KL Design Week? More like KL Design Strong!

It’s all graphic design in KL Design Week but I went still. Sure, 3D animation and storytelling are my greatest passions in the creative arts but I have always had a soft spot for graphic design.

Just wanted to take a quick peek at this event and decided to just go for only one of their many open exhibitions. I picked the one in CapSquare as I’ve heard so much hype about the place, so I thought I should use this opportunity to check out the place as well.

At the small park beside CapSquare’s main complex are some creative works dedicated to the idea of recycling. Here artsy tents are placed amidst twenty plus mock trees which has bags (as in anti plastic bags bags) hung on its branches. Every bag has its own design.

Inside the main complex are 3 floors of various artists’ works. Apparently CapSquare does not have a real atria so the exhibition was placed around the central escalators instead.

Boxy Bats by Roomism.

Each one for Daim, Hazmer, and Dzaid. Hey how about me? No fair.

Ah never mind I’ll just take these two elegant damsels.

I have never heard of USM having an art school but just check out this work by a graduate theirs, Leong Eng Kit. It certainly proves that it’s a promising art school in the making.

Just next to this was an exhibit showcasing augmented reality work. Pictured in the badly taken photo above is Anwar, the head of the augmented reality development in USM. What is augmented reality about? Well to put it quite simply: the technology to see 3d rendered item as though they are placed right in front of you. So even if you move around the 3d item will shift correctly in perspective. You have to wear special glasses to see it work.

USM wasn’t the only one showcasing their graduates work. Here at the other end of the corner were some batik designs by Norhafiezzah, a graduate of Malaysia Institute of Art (MIA).

Of course The One Academy was here too. Oh wait did somebody scribbled MAD RULEZ in the corner there? Heh just kidding.

A blatant attempt at copying somebody else’s idea. But I won’t mention which college did this.

Hey check out the red dude getting struck by lightning.

Apples were blooming inside one exhibit. Konichiwa from Japan---the only foreign independent artist here. Unfortunately she’s not fluent in English and she barely understands what I say. There goes my opportunity to ask her about her obsession with apples. But she did give me this free postcard.

I wanted to take a photo of her with her work but she was too shy. That’s pretty impressive; she has only been here for several days and already she picked up a Malaysian trait.

Some architectural stuff going on as well.

Some are selling merchandise on the spot. The Genesis Culture seen here stood out for me. What it aims to do is promote the works of local illustration artists, including selling shirts of their artworks. The marketing guy there explains that these artists aren’t really design artists by career but have an uncanny skill in drawing. He then proceeded to ask me to support them by buying one of their T-shirt which costs RM50. I couldn’t bring myself to pay that much so I just smiled at him.

Malaysia certainly has some promising talents and hopefully we will be internationally recognised for our creativity one day. Went home to find the parking at CapSquare costing me RM4.00 for a stay of about 1 hour and 25 minutes, which was alright. That pretty much sums up my KL Design Week experience. Day experience. A day of the week experience. Never mind.