"One Hero in One City" Letterpress Calendar

Designer deliberately identified one greatest hero in one city so as to pay tribute to his/ her major contribution to art, science, religion and society in the past. Selected heroes were born in different cities across the world.

Letterpress is unique as every single piece of work is original, hand printed that gives a sense of human touch when we tried to get some haptic feedback of calendar. A hand-printed black circle on each month of the calendar is the memorial day of each respective hero to show respect to them. It comes with a fine, contemporary chic packaging to offer new experience of luxury at museum class. Each product will have its unique printing number as well as the signature of designer.

Bruce Lee Memorial Night 

This project aims at offering a new packaging for the classic singlet to be sold at Bruce Lee Memorial Night. Bruce Lee was a martial artist, actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the US. The singlet is designed in 1950s where Bruce wore it to fight and won in the boxing competition. The boxset came with a unique certificate and a set of two photos captured in 1954 at St. Francis Xavier's College where Bruce studied for a few years.

We aimed at promoting alumni reunion with this celebration.

We were invited to design a box set during Bruce Lee Memorial Night, together with the true scaled fluorescent 3D figure aimed at photo shooting. This event offers a young, energetic atmosphere to recruit younger generation to join SFXC alumni association. We produced 400 box sets where each set should have one unique certificate printed together with the first impression of Bruce. According to our Brothers - "His present and frank personality remains in our mind" . We also design a transparent tote so that each green box set can be visible to anyone on the street.

Relax & Mindfulness

Purify Your Soul with Palo Santo Wood and Art

The bespoke mindfulness gift contains a Palo Santo wood, that is known for its fragrance and its cleansing, soothing and energising benefits.

The burnt wood can also serve as your “ink brush” that allows you to express personal feelings on Chinese Xuan papers who are made from the tough bark of the Tara Wing-Celtis or Blue Sandalwood free and rice straw. Paired with an exquisitely designed copper plate made in Jinan, China.

The gift combines the wisdom of both the East and the West, showcasing the concept of harmony in your chosen environment and create a serene and poetic brushes for mindfulness in the post-pandemic era.

Everyone is unique. One could light the Palo Santo wood, and let the wood burn for 10-20 seconds, gently shake it to extinguish the fire. Place the burnt wood on the handcrafted copper dish to release its iconci scent. Slow down, inhale and exhale deeply for 3 minutes, feel one's body and enjoy peace of mind. Hold the burnt wood to draw and create words with your free mind. Enjoy mindfulness with Palo Santo wood and Chinese art.

Red Dot Winner 2020

Pokermate for ALL

Pokermate for ALL is deliberately designed for families to enjoy card playing during pandemic – adults spend more time to work from home and thus to have more time to take care of their grandparents through game playing. Poker is printed on smooth papers so that players could use less effort to shuffle. Enlarged sans-serif fonts on corners - players could read them clearly even if they are in low sensory abilities.

Simplified graphics on Jack, Queen, King symbols so that older adults could recognize more easily and better encouragement while receiving these cards. Organic holder is made of solid beech and walnut builds an emotional attachment with players - fill in the slots with cards. Inclined design offers a sense of privacy as a card shelter without exposing to others - which is the best for playing Big 2, Chinese Poker and Matching Games.

#My HomeTown

We intend to promote Chinese culture and festivals by utilizing traditional letterpress printing technique to create a pocket-sized self-standing calendar. Unlike mass-produced products in the market, “#My HomeTown” composed of 12 spot colors across 12 months hand printed on pieces of recycled certified FSC papers.

The amount of soy ink applied each time is different, making each calendar become unique and individual. Moreover, wooden stand is made of reclaimed materials to advocate eco-consciousness. When you change paper in the first day of each month, you could feel a sense of rustic, warm and happiness.

Chopie 

Throughout 10-day participative workshop with local elderly to discuss their needs and wants in their daily lives, we found that quite often, older persons prefer to sharpen their knives in a regular basis on their own way before cooking. Normally the sharpening stone is placed on floor that creates hygienic problem.

This chopping board is designed and developed under Universal Design Principles, offering a better solution for elderly and disabilities to have chopping and knife sharpening in one go to make it more user-friendly and safety without using much effort.

Walk&Go

More than 70 participative older persons in Hong Kong joined our participatory research programme to express their needs and stories in daily lives. We discovered while rubber foot of typical walking cane has been used up, older persons still have hesitation to purchase another replacement. The present design challenges existing one that being scratched off continuously for years, it has to be completely replaced by another new one. It can be easily replaced by another rubber cap by screwing up to right position. Elderly prefer to put an individualized colored rubber band to distinguish their belongings among the others, usually vibrant colors.

Turning process required less energy to finish and is easy to understand even the users are in low education level. 1000 pieces of samples were distributed in the Government event “Opportunity for Elderly” organized by Social Welfare Department.