Thursday, July 02, 2009

Teamwork with 72 Kindergarteners.




The Kindergarten graduation was important to my daughter. Therefore, I held myself accountable to make this celebration look good. I had so much fun designing/making invitations and programs. But this piece of artwork I especially enjoyed working on. I drew the school building in Adobe Illustrator, blow the art up to 12 ft x 9 ft and printed it out on 90 pieces of 11x17 papers. Each graduating kindergartener colored one of the papers. Then, I tiled them up and tape on the back. Voila! A gigantic backdrop perfect for the Kodak (or Canon) moment!

Monday, June 08, 2009

This baby is smarter than I am, right ~mom?


My daughter and I were watching TV together. There was a commercial about a learning program that can teach an 8-month old how to read. It even showed an action video on tiny babies reading books out loud. My daughter asked me, “This baby is smarter than I am, right mom?” I said, “Not really, I bet she can’t draw as well as you do. Everyone have different strength.” My daughter smiled.

Maybe one day I should ask my mom, “Steve Jobs is smarter than I am, right mom?” And she may reply, “Not really, honey… Hum… You can draw straight lines without rulers… I bet he can’t do that...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

L'Or de Jean Martell - Stunning Bottle.





Sunday, April 05, 2009

Made Up Story.


My daughter needs me to tell her a made-up story every night after we turn off the light at bedtime. I usually just made up some quick stories about apple, banana, flower, butterfly and stuff.

Tonight, the story went like this:

One day, there is a baby squirrel, looking out from his tree hollow home after the rain, and says, “Daddy, look at the rainbow over there. I wish I could see it every day.” Daddy squirrel looks outside the tree home, and sees the bare lands around him, thinks this rainbow from far away truly brightens up the otherwise very dull view.

Then, daddy squirrel goes across the village and finds some very beautiful purple flowers, eat the seeds, and goes back to poo around his home tree in a curve line. Next, he finds a blue flower, eat the seeds, and goes back to poo another curve line along side the first one. On and on, he finds green, yellow, orange and red flowers from all over the village and does the same with them.

A few days later, baby squirrel wakes up super early and he looks out the hollow. “Wow. That is beautiful.” And here it is, a garden full of multicolored flowers made up of a rainbow shape! It sure is stinky, but it looks amazing!

Daddy squirrel says, “Son, I could just simply says ‘I love you’. But I decided to create this enormous garden to show what I would do for you.” The baby squirrel is so happy and gives daddy a big hug. – The End -

My daughter liked the story and laughed at the poo part. She didn’t even know that I was brainwashing her with my firm believe: CREATION MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY!

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Keep going and we will get there.


While playing “Chutes and ladders” with my kids, I’ve learned one of the most important things in life: Gratefully accepts ups and downs. Without them there is no game.

Friday, February 06, 2009

Watch Out! The next wave is coming.


I introduced Adobe Photoshop to my daughter a couple weeks ago. She picked it up like it was her second nature. I believe by she is 6 years-old, she would be ready to learn Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, After Effects and all the fun stuff. Then by 8, she would be ready to take on real-world graphic design projects. By 12, she could cover for me in my studio, or would demand for her own studio. Then, I should probably take some time off, wander the earth and search for ways to work along with this new wave of super-young talents.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Oh- It is 2009 already?

2008 was definitely not my typical year. A lot of good things happened to me, but so were the bad. And they sort of related to each other so I can’t tell which is which anymore.

One thing I know for sure though, even when shit happened I was still the same happy Sau Wai. I guess all the challenges had made me broke my usual routine and handled things differently. And it turned out to be kind of exciting.

Just like Sean at Good Will Hunting says, “…People call these things imperfections, but they're not, aw, that's the good stuff….”