Designer who's 'a work in progress'

TIM Yip is best known as the Oscar-winning production designer for the 2000 wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But he is equally well known in theatre and his most recent project with acclaimed Taiwanese playwright and director Stan Lai has him designing over 400 costumes for Lai's eight-hour masterpiece - A Dream Like A Dream, which will be staged in Singapore next month.

Besides headlining the Esplanade's Chinese Festival of Arts 2014 - the Huayi Festival - fans will get an insight into Yip's other interests such as painting and photography in an exhibition that's currently on show at its Visual Arts Space until June.

Titled The Art of Tim Yip, it showcases some of his multidisciplinary works including photographic prints of his film costumes, interview footage and some sketches that have never been shown.