Suzy Chan is a designer and visual artist who grew up in Macau and Guangdong, China, studied at UAL LCC in London, and used to work for Adidas Headquarters in Germany as Brand Designer. And currently lives and works a Freelancer in London, UK and China.
As a designer she makes posters, moving images, videos; Also specializes in brand expressions, and likes to work with factories to make products; As a visual artist, she paints, creates visual arts, makes stuff of different shapes and materials, uses design as a tool of art expression, and cares about the world.
Booth Type: STANDARD BOOTH (MYR 700) - Table with 2 Chairs
Category: Artist, Designer
Genre: Art, Design
Website / Link to Portfolio: suzychan.com
Publication/Work:
1. "Oops typeface" Folder Zine & poster
This is a Folder Zine & poster that was extended from a font project I designed.
Competing with more than 3,000 entries from around the world, my work OOPS TYPEFACE was nominated for the 2024 tokyo TDC award
In 2021, I am moving to Germany because of my job at Adidas Headquarters. This is a challenge for me because I don’t understand German at all and don’t know many local friends before I go. Life in a large European corporation is stable, but on the other hand, I also suffer from a big cultural shock. So the place I went to most at that time was the only comic shop in the town and I gradually became addicted to buying them.
I didn’t read comics and watch animations at all in my previous life, but the strong visual language of comics makes that shop one of the few places I feel I could communicate in that small town. Fonts are often used in comics to help the main characters express their emotions. So I was thinking, what if the font is dominant enough and then pushes other elements of the comic out of space and makes itself the main character? A comic typeface? Not a font with a comic style, but the typeface as a comic character itself. Then how would each letter have a different personality?
Then I paired the main letters with their own visual scenes and made it a folder zine.
2. "Made in China" Book
This is a book that records my self-initialed project. I recorded some children in Chinese factories who were forgotten because their parents were too busy with work. I held a two-year workshop in the factory and co-created with these children. In the end, we made clothes and took photos in the factory. I also wrote about 20,000 words about my observations on this phenomenon.
3. "Macau Casino" Prints
his is a collection of prints based on traditional Chinese paper money.
The theme is about my hometown Macau. I tried to reflect the problem of Macau's over-reliance on tourism and gambling. And I regard Macau as a "dead city". I designed the elements of the casino on the paper money that is traditionally burned for the dead in China to "remember" this city.
Suzy Chan
Suzy Chan is a designer and visual artist who grew up in Macau and Guangdong, China, studied at UAL LCC in London, and used to work for Adidas Headquarters in Germany as Brand Designer. And currently lives and works a Freelancer in London, UK and China.
As a designer she makes posters, moving images, videos; Also specializes in brand expressions, and likes to work with factories to make products; As a visual artist, she paints, creates visual arts, makes stuff of different shapes and materials, uses design as a tool of art expression, and cares about the world.
1. "Oops typeface" Folder Zine & poster
This is a Folder Zine & poster that was extended from a font project I designed.
Competing with more than 3,000 entries from around the world, my work OOPS TYPEFACE was nominated for the 2024 tokyo TDC award
In 2021, I am moving to Germany because of my job at Adidas Headquarters. This is a challenge for me because I don’t understand German at all and don’t know many local friends before I go. Life in a large European corporation is stable, but on the other hand, I also suffer from a big cultural shock. So the place I went to most at that time was the only comic shop in the town and I gradually became addicted to buying them.
I didn’t read comics and watch animations at all in my previous life, but the strong visual language of comics makes that shop one of the few places I feel I could communicate in that small town. Fonts are often used in comics to help the main characters express their emotions. So I was thinking, what if the font is dominant enough and then pushes other elements of the comic out of space and makes itself the main character? A comic typeface? Not a font with a comic style, but the typeface as a comic character itself. Then how would each letter have a different personality?
Then I paired the main letters with their own visual scenes and made it a folder zine.
2. "Made in China" Book
This is a book that records my self-initialed project. I recorded some children in Chinese factories who were forgotten because their parents were too busy with work. I held a two-year workshop in the factory and co-created with these children. In the end, we made clothes and took photos in the factory. I also wrote about 20,000 words about my observations on this phenomenon.
3. "Macau Casino" Prints
his is a collection of prints based on traditional Chinese paper money.
The theme is about my hometown Macau. I tried to reflect the problem of Macau's over-reliance on tourism and gambling. And I regard Macau as a "dead city". I designed the elements of the casino on the paper money that is traditionally burned for the dead in China to "remember" this city.