Your Friendly Warning by Minjee Cheon

Your Friendly Reminder Pattern, Art, Design, & Architecture

Pattern, Art, Design, & Architecture

Theme Abstract A friendly warning for what might be awaiting us in the future.

With the development of string entanglement, it might be possible to utilize it as new technology and bring about new transportation methods such as teleportation. However, there is a possibility that the technology will be abused.

For instance, diseases can be easily spread and people could be teleported wrongly on purpose so they arrive sliced up in a different location. The disďŹ gured human forms present a whimsical approach on a possible apocalyptic future when string entanglement is misused.

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Quantum Theory Relationship between Bohr and Einstein Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein were the pioneers of quantum theory. I found their relationship interesting because they had opposing ideas regarding the theory. However, as they competed against each other to prove the other wrong, the helped develop the quantum theory as well.

Although they are the opposites, together they helped develop a theory. I felt like this could be represented through ying and yang.

Quantum Entanglement Through a documentary, I found out that quantum spookiness is actually under research and has some progress. A team has managed to transmit photons between La Palma and Tenerife.

I was surprised that I have not known a big project as such earlier. This made me thinking about how it might be well developed in the future and people are unaware of it. An apocalyptic future.

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Your Friendly Warning

Inspiration I was thinking about what might happen after we master quantum physics. The technology could be abused and misused as a weapon. In quantum entanglement, two particles no matter the distance between them could influence each other. I feel it is possible to used this connection to spread diseases, cause another person’s body to disfunction, and cause other country’s systems to break down.

The Television show has a whimsical and light way of approaching topics that are not neccessarily light.

Adventure Time

I liked the strong character of the illustrations.

The color consistency throughout the pieces help bring the various figures together.

Sangho Bang

Research

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Motif Design On the left are motifs that were fillers or additional details to add on to the design. On the right are main motifs that represent disfigured human figures due to the development and misuse of string theory. For instance, the motif on the top left corner represents a dissected figure who is running after its different body parts in an effort to reconnect them.

Motif Design

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Motif Design

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Vertical Layout Initially, I struggled with ďŹ nding a suitable background color for the design. As demonstrated in the layout on the far left, I tried using purple or blue to accentuate the mysterious and magical mood.

However, this was not allowing the motifs to stand out. Another problem was lack of structure.

Taking these problems and feedback into account, I worked on creating a structure ďŹ rst and adding on neutral colors that will not swallow the colors of the motifs. In the end, I settled on offwhite because it looked less morbid than the black background.

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Layout

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Horizontal Layout During the process of modifying a vertical layout into a horizontal one, I realized the design was better suited to be horizontal.

I believe this is mainly because the main structure, as demonstrated on the right, is easier to be recognized when its horizontal.

Main structure. Easier to view when its horizontal.

Human ďŹ gures emerging from the portal

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Opacity added to the background detail The circles help make it look like the bloodlines are entering the body. It adds on a three dimenstional look

Shedding skin Human ďŹ gures entering the portal

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Application Due to its quirky and vibrant colors, I felt like the patterns will best suited for street fashion apparels or lifestyle concept stores.

Application

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Application

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Your Friendly Warning

Artist Bio

Offered as a limited edition, the Minjee is powerfully designed for random walks at 3AM, sharing tubs of ice cream, and sharing music. With an all-day battery life, Minjee is your perfectly portable buddy.

Minjee is currently pursuing a degree in Visual Communications and Product Design at the School of Arts, Design, & Media.

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