This news feature describes The Pig Bakes Clay’s creations as “almost good enough to eat”. Traipsing the website, I am impressed – both by the variety of miniatures, and by the vibrancy of colours – by the nyonya kueh miniatures that greet me on the site’s landing page. This accessories-based business is the labour of […]

“You’ll be surprised to know that many hand-lettering artists actually come from a STEM background – one wonders if there’s any correlation between Science and Arts,” Sarah Gan of SarahKopiC tells me over an email interview. “STEM” refers to the acronym for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Sarah, who graduated from the […]

“If I wasn’t running my own paper crafting business, I would be a teacher – because I love working with kids,” muses Eileen Lim, a self-taught paper artist who runs Miss Petal & Bloom – which specialises in crepe paper floral decor. However, as life turns out, here Eileen is – crafting paper flowers as […]

Almost a decade ago, I found myself browsing the Market of Artists and Designers (MAAD) at the Red Dot Design Museum on a whim. The craft market scene was less established than it is now; nonetheless, I walked out of the event with a pair of ear studs from momshoo. Fast forward to the present – unlike many independent craft artists who exit the scene […]

I came to know about Etch Empathy by chance after seeing a Facebook post publicising their Deaf Café event held at Coffee Bandits. After traipsing the web, I realised that this wasn’t a one-off event – Etch Empathy is a non-profit social enterprise whose founding was fostered out of a desire for society to understand […]

Sometime last year, I was searching online for writing or editorial freelance opportunities when I saw an advertisement looking for people to do freelance work. I enquired more about this position, and soon received a call from an undergraduate. She told me that while she could not offer what I was looking for, she was […]