He begins with an idea and then it becomes something else. Currently based in Singapore and affectionately known to his friends as HAO, he likes to dabble with illustrations and fuse them into contemporary art. Having an eye for detail and a superlative attitude, his works consist of a variety of art styles and he gains inspirations from everyday people and life which are translated into his design works. He has also created an alter ego of himself in the form of a metamorphic creature in a visionary universe that is in search of discovering and creating dialogues with his audience. Strangely enough, he likes to sleep but unfortunately that is not a privilege he has. And oh, he likes to craft things into beautiful and wonderful works of art too. |
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Some little things about him that you should know. Detailed resume and portfolio are available upon request.Awards / Achievements Academic Qualifications Technical Skills Selected Clientele / Work Experience |
The ultimate street race under the stars. Art direction and creative agency: Into The Rabbit Hole |
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Calling all wannabes, has-beens and never-theres, FASH MOB celebrates the beauty of form and the joy of youth with a genre, gender and gravity-defying night of eccentricity and insanity. If you are an accessory in the art, design & fashion industry, then join the glamorous runway train with fellow media-folks, designers, make-up artists, models, illustrators, students, stylists, hipsters & wankers- in this night filled with air kisses, perfect hair, and to-die-for threads. Event logo and flyers creation for The Butter Factory. http://www.thebutterfactory.com/2010/05/04/fash-mob/#more-1752 |
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Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Haresh Sharma that explore the fundamentals of text and realism by scrutinising pressing issues that affect contemporary society. Written between 2006 and 2008, the plays - Fundamentally Happy, Good People and Gemuk Girls - feature simple but powerful narratives that question personal, social, cultural and political convictions. These award-winning plays represent some of The Necessary Stage's most critically-acclaimed works in recent years and are set to be contemporary classics of Singapore theatre. Art direction and creative agency: Bureau for the Advancement of Lifestyle and Longevity and Success |
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A graphical list of directories for the tenants located at basement one of Paragon using shapes and icons to denote a light-hearted environment. Creative agency: ASSEMBLY |
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So what happens when the dance making process is further confounded by needs, wants, desires - whims and fancies - of the audience? From audience expectation to the artist communicating his message to the audience, daniel k is most concerned about his relationship that is bound by the "product", the dance in his case. The dance becomes daniel k's communication to the audience and also the audience's way of accessing what and how daniel k is expressing. Creative agency: ASSEMBLY |
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Campaign for OSIM Hong Kong Triathlon ITU Asian Cup 2008 held in Hong Kong Disneyland. Deliverables include: medal, trophy, posters, flyers, banners, standee, t-shirt, bibs, certificates, edms, newsletters. Marketing agency: Enterprise Sports Group |
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Proposed campaign and character design for French sneaker brand Feiyue. Look and feel is inspired by chinese culture and company history. |
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Proposed advertising campaign for Nike introducing a new range of footwear. |
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It's time to ditch the other days of the week. |
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How many percent are you? |
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A whimsical approach to say art is abstract. Saying it bluntly is literally making an understatement. This print proves otherwise. The only way we can appreciate it is to see it with a different perspective. For the uninitiated, using a mirror to view this print helps too. |
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This display font typeface is constructed using different parts from a traditional wooden pencil. Each pencil is broken into smaller pieces, scanned and converted digitally. It would be interesting to see the tool in our daily life becoming a typeface which everyone can relate to. It gives the impression of a sketchy yet clean feel to this font. Sleek like a stick, thus the given typeface name. Download the font HERE. (PC & MAC compatible) |
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Optical illusion is implemented in the type specimen book jacket to create a visually interesting appeal. The book is colour-coded to differentiate the chapters and also to break away from traditional type specimen books. |
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Using coins as the form for type setting, a proposed advertising campaign for POSB using experimental typography is created by the use of a |
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2-panel illustration in 3D. |
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FTW |
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We live in a climate of change. The planet is as microscopic as we see it and yet in this world, we are constantly challenging the material cycles by introducing variants that will harm our ecosystem. Climate change, pollution, toxic waste and deforestation etc are just some of the catalysts that trigger a change. Save our ecosystem. Save our planet. Save ourselves. |
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A growing tree symbolizes life, reaching down to the ground to touch the hearts of many and up to the sky into our bright future at the same time. |
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This visionary world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because this moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joy and laughter. There's a communal knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the universe. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is also a question to the nature of our reality. |
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A series of himself as a metamorphic creature in a visionary universe that is in search of discovering and creating dialogues with the audience. |
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Existentialism stresses that people are entirely free and therefore responsible for what they make of themselves. |
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What if pandas are a bunch of slender looking creatures who have the ability to manipulate kinetic energy and cast a hypnotic charm? |
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A singing horse jubilates the city amidst other things. |
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This is a project about the explorations and experimentation with the circle’s core symbolism and their meanings. The study into the world of circles will experiment with the universal symbol’s geometric and symmetric forms, engaging the readers to re-interpret the circle in a contemporary approach. Often then not, the circle is depicted using long wordy descriptions. Ancient visuals sometimes accompany them but not always. Throughout the first book, the vector forms are rendered and executed according to the author’s interpretation of what the meanings visually translates to. In the second book, the process on a series of rendered experimentation generated during the study is showcased. Each symbol can be broken down into smaller elements, thus resulting in other forms of patterns. 88 and 116 pages respectively. Poster and selected pages shown from the books. |
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Cruise the day away with a waveboard. |
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Experimental sculpture piece of a futuristic intergalactic vessel. |
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What would it feels like if there are no toilets anywhere in the world for us to use one day? Out of the so many historical facts about the toilet, one would be astounded to read about interesting and humorous aspects of it. How would an audience 1000 years from now interpret these? Will they still be using toilets by then and if so, how would they look like? The subject here has a very colorful story behind its history. By using black and white, these 2 archaic colors can be easily interpreted by the audience to relate to its past and future, at the same time invoke thinking and emotions in them. A self-initiated project, be intrigued by the little gritty facts and stories about the place you can’t do without. |
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20 08 2010 The Crowbar Awards is an annual platform for emerging young creatives to showcase their best works and learn from their peers. |
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30 07 2010 Artwork exhibited in London. Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message is the follow-up to the successful 2008 Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers. Over 700 new pieces of mail art for view and buy at the Red Gate Gallery in July 2010. The 'Medium Without a Message' exhibition will be an amazing collection of envelopes and boxes from around the world decorated by some of today's most talented illustrators and artists. What makes the work special is that every single piece of art was sent through the postal system, exposed and on view as regular mail. The Red Gate Gallery |
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12 04 2010 Kult is a Singapore based, free independent magazine with a print run of 10,000 and supported by a roaming arcade game which houses an electronic version of the magazine. It is designed to give artists a platform for expression. By choosing a global theme each issue, we analyse a topic from several perspectives. This theme for this issue is "AIDS". The HIV virus has proven to be a far more formidable opponent than anybody initially anticipated: 20 years of intensive research by some of the sharpest minds in the world, has failed to produce either a cure or a vaccine. The main reasons for this is because it mutates frequently in order to outsmart the body's immune system. The epidemic is still on the rise and the South and South-East of Asia are the regions where HIV is spreading the fastest. We want to help educate and raise awareness of this deadly Super Virus. |
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20 03 2010 Artwork featured in the 1st edition of the Semi-Permanent 2010 book and released in conjunction with the 2010 Sydney event. Semi-Permanent is a design event which consists of a conference and side events which include exhibitions, competitions, workshops and parties. It’s a week long celebration of all things design. Graphic Design, Film, Art, Illustration, Web Design, Photography, Visual Effects, Animation, Graffiti, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion; all these things and more. Semi-Permanent explores the diverse and exciting design world bringing together exceptionally talented artists and designers to speak at the event. 2010 marks the 4th year of the Semi-Permanent Submission Edition. 4 years of artwork submitted from people all over this glorious planet of ours. |
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01 01 2010 Winning design is out across all ESPRIT stores in Hong Kong and Macau.
Printed in exquisite gold foil and selling for HKD$199.
Ladies cut only.
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04 09 2009 Welcome GHOSTBOY, the first in a line of new ‘Ghosts in the Machine’ papertoys! A pop-up night of paper, music and drinks at the Red Dot Museum. |
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31 07 2009 I'm a speaker, I'm a dog, I'm a way through the fog. I'm a world lover, a freedom fighter, I nurture nature so I shine brighter. I'm a piece of art, a paper toy, a smile on your face, a poster boy. I'll work with you, I'll hold your hand, I'll jump about to your favourite band. A character, a friend, a special one, I'm Speakerdog, let's have some fun! Collaborated with Ben O'Brien on his Speakerdog Series 6. |
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29 05 2009 Achtung! "A Nice Set" is the name of the exhibition where by an appropriately portioned 33 and 1/3 artists to customize a pair of blank DJ slipmats; the dimensions of the canvas are their only constraints. Exhibited at Hacienda. A slipmat is a circular piece of slippery cloth or synthetic materials disc jockeys place on the turntable platter instead of the traditional rubber mat. Unlike the rubber mat which is made to keep hold the record firmly in sync with the rotating platter, slipmats are designed to slip on the platter, allowing the DJ to manipulate a record on a turntable while the platter continues to rotate underneath. This is useful for holding a record still for slip-cueing, making minute adjustments during beatmatching and mixing and pulling the record back and forth for scratching. |
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01 01 2009 Photographers have submitted shots of Asian cities onto which illustrators have added layers of artwork. Look through the images at Tiger Translate and see how different illustrators have remixed photographs of Asia. The images will be showcased around the world as part of Tiger Translate. Our world is ever changing. In this climate of change, Tiger Beer will inject bold and new colours into our lives, bringing the old and new together. |
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01 12 2008 Artwork featured in the now defunct FL.ag magazine issue 17: World Aids Day special limited edition. |
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21 11 2008 Collaborated with Nana Roomism on her Boxy Bat paper toy exhibition at the Basheer City Room Gallery. |
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31 07 2008 Like Asia, Tiger is forward-looking and always progressing, while remaining true to its heritage. Through the interpretation of FUTURE, Tiger AKAs confront the preservation or decline of tradition, globalisation, modernisation and relationships with the West in a highly personal and compelling manner. Technology is constantly changing in today's world and Asia's rising science and technology strengths mean that in the near future, Asians will see the rise of machines and possibly an industrial revolution. we may accidentally sweep away our uniqueness and identity as Asian people therefore the past should be taken into account if we want to build a better future together. Together with Tiger, we can build a better future. Top 10 finalist, afterparty held at Zouk. |
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05 07 2008 Nani? What's up with that...? Little paper birds are free to download and play! |
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Freelance and collaboration projects are greatly welcomed. Shout to him for anything involving art direction to illustration or simply just want to say hi. Mobile: +65 96934805 |