Muses Foundation for Culture and Education Scholarship

Embracing wider horizons in grooming elite design talents

Muses Foundation for Culture and Education is dedicated to promoting cultural education.  To achieve this mission, it supports elite design students to study at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark and École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in Switzerland, where they could experience different academic and national cultures and broaden their horizons, to become all-rounded creative talents.

New modes of thinking 

Supported by a Muses Foundation for Culture and Education Scholarship, Tong Chi Wing, a Higher Diploma in Visual Communication student, recently visited the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in Switzerland through academic exchange.  At a sketching class she attended there, she was taught the abstract approach to creating compositions. “We had to tell a literary tale of tortoises through images and colour.  We were free to create in any format but on the sole condition that no tortoise image should appear in our works.  Such a creativity mindset subverts the rules of commercial design that traditionally emphasise clarity, concreteness and precision.  This opened my mind to a fresh mode of thinking,” she said.  During the creative process, Chi Wing reflected on the potential in both types of artistic expression. “While the concrete format is direct and easy to understand, the abstract approach made things more interesting and inspired much thinking and imagination to leave a deeper impression on viewers.”