Simon and Schuster: Alice in Wonderland and Lord of the Flies

Simon and Schuster is a publishing corporate for books in New York city. For this project, I had to redesign some book covers that were published by them. There were a total of 4 book covers that needs to be redesigned, but these are the best 2 of all 4.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Constructed)
For the Lord of the Flies book cover design, I decided to do the constructed technique. The book is about children living in the wild and civilization. The writing of the title is a construction of leaves, soil, rocks, and everything I could find that is related to nature. I even gave some dirty soil smudges on the background to give a dirty look. I tried to keep the color palette to green and brown because those colors are related with nature. My goal is to have a wild and dirty look book cover.

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Illuminated)
For this illumination piece, I decided to have mushrooms for my main focus. When I was doing my research on Alice in Wonderland, most of the pictures have mushrooms in the background. I also thought that mushrooms can be fun as they can have different colours and patterns. My goal is have a fantasy-looking, sweet, and complicated cover. The colors that I chose are pastels because those colors give a sense of sweetness and girliness to the piece. I added the brown frame so that the piece is not too wild or messy. It limits the audience’s point of view and help them focus on the title.

My Typography 2 class was definitely painful, but it was my most favorite class of my Fall 2012 term. I really appreciate Dale Gronso for all the strict grading and for treating all the students like professional Graphic Designers. After taking his class, I feel so productive because all of the workload every week is around 12-20 hours, but I learned so much from this class. Definitely was the most challenging because we were not allowed to use computer to create our visual on this class, there was a lot of sketching and roughs. No regrets!

Teapot Candles: From Grandma, With Love

"I'M FREE FROM EXAMS!"

All my hard work and studies finally paid off. It's December and colder days are coming!

My digital illustration class is finally over :( I really enjoy this class because I feel so productive during this past 3 months. My instructor, David Hohn has done a really great job in assigning projects, I LOVE THEM ALL!

This is my final project and I was suppose to design a candle box. My brand is Teapot Candles because I was obsessed with silhouettes of teapots during this past few weeks, not even sure why. I just thought teapots are cute. From the start of this project, I knew that I wanted to do something very authentic or "family style".

"Every Christmas, our grandma always visits us back home in Asia and brought home scented candles to burn in our homes. The word ‘Teapot’ is inspired by our lovely granny’s hobby, drinking Chinese tea from her favorite ceramic teapot. Every afternoon, she would drink her tea while enjoying the smell from the burning scented candle.

It has been a tradition since the grandchildren were young, and it was heart-warming for us to have such lovely granny. We would like to share this tradition with you. Most of the scents we sell are our grandma’s favorites. We hope that these candles will bring you closer with your loved ones just like it does for us." 

FRONT

FRONT WITH FLAP

HAND-STITCHED FRONT LOGO

HAND-STITCHED BACK

TAG ADDITION

BACK WITH TAG

CANDLE

LABEL ON CANDLE

BOX AND CANDLE

It definitely was a fun project :D