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“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” – C.S. Lewis
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‘We all crave noise somewhere, sometime in our lives; but we’ve swung the balance so far in the direction of loudness, and stripped ourselves of so many oases of quiet, that we’re losing both the will and ability to listen to what’s actually out there.’
– George Prochnik
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Upon graduating with a Diploma in Furniture Design in 2008 at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Melvin left for London to pursue his degree in Product Design and graduated with First-Class Honours from Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design in 2010.
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‘The latin root of the word silence is desinere, meaning “stop”.
The type of stopping at the roots of silence is that which enables an individual to take the sensory measure of the world.
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