The Kluang RockIn’ Music Festival was organised by a fusion of arts and culture café that sells music instruments and offers music lessons on a daily basis. It is also the location where the music festival was held. As ukuleles are the major music instruments sold at the café, the design concept of the tickets were inspired from it with an inclusion of the elastic bands. KF designed the ticket for the festival.

It is not only representing the string found in the ukulele, but also help to extend the interaction and engagement with the attendees. The Alphabet Press (TAP) — a dedicated bespoke letterpress stationery maker that is pioneering the letterpress print renaissance in Malaysia, was chosen to collaborate in making the idea a reality. Simply because, the texture and the tactile quality of a letterpress print help to elevate the collecting value of the tickets.
-KF Lim

Activities Kluang RockIn’ is the first music festival held in Kluang, the south of Malaysia. It is organised by Anke Uke — arts and culture café — founded by Asia’s renowned songwriter, Ruiye and his wife Goh Wei Wei, who graduated from Berkeley College of Music. Over the years since it was founded, Anke Uke has organised six unplugged music performances and a three-day event that is about street graffiti, open mic, live forum as well as mini concerts. Singers such as Aki Huang, Tangerine Wong, Will Wong, Ah Fei, Athena Beh, Vivian Chua and various music bands have participated throughout these irregular initiatives.
-KF Lim

Together with the artist autograph signing event of Bell, Jin, Amy Wang and Ke Qing organised by the record company, it has helped to elevate the overall quality and music appreciation in Kluang. It has successfully made Kluang an important stop for music campaigns by Malaysian artists, and it also helped drive local tourism market. In 2015, Kluang RockIn’ has invited 小城星電台 from Taiwan to perform in the music festival too.
-KF Lim

From ink to paper, The Alphabet Press is a dedicated bespoke letterpress stationery maker that have revived the dying craft of letterpress printing in Malaysia. With no assistance of any magic formula, they have gracefully merged contemporary designs with the help of an old friend, a 1950’s German vintage printing press that blossoms beautiful hand-crafted stationary that undergoes a rigorous labour intensive process.
-KF Lim

design: KF Lim / print&photo: The Alphabet Press (TAP) / photo: Xjun Lee (Mocco)

About KF Lim

KF Lim, originally from Sabah, Malaysia spent the last 5 years in Taiwan. He loves to work with simplistic, minimal design styles, as well as dabbling in a bit of hand-rendered typography and prints. Being multidisciplinary enabled him to take on diverse range of projects including branding, typography, editorial design, and printmaking. See more of his works on Behance.