Typography

Qualites Expressed: Meticulous, detailed but spontaneous

Although I’m not very organised or systematic, I like to plan ahead and set down some groundwork when it comes to doing work. However, I also tend to be very indecisive and I realise the best ideas come to me while I’m already in the process of doing work. It is from there that I become more spontaneous and abandon whatever I had planned before hand to do something that may be completely different. That being said, I feel uncomfortable working without any sort of pre-set guidelines, and I like working within this sort of controlled spontaneity.

To bring this contradiction across, I started off by drawing grids on my name card. Similar to a graph paper, these grids allow me to mark the exact points of the words so that it may be connected in a neat manner. I then proceeded to fill in the lines with paint. To bring across the idea of me being spontaneous and deviating from my previous idea, I became more careless with the paint, mixing in more water so that it would seep outside of the lines.

 

Conceptual

Quality Expressed: Love for Food

Some people eat to live, while others live to eat.

I definitely fall under the category of those who live to eat. I love eating and have been told that I have quite a big appetite for someone my size. My friend sometimes comment on how I’m a combo breaker since I tend to eat very often and in large quantities.

This was what sparked the idea for this card. Much like a game where the goal would be to get as many points as possible, my ‘goal’ in life is to eat as much as I possibly can. To illustrate this point, I drew a simple game consisting of 3 horizontal lanes. The mouth/player would then have to move up and down to eat the burgers while avoiding the yucky green goo that is floating around as well.

I thought this was a quirky way to represent my eating habits and was a better representation of my care-free and fun personality.

 

Abstract

Qualities Expressed: Work-in-progress

People wear makeup for different reasons. Some people may wear it to impress others, while others wear it to empower themselves. Either way, the one thing each makeup user has in common is the desire to put forth the best version of themselves.

Much like mixing paint, there are hundreds and thousands of different shades that lipsticks can be mixed and made in. As such, it is always a challenge to find that one perfect shade that complements you perfectly. I related this quest for the perfect colour to how I have yet to find the best part of me that I can be proud of and show off to the world. I go through different phases and seasons, but I have yet to find a colour (both in life and in design) that best represents me, my strengths and my ideals. As such, I continuously imprinted and whipped away my lipstick prints. This is to signify how i’m unsatisfied with the marks I have left in my life and in others, and how I am actively experimenting and seeking for improvement.