When I came for the first time in Singapore last october, I discover the amazing BooksActually, the shop of Kenny Leck. Mixing all his passions in the same place, it is like a disneyland store for creative like me... books, magazine, vintage items... After my visit, Kenny contacted me as he want to have the Helvetica wood letters in his shop, we set up a real meeting this time... In fact we spend some hours together as we have so much to share... BOOKSACTUALLY is only the visible part of the iceberg, Kenny is also behind MATH PAPER PRESS, a small press publisher of poetry, novels, and essays & BIRDS & CO., the stationery brand. Ad to that the thousand of vintage and found items collected over the years, and you can imagine how passionate is this man !

Here come some images and yes, the Collection 3 of Helvetica wood letters is exclusively on sell at BooksActually !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow morning I will be in plane to Singapore... And I figure out I never present Yong / Somewhere else work. He was one of the first Singapore designers I met in October last year and I was happy to visit is office in december... We will see each other again this time, and here comes some shoots of his work I did last time we talked together...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to december 13th, after meeting Jonathan Yuen, I went to met Yah-Leng Yu & Arthur Chin, the creative minds behind Foreign Policy. I LOVE visiting creative studio (and, even if I already say this, I am really missing one now...). Thanks for the inspiration shoot, hope you will have one too after seeing this...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is a selection of their amazing work, mixing minimalism, texture & handmade...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check more projects in the full article.

 

 

 

Last month, I came back in Singapore for some days and took time to visit designers and creatives, again... Believe it or not, I met Jonathan in october, but do no figure out it was him... I understand he was the guy who share the office with Felix Ng and team when the cab took me back to Slint/Anonymous studio I visit back in october...

 

I remember to have print one of Jonathan work back in my design school years, a project he done about Hiroshima... I thought it was the work of a master designer, but no, it was just one of his school project that shown his talent... His illustrative web site show all his creativity... minimalist and powerfull... He is now set up his own studio under the Roots name... Some picture took in his office...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And these are a selection of his works...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.jonathanyuen.com / www.whererootsare.com