My Infographic-ed Life

Hi, happy Friday!
If you live in Abilene and havent checked my last post, please do. We are having a fundraiser for Japan tomorrow at the Abilene mall. Come with your friends and family, it will be fun!

Let me share my latest work. It's my last project for one of the graphic design classes I'm taking this semester. Feels good to be done!!!
In the class, we were asked to create a graphic about ourselves, so I decided to infographic my life so far :)
Here it is:

You can click and zoom in to see the details. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

Hand Drawn Stuff

Happy post easter week! :)
Let me share the works I did lately that are done by hands.
Figure drawing stuff:

A copy from "Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent."

From a picture of my favorite Japanese writer, Soseki Natsume.

Typographical painting:

Acrylic on canvas.

I did this because I have been keeping up with this website called "Six Word Story Everyday" and wanted to do something similar. I came up with the story, "She slept listening to the silence," inspired by Albert Camus' "The Guest." 

For the style, I looked through works by Jeff Rogers for inspiration. He also went to the school that I go to, and I have heard his talks several times :) He is so nice and a great great designer. Check his website out if you haven't!!! 

This Is

Hi :) I hope you are having a great weekend!
I worked on the This Is That design.

What do you think?

Also, not to forget about Japan, let me share a video that my friend made.

If you love art and design, Cause for Design is a great place to support Japan! You can purchase designs there, and all the money will be sent to Red Cross.

This is That(edited)

Hi!

I'm working on a design right now called "This is that, and that this is."

Here are 2 versions of it:

I like the phrase, so I want to explore it more.
Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion :)

lalalala

Hi, hope you all are doing well!
It got hot(82 degrees) here today, and it helped me be super productive :))
Here is what I made for fun:

Since I'm most likely going back home after graduation, I decided to start studying Japanese fonts and designs. Even if I got to find a job in the States as I wish, it's good to know how to deal my own language :) As a starting point, I played around with alphabet and Katakana.
I got this done at work. It's so nice to have a desk job :)

The Third Day in...

Hi, guess where I am? ...BOSTON!!
My roommate and I are almost frozen here but having a great time :) I love this city so much! People are super nice and food is great, so many arty stuff too. Boston became my third dream city to live in(the first is San Fransisco and the second is New York).
We went to Museum of Fine Arts today. Among all the great art works there, the one struck me the most was New English Calligraphy by Xu Bin.
Here is his signature:

They look like Chinese characters, but they are formed up by alphabets. The first one is Xu and the second one says Bing. So smart, isn't it?
His website is here.

 

Me in front of the museum.

...I was proud to be a Japanese when I saw this piece by Monet :P

My roommate and I at the Boston City Hall.

ABC for Font Nerds poster

Hi, I got the poster done! Phew, finally :) I will get them printed as a book soon. I'm excited to see how it'll turn out!
Here is the poster:

Good Advice

The other day when I was looking through blogs, I found a great advice for art students and young designers. Like many others, I'm still not sure about what I should do after my graduation. There are so many things I want to do; I feel like becoming a designer, painter, illustrator, picture book writer, teacher, or translator. They all seem like fun and cool, and I don't know which one would be the best suit for me. Sometimes it's hard to know and pic what I love out of the things I like. Well, Jessica Hische said in one of her interviews,

‎"The work you find yourself doing while you're procrastinating is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life."

Wow, it struck me so hard. It's super simple, but I didn't realize at all until she said so. It's a good start point to look more into my career.

Here are some of her works:

Her website is here.

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このあいだ、インスピレーションを求めてブログめぐりをしていたら、Jessica Hischeさんというブルックリンを中心に活動しているタイポグラファーでデザイナーの方のインタビューを見つけました。学生生活もあと丸1年の私ですが、やりたいことがたくさんあって何に集中すればいいのかわからずの私にすごい響く一言でした。

｢あなたが怠けているときとほかの仕事や宿題を先送りにしているときにも、気づくと手を動かしていること、それがきっとこの先の人生でもすべきことでしょう。｣

訳すの下手ですけどこんな感じですかね^^;　シンプルにみえてなかなか気付かなかったです。

彼女のホームページはこちらです。