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Here are some Vista icons I created that have been posted on CNET.

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I am in the process of redesigning TI Chen Associates' website. Click on the thumbnail to see some comps. ***if for some reason clicking on the thumbnail doesn't work . . . try right clicking and opening in a new window ***

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I just finished a project for the China Tomorrow Education Foundation . They had their 5th Anniversary dinner last Friday and I made their program, which they will also use as a marketing piece. Attached are three cover designs I created using pictures that one of their associates took at a school in the Yunnan province.

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I've been contracting at Microsoft since just after my last post. I'm working on the UI for the new operating system, Vista, which is set to come out some time this year. I get to render lots of cools stuff in Photoshop and work on some exciting applications. I finished up the program booklet and other print collateral for the OCA dinner. Now it seems word of my good will towards non-profits has

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I registered the name www.escapethetank.com for my new website. The following are some logos that I have come up with for myself. The odd thing about making logos for myself is that sometimes I get sick of them after a while. Maybe because they are fun to make I just like reinventing myself over and over. Anyways, I think I have hit a good concept here and so am a little more confident that this

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The following are some pieces that I haven't gotten around to posting yet. So . . . here they are . . .The is the first page of the website I did for T.I. Chen Associates. I took the photos, designed the site and put it together in Flash, Dreamweaver and HTML. The link is to your left. These are two spreads from the annual report (the link to the whole thing is further down in the posts). I think

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Click here to see the Flash intro for my new website. My idea is to have the sound of the glass shattering and the fish escaping in the ocean or sea. The web address would be www.escapethetank.com or something like that. It's been a lot of fun to animate.

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I am currently in the process of creating a personal website. More details to come.

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I sit on the board of an non-profit called the Organization of Chinese Americans Seattle Chapter. Since I am far from rich and most of my friends are either just as poor if not poorer, one way I contribute is by offering my graphic design skills. The following is an invitation that I designed for our annual dinner in Feb. The fish symbolizes, in Chinese culture, prosperity and abundance (which we

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The following is a Christmas Card that I designed for T.I. Chen Associates. Doves are pretty well know for being symbols of peace, but they are also non-denominational. As a business person, you don't know if your clients celebrate Christmas, Kwanza or anything at all. So it is pretty safe to go with Happy Holidays and PEACE!

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I'm very excited to be able to post the link to this annual report that I created. It was my baby as I nursed it through absurd text, gave it a concept and developed the illustrations, photographs, and layout. I am very happy with the way this turned out. I think it's eye catching and it really captures the essence of the amazing growth the agency has gone through in the past year.

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My degree is a Bachelors of Fine Arts and my major was Graphic Design. For the first two years of art school we studied the basics such as drawing, painting, and sculpture. Then the last two we focused mostly on design. (We weren't allowed to use the computer in our first design classes, instead learning the old fashioned way.) I started painting again once I had the space to set up an easel. The

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The following is a link to a Brochure I designed for a Pharmacy Residency program. Some of the difficulties included balancing a large amount of text with the amount of photographs (which I took with a digital camera) requested. I designed the brochure to appeal to the mature student who has just finished a PharmD (post graduate) program. The result, I believe, is a friendly, accessible brochure

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This is a cover I designed for Print Magazine's student design contest. I came up with the concept of communication at its most basic level (traffic signs) because that is, I believe, what graphic design should be all about, communicating a message or concept simply and clearly. The traffic signs in this cover express basic elements of design including leading, serifs etc.

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The following are examples of some posters that I had designed over the years for film festivals, plays, and art exhibitions. In many of them, I used my own images.

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The following are some advertisements I designed for a project on the Boston Architectural Center. The unconventional text creates the illusion of architectural elements and in one stroke draws the viewer into the ad.

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Not being tapped into the culture that Fake Swedish reside in, I am having a difficult time with the logo. Previous incarnations were cool, but feedback was that the lead singer is uncormfortable with his image being in the logo (instead of the whole band) and that it is not quite psychedelic enough. He wants something that you can get high looking at. Other logos were too cookie cutter and

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I've been working on a brochure for the Organ Donation and Transplantation program. How do you make organ donation and transplantation interesting? I came up with some fun illustrations and colors in Illustrator and then set them as the background and went from there. The final product of the brochure looks different, but the original idea has inspired me throughout the project. . .

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I designed this ad to coincide with the posters (in my first entry) hoping that when the potential applicants for the jobs went to the website, they would immediately know that they were in the right place and that other people viewing the website would be aware that there are job openings. The client liked my initiative and asked for a smaller version so that he could put it in the signature of

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The following is a poster I designed for a going away celebration for a member of the ID Community. I believe that it was successful at drawing the viewer into the poster and also depicts the person as a rising star and sweetheart of the community.

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I am currently working on developing a logo for a band called Fake Swedish. Here is what has been said about them:"working a 60s UK mod/psych thing...we're talking about Rock Music that remembers a time before the fateful pop/rock schism." -Ross Grady / Chapel Hill Music Sceneand what they say about themselves:"we are a band that focuses mostly on songs, but we are also not afraid to dive

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I've been working on re-designing a logo for my current company recently and wanted to revisit some of the logos that I have done in the past. The two that I am going to post today are both successful in that I believe they convey the feeling of the companies, are striking and eye-catching, and are a touch fun and funky:Also, going back to a project I have posted about before, the following is

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Having decided that a blog would be the simplest and quickest way to get my work up on the internet, I have a lot of catching up to do. My plan is to update with projects I am currently working on interspersed with projects from the past. Hopefully, you will get an idea of my process and the developement of each piece. My resume will be posted as some point to the left, but until then, a little

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