Saigon Creative December event Friday 16 – Nick Ross

Nick Ross in Istanbul.

This Friday we welcome our next speaker Nick Ross. A resident of Vietnam for almost 12 years, Nick is the chief editor of the English language magazine, The Word.

Born in the UK, besides his present job Nick has also worked as a music journalist, a reporter for BBC Radio Bristol and a production manager for a contract publisher in the UK. He spent his first six years in this country working in education - teaching and managing teachers both in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. His present role with The Word started in 2005 with the launch of the English language magazine Saigon Inside Out. Over the following three years, this magazine transformed into the one it is now.

Nick will talk about the growing creativity in the publishing industry in Vietnam and how it no longer always pays to "play it safe". Contrary to western belief, the media industry in Vietnam is far more open and buoyant than perceived overseas. Reporters without Borders places Vietnam as number 165 in the media freedom charts, just slightly above Cuba and North Korea. According to Nick, the particular conditions of operating in Vietnam and the commercial needs of publications means that this is a mistaken assessment.

Biography

Nick Ross started out professional life as a music journalist before a stint on a programme on BBC Radio Bristol saw him move into the publishing industry. Working for a contract publisher on a number of specialist titles in a range of industries, Nick left the comparative safety of little England in the late 1990s to seek 'new experience'. Little did he know that a proposed six-month trip to Southeast Asia would turn into a decade-long stint in Vietnam.

Nick's present journey on the publication The Word started in early 2005 after the relaunch of an education magazine in Singapore. Returning to the comparative safety of Ho Chi Minh City, together with a friend and fellow journalist he decided to launch a magazine called Saigon Inside Out. After a number of false starts and then issues with licensing, it finally hit the streets in November 2005. Saigon Inside Out was the first wholly privately owned English language publication in Vietnam.

10 issues later and Saigon Inside Out came to an abrupt halt. After a short hiatus it returned with a new name, Asialife. This publication ran for a year before Nick decided to move on set up The Word Ho Chi Minh City with his wife, Duong Vy Bao.

The Word launched in January 2008 and has been going strong ever since. In November 2009 the team behind The Word launched a separate edition in Hanoi.

An avid reader - on bad weeks he can go through four or five novels in less than seven days - Nick's role as chief editor has seen him develop his skills as a writer and a photographer. Both outspoken and yet diplomatic, to the point and yet wide of the mark, Nick will be bringing his experience of working in the media in Vietnam to Saigon Creative.

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Why don't don't tourists come back to Vietnam?

Zoe Butt, the curator of San Art was generous enough to join us as our speaker last week.  Over the next hour, she drew the link between contemporary art, expression, isolation, and even the low rate of visitors to Vietnam.

 What I found most interesting was her observation that it wasn't govt. regulation that was stifling artists (at least directly), but self-censorship as artists simply avoided risky topics or making statements that would challenge social mores.  Over time, she noted that this has created a culture of conventional thinking.

Highlighting the educational system as an integral part of the machine, she discussed the lack of conceptual and analytical thinking as well as the notion that Vietnamese artists were becoming isolated from what else exists in the world.  This was interesting, that at a time when we are more connected than ever, there was less interest in actively engaging with the art community at large.  What about for the sake of inspiration?  Technique?  Or just interest and gaining new perspective?

She highlighted that contemporary art wasn't political, but that it was about exploring new expression.  And that a key area where the art conversation here in Vietnam needs to focus is the intent of the artist rather than just style or focusing on elements of the art.

All in all, a thrilling hour and it inspired me to think about what I can do to support expression here in Vietnam.  See you at the next one!

-George

Zoe Butt joins us on the 23rd

On November 23, we welcome Zoe Butt as our next speaker.  She lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where she is the curator and director of programs and development for Sàn Art, an independent artist-run gallery space and reading room. From 2001 to 2007 she was assistant curator for contemporary Asian art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, where she assisted in the development of the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) and in key acquisitions for the museum’s contemporary Asian art collection and other associated gallery programs; and from 2007 to 2009 she was director of international programs for the Long March Project, a complex, multi-platform, international artist organization and ongoing art project based in Beijing, China. For more than ten years she has been researching contemporary Asian art and has curated and co-curated exhibitions and contributed to various international art publications that have reflected the dynamic art of this region.


She'll talk about her experiences in helping build a creative culture here in Saigon.  To hear a little bit about her perspective as a curator, go to:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOI_NSPILek

Jenni Trang Le, a leader in the new Viet Film Wave

Every month, the good folks at Saigon Creative host monthly talks with creatives doing work in Vietnam. I play basketball with George Nguyen, so in between games where I pass him the rock to drain the game-winners (or is that the other way around), we’ll manage to talk shop about people we know in the city.

Saigon Creative’s muse for this month is Jenni Trang Le, who I’ve been fortunate to live with upon her arrival here in 2008.

Her resume thus far: Journey from the Fall, Powder Blue, Owl and the Sparrow, Bi, Don’t Be Afraid (Bi, dung so)! The Rebel, Clash (Bay Rong), Inferno (Giao Lo Dinh Menh), Battle of the Brides (Co Dau Dai Chien), Long Ruoi. Yes, Jenni Trang Le is a Hindu God of sorts, her hands have touched all of these films.


Cotdamn.

Here is all the cool shtuff I managed to learn from Jenni about filmmaking and the film industry in Vietnam, bullet-pointed for your reading pleasure:

On challenges

• What Saigon and the general Vietnam filmmaking community lacks right now is good writers - she doesn’t know why this is the case for the time being (Chim: I think rote educational practices is to blame)
• Right now, directors are writing their own films, because they have to (google the aforementioned list of films Jenni has worked on)
• Pretty much everything she has learned about filmmaking had to be thrown out the window once she started in Vietnam
• Here, you have to be on your feet and go with the flow - there is always a lot of problem-solving

On money

• Scripts usually sell to production houses for $5,000 on average
• Saigon is perceived as just making commercial films, Hanoi is perceived as just making art-house films
• When it comes to filmmaking: Vietnamese folks are very resourceful. One time, her crew had ordered a crane, that never came, so her crew concocted one using a bunch of clamps and pipes
• A funding source more filmmakers are beginning to explore is product placement. Of course, filmmakers are usually against this, but according to her: “no money, no film.”
• Product placement is billed by the amount of time it is placed in the film, not by the prominence of the placement
  

On schedule

• The Rebel, shot in 80 days, was being written as it was being filmed, because they wanted to shoot it during the winter - being an action film and all - and it was so delayed, they just had to get started
• Directors vs. Producers: "I want more time to do something" vs. "No, you have to stop it"
• Commercial films released around Tet usually don’t bother with subtitles. Art-house films need subtitles since they normally reach international audiences.
  

 On future

• When people approach Jenni, they don’t approach her about film ideas, they approach her about acting opportunities (“Can I be an actor/actress?”)
• What is essential for Vietnamese filmmaking to move forward is for filmmakers to stay true to their vision. The ones that stay true and make what they want to make will succeed.
  

 She also made this a while back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZiE9WNzd0E

Paraphrased: “I liked the idea of animals speaking many different languages, but ultimately understanding each other. In terms of language, I just used whatever friends I had available, at my disposal, at the time.”

Jenni hasn’t directed her own film just yet, it is in her pipeline though.

The next film she is working on is a romantic comedy, coming out in April.

Lastly, not only does she makes films, she makes cupcakes in this biatch! Jenni Cakes, whatchu know about it?!

She makes films. She makes cupcakes. BOOSH!

- Jimmy Tran

Oct. 21 - Jenni Trang Le

Our next speaker is Jenni Trang Le.  Some could say Jenni Trang Le has been a part of the Viet Film Wave from the beginning.  She worked on Ham Tran’s JOURNEY FROM THE FALL (2006), Tim Bui’s POWDER BLUE (2009) and was 1^st Assistant Director for several Vietnamese American films that followed, including Charlie Nguyen’s THE REBEL (2007), Stephane Gauger’s OWL AND THE SPARROW (2008). 

In 2007 Le wrote, directed and animated a short claymation project, “Oh Mommy!/Me Oi”, funded by the James Irvine Foundation as a part of Visual Communications’ annual fellowship, Armed with a Camera.

These days, Le has begun to take on more producing opportunities, starting with Associate Producer of a child sex trafficking film in Cambodia, HOLLY (2007) directed by Guy Moshe, as well as co-producer on “Viet Nam Overtures”, a documentary on symphony musicians in Northern and Southern Viet Nam.  Early 2009 Le officially relocated to Saigon after a 5 year film flirtation and now freelances.  Since moving to the city of organized chaos, she has co-produced CLASH/Bay Rong (2009) and the historical epic Khat Vong Thang Long (2010).  She still 1^st AD’s as her bread and butter, having completed Phan Dang Di’s BI, DON’T BE AFRAID/Bi, dung so!, Victor Vu’s INFERNO/Giao Lo Dinh Menh (2009), BATTLE OF THE BRIDES/Co Dau Dai Chien (2010), and most recently Vietnamese box office record breaker Long Ruoi (2011).

Jenni Trang Le graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelors of Art in Anthropology. She has spent the last eight years focused on theatre, community work, and film. She was the Associate Festival Director for the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) 2005 & 2007. She was on the board of the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association when she still lived in the US.  She is now exploring her new life in the motherland, through the eyes of a bicultural artivist.

She'll join us on the 21st to talk about some of the challenges and joys she's faced working here in Vietnam and trying to ensure the same quality products in a market that doesn't always have the same resources or standards that she was coming from.

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Coffee+Art=Saigon Creative's speaker of the day

Small talk before the presentation

A big thank you to all of you that could make it this morning. Coffee and art, that's an irresistible combination in my book. Cristina took us on a visual and intriguing journey, all in good taste and well explained references as we went from matchstick heads to portraits created in blood to taxidermy artworks. Disclaimer, the artists keeps at least three large fridges storing road kill that has been collected, often with the help of friends and family.

How can this not be an interesting morning. Enjoy the images and scroll down for the complete reading list kindly provided by Cristina Nualart.

The morning group waiting for Art+Coffee

What do you do with matchsticks?

You start building

Until you have mastered the skill and create a portrait made of matchstick heads

Why stop with matchsticks when we can utilise clothes hangers

Self portrait made with own blood, approx 5 liters

Taxidermy art

Our speaker: Cristina

ARTISTS:

Salvador Dali (not contemporary)
David Mach
Banksy
Gavin Turk
Xu Bing
Joan Fontcuberta
Mark Wallinger
http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/
Christian Boltanksi
Caspar David Friedrich (not contemporary)
Mariele Neudecker
Yolanda Domínguez http://www.yolandadominguez.com/ & video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEcdcmnAA0&feature=player_embedded#!
Mark Quinn
Richard Wilson (20:50)
Rachel Whiteread
Roger Hiorns
Polly Morgan
Maria Gendelman

PERFORMANCE ART:
'Sutra' at Sadlers Wells, set design by artist Antony Gormley
'IN-I' with Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche with set design by artist Anish Kapoor
Total Theatre group 'La Fura dels Baus' (opera 'Le Grand Macabre')

RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
Film: 'Exit through the giftshop' (Banksy)
Film: 'Beautiful Losers'
Documentary series 'ART21'

Reminder for upcoming Saigon Creative September event

A reminder for our upcoming Saigon Creative September event featuring Cristina Nualart. Please register for your free ticket below.

Hope to see you all on Friday!

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Creativity in Contemporary Art – Saigon Creative's September event

Saigon Creative welcomes Cristina Nualart as our speaker for September.

Topic is: Creativity in Contemporary Art

Looking at different artworks shown primarily in Europe in recent years, this talk aims to generate ideas about the ways in which artists conceive and develop their ideas. Bringing to Vietnam some images not seen in the country to date, the focus will be on original ideas in the field of contemporary art. This talk does not aim to be a lecture on art history and theory, but rather a celebration of fun, good ideas and an opportunity for cultural exchange.

Cristina Nualart graduated in the UK in Art and Aesthetics, and has a Masters in Art and the Creative Economy. She lives in HCMC, where she has lectured on Visual Language and Practice and Theory of Creativity at RMIT university Vietnam, and works as a creative consultant. She is currently continuing her art practice creating paintings, digital works and films inspired by the fast moving pace of Saigon.

Please sign up and register for the event below:

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Our August Speaker: Edge Pamute

With twenty years extensive experience in the media and entertainment business from TV channels, marketing, events, and in Asia and Europe, we couldn't think of a better person to talk about how creativity impacts and shapes pop culture.

As a pioneer and co-founder of MYX Music channel in the Philippines, YanTV here in Vietnam, Fashion TV in Indochina, having set-up odyssey music online and developed yeuamnhac.vn, a digital music network with over 1M subscribers, Edge is at the epi-center of Vietnam's exploding cultural zeitgeist.  

Add to this, his own personal interest as an accomplished DJ.  Edge is considered one of the pioneers of the dance and eclectic music scene in Asia and driving the popular dOSe series here in Vietnam.  He has taken his eclectic brew worldwide through his mixed compilations and performances as a DJ in various clubs around Europe, U.S., Asia and Australia. Edge has performed in world-renowned venues such as Batofar, The End, The Palais, End Up, Funky Chicken, Red Room, Turnmills, 333, nu-spirit and other off-the-wall venues with internationally acclaimed music artists including dance music pioneers Derick May, Derick Carter and Masters at Work; progressive artists from Jazzanova, Norman Jay, Telepopmusik, Bugz in the Attic, N’dea Davenport, Shortkut, Apollo, Aphrodite and Q-Bert to the world’s leading dancefloor maestros such as Roger Sanchez, Richie Hawtin, Josh Wink, Swayzak, Charles Schilling and Marques Wyatt to name a few.

Video sampler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mftM5V2l3kk

Mixtape 1 (deep.soulful.afrolatin): 

http://soundcloud.com/soundsgood_edge/sampler-2-1

So join us on August 19th to get a very different perspective on what's shaping the very world around us.

Saigon Creative August event now open for registration.

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That can't be real...

If you've said those words before, you are probably right.  It wasn't real.  From the size of a cover model's waist to just how red the fruit in that picture looked, digital enhancement is everywhere.  Uot Mi joined us at our last Saigon Creative to talk about her life and experiences as a digital artist.  From making fairy tales come to life to distorting reality, she tackles journalism, the desire of consumers, to bringing the dreams of young brides to life.

She also tackled some of the tough questions about ethics and what she was comfortable with and answering objectives of her clients.

Thanks to Uot, I will definitely look at photos with a more discerning eye from now on.

Our speaker for July, Uot Mi, the illustrator, the doll maker, the dreamer, the__________(…)

You are very talented. Wish I knew your mind ;]]

~Nokturnaa 

Nokturnaa is not the only one who wants to have a peek inside the creative mind of Uot Mi, our speaker for July. Reserve your tickets today while there are still some left.

Friday 8.30am, 15th July is your chance to see and learn more.

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Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Yes, Akiko can...

Sesame Street according to Bangladesh

I love our June speaker.  I do.  She's my wife.  And she was talking about Sesame Street.  Who doesn't love Sesame Street, right?

But I also love what she had to say because it is so intrinsic to all creative industries.  Bill Bernbach (a famous, old ad guy if you're into that kind of thing) once said, "It's not just what you say that stirs people.  It's the way you say it."  Using her experience on Sesame Street to illustrate the effectiveness of engaging audiences, we learned the power of entertaining and engaging your audience.  Akiko compared it to hiding vegetables in something yummy in order to get your kids to eat healthy.  Sesame Street uses modeling, repetition, and humour to ensure that kids got a solid dose of learning with their laughter. 

Does it work?  Does it ever.  Today Sesame Street can be seen in more than 140 countries with more than 120 million viewers around the world.  In twenty countries, a local version has been created.  By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was the fifteenth-highest rated children's television show in the United States.

She also gave us a behind the scenes peek at the level of effort and detail invested in ensuring kids were drawn into this world of edutainment.  We learned about little things like making sure puppets always looked directly at the viewer and not off camera to "eye tests" where the focal point of young viewers was measured.

And Sesame Street isn't without its own controversy as they tackle tough subjects such as introducing Kami to their South Africa production, the first HIV positive muppet.  Akiko used this point to illustrate the value of locally relevant content.  I was very surprised to learn locally produced versions of Sesame had a higher level of engagement than dubbed US versions due to relatable and recognizable characters.

Just one of the thousands of
pieces of Sesame Street branded
merchandise available around the world

I'm certainly going to take a lesson from Sesame Street's mantra, "If you can't reach them, you can't teach them."

-George

Meet our June speaker Akiko Yabuki

Akiko Yabuki

Akiko Yabuki is a former global producer for Sesame Street, overseeing their co-productions in Turkey and Bangladesh.  She has also worked with Fuji TV in New York City. Today she is in Vietnam trying to launch edu-tainment to help a generation find education through entertainment.

Akiko is going to talk about why engaging your audience is key to getting your message across and how that has helped Sesame to become the effective education machine that it is.

Don't miss out this coming Friday!

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Saigon Creative has a logo, courtesy of TBWA Vietnam  and we have opened up registration for our June event.

Please sign up and reserve your ticket now http://saigoncreativejune.eventbrite.com

Big thanks to Sophie Paris for hosting us again and providing a lucky draw gift!

Let's talk about fashion

Gen Lehn introducing.

That's what we did. We got the inside scoop. A journey of tales. Starting in Milan, where we learned that fresh graduates are being picked up by the fashion houses on next to nothing wages. 

€200-400 a month and a one year contract. Renegotiable upon end of year. Except that the contract will not be renewed and another fresh student will take that spot as well as having to find a part time job to sustain a life in the city. 

By life, it means food and shelter for most of your time will be spent working.

All the glamourous images and smokescreens came tumbling down. Being a fashion designer is not glamourous at all. 

Hard work and true love and almost an obsession for fashion will take you further down fashion street, anyone else will get lost and have to find another path to walk on.

Very brutal. Very competitive. A business. A money making business. Money. It's all about the money.

Graduates are leaving with ideas of how they want to change the world with their designs. We all have been there, young and naive and then we met the established system. 

Some can make it work by being a rebel, by being different, but they don't sell well. Success is measured in sales. 

Creativity within defined key elements based on the heritage of the brand. All brands change slowly and use their old designs for reference and modify them, but hardly will they do an all over re-design. Too much at stake. Nobody wants to lose sales and earnings and for prices, prices are set based on the perception of the brand value. 

For example, a €900 garment at wholesale price, will most likely retail at €1800, and cost only €30 to produce. You pay for your brand experience.

We learned about the trade shows, their mood booths and future trends. Everything you see is two years ahead. 

We learned about a job title has many positions baked into to it. People are expected to help and get the job done. Such as when you are prototyping and your fashion show is only a few weeks ahead and your boss decides to scrap everything for a new vision and your staffs are hiding because of the scream they heard when the news broke.

2-3 hours sleep on average per night in the run up to fashion week. Having a show and the garments are still not ready. Getting the receptionist and the cleaners to help getting button holes done on time. Sewing decor elements directly onto the model the minute before stepping out on the catwalk and having to tear it all after the show.

Photographers photographing every piece of the collection on the day of the show, delivering images and the printers are working overnight to produce the look book that is delivered to all the buyers on the morning after the show.

While you are selling your current collection and dealing with buyers, you are researching and producing your next collection, the cycle never stops and Gen is traveling onwards, still in love with fashion, just like her heros, such as Jean Paul Gaultier: "I live fashion. I breathe fashion. I am fashion. Fashion is my passion.

What is fashion?

Gen showing some of her designs.

Audiences discussing.

Thank you Gen for your inspirational speech!

Our lucky draw winner! Big thanks to Sophie Paris!

The third time's lucky proved correct this time. Two previous names were not present and the third was. So please not only sign up, please attend, you never know what you are missing out on! See you next time!

Saigon Creative May Speaker: Gen Lehn

Gen Lehn

Every journey starts with a single step and looking at Gen Lehn's achievements, we can all see that she's been traveling far indeed. Gen Lehn was born in Hungary from a German aristocrat mother and a Hungarian father. Her family was the owner of Central Europe’s biggest beer factory but her passion was, and still is, in fashion and beauty.

Fashion brought Gen to Italy and after graduating in Milan, Gen participated in several competitions, including Lineapelle, an annual fashion fair held in Bologna, where over 40.000 fashion professionals/buyers selected Gen’s work as the best new-comer design.

Inspired by the response, Gen then started to work for prestigious labels, such as Versus, Elio Fiorucci and Luisa Beccaria. Preparing collections for Milan fashion week and directly handling buyers from the US, including Neiman Marcus.

Her love for Asia and Asian culture brought her to Vietnam some 5 years ago where she first started as Head of Fashion in the largest media group in Vietnam, Sun Flower Media. 

More recently Gen was running a fashion label called: Lacoll. Lacoll is present in Japan Fashion Week and sponsors events such as: Viva Music Awards (Europe) and Miss Asia Europe. 

Currently, her latest step forward, took her to the position of General Director of Luxasia, Asia’s premier luxury distribution. 

Many steps and many stories to tell. Come and hear it all at Saigon Creative's event, Friday morning. See you there!

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Get ready and sign up for Saigon Creative's May event

There have been quite a few changes since our April event, we have changed our name, our blog and we have acquired a new location sponsor, Sophie Paris Vietnam.

The new venue will be able to host 40 people +, so please help spread the word.

Our May speaker is an exclusive, from the fashion industry and more details will be posted shortly.

We will have a lucky drawn with gifts from our sponsors!

Sign up below and see you all Friday!

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Saigon Creative’s event for April welcomed Tuan from the Propeller Group at Stella Cafe for: Culture exchange. Hip hop New York. Inspired Asian moves. Kung fu.

Sunny Friday morning in Saigon and the Propeller Group represented by Tuan is ready to give a lecture to the early birds. Quite an exchange it was. A cultural exchange. The re-branding of Vietnam. Underground culture. Different from the underground in the past, the ones that everybody knows when you hear the word Vietnam. The tunnels, the fight, the struggle. The existing brand.

This is a very different underground. An underground that had seen graffiti but did not know what it was called until a backpacker visiting Hanoi in 2005 gave them the much needed information. A single word: Graffiti. Once the word was known, Google searches took place and more information was transferred.

Graffiti has blossomed since then. It is a reaction to advertising. Youth promoting their own voice. Is Vietnam becoming more Westernised? Do they only copy blindly? To that, we got a brief history about hip hop in New York. People often believe hip hop originated in New York, but when you ask the pioneers from the past, they would say that they got inspired by Asian moves. Balinese dance. Kung Fu. They saw something and adopted it. Fast forward and the best hip hop teams today originates in Asia.

The flow of exchange is made easier with the Internet. YouTube and Vimeo. Collaboration across the borders. The hip hop remix project.

Within in an hour we had jumped around subjects, seen videos and listened to music collaborations and had small debates. A member of the audience told us about a very special musical art form that is more or less unique to Vietnam. The blind man walking down alleys with blown out speakers, volume on max and playing 1920 raw blues tunes.

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Enjoy the images:

Tuan from Propeller Group 

aSaigon/CreativeMorning welcomes The Propeller Group - 15 April, 8:30am

El Mac Singapore from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo.

A Saigon/Creative Morning welcomes Dinh Q. Le - Friday 18 March, 8.30am

aSaigon/CreativeMorning welcomes Witness Collection curator Adrian Jones - Friday, 18 Feb, 8:30am

Saigon/CreativeMornings welcomes Dustin Nguyen, January 14, 8:30am, 2011

Upcoming event | Propeller Group @ Stella, Friday 15th April, 8.30am

March | Dinh Q.Le

Brilliant. Inspired. Moving. It was simply a great presentation and the early birds of Saigon enjoyed it. “I’m lovin’ it” to quote McDonalds, however, it was a far better deal. Unwrap a burger and you get disappointed as it never lives up to the tasty, juicy advertising image that sells you the deal in the first place.

inh unwrapped his thinking and reason behind his works. His research methods? Obsession he answered.

His work on Agent Orange was nothing but brilliant. His latest projects include exploring the visual language around us. If people with a voice can find a way around to get noticed, artists can too. He proved that with his Agent Orange shop.

Inspiration also arrived in a parcel. Tiki.vn sponsored the lucky draw.

Overall, a great start of the day, all thanks to the humble and yet so talented Dinh Q.Le

February | Adrian Jones

A big thank you to Malongo for serving great coffee and The Tin Foil Grill for the excellent food. Enjoy the images below from the event.