Steve

In our first-year studio class, we’ve covered a lot of things such as Food project and Essential project which including project proposal, project management and project production, makes it as a very busy semester. Besides of drank a lot of Red Bull and coffee, we also gained a lot of new skills and knowledge after this studio course.

For the Food project, we explored the relationship between food and design. It’s an interesting and unconventional topic since what I thought the design is more related to business and commercial. In this studio, lecturer introduced to us a lot of amazing artwork related to food. It makes me realised that there's way more opportunity that a design or an artwork can be than I thought. Thanks to Andy to broaden my horizons, always try to help us think unconventional.

Also, we got opportunity work as a small studio group, doing a Design Recipe. It’s a great experience although I was extremely confused at the beginning of the stage because of the topic is very abstract. I’m very happy with the results because I finally started to know how to think out of the box after this project.

Week 13 | Art Event

Egg Recipe | Studio1 | Reflection

I always asked myself, how can I contribute to my home Hong Kong, when the biggest topic is being discussed is freedom and democracy. I’m very happy that I did this Egg Recipe to express my feeling of the current situation in Hong Kong. Although the final work is not perfect, the drawing is not what I expected and I’m sure it can be better. But the idea and the story has been shown in this recipe is satisfied.

Egg Recipe | Studio1 | Inspirations

The Wall by Pink Floyd (Music Album & Film)

After I decided to go with a recipe about “egg that break the wall”, this masterpiece and also my favourite album which created by Pink Floyd in 1979 immediately appear in my mind. The strong and violence in this album inspired my overall visual style in this recipe project - there will be bold! The film directed by Alan Parker in 1982 is actually most of my project idea came from. The animation part in this movie got a lot of stream of consciousness and symbolism, so I decided to make my illustrations abstract as well. Also, the idea of my recipe about the government transformed to a wall, a wall transformed into a pot, inspired by this movie since there’re a lot of transformed scenes.

Comic by Joan Cornella

Egg Recipe | Studio1 | FINAL

Process | Design Recipe | “Egg Recipe”

After I confirmed the actual size of my recipe, I started the drawing work.

I spent more than 2 weeks to try different style and software for my drawings. I started with using Adobe Illustrator cause at that time I’m still not sure what size I will go for if the drawing is in vector so I don’t need to worried about it. But it looks weird because in Adobe AI is vector, not pixel, you can’t create a smooth shade. So I changed to Adobe Photoshop which I more comfortable with, it started very well and everything is fine. But my computer started to be very lag when more things have been drawn.

More Prototype... | Studio

After we explored our own Design Recipe idea(s) and discussed how we going to combine all 25 different recipes, we started with making more and more prototype.

I decided to go with a square 20cm x 20cm standard booklet since I want to make my Design Recipe looks like a storybook, so I need a standard consistently reading flow.

Studio Activity | Meet in a nice place

Week 6 | Draft idea of Design Recipe

I decided to go with the egg recipe which related to a political problem in Hong Kong - The government try to impose an embargo on free speech.

I got inspirations from <The Wall> by Pink Floyd a lot.

Week 5 | Studio | Design Recipe’s idea presentation

In week5 studio class, Andy asked me to came up with some rough ideas about Design Recipe.

I started with cookbook recipe research, and I found that all the publishers or the designers of any kind of recipe book, they all got one same goal - make the food looks delicious! So I started thinking about what kind of things affect us and makes me feel hungry, I came with 4 things: Vision, taste sense, sense of hearing and sense of smell. I thought Sense of smell is very interesting, and I thought I can make customize perfume with a smell of food, sprinkle some onto my recipe book.

Secondly, I got inspired by the Joan Cornella’s comic work. He got a lot of food-related comics which is ironic and funny. The following “graphic designer recipe” is one of my ideas.

Finally, I got an idea about “egg and the high wall”

Inspired by Haruki Murakami, a famous Japanese writer said that: “Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it. I will always stand on the side of egg.” This quote is very well-known by people in Hong Kong (btw I’m from Hong Kong ) and makes “egg” became the symbol of revolution in Hong Kong.

Week 5 | Lecture | “Food”

These photographs are from the series “Still Life / Australiana (2003-2009)” by Marian Drew. Using dead animals and photograph them in a painting style, very interesting.

Week 4 | Studio | Another way to represent FOOD experiment

Besides the video that I made for the Food experiment, Andy asked me to draw that experience on a paper in different ways.