Graffiti and street artwork is another form of artwork which expresses a message. Take a look at creative graffiti artworks compiled by Jacob Gube from SmashingMagazine.com, and view how messages are conveyed through street art.

Sending out resumes to potential employers for the creative jobs available? Check out these visually appealing & creative resumes collated by by Walter from WebDesignerDepot.com, which stands out from the rest will surely get the hirer to give a second look to the resumes.

Check out this cool and innovative stop motion animation video clip, created as part of a project by Bang-yao Liu from Savannah College of Art and Design. The video depicts use of post-it notes formanaging deadlines and how messy (or creative!) they could get.

The creator has also shared how he has created the video.

Call No.: DS79.76.A41 [check availability] Title / Director: Alive day memories [videorecording] : home from Iraq / Alpert, Jon.

This documentary film starts off stating that there are two birthdays that the soldiers from the Iraq War will never forget : their birthdays and their alive days - the day that they narrowly escaped death. James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) interviewed ten Iraq war veterans who were deployed during the Iraq war and returned injured and some of them with their limbs amputated. Some these veterans now have prosthetic arms and limbs & are facing post traumatic stress.

They share their experiences with him and their encounters with the attacks. It features the soldier’s pre-war lives and their lives that they are leading now. The film dwells into the physical and emotional effects that the war has caused for these soldiers. It was stated that the percentage of amputees returning from the Iraq war is the highest since the Civil War.

I always believe that both sides are affected by wars. Though this documentary focuses on the war effects from one side, it shows how some of these soldiers felt that they did not belong in the war and it was not their war. And others felt that they did what they had to, serving their country. The emotional part is when they were being asked about the future, some were confident and some have yet to overcome the traumatic stress.

The DVD is available in the Art, Design & Media Library. Please be forewarned that this documentary film contains harrowing footage of explosions & ambushes released by insurgents.

Check out this Zig Zag Chair that I came across in DeeplyMadlyLiving.com. The design was inspired from endless lines as it is seems to be hard to tell where the unique design ends and cozy furniture begins. The orange seat is actually made of aluminum alloy frame, covered with a thick supporting foam covering, so you will always feel comfortable while sitting on it!

You can get more information about the chair or even order it here!

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Twin brothers, Henry and Harry Zhuang , both second-year students in NTU’s School of Art, Design & Media, have bagged the gold award under the Digital Animation Category in 5th Safety@ Work Creative Awards 2009 for their entry of  stop-motion animation, entitled “Story About My Dad”. The animation deals with safety aspects in the workplace. The message was conveyed using paper-cut animation as a medium.

Two other digital animation submissions by ADM students, one by Fun Chun Hong and Derwin Silamaya Suhali, and the other by Goh Hui Ying, received commendation at the Awards Ceremony.

Click here to read more from the NTU’s news release.

Together Again (Wood: Cut) is the first part of ongoing research into stories of, and relationships between, wood and trees in the region, which are both explored as material, magic, metaphor, ecological resource and historical agent.

This exhibition features artworks by visual artist, Lucy Davis, an Assistant Professor from the School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University.

Lucy and her partner walked along the streets of Kampong Kapoor, Tekka and Pek Kio, collecting discarded wooden objects. Samples of these objects and others were sent for DNA testing, where the results indicated from which tree and which part of the region that the objects had migrated to this island.

Lucy then attempted to locate  living examples of these trees, though not always successfully and images of those trees, that have been assembled from fragments of prints from these found objects, have been featured in  Together Again (Wood: Cut).

The exhibition has been featured in The Straits Times Life! on 16th May 2009. Click here to view the article.

The exhibition is now on at the Post-Museum (107-109 Rowell Road, S208033), from 15th May to 28th May, open from 6pm to 10pm on weekdays & 12pm-10pm on weekends.

The vacation opening hours for Art, Design & Media Library will be:-

Mondays - Fridays: 8.30am - 5pm
(2nd May’09 - 8th Aug’09)

Click here for other NTU Libraries’ vacation opening hours.

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