Illustration

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Grid Cell 385
This work was developed in response to the topic, Mapping the City: Ho Chi Minh City. It departs from the concept of a mental map, which is an image of an individual’s perceptions, resulting from the way an individual acquires, classifies, stores, retrieves, and decodes information.

Based on this concept of a mental map, the city is presented as an area perceived by a center of psychological imagery created in the mentalities of all periods in the city’s history of development in commerce, innovation and culture.

The changing psychological perceptions of the city from the early history of the city (1623) to the present (2008) are mapped using satellite photography and mosaic imagery.


Name of the project is “Grid cell 385 of The Ho Chi Minh City”.

A grid cell is a type of neuron in charge of creating a mental map of the spatial environment and “385” derives from the equation: 2008 – 1623 = 385.


Prei Nokor in 1623 – 1697: the city belonged to Khmer Kingdom.


The Giadinh stranglehold in 1698 – 1861: the city belonged to Nguyen Dynasty.


The City Theater in 1962 – 1954: the city was colonized by French Colonial Empire.


Thich Quang Duc – the self-burnt monk in 1955 – 1975: the city was governed by The Republic of Vietnam.


Ho Chi Minh City in 1975 – 2008: the city was governed by Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Medium
Offset prints
(size for the cover: 30.4 cm x 37.7 cm; size for each: 30 cm x 42.8 cm)

[NOTE: Click on the image to see the artwork in detail]

Typography

Name card

Book cover

Branding Design for Aha

Motion & Animation

After Effect + Trapcode

After Effect + Trapcode

Combustion + Poser + ParticleIllustion

3Ds Max

After Effect + Poser

Combustion + ParticleIllusion

Photography

Exhibited in "Scratch Disks are Full" @ Alpha Gallery, 2007
The conceptual artwork focuses on the use of food subjects which is always showing how freshness, deliciousness and beauty of the food in photography. The series exposes the truth about the way that foodstuff made and shot. They are eye-catching but uneatable. Conceptually, the work is as a figure of speech about “beauty outside but dirty inside”. By using hyper-saturated dyes and attractive color combination to grab audience’s attention, the disgusting content of the photo make viewers questioning and thinking about that metaphor.

Photoshop