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Enjoy browsing through the section with some of the art and design works done over the past year. Will update more frequently now. At least to keep people informed that I still do…DESIGN and ART! And I’m always happy for any type of collaboration that you can propose. Drop me a bomb at siaukia [at] gmail [dot] com. Cheers!

[Art] Sabun Flower

It has been a long while I’ve posted any new work, or art regarding to any event. But this time around, back from China, I’m really to be invited by JustLife , commissioned by them to do this Soap Art. Well, what is the idea behind? To use organic materials for your daily use items. Of course this soap is made entirely from materials you find on the farm, organically. Coconut oils…etc etc. I tried to find the pictures where the initial cooking of the soap, but to no avail, probably will update this post again when I get a hold of the pictures. Till then, it’s the production process of the entire soap art. Hope you’ll enjoy it. You’ll probably able to see it life in Ikano Power Centre, at one of the JustLife’s shop which they’ll publicly displays all the other designer’s soap there.

The Beginning

Raw round soap cooked. Made from Green tea, spirulina and coconut oil. That is supposingly a mark from burning the soap with hot metal, it didn’t work like I intended it to be, so I resorted to just cutting/carving the shape.

It’s pretty soft at this point as well due to the initial process of making the soap that I didn’t do it very well.

Finalizing the shapes and trimming.

It took quite an amount of patience and concentration because you might end up cutting away half of the petal if you are not careful of what you are doing.

Petals up close.

And I was told that the remainings can be recycled again! By slow-cooking it again in a container/slow cooker. and I’ll be able to shape it once again. That’s awesome.

Box Art

And next should be the box art that will be put together with the display. Supposingly, I had a floral theme in mind that later it evolved into something…I’m not quite sure what it is.

Outlining and inking.

Detailing.

Ta-daa! It’s completed! Thanks again for reading and hope to see you in Ikano if you do drop by. It will be on display until Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Oh, sorry if I didn’t mention that you can view this piece in a larger size by clicking on the picture.

Exploding Junk!

While it may been a while since I took up my lazy ass to update my entire 1 month journey back in Shanghai, perhaps I realized I have been evil lately and reluctant to share as much as I did back then. Bad me. But before that, here’s a good news to come with. I got an award! From the HKDA Awards 2007. Really a surprise for me since the project started with Sweii with no intention of it being entered into any competition.

OiOiO – The Sound of Orang Hutan
Project Information : http://www.manmeng.net/projects/oioio

The award book itself, the year before was in black. This year is…yellow.

Yay.

Do let me know if you are interested in setting up an installation for this project on any of your event, of course, please provide the equipment. I’m too poor to buy those yet.

I got myself a card holder…I think? If you ever bump into me, talk to me. I’ll be very glad to pass you a copy of my card . Oh about the UTGP competition? I failed!

UTGP : Curly

MM Curly!! up for online voting!!
WTF is the first word to ever describe my emotion upon receiving this email. My brother and sister!! Vote for me!! Oh my god! Thank you UT!! MY GOD! LOLOMGWTFBBQ!

MissWishful

Was playing around to experiment with visual effect and see far I can go and what I can learn from there. Well at the moment I will look into improving it. Most probably I will learn something new from it. Definitely something different I can play with besides from the usual illustrator vector.

Original illustration

Photoshop Manipulation