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October 2023

Jonathan is invited as one of the portfolio reviewers at Out of Office design conference in Jakarta this October.

Press

September 2023

Jonathan is invited as a juror for Branding discipline in The Crowbar Awards 2023.

Accolades

September 2023

COCOLOCO (Tetra Pak) is awarded Design Mark at the Golden Pin Design Award 2023.

Work

August 2023

Roots is collaborating with The Affogato Bar (formerly) to rebrand as Caffè Affogato. Stay tuned.

Work

April 2023

Roots is collaborating again with artist/photographer Tan Ngiap Heng on his latest project—Drama Mama, which consists of a publication and an exhibition beginning next year. Stay tuned.

Publications

February 2023

12 is a retrospective of the graphic design of Roots. We are now twelve years old. We have been working on it for a while now and planning to debut it soon. Stay tuned.

Press / Events

November 2022

Roots is exhibiting showcase at Macau Design Week 2022 as part of The Swap Show, organised and curated by Foreign Policy Design Group. Our thanks to FP for inviting us.

Events

November 2022

Jonathan will be giving an online talk for the APD Live broadcast, titled《在一个风和日丽的早晨》on Nov 3, 8pm(SGT).

Publications

November 2022

HUNGRY DESIGN, Malt, Grain & Cane and 'A Day To Wake Up To' are selected to be featured in this year's Asia-Pacific Design (APD) annual No.18《第十八届亚太设计年鉴》.

Events

October 2021

Jonathan will be giving a lecture On Using Pause, Contradiction & Restrain for Practical Creativity at NAFA this month.

Press

October 2021

Jonathan is heading the Design Jury for the annual GONG Awards 2021 (SG).

Accolades

September 2021

A Day To Wake Up To and HUNGRY DESIGN are awarded Design Mark at the Golden Pin Design Award 2021 (TW). HUNGRY DESIGN is additionally selected as the finalist for Best Design award.

Work

March 2021

A Day To Wake Up To / 我們一起醒来的那一天, by Yvonne Tham (ampulets) and published by Neighbourgoods, will be launching this Friday at Singapore Art Book Fair 2021.

Work

February 2021

Roots is collaborating with White Jacket to realign and refresh their branding with a thoughtful, minimal and flexible identity system. Documentation coming soon.

Publications

July 2020

Jonathan speaks with Design360° Magazine (CN) in their latest issue No.87, on the topic of Place-making Design.

Press

May 2019

Jonathan is at Shoreditch, London where D&AD Awards 2019 (UK) judging is officially underway!

Photo by D&AD Japan

Events

April 2019

Roots opened up the studio for the TDS Open Studio Series 2019. We thank everyone for their time and the conversations.

Events

April 2019

Roots will be opening up the studio as part of TDS Open Studio Series 2019. The tickets have been sold out.

Image by The Design Society

Events

April 2019

Roots will be sharing the journey as a small independent design studio and how the studio's creative process evolves at the SEARCH book launch (MY).

Image by LIE

Events

March 2019

Jonathan gave a creative sharing session on the studio's design process at Go-Jek HQ Creative Labs (ID) in Jakarta.

Events

February 2019

Roots hosted a studio visit for Japan Package Design Association (JPDA) delegates from Tokyo (JP). The delegates include designers and representatives from major Japanese brands - Suntory, Glico, Asahi, House Food, Kao and Toyo Seikan, among others.

Press

January 2019

Jonathan has been invited as one of the Book Design Juries for D&AD Awards 2019 (UK).

Press / Publications

December 2018

Singapore Bicentennial logo is officially unveiled today. Jonathan is interviewed by Channel News Asia (CNA) on Singapore Bicentennial.

Press

June 2018

Roots is the partnered branding agency under J. Walter Thompson (JWT) consortium for the upcoming national commemoration campaign—Singapore Bicentennial.

Events

March 2018

Roots designed and conducted Masterclasses for Singapore Youth Festival 2018 Logo Design Contest finalists.

Events

January 2018

Jonathan shared how the Chinese culture and heritage have influenced the contemporary aesthetics and sensibilities in communication design at Tapping Culture for Design, Shophouse & Co. and organised by DesignSingapore Council.

Events

November 2017

Jonathan will be sharing a session titled 'Thinking creatively inside very small boxes' at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) on Nov 9.

Publications

November 2017

Anatomy of Performance and Unfetttered ink are featured in APD (Asia-Pacific Design) No.13.

Photo by Sandu Publishing

Publicatiions

August 2017

Jonathan shared with journalist Natasha Zachariah on the design contribution for Notebook Vol.2 project, curated and sponsored by Dominie Press. The article was published in The Straits Times' Designed To Celebrate.

Publicatiions

March 2017

Jonathan is interviewed in The U Press on Root's collaboration with UNIQLO Singapore in Project 10 Minutes segment.

Photo by The U Press

Publications

November 2016

'NUS DID 15-year Anniversary' and 'Singapore, very old tree' are featured in APD (Asia-Pacific Design) No.12.