Author: Joel

LASALLE and NAFA Graduation Showcase

It’s that time of the year again, where we see the graduating batches of art school students from NAFA and LASALLE! Apologies to our polytechnic graduates, I missed out on the poly gradshow period this year. Special shoutout to our friends at LASALLE, Teng Hong and Tim, who brought us around. Also our friends at…
TTR Hangout April 2025!

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally gotten all the collab group members together in one place! Ok not all our collab members, but almost every group we had was represented by one member at least. It took a bit of figuring out (two of our members went to our other office on…
Back To School Prep!

Polytechnics started their school term this week, and it made me think about how nervous I was when I was going to school. Would I have the skills, or enough knowledge about what to do? What are the exams and classes like? How much do we “study” in design school? There were so many questions!…
… and we’re back!

The month has passed really quick, and my baby is born! Thanks to those who had wished me personally on my own account, and to everyone else who paid some mind to it! Haha! Key Operational Updates As I am still working out how the work schedule will be like, there are some updates to…
Paternity Leave for Joel

If you’ve followed our instagram, or had a chat with me recently about coming in to print, or to even form a collab group, I would have mentioned my coming time of being a dad. It’s something Clarice and I have been looking forward to for 9 months now. I would like to say everything…
What makes a zine?

This question is asked many times “What makes a zine a zine?” Our friend Tum @wuthipol.designs mentioned in a few of his posts about how diverse a topic this ends up becoming. With any other polarizing debate, the purist views take some strict consideration, while other more liberal approaches are a lot more expressive. For…
How to Prepare for a TTR RISO Workshop?

Thanks to our friends @sarastreet, @9day2dream5, and @pocketpeter_, we’ve had a number of people ask about how the RISO workshops go. So here’s a little breakdown! Learning about RISO First things first, what is RISO? It’s actually a very old way of printing, akin to silkscreen printing. I always think of it as an automated…
Recapping 2024

It’s been a wild ride! This year has been filled with amazing opportunities and I feel Through The Roof hitting landmarks I never expected. Thanks to everyone who turned up along the way, supporting us in the small booths, joining in the collabs, or just liking and sharing our posts. It means a lot, and…
RISO Printing Workshops with Through The Roof

In the scope of wanting to create a community for young creatives, we were exploring ways and means to lower the cost of production for students. If there was a way for us to produce a larger quantity, but with lower cost, it would give way for more creativity! With aim and focus in mind,…
At Singapore Art Book Fair 2024

Singapore Art Book Fair was a location we had dreamed of boothing at one day. After all, we’ve only been doing collab zines for about a year or two at most. Initially, we were rejected after applying. But by some divine means, we received an email saying that someone had dropped out, and we could…