The 5 Ballerinas

We are on our toes... Oh... what a joke! Hahaha...

Have you heard?

The case of "The five laughing toe ballerinas".

Akan datang. Watch this space:).

Is the death or rebirth of innovation upon us?

"The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -- the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -- are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy." (Edward Dahlberg)

This proclamation set me thinking. Are we setting ourselves up to be more innovative, or less? Perhaps, at this juncture, the willingness to think about it matters more than forcing an answer?

What's design about?

Content. Content. Content. (Overheard from Felix Soh)

Similarly, we say

Substance. Substance. Substance.

Partners. Fartners. Dartners. Bartners. Kartners. Wartners & Tartners.

When we said goodbye, we become dartners -- ie, ex-partners. Dartners automatically qualify to be the object of legal action, the cause of anything and everything bad. Whether there is any basis for action, is considered a separate matter.

When we say we can make waves together, we extend our life as partners. Now that we can hear some sweet sounds of success, we are becoming bartners.

Meanwhile, it appears our dear ex-partners are still bidding farewell to whom they had called their very own. We call this the exodus of the kartners. What're left in the end might just be a tray of wartners and tartners.

Keeping things simple and sweet, we are just glad to be bartners.

Design

Things that we do everyday.

Sneak Peek

TL in 360 (words)

Someone said: “Hey TL, forget your decade in the financial sector, your MBA, or your training experience. No one bothers that you set up one of the first hedge funds in Singapore.”

“It does not matter that you then built a graphic design team that billed more than $5 million of design communications work in three years – your first real three years in this line – or that some of the work was award-winning.”

“Neither do they give a hoot that you left an IPO aspirant as second-in-command and equity partner to start everything from scratch.”

“But if you mean to be a good Christian and marcom pro, you jolly well not short-change your clients. They can sniff you up miles away.”

Well, I think everything happens for a good reason since everything is God's work. So I am not going to think too much of my receding hairline. I shall just think of it as gaining face. And I am not over-weight; just under-height. (A little equanimity goes a long way for me).

What I remain quite uptight over, yet, are my family, team members, friends and clients. They have stuck by me through thick and thin. For this, I dedicate my night-scare and solitary prayer to them.

[A night-scare]: The bridge catches fire on both ends
I found the five of us on a bridge that caught fire on both ends. Behind us was a raging cauldron of hellfire, threatening to engulf us. Ahead of us was a freshly lit torch flittering obstinately amidst icy winds. To falter meant to fall into inexorable physical and spiritual deaths.“Let the winds be. Stay. Don't stray”. Came a calm voice. And so we leaped -- all five of us – forward, towards the torch.
　
[Solitary prayer]: Take stock
I prayed

For the will to take stock
The courage to accept what God will
The faith to carry on

God is great
Working in amazing ways
Answering my prayers
Giving me grace

To face the thorns
And hold the rose

The life of forgiveness
The story of love

The love of God

.....

We live to tell the tale of A Splash Concoction.

What's in a splash concoction?

Everything happens for a reason. This is especially true in design communications. A heady mix of art and alchemy, topped with a potent dash of insight and service, is what defines the creative team at Splash.

We do not aim to please or impress for its mere sake. We are just set on delivering the goods -- your design needs -- the good old fashioned way: on time, on target; in fine taste. Some things -- the absolute good -- do not change.

Yet, other things do. Like the interplay of ideas, concept, visuals, production and delivery across space. The way target audiences react to trends and fads over time. Perhaps even the ripple effect of a butterfly wing flap in icy Oslo. Our advice and execution modes, to be worth your expectations, are dynamic and relative.

The Splash style of design communications is a curious cocktail of five -- growing as we speak -- professionals. They unleash a combined related experience of no fewer than four decades -- graphic design, copywriting, management consultancy, finance, training and production. In their immediate past three years of close professional synergy, the team conjured more than S$5 million worth of design work, and won several much coveted design awards as a team. In late September 2005, the team joined Splash, heralding a new era of design communications consultancy to a creative agency first founded in the 1980s to specialise in mega events and filming by an industry veteran.

Have you found a reason for an intoxicating serving of Splash today?