Terrain’s capabilities span across Branding and Information Design. While Branding covers Identity Development, Brand Positioning, Visual and Naming Strategy; we use the term Information Design to loosely cover a wide spectrum of craft which includes Websites, Interactive Applications, Signage & Wayfinding, Publications and other printed collaterals.

Analysis of Atmosphere magazine issue 00 (Japan)

 
Often times we analyse and dissect existing print publications in order to familiarize ourselves with various formats and quantities of information or conceptualize a translation of the information from print to web. A thorough cross-section of Atmosphere magazine (Japan) issue 00 from 2002 (photographed above) gives possible indications on how large amounts of text and images can be organized for a website using a common CMS (WordPress, Tumblr) framework.

Over the last few weeks we have been collaborating on a few projects with interns Ng Shi Peng and Kwok YT, graduates from Temasek Polytechnic. YT has been conducting a number of typographic experiments for a print campaign while Shi Peng has been assisting the studio on interactive projects.

Shipeng & YT, painting experiments

Critique

Darryl Lim and YT during a project review

Work in Progress

Geodesic dome structure, Ronald Resch (1971)

One of the questions we are frequently asked is why we chose the name ‘Terrain’ for our studio. Recently we were asked by The Design Society journal to contribute a brief write-up on the origins of our studio name for their latest issue (No. 4). Read More…

We have recently moved to our new studio location in Bukit Merah. For studio visits please e-mail us in advance to arrange a session.

 
Welcome to our new website. This will serve as a temporary platform for our studio to archive the work and developments for the current year. At the moment we are busy with a number of challenging print and interactive projects for both local and international clients. The site will be updated irregularly with completed work and documentation as projects are completed.

For now, our current list of projects can be viewed in our Works section while our Filter allows users to browse our work by title, images, date and tags.

Above: A night of research, planning and mapping in our studio with Hideki Nakajima, Otl Aicher, Karl Gerstner, Max Schmid, Design Research Unit (D.R.U.), Pentagram, Atelier de Création Graphique and Pierre Bernard.

 
Terrain currently has openings for internships and freelance opportunities. Our studio has quite a number of challenging print and interactive projects currently on our roster. Read More…

 
We just completed a new website design for Singapore based industrial design duo Studio Juju. The site is based on a customized Cargo template which was designed by Terrain and skillfully coded by the talented Jon Kyle. The main page makes use of a Paper.js animation which was developed based on forms created by Studio Juju.

Visit www.studio-juju.com.

 
The new NUS Division of Industrial Design (DID) posters just came back from the printers. We were commissioned by DID to design a unique promotional booklet that could be used at the Open House event for students to learn more about the industrial design programme.

More information (and photographs) from the project here.

 
We recently developed a new identity for Malaysian children’s furniture brand Bliv in collaboration with Stuck, who brought in their brand strategy and research for the particular market and brand.

More information and developmental sketches from the project here.