Design studio Forest and Whale has created Reuse, a food container made from an edible material that can be eaten or composted once the food is finished.
SINGAPORE - The coronavirus pandemic has forced designers, architects and business owners to go back to the drawing board and rethink the future of the workplace.
Last year, new normal was a term bandied about to address social distancing at the office, contactless technology and high-tech anti-microbial materials.
But this year, with the more virulent strains of Covid-19 sweeping across Asia, those initial solutions are not enough, say architects and designers.
Property owners across industries from banking to the services sector are coming up with more cost-effective and creative ways to redesign workplaces, factoring in uncertainties such as the community spread of virus mutations which could take longer to control.
“While single-use plastic containers are convenient and quick to get rid of, they leave a startling impact on the environment,” according to
Yanko Design. “Accounting for their low-recyclability rate, plastic takeout containers stick around for ages, running off into waterways and polluting the oceans, spreading toxins to wildlife, releasing harmful chemicals and gases into the air we breathe, and generally disrupting our waste management systems.”
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Before Covid, many tourists who visited our store appreciated the stories we tell as a brand, as well as the cultural elements and references that we put into our designs, and they wanted to have a part of it. So they purchased pieces they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else in the world and had them shipped home.
What have been some of your favourite collaborations and why?
We love all our collaborations because they allow us to gain perspectives on what designers deem as Asian culture and beauty. One of the highlights, however, was our 2018 collaboration with Forest & Whale on a brass Chinese chess set.
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It isn t everyday that you see folks hanging upside down in the middle of Orchard Road. Taking a page out of the trick-eye museum for sharable moments, Scotch whisky maker Auchentoshan, a brand under Beam Suntory, has launched a campaign to raise its brand awareness and reach out to the new generation of whisky drinkers in Singapore. Done in collaboration with its creative agency Bread Butter Bacon, the campaign by Auchentoshan is banking on assets that are made to be shared to educate consumers around its brand identity.
The campaign is currently running on YouTube pre-rolls, bus stop posters, billboards, a trick-eye installation at Cathay Cineleisure, and an activation along the Orchard Ion-Wisma Atria walkway. It is said to target young and trailblazing executives, who are not afraid to challenge the norm.