4 Ideas
We started off the 4th module by revisiting some ideas we have from mod 1 & to take one to further develop in the coming 4 weeks. I took some idea from Mod1 and wanted to come upo with 2 brand new ones to see if there’s something new I could work out.
1. 3000 Comic
Ive been drawing and sculpting these lil’ children in military uniforms, and have always wanted to come up with a story and make it into a comic.
Recently while listening to a YouTube radio show on conspiracy and super natural stuff, a story sparked me and I think I have the first part of the story down : An ancient group of giants goes in hiding underground after a war with mankind (this part is from Anunnaki stories), before they went they announced : “you are all cursed, evil will return in the form of a white powder and infest your children”. The white powder turns out to be infant milk formula, which I think in reality is making kids smarter and mature a lot faster. So these super smart kids suddenly just snapped and rebel against adults and they ran off to an island. My current working title for this story is called 3000. James Stringer coined the perfect term while introducing Sovereign, 3000 is a “magical realist” piece mostly reflecting current issues in HK/ China and pulling connections with ancient civilizations and conspiracy theories and stories.
2. Risky Whiskey
During my time as a college student in Canada, every weekend we went to the LCBO to get the cheapest liquor we could find, we always talked about how we didn’t care how the stuff tasted like as long as it got us drunk. So as a graphic designer, I have this idea to brand a cheap whiskey named Risky Whisky. The style of the branding is to have the illustrations look like Renaissance style ink pen drawings, with a pilot riding in a ridiculous looking flying device made of wood and paper. I just simply thought that would be super bold and appeal to a college crowd with its humor and low price.
3. Hey What You Up To?
I fell in love with doing interviews, and having watched a few clips on You Tube by Pablo Strong titled : Streets of London, where he just takes a mic and interview random passerby. I want to do exactly the same here in Hong Kong. In Cantonese that will mean a lot to our city, for Hong Kong and Guong Zhau are the last cities that speaks Cantonese as a main language, and producing more in the language can help promote the language. Secondly I want people to understand each other better, with the heavy political happenings last year, our population is split between people that want Chinese rule and the people that don’t. For me it’s important that we all still have a respect for one another and not let this gap widen any further. So it’s kind of an idea someone else (or many others)had, but taking that and putting it in a different context.
4. Mascot Doctor
There are many bad mascots here in Hong Kong, ive always wanted to just take all of them, redesign them and put all the redesigns in to a booklet. Having the collection in hand I could just walk up to these business owners and see if they would be interested in adapting them for their own use.
8 Year Head Start
Months ago I was told that an exhibition filled with teenagers who are after indie arts/ crafts is looking for artists and designers to join, so I revived this idea ive always had since around 8 years ago and was going to cast figurines in plaster and come up with a comic strip to go with. I later scrapped the idea of making it in to the exhibition though because I felt that the quality and quantity of work deserve more time and care.
I’m starting to realise how awesome this course is because it’s not the first time I am able to include self-initiated projects, to work on them properly with advice and guidence.
So after I have had my 4 ideas written down, I already pretty much made up my mind to work on the comic strip for 3000.
ANDY WAS HERE
ANDY was here 🤓 