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By Lim Sze Howe |
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Source:
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NAFA bags 29 prizes at prestigious
Crowbar Awards 2005 |
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The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
yielded a bumper crop of 29 award-winners, including the highest number
of Gold awards garnered by a single institution, at this year¡¯s Crowbar
Awards. Of these, two were given ¡°Best of Category & Gold¡± honours. |
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Organised by the Association of Accredited
Advertising Agents Singapore (4As), the Crowbar Awards is the region¡¯s
premiere creative awards show for students. |
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This year¡¯s event attracted over 880 entries
from Singapore, China, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the United
Kingdom. A new ¡°Crowbar Challenge¡± category was introduced this year,
where participants had to form creative concepts based on a brief
supplied by the organiser, and the winner was non other than NAFA
student, Lim Sze Howe. |
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The list of 94 winners for 2005 was
announced on 23 September at the awards ceremony held at the NTUC
Auditorium. |
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By Lim Sze Howe |
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Third-year Visual Communication diploma
student Sze Howe bagged the Best of Category/Gold award in the ¡°Crowbar
Challenge¡± category with his entry, Polaroid Postcard. To the
24-year-old Advertising major, who previously was a Science student at
Yishun Junior College, coming out tops for the Crowbar Challenge was a
massive encouragement to his artistic pursuits. |
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Said Sze Howe: ¡°Science was not my cup of
tea, so I decided to take a leap of faith and study design, which was my
passion. Winning the coveted Crowbar has justified my decision to follow
my dream, and NAFA provided me with the chance to realise it. It also
means that I need to work harder and not rest on my laurels.¡± |
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Sze Howe added that the casual yet
stimulating and interactive manner in which lessons were conducted
allowed students like himself to think out-of-the-box and let their
creative ideas flow freely. |
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By Queenie Yau Lai
Yin |
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Another student, Queenie Yau Lai Yin, walked
away with the Best of Category/Gold award in the ¡°Photography¡± section
for her series of thought-provoking photographs. For her work, The
Missing Piece Meets the Big O, the third-year Multimedia diploma student
created a series of snapshots that revolved around the theme,
¡°Loneliness¡±. |
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¡°Back in my secondary school days, I was not
sure of what I wanted to do. But after joining NAFA, I now have a much
clearer direction of my goal, which is to become an outstanding
designer. Winning this award has certainly given me a stronger
motivation and assurance in my chosen path,¡± said Queenie, who migrated
to Singapore from Hong Kong eight years ago. |
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