Here are some of the happenings of Apostrophe Cakap-Cakap held in Kota Kinabalu. For those who came, thank you very much for your support!

Kota Kinabalu, are you ready?!?

Hello everyone! I am helping out an event to be held soon in KK. It’s called Cakap-cakap.

Start being creative and come up with interesting and quirky captions and you might win a Sony Ericsson W910i mobile phone worth over RM1,500.

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All the participants of the Cakap-Cakap apostrophe programme need to do is fill up the empty speech bubbles on cartoons with the most amusing thoughts or musings.

“They hope that these comics provoke thought, laughter and nostalgia. Through them, we would like you to tell us about your own Malaysian moment. In the current landscape, Malaysian moments and stories have become so important in shaping our creative identity, why not do it with a bit fun?” -quoted from Aposthrophe

Each Apostrophe programme is supported by a series of Expression Sessions - these are workshops led by well-established practitioners in the arts industry to guide and encourage people to discover their creativity.

These sessions will be facilitated by professional writers of various disciplines and local creative workshop group Cloudbreak. Each interactive session will focus on the different facets of writing, be it playwriting, screenwriting, journalism or poetry.

Travelling Exhibition Calendar

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For more info, log onto www.apostrophegallery.com

See you guys there!

I always wondered, how does it feel jumping off a tall building, especially Yayasan Sabah.

Well, I am not going to try but, you guys sure would be thrilled because there will be a base jumping event on the 9th (Saturday) and 10th August 2008 (Sunday) and I hope you guys can come over and catch it!

A mini concert with O.A.G who gave us the hit ’60’s TV’ would be performing with local artistes, activities “FUNtastic EXPLORACE” with families, colouring competition for kids, XTREME GAMES activities like BMX and skateboarding for teenagers and loads of attractive prizes to be won!

Entrance is definately FREE!

For more info, visit: www.menarakl.com.my

I had to upload these designs I did for Fairuz Modelling Studio in December for a “Photogenic Model 2007″ at Atlantis Bistro, Waterfront, KK. Fairuz Modelling Studio approached me to design 5 streamers for their finalists and 1 banner for advertising purpose of the event.

The designs concepts were to represent the beauty and the colourful ethnicity of Photogenic Model 2007. I proposed and designed them with the following designs finalised. A fine shade of colours isn’t it?

(Click on designs for a better view!)

Mayuri House of Art and Learning is a new art school that is recently opened at Iramanis Centre, Jalan Kelombong, Kota Kinabalu. Mayuri House approached me to re-design the company logo, a new design for business cards, flyers for distribution and also a banner because they would be having a soft opening on the 2nd of March, 2008. First and foremost, the logo’s primary purpose was to act as an identifier for the art school.

The name “Mayuri” is a Hindi expression meaning “Peacock”. Some of the services they provide are lessons for oil pastel, pastel, water colour, oil painting, acrylic painting creative art projetcs; craft work,etc.. which offers children and also adults to enroll their quality art lessons.

Here are the samples of the designs - (click for a bigger view)

Business Card Design

Four main colours were used in the logo to represent a colourful vibrant image as a creative art school and colours green/ yellow/ blue/ red /black combination was the client’s preferred choice. The font used in the design is Garamond Premier Pro.

Flyer Design

Banner Design

Time was the essence for this project as we had 2 weeks to complete everything but the conclusion is Mayuri House was gladly satisfied with the designs and also the number of people that came for the soft opening after we did flyer distributions around targetted areas. I hope to upload more pictures of the opening event soon.

What do you think of the designs?

Deffjoint is a company whom supplies DJs around top clubs in Kota Kinabalu such as Bluenote, Cocoon and Shenanigans. I had the honour to design their logo, business card and also t-shirts to promote thier company.

I wanted to represent the logo with a DJ console look and a fresh look on the branding of the company image.

Here are a few ideas I had before finalising on the designs.(click on pic for a larger image)

Deffjoint logo

The finalised logo by the client is the top huge red mark which is more simplistic yet the image will achieve recognition
that is directly to the company services.

Personally, I prefer the top right logo symbol for my personal taste. Which logo is on your mind?

Deffjoint T shirts

After the logo is done, I had to design 3 sets of tshirts for the company which is the black and white ones and the red t-shirts are complimentary for the deejays which are coming down for our February event in Bluenote (click here for more info on..) All of the logo printed on the t-shirts are embossed.

Which would be your personal favourite? Tell me what you think.