Finding beauty in everyday material+

Bartholomew Ting graduated from NUS Business School, landed in management position of a MNC & soon gravitated to creative arts. He designed exhibition booths for years and finally realising his true passion as a cardboard sculptor. He is the creator of #Blokies.

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In May 2019, we participated in the Maker Faire Bay Area and built a cardboard T-rex!

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Mega Maker Day 2018 (7~ 8 Dec).

Photo credits: M.zone Makerspace

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Maker Faire Taipei 2018 (2~4 Nov)

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Urban Paper Show @Kunstsommer Arnsberg 2017 (26~27 Aug), Germany.

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Future hospital space Mock-up exercise for stack holders. We built the medical equipment with Blokies following their approximated dimensions to help stack holders (doctors/ nurses/ architects/ social workers/ UX Designers/ Executives) visualized their future hospital space.

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Titian Budaya @ Publika Mall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 21 & 22 November 2015. Cardboard #MakerBear #MakerPanda (4.5mL x 3.5mW x 3.3mH) and #F1 car (4.7m x 1.7m x 1mH).

Photo credit: Lev Chiong

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I started to teach at Raffles Institution since August 2015 (and also as Artist-in-residence) and together with a group of AEP (Art Elective Programme) secondary three students, we created this colourful sculpture. The name of the sculpture is called “Fragility”- an effort to create awareness for marine conservation.

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6th World #MakerFaire #MakerBear. My first experience to build the dome structure in New York with volunteers! Come visit this weekend (26~27 Sep 2015) before it’s gone!

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Tanglin Trus School (Singapore) Life-size Cardboard F1 car build-up. Dimension 4.7m x 1.7m x 1mH. 

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Big bear head (dimension: 4.5m x 3.6m x 3mH) at SuperHeroMe Festival, Maker Faire Singapore and Raffles Institution campus. (July ~ Sep 2015)

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Changi Airport Celebrates SG50. On exhibition from 16 Jul ~ 30 Sep 2015. We worked on the project with the community for 6 weeks (plus 2 weeks lighting and on-site installation). Every week, we built one icon of Singapore past and present airport control tower- from the first aeroplane that landed in Old Racecourse grand stand to the 6m tall Changi Control Tower, entirely made out of cardboard.

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SEAGames sculpture at Central Singapore CDC Upcycling campaign at Toa Payoh Hub Atrium on 11 April 2015 (Saturday). The public enjoys the cardboard living room, which are built almost a year ago for the International Furniture Fair Singapore Green Pavilion (And this time round, proudly sponsored by SFIC, designed and assembled by our team).

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/butternmilk/sets/72157651882300732/

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Looking back at the projects that the team has done last year, these are some of the cardboard statistics (Number of cardboard sheets used, dimension: 2.3m x 1.2m, thickness 5mm ~ 15mm).

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22 September 2014, Singapore F1 night race ended the night before. Early in the morning, we are supposed to deliver the cardboard F1 cars from the padang back to respective schools. The students had put in tremendous effort to paint the cars so it's a reward to them in a way. What was unexpected is that it became the only car that crashed (or looked alike) during the night race. One of the wheels is missing.

Despite the drama, no casualty during the incident, or at least not publicly announced.

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1 December 2014 ~ 4 January 2015. Christmas exhibition at Plaza Singapura (level 4) for post publicity of Science Festival. Instagram competition proudly sponsored by PS. #PSdino. We moved in early in the morning through the cargo lift and managed to finish the placement of cardboard dinosaurs within an hour.

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11~ 25 December 2014. Suntec City Tower 4 Christmas Blokies Activities. Families and kids built amazing sculptures out of the Blokies, from reindeers, furnitures, castle, to robots!

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12 December 2014 (Friday)- "A Better World" Exhibition by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Cardboard Panel designed by Dessen Hillman, concept by Dr. Chong KengHua. Photo credit: Dr. Chong KengHua.