Category: English
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Revisiting & reflecting on an evolving identity.
I left New York City in May 2010 and I had a chance to visit again a few weeks ago, 13 years later. I didn’t know that only after I revisit this city, I would be able to feel the influence it still has on me. I moved around like I never left, I shared…
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I can design anywhere. Hey Powerpoint!
When I first opened a powerpoint file I was sitting in front of the screen for few minutes trying to decide where to go. I remembered all the super-busy powerpoint presentations I had seen in my life, with ready-made backgrounds, “supposed to be cool” effects, bad typefaces, low quality pictures and no information hierarchy at…
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Essay 1: Medium as an inspiration.
I see my self standing for more than twenty minutes in front of boxes of ink, pencils of various weights, erasers, papers, paper boxes and empty sketchbooks. Only by watching all these amazing materials, I can sit down immediately and start drawing for no reason. I mean, I do not need another reason. Medium is the reason when there are no time or…
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No one ever reaches the Dock without getting wet.
As I draw, I am focusing even more on the thing I am listening to for some weird reason. When I get into the details of my drawing, I somehow get into the details of the discussion. In this one, it started as a small little urban landscape but then at the end, I wanted to define…
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Seasonal design: Christmas Tree
I grew up, like most kids of the Western culture considering that Christmas decoration is all about that great tree in the middle of the house. First of all the tree is a fir. This year, I tried hard to fit the big tree in the small living room. It didn’t fit, but I still wanted to have…
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Visual Poem: 5 trees
I love illustrated typography as much as I love drawings surrounded and or ornamented by typography. Tiny letters are the top-attention seekers because they are yelling out, “Come closer, coooome, read me, I might be totally useless but I know you want to read me even if this is the case”. Here is the story of 5…
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A pig or a meat?
It took me few minutes of encountering with these amazing animals to keep my mind rolling again on how we are trained to be able to change our perception from one moment to another: to see an animal and few seconds later, sit on a table and eat it. Maybe we have just accepted it…