Banner of Unknown - A Miracle Vision Exhibition 2009

Size of the banner is 290cm(H) and 60cm(W)

There's a story behind about the banner design of the exhibition. There's two stages from beginning to the end product.

To make the design consistent with the whole image of the exhibition, the first try out of the design was using the characters that I designed shown in the exhibition to form the title of UNKNOWN.

After leaving the design for few weeks, then start to work again because need to submit the design to the production house, I felt something not doing properly and smooth on the design.

The design structure of the whole banner is like a mess! Wordings, titles, dates, logos, characters (main image), all are clashing to each other and too colourful, its difficult for the reader to read the title of the exhibition.

For that reason, I decided to redesign the whole banner and make it more impact, more readable, cleaner and also easy to take photograph by using one of my secret character which is my self-portrait.


Now the end product is much better than the one created before. Stronger, bolder, cleaner and even cutier because of the big eyes. The black character is flipped to make it some kind of naughtynes and strange, just to give the banner and the exhibition itself more lively.

Mascot design competition for SWB for MSAR Government 2008

After many months of practising character design in my own time, it's time to prove what level my skills are.

For that reason, I applied for a mascot design competition for Social Welfare Bureau of MSAR Governement last year in 2008 and got awarded as 1st runner-up in open category.

2008 - 40 under 40

Cover of PERSPECTIVE magazine august 2008 and the
award of 40 under 40

Courtesy of PERSPECTIVE magazine august 2008

I was awarded by PERSPECTIVE magazine of Hong Kong as one of their '40 under 40’ designer in the field of Graphic Design in 2008.

"40 under 40 is Perspective Magazine’s spotlight on the generation of talented individuals who will lead Asia’s design industry in the next two decades, presenting a selection of 40 design professionals under the age of 40 that represent a cross section of the creative industry. This year's group of creative talents from Hong Kong, Greater China and the Asia Pacific region, was shortlisted after an in depth study and analysis of their accomplishments, as well as upon recommendation from practicing professionals and peers. The 40 selected designers will be profiled in the August issue of Perspective Magazine." (PERSPECTIVE august 08)

For more about "40 under 40" please visit:

www.perspective.com.hk
or
http://www.perspective.com.hk/40under40/front.html

Coverage at Hoje Macau 08-04-2009

I was tele-interviewed by Alexandra Lages from Hoje Macau newspaper the day before the opening of my exhibition Unknown - A Miracle Vision on 7th April while I was building up the settings of the exhibition at Creative Macau.

http://www.hojemacau.com/news.phtml?id=33630&today=08-04-2009&type=culture

Coverage at Macau Daily Times

Interview by journalist Natalie Leung from Macau Daily Times at the opening ceremony of my first solo exhibition on 8th April 2008.

http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25477&Itemid=28

Explaining the logo

I used the colour that I like most for the logo of the exhibition, blue (C100 + M36), because this is mysterious and intellectual.

The silhouette of a character is my self-portrait and is only released or uncovered on the day of opening to make it unknown.

The word unknown in the logo was written in a different way, i used the uncommon way of reading the word using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that we used normally in the dictionary. When we look for a word, don't you see some strange words or alphabets that teach the way the word is pronounce? That's a phonetic alphabet based on latin alphabet.

By doing that, I showed already how uncommon this exhibition is going to be and this can be what so called Unknown.

Poster for Unknown - A Miracle Vision 2009

After few months of hard work at creating character design, finally it's time for the exhibition day. Here a big thank you to Creative Macau inviting me to show up my "unknown" creativity to the public.

The title is Unknown and it means a lot to me. Can be unknown territory, unknown exploration, unknown talent, unknown way, unknown not always represent a negative aspect. Here I name the title Unknown, because for one reason, I couldn't find a proper name by the time need to submit relevant information to the center and two, because even myself cannot really categorise what field of creativity my creations belong. Can be illustration, graphic design, icon design, cartoon, animation and many more.