finally think simple act simple

Started from middle of 2008, It's already more than a half year i've been planning to work on my portfolio site. Doing personal stuff always can't see an end, everything seems not good enough and the changes are like forever...

Finally make up my mind and put everything all up. Let's check it out :D
www.thinksimpleactsimple.com




In fact at the very beginning i was thinking of make up a fancy flashy site, well actually i'd already did... with a lot of helps from lovely 'Abang Jay' from Kinetic, really sorry Abang i throw away all your efforts >.< ( for girls please consider this lovely guy, add him in facebook ).

To not waste Abang's effort completely, i decided to put this incomplete version online too ~ www.thinksimpleactsimple.com/beta



The end is just another beginning. It's time to work on next project... XO

Fame

"If you want to be famous, the first thing you have to do is stop wanting to be famous." - Adrian Shaughnessy

This is one of the most important quote that influenced me a lot few years ago, by Adrian Shaughnessy in his very first book - How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul.

Read Adrian's interview here.

Don't cry

what's a graphic designer do...

during his two weeks holiday back home.

Creative Brief - touch up a picture of his grandmother, to clean up the background and remove the 'dirt' on her face, then print it out big.


original image.


version 1 and version 2.


unreleased version. Banned by the account servicing (my mom)
before showing it to the client (my grandma).

I'm not gay

After years working as a graphic designer, I feel bored by flipping at those purely graphic art, advertising or illustration magazines. In contrary, I am slowly into other fields like industrial, interior, architecture, fine art and so on. Looking at design from other fields actually keep my mind fresh when I'm working on my own.

I don't really want to admit this... But i do attracted by fashion design recently. What i means is really fashion kind of fashion, not only about printing graphic on a T-shirt. Probably started from my Tokyo's trip 2 years ago, i was really fascinated by all the fashion brands like Undercover, Head Porter, Neighborhood, Visvim, A Bathing Ape, Beams, etc. By visiting their stores are totally different experience from what we read from magazine, although i'll never be able to afford one of those...

And then slowly I learn more about those Hi-fashion labels like Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, agnès b, Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood, Bernhard Willhelm and so on. All the names that I used to see on magazine every time but have no idea what the heck are they really about. (I still have no clue though)

Looking into how a fashion perfectionist taking care of every single details in their cloths, branding, and also their fashion show, I realized why my printed tees can only sell for $10 while Comme des Garçons's can sell for $1000. It's the same theory where some 'designers' charge a logo design for $10 while some can charge for $10k.

I'm not a Hi-fashion person, we doesn't need to buy all those cloths to appreciate a fashion designer's work. Just thinking that if we can appreciate other's design, others might try to appreciate ours too. I used to be a raw and ragged person and proud of wearing a fake Ape Sta. But nowadays i started caring about what to put on my body. Sure is not those big name, but will try to examine the details, cutting, and craftsmanship a little bit more before I'm wearing it.

I'm not a gay, maybe just one tiny step closer to a metrosexual...

and then, a new year again.

回顾今年其实过的还蛮精彩，虽然没有做到什么惊天动地的作品，
每天都好像普普通通的过，但想起来其实又好像经历了很多。

年头还在新加坡工作，company trip去了意大利。
威尼斯真的很美，自己离队去了邻近的Treviso想一睹我梦想的Fabrica，
结果被拒在门外差点冷死。

三月的时候接到通知有幸被选中为其中一个W+K Seeking的人，
去了美国Portland三天算是见见世面，遇到很多猛人和看见自己的渺小。

后来告别了新加坡，去了W+K上海工作。
原本对上海公司很大期望后来察觉不过如此。
以为透过Seeking过来身份会特殊一点，但只是被当成外劳freelancer一名。
反正身份与金钱一直都不是我追求的，start from zero对我来说一点都不难，
只要天天做设计就好，其他东西其实都无所谓。

十月一个人去了北京，我不热爱旅行，只是为了音乐节去的。
我是一个空心的人，没有感情的人，跟本不懂得体会什么风土人情。
不知不觉去过了很多不同的国家不同的城市，开始觉得那里都一样，
人还是人，车还是车；吃饭的还是吃饭，喝油的还是喝油，
整天被骂没有去explore不同的地方，不同的美食。
我就是这样狭窄，不感兴趣的东西我真的一点劲都提不起⋯

当中还有很多琐碎的，也有改变人生的大事。
开心过，辛苦过，烦恼过，感触过，笑过，叫过，爱过，痛过⋯
其中的爱跟痛其实是甚少在我人生中出现，很庆幸今年有用力的感受过。

对不起一直被我忽略的朋友，我在MSN很冷漠但其实我是珍惜我们的友谊的。
对不起阿达靓君我真的不是故意推搪，只是真的提不起劲做你们的东西。
还有很多新的朋友，我想我永远都属于那种在你们身边擦身而过的人，
无论我们有多深交都好，除了高佬例外⋯

接下来要继续用力工作，用力学习，还有用力的去感受，
想找回失去多年的触觉，或者根本没有在我体内存在过的感觉。
after all we're only ordinary men.

我顶，又一年。

the dark is falling.

the sun is rising.

Passage of the Red Sea

I have been really busy before the long holiday.
Woke up a bit earlier today and so i decided to post some new stuff here:

Just finish the Russian doll for Man&God Russian Dolls project.
Man+God is a project by Art4Soul. It seeks to explore the relationship between Man and God through the eyes and ideas of creative minds of different faiths and various cultures.

And so I did this Passage of the Red Sea.
To depict the miracle moment where the march of Moses crossing the divided Red Sea, just to bring out a thought when people open the Russian doll: Is the Red Sea divided by God? Moses? or You?





Some more pics from the Man&God Exhibition,
my doll was too late for that though...

1127

It's Bruce Lee day again!
I posted this interview on my previous blog before,
I just can't stop looking at it again and again.
Bruce Lee forever :P







... and fuck Nokia for it's N96 Bruce Lee edition, it's suck.

关于上海

来上海已经踏入第四个月头，
开始settle down了。
租了间老工房，添了点装饰，接下来还要买点冬装，
把早几个月赚的钱都花光了。
也开始习惯这里的工作模式和生活节奏，
虽然还有很多地方我都没有去explore。
其实像我这种闷蛋，生活只有公司和家，
基本上在哪个城市都一样。

七月中刚来到上海的时候，天气炎热跟马来西亚没什么差别，
不会特别喜欢这里，又吵又热人又没礼貌。
现在天气开始转凉，冷气候让老上海多了一分忧郁感，
一点点雨水，一点点寒冷，一点点寂寞，一点点浪漫，
终于有点身处异乡的感觉。

之前没留意的老建筑，突然觉得还蛮好看，
之前觉得很粗鲁的人，现在觉得他们烦得来还挺可爱。
是我的心态变了？还是寒风让一切都冷静下来？
其实很可能只是我们这种热带人对冷天气的情意结。

觉得应该可以在这个城市呆久一点，
不过接下来还要走得更远⋯

the ___ cards

A senior and also good friend of mine Jonathan has new project again!
I really hate this guy coz he always did brilliant works and keep reminding me how suck I am. The ___ cards

hello halloween

Our office was having a roof-top halloween party last week.
This is the first halloween party that i had ever taken part in my life,
i spent couple hours to fold some paper tetrahedron to be used as my costume, and also quickly designed a backdrop for the party by recycling some of my old works :D








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