婚礼的祝福

2010是最多身边朋友结婚的一年，

摆酒加上只是注册的，至少十个以上。

首先是祥伟, Tian Xing, 然后Tara, 到启文，

Ellie, Janet, 君姐, Gen等等，

就连爆冷门的芳哥也竟然闪电嫁了出去。

结婚的结婚，生仔的生仔，买楼的买楼。

看着朋友们都纷纷踏入人生第二个阶段，

那令人羡慕的淡淡的幸福感,

没办法不觉得自己还像个小孩般活着，

无论如何祝福你们，

执子之手 白头偕老。

Everything unknown is beautiful.

Finally quit my job and I feel much relief nowadays, can't wait till my last day and get away from this uninspiring lifestyle, I find it's pointless when the job becomes a repetitive daily routines. Been working in the industry for few years and this time I decided to give myself a long break before I move on for next job.

Not sure what is going to happen being jobless, no objectives, no incomes, but I'm so happy to open myself to a totally uncertain future, somehow it is exciting in a way. We have enough of stupid politicians, materialists, conformists in the society. Life is too short for doing the exactly same things like everybody else does.

Let's breath some fresh air, do whatever we want to do, go wherever we want to go, spent all our saving, go wild, go crazy, go get a life and a fucking big television~

the things we forget

最近连续看了几部很香港的香港电影，好久不见这类生活化的港产片了。志明与春娇是现代的年轻的，月满轩尼诗是平淡的中年生活，而岁月神偷就是纪念爸爸妈妈那个年代的。 三部都很喜欢，从小看着香港的文化长大我觉得自己其实已经是半的港仔了。

看完岁月神偷感触最多，喊死我了 T_T 戏里面唤醒了很多被遗忘了的童年回忆，亦都提醒了我其实还有一个哥哥。在外多年甚少回家，我哥哥也有了他自己的家庭，见面时也不过问候几句可能连普通朋友都不如。不知不觉的我竟然忘了我还有一个血浓于水的哥哥，那个小时候睡同一张床，一起在露台冲凉，一起被爸妈打，我考试他陪我开夜车，怕我结交坏朋友会对我朋友问话的哥哥⋯

爸爸妈妈的年代都很穷，每一天就是要担心明天有没有饭吃，得闲死不得闲病。爸爸常常跟我说他小时候要翻跟斗做小丑大人们才给他吃一个茶果的故事⋯ 那种一天不挣钱就活不了的想法，是我们这一代人永远不能体会的。因为这种艰难的生活人与人必须互相依赖一起熬过去，亲人朋友的关系都因此比较贴近。

现代人的基本生活条件变得方便快捷，至少一个普通人基本上不必担心明天会饿死先⋯ 肚子饿了可以叫外卖，不想出街可以网上购物。生活变容易了，人就越来越懒。看到很多年轻一辈，走两步说累了要搭的士，吃雪糕要Haagen Dazs，饭都不会煮但是经常要去好的餐厅cafe, 不想做家务就请个工人。生存的定义不同了，人的本质也改变了，最讨厌用钱就可以解决问题的心态，连作为一个人最基本的生存本能都没有。如果活在爸妈的年代，他们应该第一个饿死街头然后尸体还要拿去喂狗。

看完电影很伤感又开始想家了，想打个电话给哥哥问候声但还是不好意思。家人朋友的关系在不知不觉间已变得疏远。 唉，有一些东西我们不应该忘记⋯

About Ikko Tanaka

认识田中一光（1930－2002）是今年初在日本偶遇他的海报回顾展。60-70年代已经制作出这么多一流的作品，人工丝网印刷的海报很有质感，艺术感浓厚。无意中拜见到大师的作品可以说获益良多，亦对自己今时今日也只能‘骗吃’的水准觉得惭愧⋯

回到新加坡后在苏格拉底猫发现《设计的觉醒》一书，价钱贵了一半但是还是买了下来，数个月后的今天终于把它读完。

田中先生除了是一流的海报设计师之外，也热爱书籍、杂志设计，还能写文章，演戏剧，煮饭，出色的领导人和先见者⋯ 多产量同时又高质素，简直是神级的人物。MUJI品牌的产生，田中先生亦是主要的幕后功臣，当时原研哉都还未加入行列。

这几个月都一直带着它，有时间就刨几页⋯ 对于日本从大战后慢慢复苏，一班充满热诚的设计师把平面设计的理念崛起、延伸和茁壮起来，的确令人兴奋。旅行时刚好读到这一篇文章感觉特别亲切：

“ 一个人的创想之旅（1987）

设计师工作的原点是观察。观察世界，观察人类，观察文化。

只是，这样的旅行一定要一人独自完成，万万不可结成团队。因为如果不是一个人行走，是吸收不到有助于设计的养分的。而越是单独行动，才越有机会更多地和人和物接触⋯ ”

然后想起其实Sagmeister也曾经写过类似的话：Traveling alone is helpful for a new perspective on life, 突然为自己的旅程也感到兴奋起来。我不擅长表达自己的感想，search到这个人的读后感应该写得比我好: 齐婧妍。

很可惜好像田中一光，杉普康平，龟仓雄策，福田繁雄等等这种老一辈大师级的作品在网上并不齐全，比较简洁介绍田中先生的网站在这里。年轻的时候完全忽视这些最根本的设计之美，一直追求不实际的奢华的cool graphics... 而其实这些才是真正平面设计的内涵和底蕴所在。

要学习的，还有很多很多呢⋯

( By the way, the book I've read about Ikko Tanaka was in Chinese, I find it's hard for me to write this post in English, if you can't understand Chinese... use google translator >_< '' )

Food and Beverages and Design

Invited by BigBros Workshop to contribute artworks for one of the event during Kuala Lumpur Design Week 2010 - Design Cannibal. I've designed a series of posters featuring my personal favorite local foods, will definitely love to add more dishes into this series in future. Yummy~

from dusk till dawn.

Some old work. For Cutie Cultie Comic Show which already happened last October. The given theme is From dusk till dawn, hence my comic...

after all we're only ordinary men

Us and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fighting all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died

so-en

I buy So-en 装苑 magazine once a while... Yeah it's quite a girly magazine, and I can't understand Japanese as well. I just like flipping through all those wonderful styling and photograph, every single images in it is nicely crafted and damn beautiful.

Just found out Aoi Yu 蒼井優 was on the cover of So-en men's special last October. The sweet Aoi in men dressing, kakkoii @.@... 好靓～

more pics here~

when genius meets genius meets genius

Jun Takahashi (高桥盾) + Dieter Rams + Asano Tadanobu (浅野 忠信)



Dieter Rams, is undeniable the world most influential industrial designer. We've seen how Rams influence on Apple products, and now even fashion designer Jun Takahashi (Undercover) taking Rams' inspiration further by playing a tribute to Dieter Rams in his latest Spring/Summer 2010 collection - "Less but better".

Currently Undercover Aoyama shop is displaying the new collection, together with whole bunch of Rams' products all over the place. Personal thinking that the products had become more appealing than the clothes, almost like a mini exhibition of Dieter Rams, but the details on the cloths just gel with the product so nicely, it is very inspiring still.



And this is the first time Undercover present their latest collections in a Mook (Magazine+Book) form. I bought one from the previous Japan trip ~ Beside the ingenious apparels, the things that grabbing my attention the most is a series of photo shoots with Asano Tadanobu! Yeah~ My favorite fashion designer + favorite industrial designer + favorite actor of all time... I really love this shit!


- all photos via Slamxhype.

long time no draw.

Always tempted to do some fashion illustrations... and recently a photographer friend Tian Xing asked me to add some graphics on his photos for Men's Uno magazine. Technically this is consider my first attempt on fashion illustrations, even though it was another tight timeline project but I was quite enjoy doing it.

These images have already been published on Men's Uno magazine, February 2010. Can't wait to collaborate with Tian Xing again on pretty female model's shots next time :P




See more. Here.

Let's find some beautiful place to get lost.

- Kyoto, 2010.

当日常生活中找不到任何意义，
旅行就突然变得充满意义。

到此一游

- September 2007


- February 2010