Prints Prints Prints!

During my one-year long internship while studying at Raffles, I had to learn to use Adobe Illustrator by myself and create prints and designs with it. Slowly, I grew addicted to it. I began to brush up my skills on drawing vector images and creating repeating prints. What I love most is making a repeated print look non-repetitive. My pride comes when first look tell you it is a repeated print but your eyes can't seem to find where is the repeated print and how it is repeated.

The following are some prints I created for some clients at work. These are the works I'm really proud of because I drew the original print myself. I never liked downloading vector images to use as a print. I will take inspiration from certain images and start drawing them myself.

Getting the stars out of my eyes

The year 2014 has ended since My last post. Certainly things has changed quite abit. Time does that to everything.

I for one has lost abit of my starry-eye love for fashion. Don't get me wrong. I still love fashion and designing. But the ambition, the hope, the never-ending thirst, and the burning desire has faded quite abit. It's hard not to get jaded in this small island where young talents are not given chances to shine and people only pay attention the fashion when it involves big names like LV and Chanel. How many people even know the brain behind the recent gorgeous collection from Dior came from a guy called Raf Simons? Or that Karl Lagerfeld (a well respected name in the industry) helms both Chanel and Fendi? Nah. Here in Singapore, people only care about the monogram bags, with LV plastered all over, that shout out "hey I have an LV and I'm rich".

Thus is the superficial country I live in. Truly rich people do not flaunt their wealth in this way. But it is those who falls short of being filthy rich, are the ones who are so desperate to flaunt what they have.

Anyway, I still haven't lost my desire to do what I love. But the fire that burns so wildly has since been extinguished a little. My daring dream of wanting to be a couture designer will remain a fantasy to be relished in my sleep.