Tuck’s vector work is peppered with images of fantastical, cute-oozing characters. About the inspiration behind his smiley monsters, Tuck says, “I enjoy illustrating weird characters that are strange but yet humorous or cute. I get inspiration from the web, MTV, music and vinyl toys. This illustration consists of different characters I designed by mixing and matching different elements together. You can see a van with a bunny head, a smoking robot with headphones, a green hairy creature with a helmet and goggles, a space helmet with a worm in it etc etc. It is really an awesome way to design strange hybrid characters that make no sense!”

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CRISP designers, Brian Law and Tan Sixu, drew their inspiration for the INCONVERSATION floor loungers and low tables from traditional Asian culture, where daily routines of work and play were all performed on the floor.

Brian explains, “A living room should be as it suggests, a “living room”; a space within a home dedicated and faithful to the flow and movement of people and vibrant conversation. Regrettably, degrading social patterns of interaction and the emerging dissolution of the family cluster has effectuated increasing reclusion and disengagement among family members. By infusing emotive qualities and extracting silhouettes and curves from human postures to form different ‘characters‘, the series of floor loungers whimsically cast the impression of people in conversation with one another.”

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Visual Communications student and Freelance Illustrator, Julienne Tan, creates delicate illustrations that evoke a feeling of quiet storytelling, removed from its surrounding environment, occupying only one corner of the pictorial space.

“This illustration is part of the Whispered series, things I will never say. I draw straight on paper with a 0.1 point pen. I draw slowly and let the picture evolve line by line. It starts with a memory, that could be as faint as a facial expression or as abstract as a song. I draw a little at a time; rushing will only break the rhythm. Every drawing is embedded with personal stories and characters, sometimes words. The above illustration is about waiting and listening.”

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