Bicycle / Lamp. Originating from P.R. China, this is the graphics for a battery-operated bicycle lamp which can be used as a hand torch. This is from a bygone era when bicycles were regulated to have illuminated front lights. ‘Cycle’ sign series is from the Village Bicycle Workshop archives of bicycle parts. Found in Gombak, Malaysia, 2013.

Materials
Acrylic paint, watercolour, ink painted on salvaged wood from torn-down villages north of the city, Sentul & Gombak. 20 x 16.5” / 2014

Sign-making series

Since 2012 the studio has been collecting old common sundry products still found in little shops, as a study into a vernacular graphic language. The design on these items are abstracted to highlight the basic elements. Painted on salvaged wood, each sign is a play of how imagery, languages and symbols cumulate to local context, nostalgia, uniquely identifiable to us in this region."