LuLu Chen
Oolong–Chinese face in English text
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Oolong is a typeface with Chinese flare in the English context.
Fonts are known to have distinct attributes and personalities to designers. It is even sometimes talked about like people, and very much in relation to the context in which a typeface is designed and thrived in.
What would a English speaker with a Oriental background look like, as a typeface meant for electronic hand-held devices?
"Less is More" Soaps
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This set of soaps remind the users about the significance of simplicity, particularly that of traditional soaps versus the complications that can be caused by conventional antibacterial soaps. Exploration of an unusual yet logical medium to convey such message was a consideration.
Trilogy CD Case
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CD cover design for Yota Kobayashi's Trilogy, a music album about the passing of a loved one, and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
Model: Richard Tran
Type Specimen–Bodoni, Miller, Gill Sans
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Exploration of three typefaces–Bodoni, Miller, and Gill Sans in their era and usage.
Trancentive– Holistic Transportation Advocacy Group for Greater Vancouver
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trancentive.ca
Despite the new expansion and opening of the Canada Line, Vancouver’s transit system still has many aspects of inefficiency that is due to preliminary organization/treatment of each means of transport as seperate entities instead of a whole. The ideal Transport system is holistic hence efficient, and we will eventually get there, but should it take as long as it is taking?
Many Moons Poster
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Typographic poster based on my interpretation of the song Many Moon by Janelle Monae. First direction reflects the classy vintage, art nouveau quality of the song opening, and the second direction is the funky, energetic pop of the main tune.
