Trading Places: Studios in Macau and Singapore take part in design exchange

From 6-16 January The Swap Show will kick off in Singapore. The exhibition follows the same premise of Foreign Policy Design’s first international creative exchange back in 2014, when four Singaporean studios and agencies traded work with Barcelona studios Hey Studio, Mucho, Lo Siento and Two Points. Almost ten years later, Foreign Policy is hosting another; this time work from seven Singaporean studios will be swapped with studios in Macau.

For Foreign Policy, The Swap Show is “designed to showcase and celebrate creative work internationally”, or as the tagline neatly puts it: “Because sharing is good”.

From Singapore, you will find work from HolyCrap, a family art collective who last year launched the excellent Blood Sweat and Tears, celebrating ten years of creating zines together as a family. Meanwhile, projects from contributor Swell includes publications exploring the the history of book destruction, censorship and repression and an investigation into the histories and trajectories of Asian horror in art, popular culture and cinema. Darling Studio, The Candidate, Currency and Roots will also take part, studios and design practices who work across branding, art direction and print. Foreign Policy has also contributed a collection of projects.

The first segment of The Swap Shop began in Macau during Design Week, when seven studios kicked off the creative interaction. These include Chiii Design, Indego Design, Loksophy Design, Tick Design, Todot Design, Untitled Macao and Wwave Design. The Swap Show will run until 16 January at the Figment Shophouses, Singapore.