Message from Design Director: Warm hospitality

Greetings from the Kyoob-ID team!

We'd get to meet some great clients in the course of our work. We're pleased to say that Cedele by The Bakery Depot is one of those clients. Other than entrusting us with the room to exercise creativity, Cedele by The Bakery Depot has also been very understanding and accommodating, allowing us the opportunity to partner them right from day one. It's been a wonderful collaboration. In this issue, we'll be featuring the retail design we've completed at their new outlet in Serangoon Gardens.

Also, we've the pleasure to be sharing the palatable experience we had at a French cooking class that all of us went for in late July. The culinary school is called 'Palate Sensations Cooking School'; from the name, you can gather we had a sensational time. In case you think we're always filling our tummies with good food and not engaging in anything arduous, we'll be organising a corporate run in the upcoming "Run for Hope", an event organised by the Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, Regent Singapore, and the National Cancer Centre Singapore to raise funds for cancer research. This will be held on 18 November. Next up, we'll arrange for another company activity – a glamour shoot involving all staff; we'll be decked in our Sunday Bests posing for the camera, all in the name of fun.

To move things forward, we've assigned clubs for our staff, empowering them to organise activities and programmes for everyone; these activities can range from skills upgrading such as Bizsafe certifications to corporate bonding events like Christmas party for instance. We'll reveal more very soon. Improving lives at the workplace is Kyoob-ID's mission, and we'll carry on doing it with passion. We love to hear from you. Send us a note: marketing@kyoob.com.sg.

Michelle Goh, Design Director

Project Update: Cedele by The Bakery Depot

Cedele by The Bakery Depot launches its new outlet at Serangoon Gardens with a chic and lifestyle interior, further dressing up the funky stretch of F&B outlets already there. The 1,500 sq feet outlet is designed with a cosy and warm ambience that is soaked in rich oak timber and Cedele's cult vibrant orange as the backdrop. Complementing the chic vibes are stylish furnishings from the fashionable pendant lights, flame-coloured graphic glass panels to the golden oak timber tables that styled the café cum bakery, frequented by many locals and expatriates alike. Greyish-brown matte flooring compounds with black stylish seating to portray a contemporary ambience. After the project was wrapped up, Cedele by the Bakery Depot generously invited Kyoob-ID to lunch. The project team had a wonderful time savouring the mouth-watering nourishing recipes at the Cedele outlet at Serangoon Gardens. Cedele by the Bakery Depot offers a wide range of wholesome, hand-crafted recipes ranging from organic teas and coffees, luscious cakes made from unsalted butter, and tantalising pastas and sandwiches. We are sold.

A Chat with Kyoob-ID's 3-D Designer & Visualiser Jeffrey Tung

At times quiet, Jeffrey is anything but taciturn. When it's time to speak, the 29-year-old Filipino Chinese does an excellent job of offering creative insights and ideas to the discussion. As a visualiser who imagines the interior structure and then draws them on the computer, Jeffrey is skilled with visualisation abilities and precise attention to details. Having worked in Singapore for five years, Jeffrey is already accustomed to the lifestyle here, naming butter cream crab as his favourite foods.

1. Tell us more about your role in Kyoob-ID.

I create images of the future.

2. Is there something that particularly interests you in 3-D design?

3-D modelling and rendering of architectural entities.

3. How do you normally prepare for a 3-D walk-through?

It usually starts with setting the camera position and the number of frames for the animation.

4. What is the most important attribute a successful 3-D designer must have?

First, it is resourcefulness and second, it's patience (each time you press render button).

5. What inspires you in your creations?

The beauty of design.

6. If you're not a designer, you're likely to be a

Bon appétit

26 July was the day we discovered we could actually cook! Well, for some of us at least. The entire Kyoob-ID team headed for Palate Sensations Cooking School, a charming nook at Chromos Building in Biopolis, to learn French cooking. In groups of three and four, we learnt how to whip up Cog qu Vin and Mussels & Clams in White Wine and were we amazed at how divine they tasted; the coaching did work wonders. Not forgetting the luscious mini flourless chocolate cakes coated with raspberry sauce (we can bake too!) that we lapped up in seconds. We must say we were surprised at the culinary prowess of some of our colleagues who managed to turn around the dishes most expertly. For the rest of us, it was indeed fun and enjoyable to be able to test out the food recipes with one another. After the lesson, we had the pleasure of sampling each other's cooking with relish – a wonderful, palatable end to a lovely afternoon.