Your Reviews. Your Hangouts.

Our latest brand, design and web project. New beta version with Web 2.0 flavour!

Blurbme.com is your platform to read, write and talk about the good, bad and fugly of restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs, spas, gyms, salons and many other places you visit or frequent in Singapore.

Blurbme.com is also a suave Asian city guide driven by community participation with honest peer insights. You may find suggestions on where to eat or drink, let others know where your favourite hangouts are and meet other like-minded people who enjoy life as much as you do.

Blackle - Energy Saving Search?

Blackle.com believes a Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year by using a predominanyly black screen and therefore consuming less energy. Blackle also reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

What do you think?

Blurbme.com Burp Symphony

Go2web20.net

A directory of web 2.0 applications and services

* Born around mid 2006
* 1401 logos as of Tuesday, July 24, 2007
* As a visitor, you are probably active in the web 2.0 community and you are one of those labeled as 'early adapters'. Are you?
* Thousands of visitors every day
* There's a higher chance that you've been here before than that this is your 1st visit here
* Converges both Flash and AJAX technologies

Gone Shopping - The Movie

If you got a some time and some loose dimes, Go catch Gone Shopping, The Movie the debut Singaporean feature film from Director Wee Li Lin and Producer Fazila 'Fuzzy' Abideen (who happens to be a friend and neighbor of ours). The films screens in Singapore theatres from July 26th. Just caught the premiere last night, and we thought it was a great debut. Support local indie films and creativity (It's a tough little GST world out there), and Go Shopping!

Junior Interactive/Web Designer Wanted!

Junior Interactive/Web Designer Wanted!

Agency: Spoon Creative

Job Terms: Permanent

Job Description:

We are looking for Junior Interactive Designers to join our team, assisting seniors in web and new media projects. Candidates must have a degree/diploma/certificate in a relevant course and posses strong skills in HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash. No experience is necessary - Position is open to fresh graduates!

Job Requirements:

- Degree/Diploma/Certificate in Web Design, Interactive, New Media or equivalent from an accredited art/design school or university
- Strong HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash Skills.
- Good understanding of the technical aspects that come with each interactive project
- Strong knowledge of design software including but not limited to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
- Good understanding of Design and Usability, as demonstrated in their portfolio.
- Responsible, eager to learn and work hard, with an outgoing personality to boot.

Applications:

If you think you fit the bill, send your application with attached CV and portfolio to work@spoon.com.sg

red, white & pure

red, white & pure: a new lifestyle brand by old time Chinese medicinal name Eu Yan Sang. "Red is passion, energy and dynamism. White is open, calm and cleansing. Pure is authentic, simple and has integrity." A brave effort and venture, one would say, from Eu. Their flag-ship store is now open at Vivo City. Large and well designed interiors. Classy products and packaging. However, One can't help but question the appropriateness of the Vivo location with its wide traffic demographics.

Read more about: red, white & pure

Congrats Chris on Nadra!

Chris Chew, quasi spoonster and One Ton Dude, has just announced some exciting developments on his film "Nadra," a colonial drama set in Singapore. He has roped in Dutch director Ben Sombogaart, of Oscar nominee "Twin Sisters" to direct, and Netherlands-based IdtV Film to co-produce. This announcement was made in Cannes 2007.

"'Nadra' isn't merely a story about the bitter custody battle between two families, it is a story about a clash of cultures and ideologies, how ordinary people oftentimes become unwitting pawns in events much larger than themselves," said Monsoon Pictures' m.d. Christopher Chew.

Congrats Chris, Exciting News!

Read more on VarietyAsiaOnline.Com

Find out more on the film: Monsoonpictures.net

Be like Water : Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee, the Martial Artist, Philosopher and the ultimate Asian Icon, had many wise words to illustrate the philosophies of Jeet Kune Do, the martial arts style he founded. Many of these can like be applied to our areas of interest here on this blog... Brands, Design, Business, Creativity and Innovation.

Here are some of his most famously quoted...

For Business Managers, Strategists, Designers & Practitioners of Creativity
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."

For Business Managers against Competition
"The fighter who enters battle and feels no fear is an arrogant fool."

Brands Building Loyalty
“The possession of anything begins in the mind”

For Ideas, Design and Strategy
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”

For Innovation All round
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

Strength in Brand Focus & Category Leadership
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

N.E.Mation Congratulations!

N.E. Mation!, a secondary school animation contest organised by Nexus and Animagine has just announced their winner. Animations themed "National Defence" were submitted by various schools. The winning piece is an innovative Claymation titled "Just Because", produced by Team NEmators from CHIJ St. Joseph's Convent School. Congratulations!

Singapore has a bright animated future just because...

Watch "Just Because" and other clips online: NEmation.sg