For a work by Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail, it might look a tad lopsided to the right and as if two of his works are stacked side by side with the dark expanse ‘in between’ bordered by a green strip fusing two disparate images. True, the narrow panel on the right with the inverted pyramid against the nondescript ‘X’ looks a stanchion by itself, but it swivels to the double panel, the closest to it a blinding white flash but with a line at the top forming a link with the other panel, a truncated third. The panels may look disparate entities but there is a synergy, a collusion of elements, however threadbare, among them. After graduating from Mara Institute of Technology in 1973, Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail studied at the Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles (Graphic Design, 1974), Pratt Institute, New York (post-graduate Interior Architecture, 1981; apprenticed to Massimo Vignelli). A Fulbright research fellow (1987), he won the Minor Awards in the National Drawing Competition (1977), the National Graphic Art competition (1978), the Salon Malaysia (1979), and the National Design Council (1994). He retired as Associate Professor of Fine Art and Interior Architecture at Universiti ITM.