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An independent print magazine that celebrates the creative process. Kuala Lumpur, MY.

07/11/2024

“There definitely has to be a balance because those are two opposites that we’re trying to achieve. If you want to go where the money is, then you have to make clothes that are cheaper and easier to make. Basically, it’s just like a t-shirt with a logo slapped on it. I feel like a lot of people would buy it. ⁣
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But we wanted to move towards making designs that gain respect from industry folks in and outside of Malaysia. So we have to balance both of them. ⁣
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What we usually do now is for each collection, we’ll create some standout pieces. Stuff that we make out of passion and not really thinking whether it will sell. Sometimes they don’t even end up going for sale. And then there are designs that we believe will do well and will help us make more sales.”⁣
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Model and garment designer on balancing creativity and commercial success. ⁣
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Read the full interview in Process Magazine Volume Three - out now! Tap the link in bio to get a copy. 🧵 🪡

31/10/2024

𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Here is a list of gallery stores, cafes and shops that stock Process Magazine Volume Three! ⁣
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As the weekend approaches you can check out these spots while you pick up a copy of the magazine:⁣
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📍 Klang Valley⁣
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📍 Georgetown, Penang⁣
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📍 Johor⁣
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We are gradually rolling out the magazine to more spaces around the country and the globe, so do watch this space for more updates. In any case, you can order a copy from our website - link in bio! 🌍

30/10/2024

A series of interviews, essays and features - that is what Process Magazine is made out of 📘⁣
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In our third issue “Perspective as Practice”, we look into how incorporating inspiration from other fields into your own practice helps the creative process.⁣
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Here are some of the pages in our latest issue - out now! Tap the link in bio to purchase 🫶⁣
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29/10/2024

“I always think Southeast Asia is the last piece of the puzzle when it comes to popular culture - it just hasn’t got a stage or platform to shine properly yet. For example, Malaysia’s lala or Singapore’s young punk (YP) culture is very Southeast Asian and unique to this region. So how do we repackage it? ⁣
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The music from these subcultures like Manyao has always been seen as low-life or cheap rave electronic music. But they are just music that has evolved from their original source, which is Euro electronic music. It’s post-euro trance but they are considered as lower or cheaper music. So how do I, you know as a person that actually listens to this music not purposely but like ironically…⁣
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So what can be done instead is to showcase music beyond local languages but local genres, like manyao or budots. So that it becomes an accessible bridge for other international people. ⁣
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People can ask: “Oh, what’s good in Malaysian music?” We have Malay drill. Or Malay house music. I mean we’re always influencing each other, like whats happening in the Southeast Asian electronic scene. All these post-rave, post-Euro electronic genres like the manyaos, the funkots, the budots, the vina houses.”⁣
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Musician on how Southeast Asian music genres can and are finally shining on a global level. ⁣
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This and more our long form interview with Shelhiel in Process Magazine Volume Three “Perspective as Practice” - out now! Link in bio to purchase 🎤🎹🎵

22/10/2024

Artist Hoo Fan Chon () on impostor syndrome: “I don’t know - I think it’s natural to feel that way sometimes. Maybe it’s that anxiety that pushes you to be better. There’s no single way to evaluate what is good or bad, and every project I think is a reflection of how you view the world and how you feel about things at the time. ⁣
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Perhaps I feel this way a little more, partly because my practice is a bit different from most studio-based artists. I try so many different mediums: sometimes I paint, and sometimes I make sculptures and photographs. A writer friend I know used a very interesting way to describe my practice, which is that it is medium-agnostic. ⁣
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I’m not loyal to one single medium because, for me, it’s always about the subject: that comes first. Only after that do I try to find the best way to say what I want to say. This means if a real painter sees my paintings, they’ll think it is a joke. Like, what the f*ck is this? You’re not applying the traditional methods. But that’s just the way I engage, the way I develop my work.”⁣
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That and more in Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”. Read the full long form interview with Hoo Fan Chon in our latest issue, out now! Link in bio to head to our website 🫡🫵🏻⁣

20/10/2024

“I think how Faris and I make music is that we are not very precious about what our genre is, or what our music should sound like. We’re not really sensitive about keeping it consistent. So much so that we just want to do things that excite us the most, because we are both really big music lovers. ⁣
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When we first started, our references were bands like Tame Impala and the Strokes; and especially for Faris, he was a big fan of old psychedelic rock at the time so that really influenced our sound. And then when Tekesima came along, we were really into Fleet Foxes and all those folksy bands. ⁣
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Now with TUGU, we’ve finally found a big love for electronic music, and we’re trying to figure out how we can join those two things together, the rock band stuff, and the more electronic stuff.⁣
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I’ve always liked this term “music lasagna”. Each layer has its own distinct flavour, it has its own distinct texture, but then you stack it up, and then you take a big bite of it, and you taste all of it in one go. This is how we approach things, just whatever that makes us feel excited.”⁣
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Musician Azfar Bakar () who is also one half of the band LUST () on their approach in making music, what excites them and how it’s like Italian food. ⁣
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Read the full interview and see all the pics in Process Magazine Volume Three - out now! Link in bio to get a copy. 🎸🎤🎹⁣

17/10/2024

“Well I think Malaysia is still such a young nation; we’re still forming this country, its national conversation and agendas. As I grow older, I enjoy doing things together with the community. It’s like when you are in a band, it’s like jamming and something special is created. Art without a community becomes very lonesome, it’s very self-indulgent. ⁣
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I think there is beauty in doing things together as a community, in finding support in one’s community. I was not formally trained in design, so in the beginning didn’t feel the most confident. ⁣
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But by meeting people in the community you also see that there are so many people who are also going through the same doubts and feeling the same things - that most of us are really just doing it out of interest and passion.”⁣
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Designer and community organiser Alisya Fairuz (.l.i.s.y.aa) on the importance of community in any creative scene, and how design is fundamentally a response to the needs and dynamics of the people it serves.⁣
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Read the full interview in our latest issue Process Magazine Volume Three “Perspective as Practice”. Out now! Link in bio to purchase. 🌎

11/10/2024

𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄: Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice” is now available! Here’s the B Side of the mag.⁣
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In our third issue, we speak to musician Azfar Bakar, garment designer Cyii Cheng, graphic designer Alisya Fairuz, musician Shelhiel, and artist Hoo Fan Chon to understand how adopting ideas from different disciplines influences their practice.⁣
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Other contributors include: artist Shuuhuahua, artist Gan Siong King; writers Julia Merican, Karl Nadzarin, Ng Su Ann and Clarissa Lim Kye Lee.⁣
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176 pages, perfect bound, 100gsm cream paper, 150mm x 220mm.⁣ RM69.⁣
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Now available on our website! Tap the link in bio to get your copy today! 3️⃣🌏🫡

06/10/2024

𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄: Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”.⁣
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On the cover is Malaysian designer Alisya Fairuz at her home studio in Subang Jaya. In our third issue, we speak to musician Azfar Bakar, garment designer Cyii Cheng, graphic designer Alisya Fairuz, musician Shelhiel, and artist Hoo Fan Chon to understand how adopting ideas from different disciplines influences their practice.⁣
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Other contributors include: artist Shuuhuahua, artist Gan Siong King; writers Julia Merican, Karl Nadzarin, Ng Su Ann and Clarissa Lim Kye Lee.⁣
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176 pages, perfect bound, 100gsm cream paper, 150mm x 220mm.⁣ RM69.⁣
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All orders ship Today, October 6 on express shipping. Tap the link in bio to get your copy today! 3️⃣🌏🫡⁣

05/10/2024

Our fifth and final interview guest for Process Magazine Volume Three is none other than Mr Fong himself, the musician Shelhiel (). ⁣
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Hailing from the scenic countryside of Sungai Petani, Kedah, this architecture graduate swapped AutoCAD for Ableton and hasn’t looked back, mastering both fields long before “multidisciplinary” became a buzzword.⁣
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Shelhiel’s music takes influences and builds from genres like UKG, RnB, Manyao, House, and more. But unlike a caterpillar that transforms only once, this genre-blending artist undergoes a metamorphosis with each release. ⁣
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In the interview for Process Magazine Volume Three, former BFM Radio music presenter Othniel Ting caught up with him in his studio, mid-chrysalis, as he spoke about shaping his next sonic evolution.⁣
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All that and more in Process Magazine Volume Three “Perspective as Practice” - out tomorrow, Sunday 6 October 2024. 🙏🏻🌍⏳⁣

04/10/2024

In each issue of Process Magazine, we highlight three projects from Southeast Asia that are doing interesting things. In this coming issue, we spoke with Chris Fussner, founder of Tropical Futures Institute (), to explore why tropical futures matter.⁣
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Founded in 2015 in Cebu, Philippines, TFI is a multidisciplinary think-tank studio that examines the tropics through various mediums. Fussner shared how his inspiration came from the lack of representation of tropical contexts in future-oriented discourse, despite the fact that much of the world lives in tropical regions. Influenced by movements like Afrofuturism, Sinofuturism, and Tropicalia, TFI began as an experiment in contemporary culture and speculative design.⁣
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Fussner’s early work with VSOON_RU and their show Sari Suki 2050, which used a convenience store to imagine future scenarios, helped him build connections in the creative scene and ultimately shaped TFI’s focus on tropical futures in Cebu and the broader ASEAN region.⁣
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That and more in Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”. Launching online this Sunday, 6 October 2024. 🌍 🌴

03/10/2024

Georgetown based artist Hoo Fan Chon () is our fourth interview guest in Process Magazine Volume Three. Fan Chon’s spent his early years growing up in the quaint fishing village of Pulau Ketam, where fish was a constant in his life. ⁣
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In works such as “Let Them Eat Salmon” (2023) and “The World Is Your Restaurant” (2021), Fan Chon explores the link between food culture and social class through the lens of fish. He views fish as a relatable class marker, with society designating some types as “atas” while others are deemed a lower class due to their perceived connotations.⁣
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“Fish is a great class symbol because through some of my relatives I can see that fish is how Chinese people judge each other at wedding banquets (laughs)”, says Fan Chon.⁣
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We took a trip to Fan Chon’s studio in Georgetown, Penang to talk about his journey of becoming an artist, his experience running art gallery Run Amok and of course, Turning Siakap Into Salmon. ⁣
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This and more in Process Magazine Volume Three “Perspective as Practice”. Launching online this Sunday, 6 October 2024. ⏳🙏🏻

02/10/2024

Our third interview guest in Process Magazine Volume Three is model and garment designer Cyii Cheng (). Cyii Cheng’s career began in the modelling industry and has since evolved to encompass various facets of the fashion world, including styling and co-running a clothing label, Ghostboy (.club).⁣
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Except it’s not just any clothing label. The brand’s ethos and persona has almost come to symbolise KL’s vibrant youth culture. In her role with the label, Cyii wears many hats: designer, administrator, and creative director.⁣
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It’s clear that she hasn’t navigated herself into these roles through chance alone. In her interview by writer Kim Lee, Cyii spoke about her beginnings in the industry, how the idea of Ghostboy came about with her co-founder David; and also how an overlock machine works.⁣
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Interview and photography by Kim Lee (.l33) 📸 ⁣
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Process Magazine Volume Three “Perspective as Practice” - drops this Sunday, 6 October 2024. ⏳ ⁣

01/10/2024

In each issue of Process Magazine, we have a Zine within a Zine segment that highlights interesting printed works from the region. ⁣
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For Volume Three, the publication “Meeting People Is Easy” by artist Gan Siong King () will be republished for your reading enjoyment.⁣
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The zine was created in conjunction with his open studio project held in Kuala Lumpur back in September 2017. It explores the solitary nature of art-making and how open studios foster new ideas and conversations. ⁣
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This re-publication includes three out of five segments from the original 64-page zine.⁣
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A segment featured in Process Magazine is a conversation between four friends, Wong Tay Sy (TS), Chang Yoong Chia (YC), Tan Sei Hon (SH), and Gan Siong King (G), who came together to record a conversation about some of the art projects they collaborated on 15 years ago (circa 2000 – 2004), along with their experiences as art practitioners in Malaysia.⁣
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A big thank you to Gan and Joshua of A+ Works of Art (.asia) for their generous permission to republish the zine in Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”. ⁣
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Coming soon: Sunday, 6 October 2024. ⏳

30/09/2024

Our second interview guest is graphic designer/community organiser Alisya Fairuz (.l.i.s.y.aa). Alisya is deeply active in the local music scene through the lens of a designer, where you would see her having a hand in many gig posters and music video graphics.
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Her repertoire includes working with musicians like Lunadira and Shelhiel, as well as brands such as Motherchuckers, Ghostboy Club, and Tong Tong Asia.⁣
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In 2019, Alisya and few more friends came together to start community event space Safehouse in Taman Tun Dr Ismail. Safehouse offered young artists and musicians a platform to experiment with their ideas in an affordable, supportive environment. In her interview with Process Magazine, Alisya delves into the inspiration behind the space and the challenges of her foray into a creative business.⁣
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All that and more in Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”. Coming soon: October 2024. 🎵

29/09/2024

One of the great things about working on a new issue is the chance to collaborate with artists that we genuinely admire, and it’s a huge plus when they are great to work with too 🖤⁣
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In our comic section for Process Magazine Volume Three, we commissioned artist to interpret what the theme “Perspective as Practice” means to her. In turn, she created an eight panel illustrative piece called “Metamorphosis”, which we are eager to share with you soon. ⁣
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The magazine is almost here but until then, here are some of her work that we enjoy a lot! Speak soon 🙏⁣
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Photos courtesy of the artist and ⁣📸

27/09/2024

Our first interview guest in Process Magazine Volume Three is musician Azfar Bakar, who makes up one half of the band LUST (), and also the man behind solo project Orang. ⁣
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In a music career than has spanned over 10 years, Azfar is a seasoned practioner in the local music scene. To him, what makes the journey all worth it is the various forms of collaborations that he had the chance to do via his projects.⁣
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With the recent release of his band LUST’s third album TUGU, this is more than true. One of the collaborations he spoke about was with creative director Amir Johari and spatial design agency No-To-Scale* () where they created the TUGU structure as seen on the album cover.⁣ Other than that, Azfar walked us through the experience of working closely with Krew Filem Sek Kito () on SILIKA (2021), which you can check out on YouTube.
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It’s all super interesting stuff, which is why we are super happy to have him in Process Magazine Volume Three: “Perspective as Practice”. Coming soon: October 2024. 👨‍💻

26/09/2024

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻: Process Magazine Volume Three will be titled “Perspective as Practice”. In this coming issue, we take a look into how interdisciplinary ideas can shape creative practices, where our best ideas often come from unrelated fields outside of our everyday work. ⁣
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By seeking inspiration beyond our own daily practices, the most interesting ideas take shape. For example, consider how the nose of the bullet train was inspired by a kingfisher’s beak, thanks to the lead engineer’s passion for birdwatching, or how The Legend of Zelda was born from its creator’s childhood adventures exploring the countryside of Sonobe, Japan.⁣
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In this issue we speak to an artist, musician, fashion designer and community organiser to understand how they utilize this way of work in their respective creative processes. ⁣
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Volume Three will be out in the first week of October 2024. 👌

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“One of the things I realised after moving here was that my thoughts can reach a conclusion. And if you let an idea simmer, it naturally resolves itself and the outcome from that resolution is often more satisfying and not so labour intensive. ⁣ ⁣ It’s funny because the ideas take more time to form, but you spend less time executing it because you’re much more sure of what you want to do.” - Sharon Chin on how a slower pace of living has impacted her life as an artist. ⁣ ⁣ Read more of the interview in Process Magazine Volume Two: “Forms of Contemplation”, out now. Link in bio. #processmagazine #nishika