BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20170411T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:41ac56f4eec2df203391db2125354a42 CATEGORIES:In The Media CREATED:20180412T122239 SUMMARY:PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT FROM FACA STUDENTS IN THE MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR (MIFF) 2018 DESCRIPTION:
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT FROM FACA STUDENTS IN
THE MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR (MIFF) 2018.
Article prepare and e dit by Dr Musdi Shanat and Ms Karen Audrey
Malaysia International Furniture Fair (MIFF) 2018 showcase to i nclude UNIMAS’ Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts’ student cr eations. Five students from the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts (FACA) were chosen to showcase their furniture prototypes at the Malaysia Interna tional Furniture Fair (MIFF), held from 8 to 11 March 2018 at MITEC, Kuala Lumpur. MIFF is the largest exhibition for Malaysia's world-renown ed wood furniture and is a market place for high quality home and office furniture that caters to global tastes and budgets.
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UNIMAS staffs and students at the Malaysia International Furniture Fair (MIFF), MITEC Kuala Lumpur
The second -year students from FACA’s Design Technology Programme who participat ed in the MIFF exhibition also participated in an in-house furniture design competition jointly organized by UNIMAS’ Institute of Design and Inn ovation (iNDI) and PUSAKA last year (2017), under the ‘Kursi PUSAKA-U NIMAS’ grant. The in-house competition was held with the aim of promo ting new design ideas for commercial furniture and to establish a distinct Sarawakian identity in the furniture industry.
Associate Professor Dr. Musdi Shanat, who initiated the UN IMAS in-house competition, believes that the university should encourage st udents to participate in international events not only for exposure but als o to tap into the university’s talent pool in order to nurture professional designers for the creative ind ustry after their graduation. According to Assoc. Prof. Dr Musdi Shanat, th ough this competition was held in-house, the judging criteria followed inte rnational standards and three professional judges/jurors from the industry were invited to judge the designs.
The five UNIMAS student entries at the MIFF 2018 embodied the ‘li ving furniture’ concept, which emphasises local content, form, symbol ism and meaning. They are:-
‘Nexus Coffee Table’ de signed by Daeng Mohamad Khairul | ‘Terendak Side Table&rs quo; designed by Queeny Loy Lim Yee |
‘Mengkuang Tallboy’ designed by Siti Nurha syikin Binti Mohd Sabri | ‘Midin Rack’ d esigned by Lee Jan Bo |
‘Borneo Coffe e Table’ designed by Muhammad Indrianto bin Mas’ud |
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