Pastry chef Janice Wong has designed an Egg Man T-shirt that she cheekily says might endow the wearer with “special powers”, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.
“My hope is when people wear the T-shirt, they feel like they have special powers and can do anything and everything,” says the owner of home-grown dessert restaurant 2am: dessertbar.
She is one of 10 designers from various disciplines, who have come together to create a range of T-shirts to raise funds for vulnerable migrant workers in Singapore during COVID-19.
The initiative is a collaboration between The Society of Interior Designers, Singapore (Sids) and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The society hopes to raise $38,000 through the sale of 1,000 T-shirts, priced at $38 each.
Proceeds from the T-shirt fund-raising campaign – called Operation De-Covid-19 – will go towards the Migrant Workers Assistance Fund, the humanitarian charity of the Migrant Workers’ Centre.
The other designers who contributed creatively to the initiative are Sids president Keat Ong, streetwear designers Andrew Loh and Kenny Lim, senior design director of National Parks Board (NParks) Damian Tang; Black Design creative director Jackson Tan, architects Look Boon Gee and Khairudin Saharom, multidisciplinary designer Kelley Cheng, industrial designer Kenny Hong and interior designer Peter Tay.
Project leader Ong says he was driven to spearhead the campaign out of concern for the welfare of foreign workers in Singapore facing restrictions during COVID-19.
“Foreign workers are an integral part of our workforce and society,” he says. “This is even more so for me as I’m working in the built-environment industry and we had and are still facing the detrimental effects of a workforce shortage.”
Read more here.
Source: The Straits Times, 29 August 2020