creative processes of practicing architecture can be applied to a wide range of disciplines.

Mr Alvin Liau graduated with a Master of Architecture from NUS in 2007 and worked with Teh Joo Heng Architects for 2 years. Currently he is an architect associate with Surbana International Consultants.

For more information about Project UnLibrary, please click here.