Preparing for Exhibit. Sat here and stuck mailing labels and stamps on hundreds of envelopes full of postcards and posters.
Strangely therapeutic.
In honor of the New Year, enlighten yourselves with the work of Andres Rivera!
Andres is a good buddy of mine, I met him in my senior year at Parsons, we have very similar tastes and have very high expectations of each other. His illustration alias is Nook.
He combines a mix of 3D modelling and then pretty much draws everything digitally in Photoshop. I've seen the original f...Read more
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8VSrCSmLU A scene from Samurai Champloo. One of the most amazing sequences I've ever seen in my life.
I entered into a Lesportsac Competition a while ago organized by HK design centre, and given that they announced the winners a short while ago, I think it's okay to go ahead and show my entry.
The competition was called 'Design your sac" (haha!), and it involved designing a pattern for the weekender bag by lesportsac.
According to the competition entry requirements, "The...Read more
The Secret History. By Donna Tartt.
Shameful as it is to say, I don't read many books (without pictures, anyways). But I just finished this one, for about the 7th time.
I'm not very good with words, but all I can say is that it's awesome. I started it last week. AnD I've finished it again for the 7th time. It's so good, all I can say is, I wish i didn't exist. And that...Read more
Just got back from Taiwan again. I always promise that I'd take my sketchbook around with me and draw, but it never happens. I actually don't like drawing in public. I'd feel so pretentious.
I think next time I'll travel alone.
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So i haven't blogged in a while. I thought I'd talk about my experience when I was hired to redesign the walls in the club 'Sugar' in Lan Kwai Fong.
Early this year in January, Sugar decided to go through a minor facelift, and in doing so, I was hired by Blac Designs's Zachary Fu to redesign the walls with some ART.
Basically the design brief and proposal stage went through several stages, from combining 'sexy' with 'buddhism', to 'graffiti turntables', to 'hiphop' + 'naked girls...Read more
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