Factory Font

Font Design, lowercase & punctuation, 2011

Design: Roy Wang

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Concept:

A system of uniformity and equable operations, inspired by a constitution of a factory, the art of mass constructing — manufacturing through formal moulds of mass, volume, space by employment of modern industrial materials.

Visit www.factory1611.com/factoryfont to view an interactive webpage designed with this font!

Hungry Ghost Festival 2011

Branding Campaign

Art Direction/Design/Photography: Roy Wang

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The Key focus of this branding campaign is to remind people of the primary ideas behind this traditional chinese festival, one that has huge significance to our culture yet increasingly alienated by the younger generations of Singaporeans. Having being associated with superstitious connotations and aging beliefs, this festival’s practices and celebrations are increasingly being marginalized. This year, we remind ourselves of the primary idea behind this festival, that of Filial Piety, based on the teachings of Confucius more than 2000 years ago in Ancient China, and how acts of offerings and giving to the deceased is a traditional mark of remembrance, love, and respect for the elders.

Campaign collaterals consists of poster, direct mailer, catalogue, TVC and souvenirs in the form of Limited Edition Hell Bank notes, promoting this event held, for the first time ever, at Fort Canning Park.

Concept & Art Direction: Roy Wang

Photography & Post Production: Roy Wang

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An advertisement done for Tefal non-stick pans, using the concept of a frying egg sliding off the pan effortlessly.

Music: Young Folks by Peter Bjorn And John

Recipient of 1 Silver & 1 Finalist award in the Crowbar Awards 2010!

www.crowbar.com.sg
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Silver Award // Publication Design // Tasting Colors 吃出色彩

Art Direction, Design, Copywriting: Roy Wang

View the work here! [Link]

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Finalist // Publication Design // Intercause

Team
Kenneth Lim
Roy Wang
Danielle Liu
Wong See Hua

View the work here! [Link]

Photography & Post Production: Roy Wang & Philothea Liau

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A Personal ID project involving motion graphics

Fantasies of the Concete Jumgle, is selected to be exhibited at the 2010 Commonwealth Photography Awards exhibition, organised by The Royal Commonwealth society.

The Commonwealth Photographic Awards began in 1999 under the joint leadership of the Commonwealth Press Union and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Open to all from, or resident in, Commonwealth countries, this inspiring photographic prize celebrates the ways in which young people from all backgrounds across the Commonwealth, from different races, creeds, cultures and ways of life, see themselves and others.

View the rest of the works exhibition here : [LINK]

Full List of winner’s names here: [LINK]

Missed
Sound based Art installation
October 2010

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Team
Roy Wang
Yong Yi
Trixie Chua

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As city dwellers in Singapore, we often notice the visual aspects of things because they often provide the most direct indication of what we need to know and understand in this fast paced society. However in truth, the sound aspect of our environment is omnipresent, and more often than not, it too makes up a huge portion of our daily experience living in this city. only for us to have missed realising its presence.

Concept

Using the spark of moving from invisible to the visible, we seek to engage viewers to undertake the process of rediscovering these seemingly ‘invisible’  sounds, by isolating these audio aspects of our society, taking them out of their visual context, for the viewers to breathe in these sounds and appreciating the ephemeral beauty of it, as well as to hear them from a different perspective.

The typography is intentionally made ‘invisible’ and linked to a single source transmitting the sounds, which reflects the issue of invisible sounds and their fundamental place in Singapore’s social fabric.

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Sounds

EZ-link tapping sound: On bus 199, Boon Lay MRT
Coins payment sound: On bus 199, Hall 11 bus stop
Raining sound: Jurong Point
Train is coming & doors closing: Boon Lay MRT platform
Ice Tea stirring & sucking: Kedai Kue Kue Bugis Junction
Buddhist song: Waterloo St Guan Yin Temple
Selling flowers: Waterloo St Guan Yin Temple
Battery operated lantern music: Waterloo St
Traffic light sound: Bugis Junction traffic light junction
Egg frying: 255 Loyang Rise
Kettle whistling: 43B Surin Avenue
Refrigerator: Blk 5 Rochor Rd #14-614
Hair Dryer: 53 Soo Chew View
Electric drill: 222C Bedok Central #09-53
Dripping tap: Blk 298 Tampines St 23 #07-345
Kettle being filled: Blk 23 Pipit Rd #09-10
Cutting bread: Blk 423 Serangoon Avenue 1 #13-21
Gas stove: Blk 255 Clementi Avenue 3 #11-556
Teapot being filled: 7 Flora Drive #05-26

The Four walls of the Old Chiangmai City provided easy navigation around, i’d like to imagine the ancient city which stood and fell within them hundreds of years ago. The Night Bazaar at the north gate was by far the biggest i’ve been to, impressed not just by scale but by the variety of life and goods there too. From the bunch of teenagers sitting in a line and belting out pop tunes in the way they know how to(much like the Eagle, Hen & Chicks game formation if you were to imagine), to the solo girl stringing melodies from her violin without the hint of interest or passion in her eyes, I could feel the entire street dotted with sparkles like a bunch of lit fireflies parading the legions of fields.

Doi Sutep, the largest monastery/temple located in Chiangmai is built on top of the hill, a 45 minutes drive up in their iconic red pickup trucks of Chiangmai called Song Taew, their version of the bus/taxi. Boy it was impressive. I could feel the air pressure and temperature dropping as the truck went in circular upwards descend up the winding roads leading to the temple. The amount of gold glittering the entire structure, the sheen and vastly of the architecture imposed on one to stare in silence. It was tranquil to say the least, the view overlooking the entire city of Chiangmai. Saw many portrayals of the Sukhothai style Buddha, recollection of the lessons of Southeast Asian Art surfaced.

Our plans to travel to Laos & Cambodia were smashed to smithereens when we realized the degree of time and money involved. So it was back to Bangkok after a great 4 days, which included a fucking awesome white water rafting experience, by a dirt cheap and shady bus trip filled with world travelers of every mould, & transiting onboard a flight to Saigon, when we met the most interesting people yet.