Rio 2 Toys

Just realized that these birdeys have been released to the markets and I can finally share with you the designs ! (:] They have a very special place in my heart, these toys. 2 and a half years ago it was my first program I worked on for Nestle CPW at The Marketing Store.

At the time all we had was a couple of lines of script on what's gonna happen in the film and a small (very pixelated) drawn designs of the little frog character. I personally love these little whistle figurines..

Smartphone Sound Booster

Carlsberg asked to come up with some cool products for their 'Born to be Chilled' campaign. Out of the range, I've worked on the sound amplifier design . We nick-named it The Slipper :D . There were other designs suggested, such as some cool faceted amplifiers, which I thought looked more cool... But oh well, I guess :]

Generally the product is compatible with most smart devices and does actually boost the sound :D I saw some colleagues around the building doing some little work , their phones playing loud music with the help of this little fella :]

The benefit of silicone material is that the sound bounces around a little bit softer  in the chamber. With hard plastic chamber the sound would have a really tight and sharp quality to it.

It was distributed in ASDA stores at the beginning of summer (sorry, I'm a bit late to share this  design here :/ ) .

Puppy Character Bins

Cuboid characters... something that's caught the design trend I think? It was fun to create this little fella and it might even make it to print on London Southbank bins! (:] 

Change in Heart

Here's something refreshing to product design role....Lately I've been experimenting with animating illustrations. All in preparation for some of animated loops to be played in Thailand's clubs courtesy of my friend and a talented DJ Duncan Mills.

 So here is an animated loop test sequence called change in heart..or rather changing heart.. The basic approach was drawing multiple illustrations and animating opacity change + adding some effect to go with each 'colour stage'.  And there you go, a little tiny sequence.

Breathing Under Water 2

A second batch of storyboard  illustrations for song called Breathing under water by Hiatus Kaiyote. I sense that some 2.5D and 3D warming up is on its way :D

Have a listen, you'll have a lovely 6 minutes..

Guinness World Record Toys for Mcdonalds' Happy Meal

Something I've worked on that I can finally share with the world (only after 2 years of when it was originally worked on  :D). This should be quite a fun range, cause one's supposed to break Guinness World records playing with each item :] 

Take on record breaking challenges here!

Breathing Under Water

These are illustrations for a song called Breathing Under water by Hiatus Kaiyote. Their complex yet harmonized music is inspiring a whole (visual) universe..

I't is a little side project of mine and a collaboration with an awesome illustrator, Sasha. I hope to post way more related stuff near in the future. Including projection visuals, character designs ect. :]

Decora Girl

My attempt at fashion illustration! Recently I have stumbled upon this amazing Japanese street wear style, Decora (check out Phaidon's Fruits) .  These dressed-up teens have some real attitude , too cool! :D  I sketched up this bubbly girl! :] Here is the original reference: 

Think Outside the Box

My graphical interpretation of the abstract and well-overused saying. It served as a development piece for website artwork

Some Sketch Work

I absolutely needed to post something, cause blog hasn't been updated for...a while. These are a few quick study drawings and sketches that I did recently.  I'm pretty happy with these cause the aim was to practice drawing  whilst on lunch break...

Sweethearts

It is a little series of portrait paintings I'm working on. I have prepared these to be animated for a short sequence . I'll post it some time soon.

 Inspiration comes from  I holi one colour festival and from  my friend's, Agne Solo, portrait photography. Her work is so inspiring!

For these , I started with  painting the portrait in black and white first. Then, really,  just play with lots and lost of different brushes and colours . One particularly amazing brush was realistic charcoal , by artfus.

It was so fun .

Thanks for coming by :]

Mini & Mo

Some monkey business :] Fairly loose character drawings inspired by this amazing studio website, Deisign, character design advice.  I tried to pay more  attention to contrasting shapes this time.

A friend of mine gave life to his own version of these two guys, check it out at Tom's blog

Audiovisuals, Winter 2014

Here is a sequence of audiovisuals collection. I've been working on it throughout the winter for a couple of events. At the moment I'm thinking how to integrate digital painting too... I'll share some test results at some point I think. Thanks for watching (:]

Bicycle Boards

Cycling to work everyday made me  appreciate bicycles. I  find myself wondering about cycling in general. I suppose that's where the inspiration for this product comes from (and from here).

A though of a new type of ad boards, suited particularly to bicycle frames.  It could serve for advertisement carried out by individuals (cyclists) and not by fat agencies. And you would probably want to promote something meaningful and relevant to you, like social ads or self-promotion...

Munis, a RoboPup

Recently I went to Spielwarenmesse a toy fair in Nuremberg.  I saw lots and lots of robot pets, they're definitely trending. Even the tamagotchi's making a return!  But one's I took a note of were, Teksta puppy and Zoomer pup, which won  the award for innovative toy. 

I thought I'd give it a go at designing a more articulated robot dog. And as for the name, it is given after my beloved dog Munis, who sadly passed away very recently.  It's in his image that I have based the character on: upbeat, bubbly and kiddy. Which he was to his very old days.  

P.S. a thanks goes to Tom for encouragement to revisit the design (:]