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VANESSA YEOH
#QOTD BY STEFAN SAGMEISTER 05/06
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FOO YI CHYUAN #QOTD BY PAUL RAND 11/12
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HO LI CHING
#QOTD BY PAUL SCHER 17/18 ANONYMOUS
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VANESSA YEOH
VANESSA YEOH
How would you describe yourself as a designer?
Have you ever thought you would become a designer?
I’d probably be a minimalist but also I’m an over-thinker. I’d be an overthinking minimalist. I think.
Definitely a surprising decision I have made in life. Even I’m surprised with my own decisions. As a self taught semi-qualified-artist, my works were not the best in class because the best works are expected from those students who attended art classes and had fancy tools during art exams during my school years. In short, even my teachers looked down on my art, which actually affected me deeply as I always enjoyed art. I stopped drawing for a few years with the constant thought of never being good enough. I have no idea how I discovered inking but that was how decided to take up a course that I can enjoy and not regret or give up halfway.
What were your ambitions when you are a kid? As a kid, the only careers I was aware of were doctors, lawyers, engineers and teachers (yeah, I was pretty slow at one point of my life). Obviously my “career” has to be a doctor as everyone wanted to be a doctor at that time. I’m pretty disappointed that children (me as an example) are never explained about the vast careers out there like designers, chefs or even writers. I think I was brainwashed to be a doctor or a lawyer or something fancy when I grew up. Back to the question, I had no ambition, I just went with the flow.
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VANESSA YEOH
As a designer, what is your plan in the next 5 years?
What is your daily design practice? (eg. Drawing/ Reading books).
My plans are to explore more techniques and skills to improve my design sense. Also, I’d like to further enhance and develop my art style. After one year in this field, I’m very much prepared to learn and absorb whatever I can from being a designer. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to a future where I’m doing something for myself and I’m being quite comfortable with it.
I don’t practice daily even if I force myself to. I’m kinda lazy. I only sketch when I’m in the mood or if I found really good references. Most of my not-drawing-time are spent with reading books or writing (journaling, stories, rants) or just me staring at the blank piece of paper for hours. Literally. That happens occasionally and its frustrating. And I cannot draw straight lines even after much practice and I don’t know why.
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VANESSA YEOH
How do you initial for every project you received? I’d probably start with lots of thinking and imagining how the final will look like but it never turns out that way. Sometimes I just go straight to research and see what inspires me the most and start from there or I just leave it alone until I have ideas on how to get it started. Lots of procrastination involved.
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VANESSA YEOH
Other than Behance and Pinterest, any other websites or reading material would you recommend to the future designers?
“technology & me are in a rocky relationship” Share with us your most difficult project and how did you handle it.
I’m on Instagram a lot. Thats where I find many talented artist and designers who don’t really get much recognition which is fine, you guys are amaziinggggg. I tend to randomly browse through webpages of designers just to get a gist of their design preference and read their stories on their inspiration source. A habit of mine during grocery shopping is to take pictures of packaging that catch my eye although I don’t think I’m allowed to do so in grocery stores. I collect lots of packaging especially food packaging from all across the globe. I’m a hoarder what can I say.
Share with us your most difficult project and how did you handle it. Almost every project thrown at me are a challenge. A ton of screaming, procrastinating, crying(sometimes) and sleepless nights involved. Not the best example but I take a while to adapt to the project requirements and slowly work on it until the deadline. I work at a very slow pace at most times even if i start early. Most projects are never my forte but that’s what life is about, facing all these obstacles to improve oneself to face the next.
Almost every project thrown at me are a challenge. A ton of screaming, procrastinating, crying (sometimes) and sleepless nights involved. Not the best example but I take a while to adapt to the project requirements and slowly work on it until the deadline. I work at a very slow pace at most times even if i start early. Most projects are never my forte but that’s what life is about, facing all these obstacles to improve oneself to face the next.
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FOO YI CH Y UAN
FOO YI CHYUAN
How would you describe yourself as a designer?
Have you ever thought you would become a designer?
Driven by intense enthusiasm for socially conscious and contemporary visual communication, I am a firm believer that design has the ability in creating a positive impact and change with a purpose.
Art and design has always played a large part in my life. I remember my mum sending me to specialist art classes when I was barely the age of seven; thank you,mum! Because of her I sort of developed a lifelong love of creating and crafting. And my answer to your question is yes, one way or another.
What were your ambitions when you are a kid? I actually wanted to be a scientist growing up. I have always been fascinated by science as a subject since I was little, especially on the scope of biology, the scientific study of life. The miracles that science performs fascinate me, in both conducting and develop solutions in solving real world problems. In some ways, I still do feel like a scientist but this time around I am experimenting with visuals.
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FOO YI CH Y UAN
As a designer, what is your plan in the next 5 years? Lots of continued hard work: strengthening my ability to communicate and motivate others and a bit of good luck. Continue to strive in creating social understanding and social participation to empower humanity’s progression through
What is your daily design practice? (eg. Drawing/Reading books) I agree with the cliché “practice makes perfect.” I am in the midst of retraining myself now with a self initiated project “A Poster, A Day”.
recognising future cultural and social possibilities.
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How do you initial for every project you received? Research, research and more research, every problem has a solution. I am learning to work collaboratively, how to work with projects whose outlines are ambiguous, how to design in a broader sense than fonts and paper, how to speak a new language at work in order to have common ground with my colleagues. It is a process of collective intellectual problem solving.
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“i am a frim believer that design has the ability in creating positive impact and change with a purpose �
Share with us your most difficult project and how did you handle it. In my particular situation, I was involved in a social gaming design imitative, we design for charitable organisation, by utilising social game to direct input to achieve the objective specified by the organisation. The project approach design research from a people centred perspective. When we were developing our gaming prototype that would help us achieve our goal of improving education among rural communities, we involved the community members from the beginning so that they can learn from the research, brainstorming, and planning phases of the project and take pride in it. It is mostly about drive, initiative and gaining experience. In terms of design, we have to consider the local languages, cultural norms, and literacy levels, and continue to home in on the final design by soliciting feedback from the community members throughout the design process, making the solutions tasteful while emphasising the outcomes that the community needs.
Other than Behance and Pinterest, any other websites or reading material would you recommend to the future designers? Awwwards, Adobe Color, Brand New, Instagram, Tumblr, The Dieline and etc. Fortunately, there are plenty of reference websites/ materials on the World Wide Web to service and guide students. But, we as designer should be aware and informed of the knowledge of our surroundings, while seemingly a simple thing, is crucial.
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HO LI CHING
HO LI CHING
How would you describe yourself as a designer?
Have you ever thought you would become a designer?
A graphic designer with very serious OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).
Not until the moment I have decided to choose graphic design when I was filling in my college admission form. *chuckle guiltily* Yet my journey of becoming a designer has turned out pretty great than what I was expected, because it feels like I have finally found where I belong when I’m doing design.
What were your ambitions when you are a kid? My ambitions when I was a kid weren’t even remotely related to design at all. At first I had those typical kid ambitions like wanting to be a teacher or doctor. But then I got really into astronomy and wanted to be a female astronomer instead. It’s quite funny when I think about this, because I was very determined about being an astronomer and it lasted longer than any of my other ambitions, even being a designer.
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HO LI CHING
What is your daily design practice? (eg. Drawing/Reading books) Reading all sorts of books(fictions or non-fictions), not only because I’m a huge book nerd, but reading books has helped me in being a better designer in every way possible. Like reading fictions has helped me improved my imagination and have a better creative process. While reading non-fiction books like autobiographies has helped me understand more about artists’ or designers’ thinking through their own perspectives. Besides reading, browsing design/creative/ inspiring blogs or websites has been one of my major daily design practices as well.
As a designer, what is your plan in the next 5 years?
Other than that I always try to explore features that I’ve never used on design software to keep my design skills fresh, just take one new feature at a time and imagine what you get to learned in a year!
I’m not exactly the kind of person who likes plotting plans for my life. For me, sometimes it feels like the best plan is not having a plan at all. Just like what one of my favourite artists Ai Weiwei has said in an interview: “The most beautiful thing that ever happened in my life was by coincidence and not by plan. And it often happens because you don’t plan. If you have plans, you only have one go. If you don’t have plans, it often turns out well because you’ve followed the situation. That’s why I’ve always jumped into unprepared situations, the most exciting conditions.”
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HO LI CHING
How do you initial for every project you received?
“reading books has helped me in being a better designer in every way possible ”
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This is how my project flow usually goes: Analyse brief, identify project need, research, brainstorm, idea generation and development, idea implementation, refinement, finishing.
Share with us your most difficult project and how did you handle it. Design Inspirations: Instagram, Dribbble Websites: http://99u.com/ https://www.ted.com/ https://www.brainpickings.org/ http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/ Books: “Steal Like an Artist” and “Show Your Work” by Austin Kleon
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HO LI CHING
Other than Behance and Pinterest, any other websites or reading material would you recommend to the future designers? I think my most difficult project(s) usually involved with “difficult” clients who had ridiculous demands. (I think almost all designers have faced this kind of clients before) I’d make sure I’ll be as professional as I can, be patient with the clients, and try my best to communicate with my clients to reach a mutual understanding of the project and our designer-client relationship.
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JENNY TEOH Behance account: jennyteohdesign
ONG YU JING Behance account: themistyjourney
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