Traditional Aztec: Personal Typeface

For Typography 2 class, I was given 9 weeks to create a typeface for a client. I decided do for a traditional cultural shop called American Trails. My inspiration was aztec patterns and triangles. Those two are related because when I was doing my research, almost all aztec patterns are based on triangles.

There was a lot of drawing, sketching, and research for this project. It definitely was one of the big projects that I had to do and I pretty much spent almost most of my days working on this.

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

Jayesslee Poster

Week 3: Digital Illustration

This is a 2-week and 3-color project. We had to pick whoever band/singer we want to design the poster for. I picked Jayesslee because they're my favorite duet. They are korean twins named Janice and Sonia Lee, they are in their 20s.

I wish they'll come to Portland for real, the date and venue aren't real

Three colors & Hues

Picture reference

Draft

I submitted my 'final draft' and my teacher gave us all another week to revise our reviewed piece. Here's my real final piece...

11x17 mounted on 15x20 black matte board

This poster made it to the school display wall! :)

Burton Snowboard

Burton snowboard design for women aged 18 to 25. It was inspired by: High School Musical 3 because aged 18 is when they graduate from high school and get their yearbooks. All those doodles and illustrations on scrapbooks or yearbooks reminded me of the joy to freedom. My keywords were: dreamy, fantasy, and joy.

The castle on the middle of the board symbolizes fantasy and happiness because those castles only appears in fairytales and dreams. It symbolizes happiness because it also symbolizes "Disneyland" which is the happiest place on earth. The doodles shows infatuation of high school students where they make drawings on their notebooks.