Future Projects

Here is a list of future projects I am interested in. Based on my swipe, you won't be surprised that number one is Package Design.
1. Package Design
2. Brochure Design (can include Magazine/Book/Corporate Brochure, etc.)
3. Identity + Brand Development

Text Book Project

What's Intentions?

The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.

Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: “In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swan—a creature that became more than what was hoped for.

But when she arrived in the new country the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now, the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, "This feather may look worthless but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions." And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English.

Some call this inspiration, but you can call it SWIPE.

Some inspiration based on many sources of package design, interior design, product design (tea pots), photography, and anything else I didn't already mention.

*First Column*
- This Water, London based company.
- Sake2me, LOFT, and Brix come from Michael Osborne Designs in San Francisco.

*Second Column*
- Moroccan Tea Pot with Moorish Mint Tea. No source.
- Espresso Cups, Black and White. No source.
- Hampstead Tea, London Based company. The element I love so much about the designer's idea is the use of color to show the steeped liquor of the tea unfurling into water.

*Third Column*
- Purple Couch with Detailed Wall. I love the intensity of color, and also the worldliness of the background. No source.
- Pangea Organics, Oregon based company.
- Charles Chocolates, designed by Templin Brink Design, San Francisco.

*Fourth Column*
- Private Library. No Source.
- Modern Tea Room. No Source.
- Interior Design, Domino Magazine.
- Teapot with two spouts, by Marla Dawn, Village Valley, California.

*Fifth Colmn*
- Element Lounge, San Francisco, CA. This place is interesting because of their use of natural elements to make up architecture and interior design(like the tables are made out of slabs of stones).
- Below that is a photograph from a photographer friend I went to High School with, named Rachael Hacking. Rachael is an exceptionally talented photographer who's work I greatly admire. She grew up in the Bay Area, now currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
- Below that is a chocolate company called Xocoa, which is based in Spain.

What it's all about?

SFO to JFK is about my journey moving from San Francisco to New York. This story begins May 25, 2010, when my plane landed at JFK. One of the things I came to do in NYC is to discover if Graphic Design is a field that I want to pursue. Follow my blog and you will see the steps I take along that journey, and also see really cool design work.