Society of Typographic Aficionados ‘FontAid IV: Coming Together’, 2010
My ampersand submission for Society of Typographic Aficionados‘s ‘FontAid IV: Coming Together’, in aid of Doctors Without Borders and their relief efforts in Haïti’s earthquake in January 2010. This glyph is sold together with 400 over ampersand glyph submissions on Ascender Fonts, Veer, FontShop and MyFonts.
VIS330 Typography III “Serious Type Design” Assignment, 2009
A type design inspired by the characteristic shape of socks—where one edge is straight and the other is curved. This san-serif typeface was designed to be highly legible, and is suitable for use as body text. With the curved and straight edge that I have incorporated into its design, I hope that I have given a regular san-serif typeface design a quirky twist.
VIS330 Typography III “Fun Type Design” Assignment, 2009
A fun type design created using long black socks. The reason why I chose a sock is that it is an everyday object that we use but it is constantly forgotten and taken for granted. I also like the flexibility of the object in which it can be easily manipulated to form text. It served as an inspiration for the later Socks typeface. Only the lower case was designed.
VIS330 Typography III “Environmental Typography” Assignment, 2009
A Singapore-theme pangram combined with the use of changing colours in the projection, the installation muses on the trend of adding colour-changing LED lights onto every iconic landmark and building in Singapore. Acrylic was specially selected and treated to interact with the light being projected onto it from an angle. This combination of light, material and perspective brings about an appreciation of typographic forms on a different dimension.
A collaborative typographic installation with Bernadette Chong, Ow Wan Lin and May Lim. Exhibited at Singapore Design Festival 2009, as part of ‘Beyond Typography’ exhibition.
VIS330 Typography III “Type Personality” Assignment, 2009
Mrs Eaves is elegance. Mrs Eaves is the classic beauty of an era gone by. Mrs Eaves is romantic, refined and sensitive. Mrs Eaves is, above all, feminine.
Mrs Eaves celebrates the women throughout the ages who had been unsung heroes by giving their unfailing support to the men. Just as Eve was created out of Adam, Mrs Eaves was created out of Baskerville the typeface. And how rightfully was the typeface named. For it was Mrs Eaves, John Baskerville’s companion and help, who faithfully completed his unfinished works even after his death.
I have used Ava Gardner (1922–1990), an acclaimed Hollywood leading lady, to personify Mrs Eaves. She was renowned for her beauty and elegance that had come to define the 1940s. Text used for the portrait was from an article written by Zuzano Licko about Mrs Eaves in her 1998 Émigré catalogue.
VIS330 Typography III “Expressive Typography” Assignment, 2009
The brief was to use the text found on a Singaporean product label as resource for an expressive typography piece. I chose the Super 3-in-1 coffee mix packaging and attempted at expressing the sensation of drinking coffee.
VIS330 Typography III “Physical Typography” Assignment, 2009
A physical typography piece done in collaboration with Lee Kwok Onn and May Lim. The drawing board materials was chosen deliberately in the message we wanted to convey.
VIS250 Typography II “Bilingual Book” Assignment, 2009
A school project to design a bilingual book. To dialogue with the nature of the book, I chose to design a book on Xu Bei Hong, an outstanding Chinese artist who painted in the Nanyang region for a short period of time during pre-Independence Singapore. He was an artist who was prolific in both the Chinese and Western tradition of painting. The book was designed into two distinct parts that documents his two distinctive style.
VIS250 Typography II “Type Specimen” Assignment, 2009
A school project to design a type specimen book for a chosen typeface. The typeface I chose was Caslon.
VIS250 Typography II “Type Syntax” Assignment, 2009
Expressive typography pieces that was aimed at bringing out the design principles of unity, rhythm, repetition, simplicity and balance.