Notes From The Team At Naiise.

Talk about an all-rounded multitalented creative professional! Meet Pooja - a freelance writer, editor, educational consultant, book artist as well as a mother of a young child. Having moved to Singapore from New York in 2010 to "discover the soul of another great city", she journalizes her adventure in learning more about the history, culture and artistic community of this sunny island at her blog notabilia.

We fell in love with her unfettered passion for the arts - literature, independent design, art, and all things pretty - and thus invited this inspiring and high-achieving lady to curate this collection for us. Read on to find out more about Pooja and her passions, or click here to browse through her curation.

Being Singaporeans ourselves, we are pretty familiar with the various personalities and characters one can meet on a daily basis. They can be frustrating, funny and heartwarming all at the same time, but are exactly the bits and pieces that populate and form our little red dot home.

At Naiise, we believe that design is for everyone, for everyday. Whoever you are and whatever you do, there will be something that celebrates your personality, quirks, beliefs and lifestyle. Check out our tongue-in-cheek laundry list of 10 Singaporeans and what they should own! Whether you fall neatly into one of the types, or belong somewhere in between, we hope you enjoy reading this!

Architecture-trained Adib is the type of guy who marries his interests with work, and ends up doing lots of things, mainly: curating design content for clients, creating platforms for creativity to flourish and using it to activate urban spaces, writing for design publications and occasionally designing spaces and brands.

Inviting a professional curator to well, curate, for us should be an easy task, so we invited Adib to pick out his favourite design objects on Naiise that keep him inspired and amazed. We also take the chance to find out what he really does on an average day! Read more about it here. 

Missing multiple turns at life’s cross junction, Rebecca Toh manages to find the right path meant for her. Currently a commercial and editorial photographer, Rebecca is hugely influenced by the ability of a film to tell moving, layered stories, and  works to inject this sense of the cinematic - the emotion, the life, the warmth - into the images she creates.

Based in Singapore, she is nevertheless always on the road. We're lucky to have grabbed some of her time to chat more about her life, craft and love for design, as well as her favourite things on Naiise. Read more about Rebecca here.

Founded by sisters duo Hani and Aisah Dalduri, Fictive Fingers is a growing Singapore-bsed brand that remains committed to small-scale production and keeping products made by hand its core. Its products feature distinctive designs originated from drawings on paper that are  expressive but unobtrusive.

We invited the sisters to curate a list of their favourite items on Naiise, and speak to them about their new ideas and passion for learning, teaching and connecting with people from all over the world through their creations. Read more about Fictive Fingers here.

A production agency comprising three creative individuals, GRAIN aspires to tell extraordinary stories and poignant narratives of the human condition through visuals because “telling stories is why [they] wake up everyday.”

The three videographers, each a specialist in their own arena, believe that design is universal and all around us – and most certainly deeply ingrained (pun intended) in their daily work. The creative collective tells us what their favourite picks on Naiise are, and why (we need drinks, we need coffee, and we need a throne to get inspiration from. Read more about what they do and their sources of inspiration, below the jump!