Unfolding The exhibition Unfolding brings together works from students and graduates from the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the College of Arts and Design of Ewha Womans University in Seoul, creating a visual dialogue between young designers in East Asia. The contemporary economy in the era of convergence is continually searching for ways to break down barriers and develop new methods to build a better tomorrow. In parallel, design is continuing to be multifaceted and increasingly multidisciplinary—through creativity, community, technology—unfolding potentials and possibilities across and between design fields. Unfolding—referencing something in process, becoming—aims to present design works produced by undergraduate students and recent graduates from the two cities. Through these works, it considers approaches and perspectives of young designers as their practices and futures are unfolding. It is hoped that the visual dialogue this engenders will lead to an understanding of convergent topics of concern and ideas about forthcoming design trends.
Acknowledgements The organisers would like to express their gratitude to colleagues, students, and graduates who have contributed to the realisation of this exhibition.
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Paper Thin Cities –Italo Calvino’s urban text as expressions of paper Salla AALTONEN KWOK Chin Fung, Lucas WU Yee, Alison Year 3, BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design PolyU Design
This student project examines, explores and depicts one narrative contained within the book called Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino, 1972). Limited to white paper-card, of 160 and 340 grams, students had to read and interpret a specific narrative of Calvino’s book, before exploring the possibilities of visualizing a city in a threedimensional format. This model represents the narrative of ‘Thin’ and ‘Suspended’ Cities in Calvino’s work. In the various testing and explorations, the emphasis was on the tectonics laminations as structure and how ‘thinness’ and suspension produces a material landscape. The final result seen here uses 29 layers, each linked together at the corners. Suspended vertically, the city is supported from only two connections, completing the final composition linking textual narrative with functionality.
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Juxtaposed Perspective CHOW Cheuk Hin, Jeffrey Graduate, BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design PolyU Design
Juxtaposed Perspective is a thesis project developed from an individual design methodology through perspective exploration. By transforming a viewpoint from 2D image to ‘non-objective fragmentation’ (cubism) and deconstruction analysis. The method is used to translate the one-point perspective image (or 2D image) to a continually changing spatial experience. The spatial qualities are developed through superimposition of the 2D image and deconstructed diagram while the beauty of the juxtaposed perspective is being discovered inside the imaginary space.
The Body Extension –Ergonomic Narratives CHU Ka Lam, Karen Year 1, BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design PolyU Design
In this project, I learned how human behaviour affects space. I was interested in the way my body contracts and relaxes in an involuntary way. My focus point is my knee through to my back. The work takes reference from the shell of a shrimp, which contracts and relaxes almost in the same way as my own motion. To make the work extendable, plastic tubes have been used to connect the part for the knee and back. They can clearly show how the body goes up and down in a smooth rhythm.
Tracing Shadow (course title) LEUNG Cheuk Sum, Sumjai TSE Man Yan, Allison YAO Xiaoqian, Ariana Year 1 and 3, BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design PolyU Design
The Advanced Drawing Techniques for Spatial Design course explored the intangible notion of light and shadow and its transformable threedimensional effect on space. A two weeks cycle of linked drawing and model series form the basis of a process-orientated project testing different representation techniques and understanding the construction and creation of shadow mapping. The conceptual approach is a dialogue between analysis, translation and interpretation by exploring two- and threedimensional illustration methods. Students have traced shadow drawings from the Innovation Tower designed by Zaha Hadid, generating a vocabulary of spatial transformation by observing and processing the metamorphosis of dimensions and structure in relation to natural light and shade during the cycle of one day. The various time based transformation of shade during one day are superimposed and further translated into a three-dimensional physical model. 9
Alpine Com & Sol
Peer Capsule
KIM Ayoung SEO Boseul LEE Sihyun
KIM Hanjoo AHN Kyuhee LEE Hyerin
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Spatial Design Ewha Womans University
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Spatial Design Ewha Womans University
Recently, the number of single-person households has increased significantly, leading to poor residential environment, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. This idea is designed to solve their problems, and There will be a new type of social kitchen and private bath with special nature experience on the high-level.
Human beings have genes that aspires to green, and the returning instinct to nature can be said to be the natural inherent nature of man. According to the ‘UN Future Report of 2040’, most of the nature will be extinguished and people want to instinctively resolve the ‘green thirst’. In 2040, Ewha Womans University will become a center of green culture. PEAR CAPSULE presents a botanical space to help outsiders and students visit Ewha. At the same time, it presents the concept culture space of Ewha Womans University that preserves and studies the seeds of the pear blossom, which is representing the school.
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Narrative Space Tai O
SLOW GROCERANT
LAM Yuet Lai, Timothy WANG Yuanzhi, Lesimo YUEN Siu Faat, Bryan
YEON Seunghyeon CHA Soyeon PARK Chaewon
Year 2, BA (Hons) in Interior and Environment Design PolyU Design
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Spatial Design Ewha Womans University
Inspired by the unique environment of the stilt house in Tai O, the “Narrative Space” design exaggerates the spatial qualities of vernacular architecture, projecting its very own character and the narrative of the space. Since the first settlement in Tai O, 200 years ago, the living style of the early Tai O people inspired a the building of a unique habitat with stilt houses along the waterfront. The construction and evolution of these stilt houses reflect the living traditions—a vernacular architecture in Hong Kong. Amazed by the contradiction between the exterior and interior experience, with all the lighting and texture in the space, the design project challenges to explore the dominant spatial quality of the existing site, appreciating and embracing the unique vernacular architecture.
The convenient store has changed as a cultural space that single person households increasing. Also, one person households in their 20s tend to go to convenient store in order to have a meal very quickly and handily. Then, what if a convenient store can provide healthy food and fresh cultural experience with its convenience instead of instant foods that has been sold? Twenties may be able to feel satisfaction while they have a balanced-meal at this convenient store. Slow convenience mainly sells healthy one-person food kit and offers a slow resting food and beverage culture space by purchasing convenient ingredients, balanced meals and a new convenience store combined with grocerant for 20s 1-person households.
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Floating Stool CHEN Xiaoyang Year 2, BA (Hons) in Product Design PolyU Design
Floating stool is a project originally created for the purpose of studying materials and structures. It is constructed with three banded clear acrylic legs that are interlocked and with a piece of plywood on top. The three acrylic legs are simply interlocked by slotting, which can be easily achieved through manufacturing but is difficult to disassemble by end users. The transparent structure suggests that the seating part floats. The design aims to make the leg part invisible and the seating part stand out, allowing a sense of light weight as well as integration with the surroundings.
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Plattern –A Set of Interactive Baby Food Serving Plate LAW Wing Yan, Wendy Year 4, BA (Hons) in Product Design PolyU Design
Plattern is an alternative food serving set designed for parents who normally use divided plates, or simply a single plate or bowl, to serve their babies food yet cannot make them enjoy their food within an acceptable timeframe. It is targeted at 9-18-month-old babies’ and their general behaviour during dining (especially at babies that are not focused while having meals) and guarantees to help parents and babies achieve less messy meal experiences. Plattern is a platform with moving plates that are secured with magnets and textured for tactile, sensory play for kids.
Squat and Sit
ttungster
LEE Hoi Ting, Genny
KIM AnNa
Graduate, BA (Hons) in Product Design PolyU Design
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Industrial Design Ewha Womans University
According to surveys, over 80% of the female population uses the semi-squat approach to pee, refusing to touch any part of the toilet under any circumstance. This causes a vicious cycle where toilets are getting dirtier due to the limitation of the semi-squat approach. Squat and Sit aims to keep toilet bowls clean while still allowing users to take on a semi-squat position. It is designed for general female users of public toilets at schools, offices, shopping malls, etc.
Do you take breakfast? In this busy society a lot of people, specially people who live alone, do not care about their morning. You know the importance of breakfast, since it affects the feeling of the whole day. When you wake up in the morning, you can see slim “ttungster” waiting for you to take the meal. The slim body notice you that you did not have your meal yet, and he billows gradually whenever you use it to express that he is full.
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Baek Ja Fire extinguisher
The Seeding Finger
KO Yunhee
KOO Hyeonjeong
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Industrial Design Ewha Womans University
Graduate, BA (Hons) in Industrial Design Ewha Womans University
Do you know where is your fire extinguisher? When the fire breaks out, as you know, the initial reaction is very important. But, most of people feel don’t know how to manage it well. So I wanted to make people feel familiar with the image of existing fire extinguishers. I hoped the fire extinguisher to be placed in the very middle of the place so that everyday not only can see it well but also can be conscious of the fire. My final shape of fire extinguisher is ‘Baek-Ja’. Baek-Ja is pottery of the Joseon Dynasty which looks like an oriental objet, fits in harmony with our space. You can use is both as an object and fire extinguisher.
The seeding finger is the implantation of a secondary reproductive organ. Located in the palm of the hand, the ‘pouch’ produces sperm before being carried through the ‘tube’ towards the ‘stem’ which is located in the middle finger. It allows women the chance to become pregnant by herself.
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Cafefula
The Cornerstone
KU Bonhee
SEE Jun Hong
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Industrial Design Ewha Womans University
Year 2, BA (Hons) in Product Design PolyU Design
This artwork focuses on saving our environment.
The cornerstone is a piece that allows the creation of furniture—a centrepiece that holds everything together. The design allows legs and parts to be attached in several configurations. It makes it possible for materials in different shapes and sizes to become its legs while looking elegant and neat. It is designed to be mass produced with a relatively straightforward shape to mould and produce. The prototype is produced with concrete as part of a material exploration exercise but can be adapted to other methods of production.
My research via in-depth surveys and interviews revealed that when a flower was delivered to a customer, large amounts of unnecessary boxes and papers were also delivered that needed to be disposed each time. Now with ‘Carefula’ you can help save the environment and enjoy your delivery at the same time.
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Todo Tipo SHIN Hyesun Year 4, BA (Hons) in Industrial Design Ewha Womans University
Why are man’s skin care products always black and white? Why are they so flat and monotonous? Todo Tipo started from thinking outside the box. Usually, man’s skin care products look so similar in their set, like same shape of toner and lotion, that people easily get confused when they use them. The form of Todo Tipo’s pieces follow their respective function so that the users can use their skin care product more intuitively. Also its fresh and dynamic design, which distinguishes itself from conventional design of men’s cosmetic, will provide users with new experience and make them refreshed.
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Story of Adults told by Children
Back Story –Gummy Pig Candies
AN Eunjung Graduate, BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design Ewha Womans University
It is a series of fairytales called “Story of Adults told by Children”. I wanted to do something interesting with the children’s pure and cute ideas. George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’ and William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, a well-known and difficult story for young children to understand, worked on a new creation through distortion and omission when understood through the child’s vision. Each story deals with different topics about power, dreams, and love. The story has been reborn as a new and interesting story through 5-6 years old children. Both drawing and writing were drawn with the left hand to express effectively. Also, I worked with crayons to express it like a child’s painting.
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CHA Cheuk Chee, Phoebe Year 3, BA (Hons) in Communication Design PolyU Design
This project is called ‘Back Story’ and involves an imaginary exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art. While most of us know that Gummy Bears are made of Gelatin, only few know what Gelatin is. Gelatin contains innards of animals, specifically pigs. It is made of boiled animal parts—ligaments, bones, and fat. This exhibition brings to light unknown facts about hidden ingredients in massproduced foods. Visitors will soon realise that high amounts of sugar are only a small part of the problem.
現實與洗澡 –Self-Improvement and Reality
U.C.D.P (Unidentified Creature Discovery Project)
CHEUK Pui Shing
JEON Bowook
Year 3, BA (Hons) in Advertising Design PolyU Design
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design Ewha Womans University
Progressive rhetoric has been applied to the work to show the contrast of different stages in my life and cruelness of reality.
The irregular, fluid appearance of a small fountain does not exist for a moment in a fixed form, nor can it be fixed. It was captured consecutively in photo and produced hundreds of images from a fountain, then processed and graphicized into unknown life forms.
When I was a kid, I played without worries. A teenager, I was concerned with my appearance. In my early 20s, I sought individual development. I never stopped improving myself in these 24 years. However, I realized that it is no more necessary to groom myself. The society will shape me how it wants me to be, regardless of my own will. The indifference inside me is no longer washable.
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Dawn to Dusk
Back Story –Between Coral and Bones
KIM Yuri Graduate, BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design Ewha Womans University
‘‘Dawn to Dusk’ is an all-in-one kit for a person who is about to lose his or her beloved pets. The reason a lot of people are going through tough times during this period is because there is no such information available nor direction given to them. For example, people seldom dispose body of animal in backyard or hires unapproved funeral service agent to cremate. ‘Dawn to Dusk’ offers essential products for funeral and an informative book that relieves grief coming from losing someone who stayed the closest.
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LEE Wing Hong, Ben Year 3, BA (Hons) in Communication Design PolyU Design
This project is called ‘Back Story’ and involves an imaginary exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art. Back Story concerns two contrasting and seemingly unrelated images or objects that, through research, have developed into an innovative poster. The poster combines coral and bones as the main object. Although coral and bones seem unrelated, there is a relationship between them. Their chemical structures are similar and doctors are now looking to use corals for bone repair. In this poster, the key visual is a sculpture that transforms coral and bones into an art form, emphasising the structure and the ‘repairing’ qualities of both.
Tectura—Hail to Age Freeze
白色騷音 (recording of spring, 2018)
NG Pui Yu, Carol Graduate, BA (Hons) in Communication Design PolyU Design
This newspaper extra is from the year 2050. It aims to raise the issue of elderly’s life quality after retirement. Through this newspaper, I addressed the past and present, and expressed the assumption that people can have infinite lifespan in the future. Ageing is a natural phenomenon that seems unavoidable. People suffer from ageing-related disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and organ degeneration. As medical technologies are developing rapidly, humans have longer lifespan. When people have larger proportion of their lifetime being old, they might have to suffer more. What if we can promote unlimited but also healthier lifespans in the future?
SHIN Sujung Year 4, BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design Ewha Womans University
The era of noise has consumed us. And, we are submerged in it; trapped; unable to escape. In this stream of cacophony, we remain negligent. We remain negligent of the instance of noise that slips through daily. White noise, that gently holds you through the storm and vanishes beyond our consciousness. Noise that is, but is not, noise. (recording of spring, 2018) is an effort to capture the forgotten; to introduce the seemingly meaningless in a meaningful way.
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鉛筆說：「今天天氣你很好。」 擦膠說：「寫多了。把你字刪去。」
鉛筆說：「我喜歡擦歌。」 擦膠說：「寫錯了。把擦字刪走。」
噗通－
教練下水前曾叮囑： ﹁若不幸失散，便關上電筒，尋找光源吧。﹂
慌了。
按住面鏡，咬緊水肺調節器，站在甲板的邊緣。
這是我第一次夜潛。乘著快艇出發到大海中央， 隱約還能聽到岸邊的吵鬧聲， 但風聲和海浪聲很快已經把它都蓋過。
最後下水的我向船上的教練舉起雙手示意沒有問題， 同樣在水面等待的另一位教練隨即姆指向下， 示意下潛。
滋︱
右手舉直， 給我背上的BCD︵浮力調節器︶放氣； 左手拿著電筒，往海底裡照； 嘴裡調節呼吸，把肺裡的氣都呼出來。 身體隨即慢慢下沉。
當海水蓋過耳朵後，便是一片寂靜， 甚至連海浪的聲音也隨之消失， 仿佛到了另外一個世界，一個沒有雜音的世界。
呼︱滋滋︱呼︱滋滋︱
擦膠說：「把未字刪走! 你究竟要寫錯多少次?」
我，就只能夠專心感受呼吸。
擦膠說：「…」 「把夠字刪走。」 鉛筆說：「我不想做功課未。」
努 力 地 調 節 呼 吸，雙 腳 還 是 遲 遲 不 著 地； 看潛水手錶，錶 上 顯 示 水 深 5 . 6 米 ； 環 顧 四 周 ， 海 水 混 濁 得 我 再 怎樣照， 就只剩一片模糊。
鉛筆說：「我的夢想是成為一個夠護員。」
鉛筆說：「你看看你刪走了甚麼字?」 我照著辦，迎來卻是伸手不見五指的黑暗， 看不見氣泡，看不見兩雙不知所措的手腳， 看不見一絲光。
腳 底 突 然 穿 過 一 陣 寒 流 ， 各 種 “Jaws”、“The Meg”、 等電影情節一一浮現於腦海， “47 Meters Down” 告訴我將要如何死在這片黑色的海裡。
在這懸浮狀態下，我有點靈魂出竅， 活像是無力自救的浮遊生物、 像是漂泊在太空中的一粒微塵； 只是，微塵並不需要氧氣。
人為的金屬敲打聲縱使沒有在水面上般清脆， 但卻劃破了海底裡的寧靜。
叮叮叮！
那是教練用小鐵棒敲打氧氣瓶的聲音。 慌張地四處張看，尋找著聲音的來源； 終於，黑暗中有一顆光在閃爍。
大海，猶如地球上的一個大黑洞， 擁有謎一樣的吸引力，卻又能一口把你的全部吞噬。 這就是大海，太陽下山後鮮為人知的大海。
#被擦走的幻想空間
日擦夜擦 All the Time
浮游生物
TANG Hoi Ling, Tracy
YIU Yee Tung, Robert
Year 3, BA (Hons) in Advertising Design PolyU Design
Year 3, BA (Hons) in Advertising Design PolyU Design
What happen when a manipulative eraser come across with a naive pencil? Are you a pencil or an eraser?
“Do you believe that there is a huge monster lurking in the deep? Yes, I did. Plus #000000 darkness, plus below 10dB silence, plus weightlessness, the ocean is as mysterious as space.”
Writing dialogue from two extreme angles with completely opposite tone and manner to create lively character images and story.
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Translation: “The first experience of night diving freaked me out. Yet, I still love it cuz’ night dives are always full of surprises.”
The Mew York Times YOON Jayoung Graduate, BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design Ewha Womans University
This project reexamine the problem of society through the story of those who exist but do not exist. Books are expressed in the form of newspapers, and “they�(who exist but do not exist.) are represented as a stray cats.
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Media
Fortune Drinking Machine
Pale
AU Pak Lok CHOW Tsz Ching CHOI Chi Shing UN Chi Cheung
CHAN Lok Yiu, Shovel
Year 1, BA (Hons) in Interactive Media PolyU Design
The drinking machine can determine your fortune for the day. It provides different “water”— transparent drinks with different tastes generated with an Arduino random system. You are the only person who can know your fortune for the day by tasting one of the transparent drink. Sweet—extremely lucky Water—lucky Sour—unlucky Salty—extremely unlucky How to use the machine 1. Pray for your holy luck for about 10 seconds 2. Pick up a holy cup from the holy cup holder 3. Put the holy cup under the holy water machine 4. Holy water will pour into the holy cup 5. Drink the water and realise how fortunate or unlucky you are 6. Pray again or accept your fortune
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Year 4, BA (Hons) in Digital Media PolyU Design
‘No one can escape from pain forever’. Toru ran away from reality because he is unable protect everything he treasures. He wears a fish jar to create a brand new world so as to enjoy his own freedom with no pain and no worries. He thinks that he could live happily ever after, inside the jar. But what he does not know is that his fish jar will rupture every time he feels pain. The exploring jar is fatal to him. And someday, his enemy will find him and destroy his fantasy world. He needs to understand that he cannot hide from painful facts forever. A work in progress, the video presents both a 2-minute teaser for a 15-minute animation film, and the development of the concept art and character design.
Oasis Arousal
Pillow and Ceiling
CHEUNG Hing Yung LO Chiu Hung WONG Wing Hang LEE Pak Long NG, Keneth Labante
IM Sunho LEE Jinkyung LEE Jeongmin
Year 3, BA (Hons) in Interactive Media PolyU Design
For Hong Kong people, “waiting” is an appreciated activity, be that waiting for an object or for people. Through a case study, it was found that 21% of people will sit “on” the public space even when there is no seat or bench available. It suggests that “seats” are essential to the activity of waiting. Furthermore, when waiting, people tend to use their mobile phones and ignore their surroundings, even more so when the spaces where they find themselves waiting are oppressive. Oasis Arousal presents a “breathing space” for Hongkongers to pass time without stress.
Year 4, BA (Hons) in Fine Art/ Media Intercation Design Ewha Womans University
This video reinterpreted a song titled <Pillow and Ceiling> by a Korean band PARSOL. A tired person who just returned to her room, disconnects herself from the world by throwing herself into her bed. She starts aimlessly wandering through her uneasy thoughts, slowly falling into a psychedelic fantasy.
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DODU/Digital Cell Animation/ 03:30 MIN/2018 JEONG Seulji HUR Chaerhyung Year 4, BA (Hons) in Media Interaction Design Ewha Womans University
The main theme is <Fairy-tale story for children>. Character’s name is ‘Dodu’. Dodu had lived in a colourless space. One day, Dodu accidentally discovers the space full of colour. <DODU> is the animation about story what happened that day.
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How to be a Perfect Man LEE Eunjin LEE Jimin Year 4, BA (Hons) in Media Interaction Design Ewha Womans University
<How To Be A Perfect Man> is based on the red velvet Russian roulette. Two humans with different disadvantages in the work begin an experiment to find a common ideal and perfect color.
Grow Into A Grown-up
Unfolding
LEE Sooah JEON Hyoseol
KIM Kyungjin KIM Seonghyeon KIM Yoonyoung LEE Jaewon RYU Jiwoo
Graduate, BA (Hons) in Media Interaction Design Ewha Womans University
What is ‘growing into grown-up’? The main character of this animation is deep in contemplation about the definition of grown-up. At one point, everyone might have thought about it. She is biologically and legally adult. However, she still feels some distance between the word ‘grownup’ and herself. If it is not the only sufficient condition of adulthood, what is the one that she is missing? She looks through several definition of grown-up in the books, movies and other things in the world for the one and only answer. After watching <Grow Into A Grown-up>, We want you to think like the main character. We want you to ask yourself, ‘What is growing into grown up?’, ‘Am I that ‘adult’ I define?’.
Year 3, Division of Design Ewha Womans University
We have interpreted Unfolded as a possible foldable form that has not yet been folded. The user will meet the product at the ‘not yet folded’ ignorance stage. Makgeolli is a mild sweet Korean traditional alcoholic beverage. The name of this beverage is quite interesting. ‘Makgeolli’ came from the meaning ‘roughly strained’, which is the specialty of this beverage. We want people to join the process and feel part of when touching Han-ji and folding the Makgeolli diagram.
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Good Morning TSANG Tsz Suet, Coty Graduate, BA (Hons) in Digital Media PolyU Design
“Good morning” is a 9-minute long hand drawn animation. The story follows two little sleeping pill characters that go through the galaxy of the human mind and complete different tasks in order to get their master a good night’s sleep. It is about love, adventure, and mental problems. Also, there are many animals. Lol.
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