MGTO What's On

Heading of "What's On"

MGTO "What's On" Nº70, 4/2009

My exhibition was also published at the monthly newsletter of Macau Government Tourist Office "What's On" both in English and Chinese edition.

Day of Portugal, Camões and Portuguese Language Community 2007

Poster design, June 2007

As I am a Portuguese born and living in Macau, I cannot find an excuse not to apply for this poster design competition held two years ago in 2007 by Instituto Português do Oriente.

For this purpose, I designed a poster for myself and for the Portuguese community to join together. What I wanted to do is that I design the basic image of the poster and the rest let the Portuguese community to fill in phrases about being Portuguese, what they think on the day, how great was the people of discoveries, etc. Everything about and related to Portugal.

The end result of the poster cannot predict, because everyone that I asked for help have different thoughts about what to write and what to say.

Finally the outcome of the poster is in this post and if you are interested to see the winning poster, you can visit the site of IPOR.

News at Tribuna Macau

10th March 2009

I had a tele-interview by Raquel Carvalho from Tribuna Macau to talk about my first solo exhibition.

Poster design with the theme of TRADITION

Don't Panic Poster - TRADITION

This is for a monthly poster design competition organised by Don't Panic. Each month will select one winner for the publication. You can take a look at the above link if you are interested.

I applied once in March 2008 and the result was quite good, my poster was nearly be chosen for the publication. But unfortunately.......

Here's the concept behind my poster. "The tradition of head-to-head conversation is outdated. The common way of conversation @ this era is head-to-monitor in which the monitor is represented in a square head at far end corner of the poster, while the rest is illustrated with a variety of hairstyles that means different people from different background, customs, culture, traditions, habits, style, etc, all queuing to talk with the square box."

2nd International Poster Competition "AntiAIDS - Ukraine" in 2007

A series of posters designed for

"2nd International Poster Competition "AntiAIDS - Ukraine"
in 2007.

My design didn't get any awards, but gave me a chance to be exhibited in Ukraine because it was selected as 214 out of other 650 posters. I am satisfied already to be included in the list and be the only one from Macau too.

As living in Macau, Chinese and Western cultures didn't clash to each other, but on the other hand, they are harmonised to each other and I grew up in this duo-cultural environment.

The posters has a mix of Chinese and Western knowledge and influence.

To begin, the posters have two icons representing male and female. The head is represented by Yin/Yan symbol, the bottom as the traditional icon of male and female (cross and arrow).

Then the title is "What's the response?" In Chinese, normally replies as Yin or Yan, but for Westerners could be Yes or No or even Positive or Negative, that's why I added the symbols of plus and minus, doing that, the posters can hang side by side or alone.

To see my posters you can visit here or if you are interested to see this year's winner of the same competition please visit the official site.

My World in the CCI

Courtesy of Creative Macau

Group exhibition at Creative Macau in July 2005.

For this exhibition "My World in the CCI" I submitted a poster for warming smokers. I used the Chinese term "eating cigarette" for my concept and designed a one day meal made of cigarettes.

For breakfast is a bowl of corn flakes made of cigarettes, lunch is sandwich with cigarettes and dinner is omellete cigarette with potatoes and salad.

It's a head scratch, isn't it? 2008

Group Exhibition organised by Creative Macau
from 26th March ~ 9th April 2008.

This is a photomontage experimentation work for a group exhibition at Creative Macau with the title "It's a head scratch, isn't it?". I made an image manipulation by overlapping different pictures of Macau's windows and doors to have a painting effect.