YU Yen Chu, Dina
PORTFOLIO Illustration and Graphic Design
CV Y u Y e n C h u, D i n a Illustration & Graphic Design EDUCATION 2009/2015
Po Leung Kuk Ms Ma Kam Ming Chueng Fook Sien College Elective: Art, Chemistry
2015/Present
School of Continuing and Professional Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUSCS
EXPERIENCE 2010/2015
School Orchestra
2013 Art Camp - Artizen 2012-2014 Green Ambassador 2015/Present Unofficial Game Guide Organizor 2017/Present Parttime Tutor
CONTACT TEL: 9335 2492 Email: bamboouhc@gmail.com INTERESTS Drawing Photography Music Reading
MOTTO Try As Much As You Can. Perseverence Is Key To Success. SKILLS Microsoft Office Illustrator Photoshop 3Ds Max
CONTENT
1 My Most Unforgettable Project Admirable Trash 2 My Self Branding Project Bamboo Craft House 3 My Illustration book - Snail 4 My Photo - Beautiflow 5 Small Illustration Project Lamma Island Life 6 Arcylic + Reciept Painting: Control-less 7 Oil + Trash Painting: Rubbish - Reflection
My Most Unforgettable Project Admirable Trash
Title: Admirable Trash Format: Ceramic Size/ dimensions: 30cm x 30 cm x 30cm each, Flexible size Purpose of the project: Doing a reflect on the definition of “trash”. Intended target audience: Everyone
Description: Many people think useless things is equal to trash. Therefore, I got a thought of wanting to know the definition of trash. If I have an empty bottle, does it mean that it is a trash? So, I tried to use ceramic and made it as a crumpled paper. It’s providing a lead for people to think what is it. Is this a crumpled paper, a ceramic, a trash or an art piece?
Title: Admirable Trash Format: Ceramic Size/ dimensions: 30cm x 30 cm x 30cm each, Flexible size Year of Creation: 21/1/2014 - 8/9/2014
Project Development Process At the beginning, I was inspired by conceptual art. I was quite stubborn in the past. I was doing obvious visual art, which was quite straight-forward. To me, I got in touch with conceptual art. “Fountain� by Marcel Duchamp collasped my original thought of art. I wanted to bring this feeling and progress of feeling to people. Thus, I wanted to show off the beauty of trash and making people have a reflection about what are they looking at.
Personal insights During the project, I experienced a lot of the spirit of doing trials. At the beginning, I had no knowledge about ceramics. Later on, I tried to learn about the way to made it. In the project, my aim is to make a ceramic crumpled paper and I was doing a lot of trials so that I could make paper feeling. I had lot of inspiration at that time. Especially about the texture, I had to investigate a way to make ceramic like a paper. I started to investigate the promotion of water and materials and the ability of the material can be.
My Self-Branding Project Bamboo Craft House
Title: Bamboo Craft House Format: Branding Project Size/ dimensions: Flexible size Purpose of the project: Exploring the form of bamboo Promoting using more bamboo as a material, which is growing quickly
Intended target audience: Everyone Description: Bamboo is a traditional, flexible and environmentally-friendly material. In this project, I tried to demonstrate opening a Bamboo Crafting House, which is teaching people how to make bamboo crafts. Through the project, I have experience the intelligence of this material. The texture of bamboo is smooth but it can afford things. Also, every product is irreplaceable. It’s a long way to investigate this material.
Personal insights In this project, I went on street and collect some bamboo that was thrown after construction. I had to cut and woven bamboo. I feel it’s very interesting! I have to tried the way to force and bend. It’s very difficult at the beginning. Later, I found its like having a communication with the material. I straightly bend them when I don’t have any idea of the method. After went online and watched some tutorial about bamboo, I knew I have to put them in water and keep them wet. Also, I found that the texture of bamboo is also attractive for me. There are still many properties of bamboo are waiting for my exploring.
Title: Bamboo Craft House Format: Branding Project Size/ dimensions: Flexible size Year of Creation: 21/4/2016 - 15/5/2016
My Illustration book - Snail
Title: Snail Format: Illustration Story Book Size/ dimensions: 22cm x 15 cm x 1 cm Year of Creation: 2016
Idea & Story
The world is still having many discrimination. In the story, I take a black snail as a metaphor. Black snail is a heterogeneity because non of the snail in the community is black. The black snail is so inferior and close up the heart. Actually, in our life, so many “labels" are put on different people. Sometimes, we are not able to stop those people, but there will always somebody knows us. Hope people cheer up themselves.
New Skill Explore
This project leads me to investigate the ability. Use a piece of paper to form a 3D graphic, the way the book open and the method to make some interaction between story and the reader are all new try for myself. And the key is to make dummy.
My Photo - Beautiflow
Title: Beautiflow Format: Photography Size/ dimensions: A4 Year of Creation: 2016 I love to look for the beauty in my life. One of my favourite hobby is to take photos. I think Hongkongers always said that they are living in concrete forest and looking for greens.
However, I actually found quite a lot beautiful plants in the public parks. Through the photos, I want to tell people those beautiful plants may not need to hike and take a long traffic time to be. It’s all around us and just depending on how you observe.
Title: Rubbish - Reflection Format: Mix Media (Oil and trash) Size/ dimensions: 60” x 20” Year of Creation: 2013 - 2014
Title: Control-less Format: Mix Media (Arcylic and Receipts) Size/ dimensions: 75” x 40” Year of Creation: 2014
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