Remembering the Singapore Tech Expo

A speculative graphic language project uncovering the root influences of Y2K aesthetics, explaining how these influences shape the trends of visual language and its impact on society at large. Presented through counterfactual artifacts of a 2000s Singapore Tech Expo, this project focuses on exploring what Singapore’s tech identity & its products could have been like and how it could have influenced visual culture of the 2000s.

素时锦年~Memory~

Life goes on. Once in a while, if you decide to pause and turn around to look back, you will find that life is, full of beautiful moments worth savouring.

「素时锦年」 is an illustration series about reviewing the past and savouring the memory through Chinese childhood inspired by my childhood memories from Shanghai, China.

Thirst: A Story of Water and Her people

Thirst is a 3-part photobook telling the story of water abstraction. As someone who grew up in a small city with little to no nature to explore, I often feel a sense of alienation towards the world I live in. I wanted to expolore the journey of how something once revered like the ocean has ended up as a lifeless product flowing through our pipes and taps.

Let’s Get Crackin’

‘Get cracking’ means to get started with something quickly. With Singapore’s fast-paced lifestyle, we often forget to fully immerse ourselves in the moment, thus overlooking the little joys in life. Even the act of eating might become a mindless activity, where people rush to finish their meals to continue on with their bustling lives, without savouring the food they are consuming. In Singapore, with the advent of convenience foods or processed foods, and the growing prioritisation of careers and academics in families, there is a decline of home cooking, and children have fewer opportunities to be involved in cooking and planning their meals. Cooking becomes a chore and a hindrance, and people increasingly turn to eating out or taking away food.

Let’s Get Crackin’ seeks to spark joy and interest in food and cooking in children, and help them get in touch with food, using a fun, creative and mindful approach. It comprises an illustrated step-by-step recipe book with engaging activities and educational information that aims to build healthy and joyful relationships with food, together with a kit containing cooking tools and items that would ease children into getting started in their food and cooking journey.

ACOSKIN – Conscious Skin Beauty

Beauty and personal skincare market has been increasing exponentially over the years. Ranging from skin masks, bottled essence to edible beauty snacks. Massive number of online websites and advertisements features the promoted beauty products and their indicated properties. However, this gives rise to the question of what exactly is ‘sustainable’, ‘natural’ or ‘safe’ in such products.

ACOSKIN project aims to provide consumers with the relevant knowledge of the different chemical properties inside the beauty products. Utilising scientific facts and product scanning features to motivate consumers to trust and make choices for their own skin. With an interactive skin app, users will be empowered to buy products that suit their needs and improve their skin health at their own pace. Reducing misuse and misconception about skincare and beauty products. Guiding users towards a sustainable and ethical approach to skin health.