HOUSE OF INCEST

Posters for an art rave inspired by Anaïs Nin's writing, a week-long event held at the Post-Museum featuring artists, musicians, poets, talks and film screenings.

Drawing inspiration from one of the main tracks (Depraved New World), art direction was based on the concept of a dystopian world. The layering of type and abstract illustrations of calculated (largely Mayan) prophecies creates a sense of cryptic chaos that sets the mood of the product. Coupled with mathematical iconographies, this very subtly suggests technological advancement and the human ego, which will ultimately lead to Earth's demise.

The cover art embodies the layering of transparencies containing individual song lyrics, which can be removed & viewed separately when desired.

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Invited to interpret one of the A-Z of phobias, "Radiophobia (Fear of radiation, x-rays)" for the special issue, FEAR

We all know that radiation can damage genes, cause mutations, and various forms of cancer, and most avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Although we are constantly exposed to ionizing radiation from many natural sources: fluids we drink, air we breathe, and naturally occurring radioactive materials in the food we eat, radiophobia refers to an extreme fear of radiation, and X-rays. The term surfaced in the former Soviet Union, when, after the Chernobyl disaster, many patients were diagnosed of radioactive sickness and accused of radiophobia. There might be one living organism that thrives on radiation though—a robot sent into the Chernobyl reactor in 2007 returned with samples of melanin-rich radiotrophic fungi that, to scientists' amazement, are growing on the reactor's walls.

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Europe tour poster for bands Seila Chiara (Lyon, France) & Nonrem (Tokyo, Japan), managed by Tokyo Jupiter Records.

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www.projectsynaesthesia.com

SYNÆSTHESIA is a serial typographic experiment that brings together 17 pairs of writers and artists, established and up-and-coming, under one roof at The Substation.

Recognised as a neurological condition in which sensory and cognitive pathways criss-cross, SYNÆSTHESIA results in individuals that report experiences such as perceiving letters and numbers to be inherently coloured. The flyers were hot-stamped on a special metallic foil, multi-colours bouncing off the edge of the alphabets to give off a simulated effect of the condition as one reads off it.

The overall graphics as well as the interactivity of the website represent the convergence of various artists coming together to transcreate what they read, venn diagrams intersecting and creating a subtle suggestion of an eye in the middle of the logo.

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Category: Illustration
Created for the SYNÆSTHESIA
artist × writer exhibition

Available as an art print, edition of 3 (507×717mm) SOLD

This was created in reaction to leading local poet Alvin Pang's piece, SONG (click to read Alvin's words)

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(work in progress)

Movingwords is a nation-wide campaign that aims to encourage the appreciation of local poetry in every day life through a showcase in the local transit network whilst involving participation from the commuters through competitions, magnetic poetry, and various events. Targeted at teenagers and young working adults, a quirky & fun direction was given to the branding.

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www.ceriph.net

Ceriph is an independently run, quarterly book publication in Singapore that seeks to share Singaporean creative work in the form of prose, poetry, social commentaries, photography, and visual art, with an emphasis on the written word.

Subtle copy, anagrams and visual puns were employed, appealing to the target literary crowd that appreciates wordplay and reading between the lines. The feel of the journal is kept raw, personal, relaxed & approachable, in order to reach out to the amateur or first-time writer.

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The inaugural Experimental Film Forum aims to put the spotlight on experimental films, a largely neglected area of moving images and the visual arts. This rarely seen genre is the playground for experimentation in visual, sound and storytelling techniques, some of which eventually finds its way into mainstream films.

While "experimental" covers a wide range of practice, an experimental film is often characterised by the absence of linear narratives and the use of various visual abstracting techniques. The goal is often to place the viewer in a more active and thoughtful relationship to the film, which is portrayed here through the film reel as the pupil of an eye. Surrounding this,
the dashed line acts as the undefined lens of what experimental film entails. This is
contained within a simplified box: a symbol of infinite possibilities achieved through play & exploration.

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www.substation.org/6SSFF

The Singapore Short Film Festival is an annual event that takes place at The Substation. It aims to champion the short film format, increase its profile and encourage Singapore filmmakers to expand their horizons through exposure to international and Southeast Asian shorts. The festival offers a vast array of short films, no longer than 30 minutes.

In its 6th year, the festival has had a (short) history of being a quirky and fun-filled event, which is kept in the formulation of the collaterals. Using the idea of a comic strip as a parallel form of short narratives, the key-art details the arduous process of the making of a short film, right up to its screening. This is played out in a spiral that spells out a '6'.

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Artwork inspired by the creation of Earth Mark II in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Invited to contribute a piece to Kult Magazine's Artificial-themed issue.

Conceived by the marriage of two things that lie between the ambiguity of being artificial or real—humanoid androids & love.

A series inspired by Bladerunner/Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Available as an art print, edition of 3 (420×594mm), drop an email

Mortalising the traditional dagger through
heart tattoo.

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Category: Illustration

Available as an art print, edition of 3, drop an email

Poster design for a lecture on the strategies of communication & display in exhibition design.

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Spreads for the translated version of
ベストカー, the No.1 automobile magazine title in Japan.

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The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series / GRAPHEME / Hostile Defence /
Moving Words / Ceriph / The Global Sunrise / Zouk

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