Sze Yi's landfill

Mediocrity is my city 🌈

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WHERE MA HUG AT ???

Made a smart compression therapy vest for a 4 week long project and honestly its pretty lit. I am writing this right after the showcase so the emotions are high (and low).

This is probably one of the most complete and clean projects I have done while giving me the avenue to learn new skills. Usually I am the dedicated CADder or being stuck in electronics jail, but this time I had someone in my team who could guide and helped me in manufacturing our PCB board ! I made a lot of mistakes by being careless and I am still on route on truly understanding what I am doing (most of the time). I also had the chance to try out BLENDER for the first time. It was completely optional and time-consuming but I refuse to use AI ! As you can see, it is not perfectly and I don't know how many times I went crazy but there is so much possibilities I could do with this software, just thinking about it makes me excited. Lastly, the poster. Man I just love red blue colour schemes and it seems I haven't moved away from that. Doing all these manually has made me feel more connected to my product and it was tough to hear that my team did not manage to win any prizes. The feeling of "I am not good enough" lingers in my brain but it is not strong enough for me to cry it out. I am just annoyed that not winning has overshadowed all of the good experiences I have listed above, I truly hate feeling like this.

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First Exposure to Drones !

I never had any interest with drones but I decided to do an internship about making drones during my vacaton break and it could have been the top 10 best decisions of my life. Long story short, I am still not interested in drones. However, throughout my internship, I have met so many intelligent seniors that reignited the passion for engineering and guided me whenever I had questions. My colleagues were also so kind to me and it was fun be in a workplace where there were topics outside of work spoken. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to go on an overseas drone competition (AAVC) in Thailand, where I met my juniors (goofy bunch), and deepened bonds with my seniors. This choice had branched out my life in terms of engineering skillsets and interests. I started bouldering with them and it has been such an encouraging environment that I foresee myself doing it for the rest of my life. This poster was made for them. Every detail was inspired and intentional. From the moments that we had to fix our drones in the middle of the night, to the moments we were squinting our eyes to look at our creation fly close to the sun while dragonflies dart beside us. I honestly do not know when such life changing event could happen again.

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I HATE event planning !

The uncertainties and the amount of trust I have to put in people is shooting my cortisol levels up. However, being able to pull through and think logically while being lost in tasks has boosted me up in the leadership ladder. I still lack that calm composure influencial people have and the ability to talk with flow, but I am determined to put myself in uncomfortable situations. That is what I did during my vacation. This poster will be a reminder that I started an event with my own initiative, and was able to gather people that believed in me to garner >50 participants. It is also a reminder to continue to be inspired by things around me, this art style was in fact inspired by impressionism. This is probably one of my favourite works, the loose and unstructured brush strokes represents the freedom and spontaneous moments I rarely obtain in my mundane life. The extensive range of colours was almost randomly picked and came together like magic. I should feel less caged up in real life.

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First Sticker Print !

Now that I am employed, I can use my money to make my crafts more functional. This sticker pack was just me customizing my friend into hironos, testing out non-vector brushes for once, and finally have illustrator do something useful for once. Also, I was camping at my mailbox for the past few days for my product to arrive. I can't wait to see her reaction, I hope she likes it.

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Graphic Design Is Actually My Passion

This poster is almost fully inspired by an image I was on pinterest. I really wanted to try a different style so we are going retro! I think it is a decent one, not very innovative but I'm still really satisfied by it. I hope that I will get to learn more photoshop skills from making all these posters !!

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First Mass Shirt Printing

I got to print my design for my club members and I've got to say it looks better on photo. The week that I received the shirts wasn't the best, so when I found that the shirt quality wasn't the best, I actually started to crash out. The front logo was way too big and choosing white was such a bad choice as it was kind of see-through. I felt so defeated because this just adds on to the 10000 bad choices in my life. You could argue that I probably learnt a lot about the shirt making process, which is true, but I just hope to create something perfect one day. Regardless, I am glad that people are liking the design :)

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Club Shirt Design

Fueled by the fact that I might never start a clothing brand, I have been designing shirts for school. Since I have tried a grunge style with my class tee, I went with a more brutalism approach this time. While coming up with the design, I felt like I should stop plagarising images so I decided to do some illustration! It was tough figuring out the correct perspectives but that led to discovering more functions within Adobe Fresco. I also got really inspired by japanese posters, especially the overprint effect. I don't think I nailed it quite as much for this design but I think it is pretty cool for me to continue to implement it in future designs. I hope this shirt design will help the club climb out of poverty 😅

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Contextual Sketches

Recently, I have been continuously seeing people online creating amazing posters. I became really inspired and want to recreate the same kind of beauty. I used my school project as a opportunity to do so and was proud out how it turned out. I felt like the text arrangement and perspective drawings could be better but I was glad that this poster already looked much better than my previous ones !

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Horse wearing a bucket

This is actually incomplete i lost my reference photo and i am very sad. I don't know why my friends are seeing the horse as a cow, they are being extremely insensitive. Anyways, i love horses, loving my media algorithms for noticing that

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Story cards!

Did this as a birthday project for a friend two years ago only to give it to her now. There was probably an easier way to print cards instead of sticking paper on harder paper. Pretty proud of it, and i hope she likes it <3

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Folklore poster design

With taytays concert coming up, I wanted to design a shirt for it. Had to dig up the internet archive for the images but i think it turned out great!

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Keychain charms

Making these were filled with disastrous events:

- clay cracked when drying

- metal ring dislodged from clay

- added too much varnish that caused a white spot

- bought the wrong type of string

But it turned out cute so !

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Clay Canines

Dog trays that are too small to put anything! I regret using a glossy finish. For my colleagues <3

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Wizard cats

Brush control was the hardest part and I blame the quality of the paint for being overly viscous. Anyway, I hoped that my friends liked it :)

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Bird craft!

I was really excited to exchange figurines with this really bright little girl who comes to my workplace, I think her reaction reminded me of all the cliché reasons why creating beautiful pieces of work is so important to me. I found out that she also has the passion for the arts and I hope it accompanies her for life❤️

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Cat exploring in garden

Acrylic on canvas

Saw a video of this and it looked so carefree i want to become that cat !

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Party cat I saw online

Acrylic on canvas

I saw it and had to you know. For a friend.