Test the prototype here in Figma

Online food deliver service, usually only takes a few steps to make an order. However, these few steps most of the time can become a 45 minutes process, and the obstacle always arrive with a question: WAHT ON EARTH SHOULD I EAT TODAY? In some scenarios, users who live with their parents, roommate, partner or friends…etc, a group order makes things even more complicated. To optimize process, I thought of a way to utilize randomization and light game competence to make this process run smoother.

A night that everlast, inspired me to create my first project during MFA, the Midnight Forever project.

In my story, the main character is trapped in a life where she passes out every time dawn breaks. To escape, she sneaks into a high building to see the sunrise. The idea for the story came from my own experiences of feeling alone and disconnected from reality at night.

The story explores the conflict between the virtual and realistic world, and asks important questions about our future. How will our lives change as these two worlds blend and coexist? Will cities become like they are in cyberpunk novels and video games?

I painted the entire book with one character to emphasize the sense of withdrawal from the realistic world. The hints I included throughout the story, such as an entirely empty city during the daytime and a memorial tribute at the bottom of the building, encourage the reader to pay closer attention to the details and discover the truth about the character's situation.

In conclusion, Midnight Forever is a story that explores loneliness and the feeling of being disconnected from reality at night. It raises important questions about our future and what role urbanization will play in our rapidly evolving digital world.

CAN project is an illustration/graphic design commission project I have done last year, for a company who wanted 4 clear can designs that show a sense of rarity sequences, to make potential merchandise and print medias. I was inspired by the researches I was conducting on de-industrialization, urbanization and capitalism by then.

In order to embed the sense of rarity, I design 4 scenes in the can that starts from the bottom of the sea, to underground river, city on land and the rarest outer space. I put several kind of fruits and herbs into the cans, not only to show some flavors to the drinks in the cans, but also this is a fantastic concept to me. Long ago, for the first time the natural born fresh fruit, are put into industrialized aluminum can to capture the freshness. Technology development had brought us humankind higher and higher, and fruit juice in the cans, maybe can be a miniature of our industrialization.

This Oolong project is both an editorial illustration and part of a package design. The illustration represents the origin story of Oolong tea as well as serving as a decorative element for the packaging design.

I painted a man turning into a dragon while feeling relaxed and joyful. The Oolong illustration project's narrative is based on the legend of the origin of Oolong tea. The word "Oolong" is a phonetic transcription pronounced in Chinese. In Chinese, "Oolong" means "black dragon," and it can also act as slang referring to an unintentional result. Oolong tea was named after a tale about a man who accidentally discovered that the half-oxidize process impacts tea leaves and results in better taste. The man who found this process was named Su Long, nicknamed the "black dragon.”

While researching the story behind the origin of Oolong tea, I found these tales so interesting, and I have never heard of it, even though I am an Oolong tea consumer. Thinking of this as an editorial illustration and package design project from a significant number of brands of Oolong tea during my research, I have never seen or heard anything about these tales. Especially nowadays, more and more tea drinks come in a bottle instead of tea leaves. Industrialization is diminishing so many of these old stories which contain our culture and beliefs. I have no objection to industrialized products or tea being poured into plastic bottles. In most cases, that means society as a whole is more efficient and convenient. At the same time, retaining our value of tradition and letting it flow alone contemporarily with the faster pace of everything seems challenging.

The Mid-Autumn Festival project was an experimental project that planned to be made into a Mid-Autumn Festival theme board game. My idea is to develop a co-op board game that allow families to unite and play, as a form or reunion in all sort of occasions.