Project 1 Hello World | Final

Design Concept

Eggs are versatile, endearing and comforting (and so am I?). This bento uses the metaphor of eggs to create an exposition for my curriculum vitae.

The simple, quiet exterior opens up to a sunny assortment of hey-are-those-eggs? The comforting and familiar egg is transformed into tactile blocky wooden toys – ones that you can take apart, stack, and spin. In crafting these toys, I drew on inspiration from children’s toys and mimicked the basic motor and analytical skills that the toys would foster. Through these toys, I aimed to recreate familiarity, childhood comfort, and wonder, qualities which I aim to inspire through my work and narratives.

Scotch Egg Recipe

1. Add finely chopped time management to sausage meat along with a good grating of “Why are there only 24 hours in a day“.

2. Give a good pinch of sea salt and kopi bing hot one, mix together, then divide into 8 balls. Season with:

Responsibility
Psychological ownership of responsibilities is a tenet of a good scotch egg. A strong sense of commitment is good motivation for making sure things are carried to completion, even when difficulties arise.

Achievement
By nature, a delicious egg takes great pride in being efficient and productive. Its springy yolk bounces readily into challenging work and invests time and heart to produce top notch results.

The metaphor of the toys is then revealed through the cookbook – a collection of 8 different ways to cook an egg. Through witty copywriting, I extend the metaphor of the versatility of eggs into various aspects of my curriculum vitae. For example, the maze toy (poached egg) mimics the swirling motion required to make poached eggs and translates into my strategic thinking skills. The sunny core of the scotch egg translates into achievement and responsibility, core values that I hold near and dear. The stacking discs – my foundational education.

I hope this warm meal fills your tummy and leaves you hungry for more.

About

Kim Nguyen is an illustrator and designer who enjoys crafting stories and experiences. Through storytelling methods, she aims to facilitate culture by identifying common denominators in the human experience. She augments ordinary experiences by creating delightful metaphors in order to create spaces for conversations.

She hopes to use illustrative and visual storytelling approaches to deepen empathy through articulating difficult conversations and shared experiences. For example, it might be challenging to challenging to talk about difficult topics such as Why are you always late, or Why must I do this to graduate, but perhaps through silly metaphors we can gently open channels for reasoned discourse.

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