SQUAREExperimental Design
The Bauhaus was more than a school for art and design. It was a laboratory for ideas that would define the ethos of 20th-century Modernism. The central fiwgures of this movement sought to find a universal or ideal visual language. To this end, color and form were reduced to their essence. The applied arts were to embody the efficiencies of the machine age, harmonizing function, and aesthetics.
‘Triangle, Circle, Square’ is a project that embraces the utopian spirit of the Bauhaus but harnesses the technology of 21st-century generative code. Treating the web as my canvas, I program scripts that produce an infinite range of letterforms using the most basic building blocks of the Bauhaus. If the original Bauhaus represents a classical Newtonian model of rational shapes and relationships, my scheme is the unstable quantum update: Alphabets are comprised of randomly sized Bauhaus particles, the structure of layout morphs in relation to content, the division between typography and image dissolves.
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HUMAN VIOLENCEEditorial / Web
Animal Abuse and Human Violence is a book that visually and informatively approaches animal cruelty and human violence through different themes, questions, and narratives from people from around the world. In this project, I aimed to communicate the importance of recognizing animal cruelty as a serious violent offense.
Inspired by the replacement animation using google street view. Google Street View shows random blurryface people walking.While those individuals are located in different areas, they share the same behaviour regardless of where they are.
In this project I wanted to create an animation using digital archive of people from different locations and time. Also to depict how people have similar habitats despite having completely different backgrounds.
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Generative Art
Generative Art + Typography
This is a web-based experimental text editor that allows you to adjust letters and create unique characters.
Use slider to adjust.
Press any key to change letter.
Press enter/return to save as png.
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Generative Art/ Editorial
a-generative-canvas
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A script written in javascript that create a infinite outputs. The 365 day tear-off calendar features artwork created using generative art.
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HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONEditorial / Motion Design
A mental model is based on each user's individual background knowledge and past experiences, so different users might construct different mental models of the same system. Mental models are what people really have in their heads and what guides their use of things.
This project was to understand the gap between designers' and users' mental models and to describe how a system is designed and implemented on the basis of the designer's mental model.
(Designed and printed in Singapore)
BIENNALE 2022)
Brand / Exhibition
An exhibition poster for singapore biennale 2022. The seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale is named Natasha. The act of naming serves as a prompt to artists, collaborators, and audiences to re-discover ways of seeing and relating to the world. Going to Natasha is to embrace the possibility of intimacy and spontaneity afforded by such recognition, as well as to reflect on the transformative potential within life and its relations — from self to others, from human to non-human, from living to non-living and vice versa, and beyond. The artists and collaborators thus become ‘fellow travellers’ in the journey of Natasha, expressed through artistic imagination and research.
Project made in Singapore during exchange program in LASALLE College of Arts.
(Designed in Singapore)
Nakka is animation made with cinema 4d during pandemic. This project is in many ways about failure and disintegration. During pandemic, my initial fear was supplanted with laziness, procrastination, and depression. I needed an outlet to keep me productive, and this project could be described as a kind of therapy. (Nakka is korean, meaning falling down.)
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OF A MAN’S HAND Motion
I spent my time questioning the connection and evolution between media and technology.
This 3d animation is made with question of media and human body. Today, as we are living at the speed of light I think about an anecdote from the early 50s, "everything's copacetic," meaning everything is perfect. Is everything perfect? We are so codependent on technology. We wake up daily and fall asleep with a computer in hand. We rarely recognize the impacts to our creative output or human behavior.
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