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.
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.
Languages are a means of communication with their own writing systems and character structures. However, when these visual differences are made more obvious with the inconsistent typographic choices between the English and Chinese language in bilingual posters, it obstructs how information is understood and navigated when these languages are placed together.
Anchored on the pillars of education and archival, Types Unite aims to investigate how the English and Chinese writing systems can form a cohesive visual system for designers to be more sensitive while designing bilingual posters for Singapore, a multilingual society.
In the face of life transitions, young adults are particularly susceptible to loneliness, which may lead to a deterioration in physical and mental health. By encouraging young adults to connect with themselves, their community and the surrounding natural environment, Oasis aims to provide resources and tools to tackle both external causes and internal emptiness. This digital platform is an all-in-one companion that facilitates mood tracking, friendship establishment and nature-related experiences that nurtures social and nature connectedness.
I undertook With Lots of Love to gain a deeper understanding of the plethora of conflicting emotions that I feel towards my mother, with the hope that through the process of engaging my mother in the project, that we will both begin a healing journey.
For this project, concurrently I sieved through our belongings to compare our preferences, and showcased our differing opinions through reenacting our day-to-day encounters. Both acts, one of comparing our personal belongings revealed my mother and I are more alike than different in our preferences, whilst the other of examining my mother’s dislike over my dressing choices, came together to shed light into our contentious relationship.
It is also a milestone for me, a sense of emancipation as I transmit the emotions that I feel of this difficult mother-daughter relationship into a visual form and writing.
With Lots of Love was not created with the intention to change my mother’s preferences or beliefs, but to open up space for potential conversation between my mother and I.