Karly Yu

Graphic Design BDes (Hons)

"Frisky" is the word that conclude my works. Combining design and illustration, my design will Gove you a smile afterwards :>

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karly yu

For my final year, I have done 3 major project to showcase my skills and creativity. Here they are. Enjoy! :D

SWAPAL is a brand I created for D&AD- Do the green thing brief. The brief asks us to think of a solution to tackle with fast fashion problem. SWAPAL is a community that provides a platform for people not only to swap their clothes, but getting to know new friends too. 

Down The Rabbit Hole is a publication I made for ISTD- Shaping the world brief. The brief asks us to choose a book from 100 Books That Changed The World and investigate in its subsequent influence towards the world. I have chosen Lewis Carroll’s well-known Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. Looking into how it changed the world culturally and was a big inspiration for many great artworks. 

KINGGO Coffee Roastery is a cafe brand that I set up in Warrington to help Hong Kong immigrants to learn more on UK lifestyle and also form a social hub for people to assimilate into a familiar but different local culture. The brand runs a minimal style but also includes Hong Kong features to resonate back to their homeland. On the other hand, spreading Hong Kong culture to locals so as to archive social harmony within the area is also one of the aims of this project.

Apart from design, I am also keen on illustration. I love to include illustrations in most of my design work, just to bring a vibrant and cuteness to them. You could go check out my work on my Instagram link below! :D

SWAPAL

A photo of a wall with 14 posters mockup.

SWAPAL. A slow fashion community that provides a friendly, engaging environment for people to swap, upcycle, reuse and most importantly, be pals. Our aim? To save the planet from fast fashion, in vogue.

SWAPAL understand fashion is one's belongingness-and-love needs and we believe being stylish does not need a price. Fashion is an inevitable element in our daily lives, but being stylish doesn’t need to cost the earth. One of the big problems with fast fashion is the majority of items are neither recycled or donated. We are here to balance fashion and planet-friendly. Most importantly, provide an environment for you to find your swap pals and save the earth as one. At SWAPAL, our aim is to build a community where planet-and-fashion-lovers can find stylish, like-minded friends. Your SWAPALs aren’t just people you meet on the app once. SWAPAL is about building meaningful connections, which will support you through your slow fashion journey. Swapal is about bringing communities together through slow fashion, so people can support each other on their sustainability journey. Through pop-ups and physical stores, we hope to spread the concept of SWAPAL around the world. We want to foster real human connections, and combat loneliness, both online and in real life.

Down The Rabbit Hole

A book mockup with square shape and a dark blue background.

Alice Adventure’s in Wonderland is an English children’s novel written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. It is a well known story about a girl chasing a rabbit then falls into a rabbit hole which leads her to a bizarre adventure in wonderland. With the book reaching its 157 years of publishing this year, it has brought a wide range of influence to the world. Especially in the creative sector throughout history. It has been an important inspiration to many great artworks.

Narrowing down the focus, this ISTD submission focuses on how Alice’s adventure in wonderland influenced popular culture throughout its 157 years of history in various time periods and also the great artworks that are made inspired by or base on this story. Showing how the book actually bring changes to our society culturally through being a significant inspiration to artists in times to help create artworks. Categorising into different creative sectors to explain the book’s influence towards each of it. Each book characters had its own characteristic which makes all of them so iconic and remarkable. A bit of introduction and the character’s subsequent influence will also be mentioned in the book. After reading the publication, you should have a more rounded understanding towards the book Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland’s influences culturally. Lewis Carroll has created something that are areach of the imagination in the book’s publishing times. His creation affected the people’s ways of seeing and thinking. I would like to pay tribute to his thinking and story by showing playfulness in this publication.

KINGGO Coffee Roastery

A mock up of two poster in a train platform

KINGGO Coffee Roastary is a cafe that helps HongKongers to get used to UK’s lifestyle. On the other hand, provide a place for HongKongers to gather and interact.

Since 2019, the outbreak of the anti-extradition movement, Hong Kong’s political states have become more and more unstable. Hence, the frustrating situation in Hong Kong has resulted in an immigration wave in last years. The reason why they choose the UK is because Britain has played a big role in the history of Hong Kong, the two places have been closely linked for a long time. Hong Kong is once a colony of Britain from 1841 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1997. With such depressing situation now in Hong Kong, The Britain has opened The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa route on 31 January, allowing BN(O)(British National(Overseas)) status holders and certain family members to live, work and study in the UK. Such implementation has attracted hundred thousand people left Hong Kong and immigrate to The UK last year. A spokesperson said “The BN(O) route is an unprecedented and generous offer reflecting the UK’s historic and moral commitment to the people of Hong Kong who chose to retain their ties to the UK by taking up BN(O) status at the point of Hong Kong’s handover to China in 1997.” As the living culture in Hong Kong and the UK is very different. In here the lifestyle is much more simple, slow and relaxed. As an immigrant, Hong Kong people should do as the Romans do. Hong Kong immigrants may need some time to get used to it. With the help and support of the people on the same wavelength, it may get more comfortable and easy for them to adopt a new environment.

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