Project Description

Fan Man Yi Collection

Description:

Design freshmasonry Fan Man Yi has developed a great sense of belonging to the iconic sweet delicacies of Hong Kong, going so far as to create her graduation project based on the topic. Her graphic design is based on the four fruits that are popular ingredients used in Hong Kong desserts, including mango, banana, watermelon and the infamous durian. In her work, she has stripped the fruits down to the bare minimum, leaving each with their iconic silhouettes and distinct colours. To cater her young target audience, Man Yi chose to present the fruits in a zoomorphic way, adding legs and eyes, with them holding spoons to add to their quirky presentation. To further tie in with their significance to Hong Kong culture, she illustrated a few iconic local icons to sit adjacently to the disproportionately large fruit characters, further fixating the image of Hong Kong as a culinary heaven.

Man Yi’s use of contrasting colours, simple geometric shapes are well appreciated in a commercial context due to the ease of replication and striking visual impact. The set of graphic design was then applied to many collaborations that favour pop art elements and cater to a younger audience. Collaborator TML Apparel Limited offered to print Man Yi’s graphic with their easy-to-operate T-shirt creating platform. Their goal is to eliminate the obstacles associated with traditional manufacturing, offering budding local artists and designers an approachable platform to distribute their works.

In her collaboration with Delta Blues Audio, the graphic design was digitally printed on the planar and circular ‘resonance disc’, a distinct feature to the line of speakers that gives its unique, high-fidelity audio signature. The graphic design features the jagged silhouette of the ‘durian’ character, which is synonymous to the image of an exploding speech bubble. Delta Blues Audio’s uniqueness lies in its unique modular construction of its speaker, which allows for its ‘resonance disc’ to be fabricated, customised or decorated using a variety of materials and craftsmanship, reaching a broader market.

The same expressive graphic was applied on ECO Concepts’ ‘EcoCan’ through their state-of-the-art cylindrical printing technology. Taking inspirations from a classic soda can, ECO Concepts’ design takes on a water bottle, aptly named ‘EcoCan’, which is familiar yet surprisingly modern. The material PLA boasts heat resistance up to 120°C, BPA and toxic free and is white in colour in its natural state, making it a fantastic canvas to accept a multitude of printing possibilities. In this case, the subjectivity was changed to a dancing banana, a low GI (and less pungent) choice of fruit for the active lifestyle.
– ”這是為B仔涼粉重新設計新形象，我是用香港特色甜品裡面的都有的水果作為概念，並且用最常見的四種水果，榴蓮，芒果，香蕉以及西瓜，選用四種水果本身的顏色，增加認同感，再用搞怪有趣的手法去將角色曾現，因為我所針對的是年輕的消費顧客。同時，我所設計的海報是將香港特色的景點和四個水果角色結合，用來宣傳店舖的全新形象，再加上彎彎曲曲的線條是歡迎大家來享用地道的美食甜品。最後，再用全新的形象設計了一套的畢業作品集。”

設計新鮮人范文意對香港標誌性的特色甜點產生了極大的歸屬感，甚至以此為主題打造出她的畢業設計作品。她的平面設計以四種水果為基礎，這些水果都是香港甜點中常用的材料，包括芒果，香蕉，西瓜和「臭名昭著」的榴蓮。在她的作品中，她將對水果形象的剝離維持至最低程度，保留每個水果標誌性的輪廓和鮮明的色彩。為了迎合年輕的受眾，范同學選擇以變形的方式展示水果，給它們添加腿和眼睛，並附以勺子讓其顯得更加光怪陸離。為了進一步呼應這些水果對香港文化的重要性，她在不成比例的大型水果角色旁邊描繪了一些具辨識度的香港地標，進一步鞏固了香港美食天堂的形象。

范同學使用了對比色和簡單的幾何形狀，因其易於復制的特性和引人注目的視覺衝擊效果，在商業市場中深受青睞。然後，這些平面設計作品便得以在應用於不少許多傾向展現流行藝術元素，並為年輕受眾而設的合作項目中。合作夥伴TML Apparel Limited利用其易於操作的T恤製作平台，將范同學的設計打印出來。他們的目標是消除與傳統製造相關的障礙，為嶄露頭角的本地藝術家及設計師提供一個易於接觸的平台，以宣揚他們的作品。

在與Delta Blues Audio Limited的合作中，設計圖以電子形式打印在平面、圓形的「共振盤」上，共振盤是Delta Blues Audio Limited揚聲器系列的一個獨特標誌，給予揚聲器與眾不同的高還原度音質效果。設計作品以有「榴蓮」字樣的鋸齒狀輪廓為主要特色，其形象與一個正要噴射而出的對話框類似。 Delta Blues Audio Limited揚聲器獨特的模塊化結構令品牌尤為突出，同時亦令「共振盤」能夠以各種材料和工藝製造、定製或裝飾，從而得以進駐更廣闊的市場。

ECO Concepts通過最先進的圓柱形印刷技術，將范同學另一幅同樣傳神的圖畫應用在其產品「EcoCan」中。 ECO Concepts的設計靈感源自經典汽水罐的形象，他們採用了一個名為「EcoCan」的水瓶，這種瓶子既令人熟悉，又意想不到地富現代感。 PLA材料具有高達120°C的耐熱性，無BPA也無毒，並且在其自然狀態下呈白色，使其成為能夠擁抱多種印刷可能性的理想畫布。在這件作品中，主體改成了一根正在跳舞的香蕉，而香蕉正是一種升糖指數低（且不太刺鼻）的水果，適合積極的生活方式。

Design Graduate:
Fan Man Yi 范文意

Collaborator:
Delta Blues Audio Limited
ECO Concepts
TML Apparel Limited

Email:
fwy.y@icloud.com

School:
CO1 School of Visual Arts CO1 設計學校