BEST ENTRY 1 - Calligraphy AWE ED. 3

Best Entry by Ts. Dr. Velu Perumal

About the Artwork:

The majority of people in Tamil Nadu, India's southernmost state, speak Tamil as their native language. In Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, and other places, there are large Tamil-speaking populations descended from India. Indians first came into contact with Malaya (Malaysia) thousands of years ago. In the early centuries A.D., Indian cultural and linguistic influences were effective in bringing about changes in Malaya (Malaysia) (Ryan, 1971). The current residents, on the other hand, were brought by British colonialism as workers in sugarcane, tea, coffee, and rubber plantations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many others became cheap labourers of roads and railways constructions. Despite the fact that these Indian labourers speaks variety of mother tongues, Tamil became the primary language of communication. It unites them and strengthening the link of brotherhood that exists between Indians in Malaysia and the Indians in India especially Tamil Nadu population to this day. The concept of this work is based on the word "Tamil" written in Tamil language. This word is carefully written to reflect the history of the migration of Indians to Malaya (Malaysia). The word "Tamil" [  ] is written in the form of a human body aboard by a ship, transform the forests into agricultural farms, roads and railways. This art also demonstrates how Indian labourers used to start work in dark before the sunrise and strive for a brighter future. This art piece also resembles how Indian workers, regardless of race, religion, or occupation, used to live in darkness and strive for a brighter future by using Tamil as the unifying language

About the Artist

Velu Perumal is a lecturer in industrial design at Universiti Putra Malaysia's Department of Industrial Design and the President of the Association of Creativity, Innovation, and Design Malaysia (ACRIDEM). He worked for global firms including Panasonic Home Appliances Research and Development Centre for fifteen years as an Industrial Designer and Design Engineer. As a successful Industrial Design practitioner and a member of the Malaysia Design Council and Skill Development Consultative Committee of the Department of Skill Development Malaysia, he was appointed as an Industrial Specialist by the Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia. Being the winner of Malaysia Young Designer’s Award and Good Design Mark’s Awards for his designs, he has constantly shared his expertise in numerous ways. He has shared his knowledge in designing by empowering the young and creative minds by conducting design related lectures and creativity workshops as in Botswana, Africa, east and peninsular Malaysia. Numerous universities, government departments, NGOs have invited him as a guest speaker and trainer in design and creative courses. He enjoys transforming research findings into tangible product designs. He has been a panel member of judges for national and international design and invention competitions like ITEX, MySkill, A’ Design, James Dyson Design Award, HomeDec, Archidex and Anugerah Rekabentuk Malaysia.

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