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.

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