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The former Baharuddin Vocational Institute along Queensway is Singapore’s first tertiary school dedicated to manual and applied arts in Singapore.
- Baharuddin Ariff - Roots
For the next two decades, Baharuddin Vocational Institute...
- Baharuddin Vocational Institute 1971 Yearbook
Located along Queensway, Baharuddin Vocational Institute is...
- Baharuddin Ariff - Roots
Baharuddin Vocational Institute started operations under the Vocational and Industrial Training Board in 1969 at Kim Keat Vocational School, offering several courses from Graphic Design to Dressmaking, primarily to service the design and tourism industry.
- A National Design Institute
- Advertising For BVI
- Preparing For The Industry
- Ahead of Its Time
- The Cradle of Design
Prior to the establishment of the BVI, one typically entered such creative trades via an internship with companies or apprenticeship with artisans and practitioners. Studying art and design in prestigious overseas institutions was a privilege that only a select few enjoyed, who either paid the hefty school fees out of their own pockets or were awar...
BVI began taking in its first batch of students in 1968, even before the completion of its campus on Stirling Road. Over the next two years, the institute ran courses out of borrowed classrooms at Kim Keat Vocational School, Singapore Vocational Institute, Tanglin Vocational School and even at the printing demonstration room of the East Asiatic Co....
Ensuring that BVI’s students were well equipped to serve the industry was the focus of its curriculum. In the advertising course, students were taught a variety of techniques to manually construct visuals at a time when computers had yet to become part of graphic design production. Besides classes in fundamental skills such as drawing in various me...
BVI was aware of its shortcomings and continually reviewed its offerings to ensure it remained relevant and could produce employable graduates. In its early years, BVI even worked with companies to sponsor training which was not included in its curriculum, such as jewellery and rosewood furniture design.27 To better meet the needs of the industry, ...
Today, the only physical trace of BVI is a heritage marker outside its former campus on Stirling Road, which was repurposed in 2004 to house the Management Development Institute of Singapore.32 Its more enduring legacy is the generation of practitioners who helped pioneer Singapore’s design industry. Advertising art graduates such as Patrick Cheah,...
For the next two decades, Baharuddin Vocational Institute was the main institute that nurtured graphic designers, apprentices, and craftsmen in Singapore. In 1990, the entire applied arts department from Baharuddin Vocational Institute moved to Temasek Polytechnic to start the School of Design.
Baharuddin Vocational Institute. Singapore's first national design school opened a local pipeline of trained practitioners. “The reason for this Institute is that we have reached that stage of industrialisation requiring greater focus on design… In this way, our Republic will some day be able to depend entirely on our own designers and craftsmen.”
Located along Queensway, Baharuddin Vocational Institute is Singapore’s first tertiary school dedicated to manual and applied arts in Singapore. It was named after the late Inche Baharuddin bin Mohammed Arif, a People’s Action Party assemblyman and officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on 20 June 1965 to nurture skilled, local ...
The magazine showcases the works, staff and students of Baharuddin Vocational Institute (BVI). On the cover is a pattern created from BVI's crest. In 1990, BVI's graphic and interior courses became part of the Temasek Design School, which still exists as part of Temasek Polytechnic.
