Zin World
Brand Identity, Paper Engineering
While creating for other brand identities, I was curious of what design voice/style/aesthetic I have and what dominates my design decisions. I went on experimenting for different merchandises (shown below are poster, life planner, and a mini-mail package)
I tend to play around with gradients and blending modes, baroque ornaments, symmetries, generative AI, 3D assets, ASCII art, and typography. It’s an eye-opening exercise because now I know what my design bias is and I’m now learning how to break/make use of it for other projects.
This is a self portrait where I explored my design bias: style, elements, settings and compositioin. The background image is a Fingerprint-River Map I created for London isn't England; Yangon isn't Myanmar exhibition poster design which I created for a Burmese photographer who moved to London when they were just a teenager. I relate to them as I can’t go back home because of Military coup in Myanmar and I’m actively rebelling against the Myanmar Military Junta. Over that I added a colour gradient to block out the contents, added an ASCII art of my portrait photo, more ASCII in the background, added my Zin World bunny logo and the wireframes in the background, and some elements from my first 3D AR filter I created in Blender/Lens Studio and some from Celestial Petals because those two projects are the ones that kickstarted my interest in AR.
I believe a design self-portrait is something that I am and the things that shaped my interest and style and explored well through this excercise.
When being said as a life planner, I wanted to explore my whole timeline from my birth to my death; which is of course very imaginary. As a person who migrated to the UK to achive a better education, a better lifestyle, it is scary to find my own voice, a place I belong, and a new home outside home since I can’t be home in the next couple of years as a result of the enlistment laws from the Myanmar Military Junta.
As a person who loves plans but lazy to follow them and the world giving us unexpected turns, my planner can be very vague;
the left side is a few goals I want to achive throughout my life.
Thinking about items to give away, I wanted to create a mini-album kind of mails to send out to studios and future connections. It can have a new card or content each drop, every few months.
This came from a Seventeen’s weverse album template as I’m a Carat (a K-pop boy band Seventeen’s fan) and loves to collect their merchandise. I want to create my own albums which not only promote my latest projects but something that the creative studios can keep as a collectible.
First mail promoted Seasons of the Lotus Calendar which I made a pop-up card in the shape of a Lotus.