The Creative Circle Awards (CCA) was conceived in 1980 to raise the creative standard of Singapore print advertising. In 2017, CCA celebrated brave creatives who have traversed an ideas-saturated market to deliver compelling advertisements time and again. BA(Hons) Design Communication alumna, Lena Paik, bested some 200 entries and claimed the Young Copywriter of the Year title. This is Lena’s second win, as she bagged this very same award back in 2015.

MA Creative Writing student, Saleem Hadi, clinched the top prize in the National Arts Council’s Golden Point Award for his English short story, Mani. Developed as part of the Fiction module in his programme at LASALLE, Mani explored the contrast between poverty and the worship of film stars in contemporary India. Saleem was invited to read an excerpt at the George Town Writers Festival in November 2017, and plans to further develop the work into a full-length screenplay.

For one week, top international delegates from the fields of advertising and marketing convene to share insight and celebrate stunning ideas at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. In 2017, two alumni from our School of Design Communication received double honours – Karan Dang and Ang Sheng Jin not only served as jury in the Mobile and Outdoor category respectively, they both also took home Gold Lions for their stellar work.

The Red Dot Awards are among the world’s most prestigious design awards, and in 2017, they celebrated 25 years of outstanding design ideas. With a record number of 8,051 entries across 50 countries, only 749 projects were awarded the coveted seal of excellent design and creativity.

Muhammad Masuri bin Mazlan, a LASALLE BA(Hons) Fine Arts student, was conferred the International Takifuji Art Award for his installation What The Water Gave Me. Employing unconventional materials, Masuri poured layer upon layer of pigmented gypsum into moulds. By altering the curing time of each plaster layer, the chromatic tones of the gypsum merged with one another as time passed. What The Water Gave Me usurped the conventional idea that a sculptural work has to be completed when it is presented.

The Young Artist Award, conferred by the National Arts Council is Singapore’s highest award to art practitioners aged 35 years and below for their groundbreaking contribution to the arts scene. LASALLE alumni Yarra Ileto and Kray Chen were recipients of the Young Artist Award 2017.