design edge

attended the Design Edge expo last Thurs and was happy to discover a new group.
They are from HK and they are called - Pixel Toy. Quite a cheesy sounding name i thot but their music did impress me.
basically its just 2 persons, a guy using his lap top and an electric guitar and a female vocalist. both are young but their music is really creative and they sound great LIVE! many interesting electronic sounds and arrangements....gives u a nice surreal feeling. the lead singer got a nice sweet sounding vocal too. overall they are rather cool. their songs are both in cantonese and mandarin. check out their stuff:

www.pixeltoy.org

the expo was really quite small but boast rather big names from the latest design scene. toy creators, street and urban design houses ....from all over the world. hope future expos will expand to a bigger scale. there were lots of design students from HK and Thailand...i noticed they could all dress well. and dress cool for that matter. esp the gals....apparently many of these design gals can groom themselves really well, they had excellent make up technique like those u see on magazines and they wear nice clothes and accessories. but then again maybe they are rich or not they wouldnt fly over...haha

i also saw a spore community of cool people that day, not really a lot but at least some that u see that are more alternative and different from the masses. think as long the govt continue to promote design and such art events, spore has quite a bright future ahead for the arts.

already we have creative people like Zing and Leslie Kee who made it big overseas. hope more can follow.