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So I am responsible for half of the packaging designs at work. And currently we are launching another 6 or 7 new products. Hoping I don't misead you though, this design language wasn't created by me. It was designed by the Loblaw designers. So after that, I just follow the design guides for the new products. Not the most creative job, but at least it is packaging design, which I love. : )

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I found out a day later after they posted this entry. *note, this was not a contest, it was just a round up of the entire year. The most popular posts. As I was reading the list, I gave a random thought, "lets see if I ever made it in here". The list was pretty massive, so I searched the word "Ring". The browser immediately brought me down to the end of the list in which I saw the title "

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Recently I came across this phrase that I was very thought provoking so I decided to have some fun with it. I did a mandarin version as well. : D I just gotta print them out sometime.

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Image from Not On The Street High .Com Having worked with a marketing team for the past 3 months, there are many many new perspectives that I am beginning to see. One of the big ones that I have learned is that the marketing people are keen on the message itself. The message of whatever that is conveyed needs to be easily understood. On the contrary, for the designers, we are keen on the design

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One of the things that I have been trying to do is finding the right font for both the english & chinese. One that would match well together. Since I have never worked with mandarin character fonts before, i thought I should get to know them. : )

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So here comes the Process for the really rushed project. I was assigned as the designer to create a series of advertisement for the breast cancer donation campaign in the store. The design will be used at all the stores across the country. The process however is like this. (do keep in mind that this is in chronological order, not the other way around) Version A Version B Version C

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Recently at work we launched a really rushed campaign that was assigned to me last minute. It was quite exciting, as it was my first project. I had only 2 days to come up with the design so it was definitely a miracle that I was able to pump out 3 versions. So, the good part was that i was assigned as the designer... but the bad part was that it has quite a disappointing ending. In short,

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Over the past 2 months (after being featured on several websites), I have gotten many emails from guys that are willing to commission me for the engagement ring box that I have designed to use for their proposal. It is so very encouraging to receive all the emails. Many of them actually shared with me a bit about their story too. I am very very encouraged and every time when I read their

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檢視較大的地圖 Recently my parents decided to take me and my brother on a vacation to eastern Canada. (toronto, montreal & quebec city) Our family have never been, so we were all very excited. I have to say, Quebec was most incredible. So beautiful there. Their Old Port, their old quebec. Our Vancouver's gas town is no where near. A lot of the times in Quebec, we felt like we were overseas in

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Another aspect of my current T&T graphic designer has been learning to work with the marketing team. In the past, if I were to design a poster, I was always the one who chooses what to put on it, what the copywriting was and where to put it. However now, it is the marketing people that decides on the copywriting. (sometimes way too much writing) It was quite difficult at first. I have

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Haven’t had a chance to update my blog recently because of my new job as a graphic designer at T&T supermarket. Yes! I’ve finally found a design job!! ( I feel extremely blessed that I was able to find something this quick.) T&T is Canada’s biggest Chinese Chain supermarket, currently owned by lablaw (superstore). They have more than 20 locations accross Canada. I currently work in their

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A few weeks ago, I posted "another Sakekasu project wrapping up". and it is finally finished. It was released on July 1st (Canada day). According to Masa, they had an amazing turn out that day.

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My teacher recommended me to ask around granville island to see if there were any businesses willing to partner with me for my grad project. Artisan Sake Maker was one of the first that I called up that worked out very well. Artisan Sake Maker is Canada’s first and only Japanese winery, Sake, maker. They happen to be right behind the school and I pass by it very often on the way to class.

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Recently I received another project from my previous client (Artisan Sake Maker) to develop a promotional recipe pamphlet. It is also another "SakeKasu" related project. Masa, wanted to create a recipe that he intends on giving away to promote their product, SakeKasu. The fact that it is a recipe pamphlet, I knew that the photography had to be good. So 2 weeks ago I went over to North

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I had the wonderful opportunity of having the chief editor of Core77 critique my project when he came over to Emily Carr 1 month before the project deadline. Alan pointed out something quite significant. The above video was the criteria that I was working with at the time, being able to downsize after opening the packaging. The video was the first working prototype actually and when Alan came

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Just like the ring packaging, I really need to thank many people for the turn out of this design. In the beginning, I was actually kind of struggling with the criteria.Originally I wanted to use pop up mechanisms for it as well. At the time, I had seen many pop up CD packagings, and it was especially intriguing. I wanted to do the same, so came up with the following. If you look closely,

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The ring packaging formed initially after speaking to 2 local jewelry designers. Through the interview, I confirmed my hypothesis that jewel cases are more or less the same. I was shown 2 catalogues that showcased hundreds of jewel cases with very little variations. Having done some research, I began the initial concept design. During that same period, I was also extremely intrigued by popups

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major thanks to theDieLine and NotCot.org for featuring my work! It was such an honour, It happened a week ago and since then I have gotten so many emails. Emails asking for purchasing of this product. In the mean time, I am still considering this possibility. I am definitely interested in selling it, however I think I also should be cautious. If you haven't seen the full

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so the exhibition for Emily Carr's class of 2011 is on! what an extraordinary curation team this year we have. The design area is very nicely done with some amazing projects. Please check it out if you are around Vancouver.

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Today was the day! I have waited for it to come for this long! 5 years! time to celebrate.

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In the beginning when I was deciding what to include in my packed (a series of packaging designs) degree project, my teacher recommended that I go around the island and ask to see if there were any businesses willing to partner with me. one of the first test prints In the end, Artisan Sake Maker, located right behind our school came through. I had done some research beforehand, so I

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Finally! I am done. Yesterday was my degree final presentation which I was able to show my grad project to my peers and guests. It went very well and I am very glad with the out come. Pictures + videos + process will be uploaded soon after I get some rest. : )

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Interestingly, this blog has attracted some students looking for info on getting into Emily Carr University! A reader (high school student) recently contacted me about how to prepare for the portfolio, so I thought I would share that info here as well. Keep in mind though, I am only a student here. So take these with a grain of salt. ----- To be honest, I am not sure exactly how I was

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just got my CD printed this morning. Looks clean and nice!! : D

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So, 1 more month to go until I graduate! Currently we are wrapping up our projects. I am starting to do my final models for the packagings as well. It is coming along quite well! I am excited. The final presentation is gonna be on April 18-20th. we each get a total of 20 min. to present along with feedback. most of my projects remain the same, however for the cellphone packaging, it has

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Here is an update with the project. A few things have changed. [kasu] thank God. Masa (the business owner) decided to raise the budget by 10 cents. So now the design will work! design unchanged. [Daylight Return EP Album] after Christmas the direction changed completely. the criteria now is to include a poster with the packaging. Also, as one opens the CD, one changes the structure of the

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So recently I had this brilliant idea of putting all my process on the wall. (aren't I a genius? ha ha!) Definitely a lot of work, and, my thumbs are swollen right now, But, all that hard work definitely deserved it. I am quite liking this wall. : D This is 90% of the process thus far in this packaging design series. Where I am working on package designs for: an engagement ring, a cellphone

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went to fetch my test print from the print shop yesterday. Don't they look awesome? : D well, of course this isn't the final layout, but I wanted to test with it to make sure it doesn't scratch off. (apparently this black and white print on chipboard comes off easily.)

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So in the beginning when I started developing this grad project, I realized that branding is also essential in packaging design. After all, packaging a lot of the times is the representation of the brand. So I have been looking into it a lot and learning much about it. (Still new to this, but I am trying.) During my half point critique, one of the instructors mentioned how am I going to tie

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Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity of presenting my H2Origami project at my teacher's eco perspective class again! Surprisingly many people gave me great feedbacks! thank you guys so much! : D Final poster Scenario Related post: First time being a guest speaker

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So here it is, as promised. The process for the face wash that I designed for Old Spice. *this was done in my computer rendering class. I imagined if Old Spice were to come up with a face wash, what would the packaging look like?

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So, here comes this year's Christmas card again. Looking back now, I've done this for 6 years! wow. This year I've kept it simpler with picture and a short paragraph. Didn't spend so much time on the design, but instead I put a lot of thoughts into the content. So have a look! It is a summary of this past year. : D Christmas 2010 related post: Merry Christmas!!

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Mid point presentation this wed! Here is a sneak peek of what's to come

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Click here to enlarge This is for my computer CAD class. I imagined old spice coming out with a face wash and designed the packaging for it. One of the big challenges was matching the existing product line. Interestingly, although Old Spice appears to be a very masculine brand, the shapes of their products are all pretty curvy. So, my design kind of have to be masculine, yet a little organic

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photo: etfjwmnb In about a month’s time I will be flying to Calgary for my Christmas holiday! I am really looking forward to it right now, really can’t wait. This year has been extremely busy so far because of the grad project. Working on 4 projects at a times means I have to manage my time very very well. My current arrangement is like this: 4 projects individually separated into 4 days.

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Visual Board 2nd draft I had a hard time finalizing what I wanted to achieve with each of these packaging. But now I finally got some. (after 2 months of changing and refining) I found that it especially helped after i started prototyping. I was able to tell right away what attributes I liked and what I did not. Along with my goals, I have also updated my visual board once again. (3rd time) My

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Kasu (sake lees) Packaging 1 Into phase 2 of prototyping now. Here are more refined prototypes. (although they still look quite unfinished) Kasu (sake lees) Packaging 2 Cellphone packaging when first opened The packaging then can be downsized to eliminate excessive space after the device has been taken out. The square box is now transformed to the rectangle box on the left. I still need

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For our woods material class, we went to richply today! This is where it all begins. The wood is first soaked in water so it gets soften. Right now they are taking the wood out to begin the manufacturing. After the excavators brings in the wood, it goes through this cutting machine which cuts away the skin on the surface. This part is very interesting. The wood then goes through this

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Talked so much about my grad project but never put up some prototypes.. haha I've actually made many many paper models, already, but I've only documented a few. Here is a sneak peak! Kasu Packaging 1 (kasu is sake lees.) The owner (I've partnered up with Artisan Sake Maker) has a budget of 40 cents, thus I will be using his current container and try to work around it. Kasu Packaging 2 (

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Visual board 1st draft So now that it is the mid point in the semester, The main details for the grad project have all been sorted out. Here are the specific goals and visual boards for each products. BlackBerry Torch a packaging that can downsize for cable storage after the device is removed. Artisan Sake Maker Kasu (miso) 1. to redesign the current packaging without altering the main

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I have decided what I would like to design for my grad project! I really thought about many different possibilities of products that I could design. In the end I decided on 2 factors and came up with 4. interest. Am I interested in this product? potential. Is there potential to improve upon the existing packaging? BlackBerry Torch I have always loved electronics, therefore I would like to

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Mid October now! Our desk is now filled with prototypes and work material. This was in Sept. see the before and after

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Recently I met Kezia, who is the founder of JUBEJUBE at church. JUBEJUBE is a non profit organization aimed to help the women in the Philippines through the bags(purses) they sell. And it so happens that she needed someone to do a make over for her website. Because she didn't have many good photos, I decided to take a few more for her. For the fact that I only used 2 standup lamp + 1

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So! my grad project this year! PACKAGING DESIGN! this is the area that I would like to get into in the future. My Goal to design a line of packagings. That has a heavy emphasis on structural form as well as sustainability. While I do know that this is more graphics design related, I do know that I am good with structural building and I want to bring more of that into packaging design.

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final year at school! this is my desk / working space. sharing the space with desmond. we have the couch just behind our back (great for relaxing) and we have the computers just on our right! we've got a pretty good spot I would say!

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I've got a good friend that has played extensively with this light drawing technique. Both of these were taken in 1 single shot without any computer alterations. I really think that stuff like this can get very creative and definitely could be used to make some interesting communication (ads) graphics.

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Title - The Broken Place (Shalom) Wow, who knew there could be more work coming from the same topic, my home. So for the past year I have been living with 4 other UBC students at the Broken Place. The reason for calling it the broken place is because it literally is broken. (to find out more about it, please read here) And as we move out this summer, I decided to make each of my housemates

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A few weeks ago I decided to give this project an update. The identity design included a business card and the brochure.

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A bit bored today so I decided to make a sketchbook from the recycling bin. So, as you can see, the cover is from a cereal box. The pages are made of used paper. I forgot to show a picture with the blank pages, but because these are used paper, so only one side is blank. Short project! (learned through some random tutorial on the internet) it took me about 30 - 45min to do? I

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A few months ago the news was full of the privacy issues of Facebook. And after reading so much about it, I began seriously thinking about leaving facebook as well. So one boring afternoon, out of the blues, I decided “today will be the day to quit facebook”. And so I did. "it doesn’t promote healthy interaction with people" photo - a-Lou Creations One of the reasons for quiting is

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So yesterday Vancouver Foundation held a celebration event for all the artists involved in the small arts grant project! (this project just doesn't seem to end does it? hahah i had written so much about it already) It was just so great to see these artists getting the chance to exhibit their work in a professional gallery! (Center A - located on Hastings st. and Carrol st.) The exhibition

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Finally finished updating my website after more than 2 months! same address, www.ecuad.ca/~achow hosting by Emily Carr University. This time I purposely spent some extra time to redo this website as well. In my process folder I have documented over 20 major changes and here are some of them.

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I was informed by the people at Vancouver Foundation that the website I had designed for them have just went online! www.vancouverfoundationsmallarts.ca Woo! :D This website was part of the small arts grant project that I had worked on. It is a funding program specifically for the artists in the downtown east side. Each selected artist is granted up to 1000 dollars Canadian. The website is a

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As of May 7th, my internship with Vancouver Foundation has ended. In case you want to know more about it, I have blogged pretty extensively here, so just go under "work/internship". This internship with Vancouver Foundation really was a perfect kind of a job that I have always wanted. I have always wanted to use design to help the world in some way. In an ideal situation, I don't want to

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I think I forgot to update it here. But with the time I have off from work right now, I am working on redesigning my site. Can't believe a site that was built just this past summer already seems so out of date! This is just a mockup from last month. It has changed dramatically already, but I will wait until I have finished the whole thing then post here.

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So finally I got around to document all the prototypes that I have made. One thing still missing though, I need a name for these cards...

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Ever since attending Emily Carr, I think I have stopped buying greeting cards and started making them myself. I thought if I could make it, why spend the money? So, now I guess I have 4 years of experience and the cards recently have turned out very well! ahha However I always forget to take picture before giving it away. This time though, I remembered! So I took a few pictures. : D

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Perhaps our teacher believed in us a little too much, or she was just outright crazy. Last week, our teacher had the 3 of us to be guest speakers at her 2nd year course. “Yea right” that was my first thought, “you are just saying it. You don’t actually mean it”. However as our class progressed, her invitation from the beginning of the semester didn’t seem to change. So, last week, the 3 of

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What I have always wanted actually is something like the Courier that Microsoft showed last year. These a few months, I have started to cut and paste a lot of things into my sketch book. There are just so many things out there that are interesting and inspiring. They don't need to be a special piece of design, it can even just a color, or something conventional in my daily life. I could draw

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Working with the people in the Downtown East Side is definitely interesting. Due to the nature of the work, I often meet up with them at their homes or around the neighborhood. They are a bit more difficult to work with. Some of them have mental illness, some even have drug addictions. Therefore there will be times when I lose contact with them. So very often in this work, I had to do a lot of

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This was another layout design that was recently completed and I am quite satisfied with the result. Below are some process documentation. There aren't that many documentation because this was a 2 days assignment. Images are a bit tiny, and some changes are small, so look very closely! click here to download the pdf

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I discovered this when I was getting a "birthday cupcake" for Maria at starbucks today. I was especially impressed with the amazing looking cupcakes now selling at starbucks! I remembered last year I also bought one for another friend, it didn't look as impressive as this one. The packaging has now completely changed. Originally it was just a rounded box, kinda like a mini ice cream box.

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walked passed BC hydro a few days ago and saw this! Quite interesting. It has many many skylights, it has a green wall and several solar panels on the roof. pretty cool!

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For the past 2, 3 months, I had been doing an internet fast every sunday. A little strange, but I really think I am beginning to spend way too much time online. Absorbing information all day long, it never ends and there are so much junk on the net. Being online can really be a big time waster. So after the winter break, I’ve decided that I was gonna do an internet fast. I remembered last Sept,

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I heard this from my eco teacher a few weeks ago. She told us that "finally there are some people doing eco-friendly graphic design too!" When I first her, I was very confused. How is it possible? Then she showed us this font which uses empty dots in the middle. It uses 30% less ink apparently. And I just saw this on the news paper a few days ago. Interesting.

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I think it is week 9 now. Things have definitely gotten a lot more busy now as the dead line is just 1.5 months away. Yes, 1.5 months still may seem like a long time, but I really do not like rushing things. And plus there are still lots of work to be done. My work now has been mainly focusing on building the rest of the website. Many areas are done now actually. Here is a temporary address

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Recently I just got a new phone. Having used many sony ericssons, this time I have decided to go with a Nokia. Cell phones today is advancing like there is no tomorrow. Since the launch of the iphone, just about every major cell phone companies started coming out with better and better phones every quarter. And this really has made the cell phone field even more interesting. The traditional

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After a week of collecting signatures + data from the artists,I realized that March is just around the corner!And I don't know if I actually have enough time to finish all these stuff!So this week i began building the website.Website building if you don't know, takes quite a long time.There are so much coding that one has to do and I am bound to make mistakes.So I thought I better start early.Now

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Being at an art school now for almost 4 years, I am starting to think that perhaps we should be taught how to do a critique. A critique is suppose to help our classmates to take the project to the next level. However what often happens at the end of a critique is that some students would get absolutely defeated by the things that were said. Instead of wanting to excel and improve, one

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Very quickly I have already approached my 5th week here at Vancouver Foundation. And the surprising thing is, last week, was actually my official launch. Official Launch as in I started going out to the artists and documenting their work. This part has been quite interesting. This program is specifically supporting the artists in the down town east side, so I have been going there a lot. I

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I have always loved maps. But not just any maps, transit maps.Something about transits fascinates me.The above is the new and improved Vancouver transit map that was recently redone.Beautiful!

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Things are starting to roll as all the jobs for the project are being deligated. Working with the Down Town East Side is definitely exciting, as it is an area where people usually do not know much about. And from the meetings with the coordinator from the DTES, the ways things are done is definitely a bit unlike the ways that I am familiar with.So right now the plan is for me sto work with the

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carnegie center, Vancouver There hasn't been much happening this week. I think the most interesting thing is meeting up with the people at carnegie center. They are one of the main partners that Vancouver Foundation has for this program. They are the ones that knows the Down Town East Side really well, so they are the ones that are actually picking who gets funding from this program. I was

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Saw these at T&T today, from Japan. some of these look so nice! My favorite one is the one above. With a paper packaging, it just looks very sophisticated. This one is also very interesting. This one is actually from Taiwan. I have had a lot of these kinds of "cakes" before, but the packaging on this one is extremely nice.

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Potluck Cafe. Image source: www.potluckcatering.org Today I had a meeting with some of the partners that we (vancouver foundation) were working with at this cafe called "potluck cafe" in the Down Town East Side. It is located in the DTES because that's where their employees are from! That is so cool! They hire within the community and all the money that comes out goes back to the community.

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I met up with the people from VF (vancouver foundation), on Thursday and showed them the 2 concepts I had for the website. This one was the one they have selected. It was good that they were quite pleased with the 2 concepts, but in the end they choose this one because it looked less like a blog compared to the other one. They have also wanted me to make a few changes. So all in all, a

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Web design draft A few days ago I started my third internship. I am very thankful that this school year it has not been difficult for me to find internships. The internship I am working for this time is with Vancouver Foundation. I will be a data collector and a website builder for them. Vancouver Foundation is an interesting organization. They financially sponser all kinds of organizations

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My dad received this "ad" from Toyota for their Christmas promotion. It is quite creative I must say. It definitely stands out out of all the ads we have received.

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These a few days the topic of “dreams” keeps coming to my mind. I start to have questions like: What is a good dream? or What kind of a dream is worth pursuing? When I was little I had many dreams. I dream to become the top designer. I dream to have an amazing job. I dream to have a nice office. But recently I started asking myself, what is the reason for all these dreams. So I can be rich?

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My teaching internship ended roughly 2 weeks ago. Altogether I have taught these grades 4 to 6 kids 7 lessons. I had a great time with these kids. And I was especially glad that it was not an all girls class (originally I thought boys wouldn’t like arts and crafts). We almost had half boys and half girls. The girls, were always really good; always listens to me. The boys however, can be tough

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Every year, I send out a Christmas Card that shares what has been going on in Andrew's life in this past year. Christmas card from 2005 Traditionally I have always used Adobe softwares to design it. I remember the first time I did it was in grade 11 (2005). I only knew illustrator at the time, so I did every single page with illustrator. Eventually I learned how to use InDesign in my 2nd

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the girl's group project so today was quite fun. hahaha I have learned that boys don’t really like doing arts and crafts. Not that boys aren’t into making nice things, but it is hard for them to have the patience to sit down and do this thing for an hour. So what I have decided to do this week (learned from experience from last week) was that I was gonna divide the boys and girls again. Girls

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Today I decided to give the kids a design challenge. For the girls, I am asking them to build a house out of paper.(picture above) And for the boys, I am asking them to build something as high as they can. The point of the exercise is to use "paper" and create 3D structures. the girl's process The group exercise actually turned out very well! The girls as usual were very concentrated on

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course content of the day So today I was teaching the kids how to do collages. Thanks to my friends I got a lot of used magazines and I gave each kid 1 magazine in which they could cut out of. The girls are generally more patient and listen to what I want them to do. But, the boys..... haha I got this one kid that got so excited cutting pictures, he cut out the entire magazine! On a side

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These a few days mom reminded me of something... I am becoming way too critical. I guess in art schools, students are always asked to look at everything in the arts angle (critical angle) and without knowing it I carried this into my daily life too. I often say things like: this furniture wasn’t designed properly, the colour arrangements are wrong, this event wasn’t organized well, etc.

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This website was done this past summer, however I just got to upload it recently onto the school's server. Andrew's website here are some process Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3 Concept 4

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Oh my, today 10 kids showed up! some times they go crazy! But it is still very fun. I am very glad that there are now many more boys in the class. Last week it was 4 girls and 1 boy. We made “mosaics” this time. I think for the kids this young, it is still a bit hard for them to understand the concept of mosaics. They kept wanted to cut the “tiles” into shapes they want. But anyways,

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A few days ago I started my internship with the Vancouver school board. It was actually quite fun teaching the little elemtary kids. I remembered that day, I arrived a bit early, and school was still happening. I was walking in the school looking at the classrooms and the artworks on the wall. What intrigued me the most was the piano and the children singing downstairs. Their voices were so

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