The Singapore Spirit
Sep 21, 2020
3 minutes
Text Joseph Koh
Images courtesy of Design Within
Reach
Nathan Yong
Design
Images courtesy of Gabriel
Tan Studio
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Singapore’s product and industrial design scene has made great strides from the time the country was thrust into independence in 1965. In the formative years of nation building, design was an appendage to industrialisation, but the landscape has since transfigured, from local vanguards making waves overseas to Singapore’s induction into the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The city-state’s design industry may be considered young compared to its East Asian counterparts,
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