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PONGSAKORN THONGSUK
GRAPHIC DESIGNER ILLUSTRATOR VISUAL MIXER BOOK DESIGNER /////////////////////
002 Introduction
Pongsakorn Thongsuk :
Graphic Designer // Illustrator // Visule Mixer // Book Designer
I have always been interested in any kinds of art from an early age. I spent most of my childhood to drawing and being inspired to make and design anything moreover I have never considered anything else. I cannot imagine to live with out design. Myself was discovered to being excited and inspired by the ordinary of designs such as ‘ graphic design, typography, motion graphic, window display, illustrate even shape and line of the nature. I’m also always interested to discuss with the person who is interested in art and design in order to exchange ideas and learn new things by the way I really enjoy every time when I go to galleries. For me, art is not a career or a hobby but it is a passion. It is a way of life that I chose to do consequently whilst at secondary school, I really enjoy studying history and design. I joined to an art club to seek the way of design and it made me feel I have developed my skill within art. After that, I’ve been in voluntary book and design group and that is the beginning of my dream. In fact, it was one of the factors that has enchanted me pursuing to being in design occupation all of my heart. At university, out of thinking I chose to study graphic design in order to be the way of my life. I have been gained an understanding of the various disciplines with in art and design and graduated with a second class honour. whilst there, I used to join to competitions as many as possible and enjoyed this extremely. I achieved in loads of competition in many kinds of design for example, mobile phone card, magazine cover competition, portfolio competition and so on but it couldn’t stop me to developing my skills. I joined to a university magazine team and voluntary conserved nature magazine group as a graphic designer and It allowed me to being creative also follow my style. During my last year at university, book design was chosen to do and research in the final project as the result I enjoy to use shape and line to lay in the paper in order to create a particular theme and This project has led me to my decision to specialise within graphic design. Reading and listening to the music are also my interested things. About reading, Children novels and short story are the most my favourite kinds of book and I always also up on date by many fashion, design and lifestyle magazines. I have always wanted to look for the new style and interested to research the history of their own style in order to use it to improve myself. On the other hand, music is the one of important ways that can help me being inspired. According to the first paragraph, I enjoy visiting art galleries and exhibitions including design workshops. It always give me a inspiration especially when I found a very good work. Myself is always led to be ambition and yearn to develop my work. I worked as a full-time graphic designer at the digital magazine for year and worked as a freelance for while, I find this very rewarding me a lot of knowledge even dealing money and organising party therefore I am looking for the place where I can share my experience and view in graphic design and illustration. I have heard about your university from my colleagues and other graduates, and I am impressed with the class offer there also the graduated exhibition show of the university student attracted me, It was absolutely brilliant and fashionable. I think this course will probably help me to develop my skill and creativity. Furthermore the quality of the teacher could lead me to be a professional designer in the future. I look forward to the opportunity to studying in this university and being experience in order to use art and design to developing the world in the future.
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004Typographic Illustration, 2007, TH
012AnExtraOrdinary Illustration, 2007, TH
014Pixtory “The legend of Pixel art” Book&Illustration, 2007, TH
018InOnOut Invitation Card, 2007, TH
020Micro&Jo-Kong CD Covers, 2007, TH
022MakeMeNuts Logo Design, 2007, TH
023Magindy Logo Design, 2008, TH
024Kala Graphic Tees, 2008, TH
026Ohh...Dear Graphic Tees, 2008, TH
028HappinessSurrounding Phone Cards, 2007, TH
030Ramayana 032CurriculumVitae Charectors design, 2007, TH Charectors design, 2007, TH
004 Illustration
Typographic Series : Client // www.Thaiegazine.com Year // 2007 Description // Typographic series is a group of illustrations for open columns of Displayegazine which is a magazine online that has topics associate with designs of Thai designers. Displayegazine is the magazine online on website Thaiegazine.com and it is compose of all columns as follows, Recommended, An extraodinary, Advertising, Illustration, Hybrid Theory, Graphic Design, Structure, Photography, Gallery, The band. In addition to each column that has different works which depend on each kind so it is chosen different graphic styles in order to reply a question and correctly communicate a meaning with each topic. According to informations searching , finally, it got an appropriate style with each column then it is therefore compound with the name of each column until it came out to be an illustrate in Typographic form due to divide as follows Recommend An Extraodinary Advertising Illustration Hybrid Theory Graphic Design Structure Photography Gallery The band
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Street art is similar with flyer that pose on walls in order to advertise works Light of natural that make that is an ordinary look an extraordinary A group of smoke that assemble together is similar with an idea of advertiser To use an emotional of all sorts of colors to show a meaning of illustrations Light that form to a word of Hybrid show a movement of motion graphic It is typographic that use the natural likewise it is creating works It is a formation of typography by using a house’s plan to conjoin together so that it became a word of structure To mix a typography with typography It is used Pixel art to make a gallery in order to show an emotional of the smallest dot but to be superior Pop art that usually come with the music field quite long time is held to combine with typography that is assembled with a guitar form.
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Developing Sketches // 01 Inspired pictures 02 Idea & draft sketch 03 Final sketch
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An Extra Odinary : Client // www.Thaiegazine.com Year // 2007 Description //
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The developing of Typographic series “ An extraordinary ” is an illustration for open a main column in online magazine “ Displayeazine ” that must show an extraordinary on an ordinary. In this point, this illustration was combined idea of wonderful naturals in many ways together. Regardless of flowers, animals and female by mainly used gold color of typography and used green color the color of natural to augment in order to show an emotion of an extraordinary.
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014 Book Design + Illustration
Pixtory Legend of Pixel : Client // Final Project of undergraduate degree Year // 2007 Description // A graphic’s Pixel art has had history since 80 century and it has developed until now but the graphic’s Pixel art in Thailand hasn’t been well known enough. In addition to an information of pixel art in Thailand has too little so it is too difficult for a person who is interested in searching the information and developing afterward. Pixtory is words compound between “ Pixel art “ and “ story “ which is a book that show the progress of Pixel art in many way. Human’s growth that is interaction from a person to person. The connection of life to life can create a society and it mean knowing people more and more. This topic is chosen to conjoin with its work in order to communicate in easy way. Contents have been divided in proportion feature Pixel Pixel Pixel Pixel Pixel
History : The history of Pixel art. Community : Introduction artists who use Pixel art in their work from around the world. Family : Introduction work’s formats which have a connection with Pixel art. Life : Illustration in many formats that it can be. Friend : An area for reader to create their work.
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Developing Sketches // 01 Pixtory Package (PS. Can change emotion of charector on the cover ) 02 Pixtory book 100 pages
016 Book Design + Illustration
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018 Invitation Card
IN ON OUT : Client // Siteapecific Year // 2007 Description // In On Out exhibition is a exhibition that combined between music, motion graphic and visual art to show a story of Thonglor’s district, the business area in Thailand by chose talent artists of Thailand such as music artists, graphic designers, motion graphic designers. This guest card was designed in order to invited artists from many part such as junior designers, senior designers. In this guest card also has a space for artists in order to announce their own idea and show their works. According to this information, this guest card therefore designed in the way of confuse and busy district of Thonglor where has houses, rivers, markets even department stores or it would be quickly seen as gorgeously city but if you deeply carefully see it , you will be able to see richer and poorer stay that must rely on each other and it is not only Thai people but it also has foreigner.
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020 CD Covers
Micro & Jo - Kong : Client // Butterfly Year // 2007 Description // Micro is an old rock music band in Thailand that their albums were on sale and still in Thai people memory who used to be in that age while Jo-Kong is a acoustic music band that has many fan and have achieved the same way with Micro so a Butterfly music group took there old albums of them to resale again in order to remind people in the next generation about the great time of Micro and Jo-Kong In addition to a question which is rather difficult that must bring a Micro’s feeling of old rock to re-design so that it look modern and must be in a same style with an acoustic of Jo-Kong so it was chosen a minimal style to solve the problem due to the minimal style is able to show a mightiness and a hardness of rock music. In contrast, it also can show a feeling of smooth acoustic sound that have the different concepts as follows Micro – This album was called “ Long way ” and this word gave an inspiration to design from a toy that has a form of road. it was combined with the word of Micro and Micro’s symbol (fist) and used black color to be a main color in order to remain the feeling of rock.
Developing Sketches // 01 Old covers
Jo-Kong – An outstanding identity of Jo-Kong’s band is compound in performance between an electric’s guitar and acoustic guitar so it consequently produced a rock acoustic music style. In this point, it was chosen to design as a symbolic of this band to be an illustration of this cover by used white electric’s guitar to lay beside white acoustic guitar that can nicely announce the acoustic style.
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Make Me Nuts :
Client // Make Me Nuts Party Organizer Year // 2007 Description // The trend of organizing private parties in Thailand just started to be popular for years and increased throughout to groups of teenager and trend leader so that many groups are interested to set up a party else. Regardless of promote goods or just an including group of music lover even though an including group of a similar wearer and love a same style. Make me nuts is a organizer group of art lover , love going out at night time , like meeting and talking in art topics and interested to show art in new formats for people in the next generation can see and it is also for exchanging their mind. This logo designed for satisfy the demand of party organizer Make Me Nuts that has a way to organize a party like “ Art + Party ” that its logo is compound between happiness of guest and flowing of art together. Make Me Nuts is the word for explain a feeling of a happiness so it was used to transform to a logo that is similar to shouting sound of guest that “ Make me nut ”. Yellow color was used because it’s a middle color. In this way, it show the meaning of art that can reach to everybody.
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Magindy
Independent Publishing : Client // www.Magindy.com Year // 2007 Description // E-magazine the publishing online that is designed for satisfy the demand of a book lover and people who want to be owner of their book but the cost is too hight so many people have to leave their dream. E-magazine is the new way of publishing in online format that can less the cost of publishing. Magindy on slogan “ Independent Publishing Made Simple ” is website that help to make an E-magazine easier, just has an artwork , it can easily transform to an E-magazine and also give an emotional of book owner of them. This logo was designed for website Magindy.com in concept “ Independent Publishing Made Simple ” to combine a symbol of freedom and publishing media together by take a bird that is a symbol of freedom and paper which can communicate the meaning publishing and then take either bird and paper combined together until reach the idea “ Paper bird ” that can completely reach to the meaning of either things.
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024 Graphic Tees
Kala T-shirt : Client // Grammy Music Group Year // 2007 Description // Kala is a rock band that has been in Thai people mind for a long time and achieved in many albums until this sixth album that was changed their image to be more modern by made their owe t-shirt of their band in order to reach their fans who are changing follow an era and also in order to promote sale of this album. This graphic tee designed for satisfy a demand of Kala band. According to researching and sketch design in concept “ Real Rocker � until got a conclusion, it was chosen Old School graphic style that can show an alchemy and a popularity for a long time of Kala. Also, it can communicate a rock style that can include with new graphic style by chose a skull and a Mummy symbol to show a endless period of Kala in the music field and in order to reply with the demand of new fans of them.
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Ohh.. Dear :
Client // Uniqlo Grand Prix Competition Year // 2008 Description // Uniqlo is the cloth band from Japan that has many branch throughout the world and the strong concept of them include with an art developing that still nonstop carry on to the future so that Uniqlo set up a competition project “ Uniqlo grand prix ” which is the project for satisfy a demand of costumer by let designer from all around the world to design their work in order to measure the good one. According the above reason “ Oh...dear ” is the one of design that also designed for this project in concept “ Dear deer ” it represented a beautiful natural include with a beautiful women. it was compound between a symbol of them together in order to got a new and strange form by using a male picture that is similar to female to combined with a beautifulness of a dear so that it showed the beautifulness that can be in every place. The beauty which will be able to appear that is depend a view point of each person that what do they communicate? In this work , it communicated as you can see that the man wear clothes like a part the natural. Beside that, the man is also able to be beauty the same way as women.
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Happiness Surrounding : Client // Happy Dtec Year // 2005 Description // Happy Dtac is a company that self-service a mobile’s signal by has a concept that “ happy can send to each other ” that Happy has a campaign to allow designers to join a phone card’s competition in order to find a designer’s work from a new generation’s designer and in order to satisfy the demand of young people. According to the above reason, It was summarized a design to be “ Happiness surrounding ” such as teenager, middle age even old people by communicated a story of Thailand. The story is a happiness of teenager that is talking with their girl friend, a happiness of family that can stay all together, a happiness of children that can play with their friends even a happiness of old people that quietly stay with their pet by every happiness can connect with a relation of Happy Dtac.
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030 Characters Design
Ramayana Characters : Client // Posonal Project Year // 2006 Description // A group of characters for conserve Thai style that dramatically decrease from children’s memory. This group of characters was designed in order to emphasize the children’s memory this is going to lost from Thai people. Literary works that used to be popular in the part but the ages passed so it is forgot. In this reason, Ramayana characters was designed by computer graphic in order to reach new generation’s people and emphasize the children’s memory.
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Ramayana Charector // 01 Moral side // A group of humen and animals 02 Dark side // A group of ogres
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032 Profile
Curriculum Vitae : Pongsakorn Thongsuk from Thailand
Website // www.myspace.com/stylebless E-mail // stylebless@live.com Education // Kaplan Aspect, London, United Kingdom (2008) General English / IELTS course. Rangsit University (Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts), Bangkok, Thailand (2004 - 2007) Bachelor Degree majoring in Visual Communication of Arts (GPA was 3.47)
Experiences // Freelance Designer 2004 to Present. Servicing Coporate Identity , Printing, Illustrate , Packaging , Motion Graphic , New media , Graphic Clothing. Visual Jocky 2007 to 2008. Live visual performance with Brother&Sister group design. ( Thailand ) Live visual performance for Make me nuts party organizer. ( Thailand ) Full-time Graphic Designer 2007 to 2008. Full-time Graphic Designer for Display egazine and Street egazine at www.thaiegazine.com. ( Thailand ) Trianing 2006. Apprentice for Khankluay the movie at Kantana company ( Thailand ) Designer 2006. Part-time Designer for San Rangsit Magazine at Rangsit University. ( Thaland ) Art Director 2004 until 2005. Art Director for Thaiyen Magazine at Thaiyen group. ( ThaIland )
Activities // Showcase work on section “ CG Event ” CG+ Magazine Issue 05, Nov 2007 ( Thailand ) Showcase work on Idesign Magazine No.63, Oct 2007 ( Thailand ) Showcase work on Creative Living Magazine Vol.02 No.16 , Oct 2007 ( Thailand ) Showcase work on section “ Gallery ” Display eagazine Issue 02, March 2007 ( Thailand ) Book Design for VISA 17 Exhibition, at 1st floor Siam Center , 2007 ( Thailand ) Showcase work on Manu Magazine, 2006 ( Thailand ) Motion Graphic for We are the pigs exhibition, at Khunyingputtana Gallery, 2006 ( Thailand )
Awards // Won Won Won Won Won
4th prize Manu Portforio 2nd contest, Motion graphic, 2006 ( Thailand ) 1st prize Manu contest, Book cover, 2006 ( Thailand ) 4nd prize Arangkarn Mascot contest, Character design 2005 ( Thailand ) 2nd prize Happy Award 1st contest, Top up phone card 2005 ( Thailand ) 1st prize Fine and apply art Drawing contest, Drawing 2004 ( Thailand )
Skills /// Individual Skills - Drowing, Visual Perfromance, Creativity Computer Skills - Microsoft word, Microsoft PowerPoint - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro. - Modul8, ArKaos for live visual performances. Language Skills - Fluent in Thai. - English ( IELTs 5.5 )