Chin Tan

Chin Tan

DesignerSingapore
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Chin Tan

Chin Tan

DesignerSingapore
About me
My work is inspired by daily rituals from my cultural background, combined with the natural curiosity of my restless mind. Through work that is cleverly articulated, insightful and ever so slightly humorous, my work strives to amuse, delight and inform the world. Also, I might be a maximalist*.
Projects
  • Love / Hate
    Love / HateLove / Hate starts from the simple idea of creating chinese words with letterpress. I chose to manipulate Gill Sans, because of it's history as classic british typeface. It speaks, in a way, of my time as a chinese in the London, a mish-mash of both cultures. With handrolled ink on letterpress, this book explores the idea of how emotions can change from love to hate... and if you're an optimistic, from hate to love.
  • WeWee
    WeWeeWeWee™ is an app that aims to revolutionise the toilet finding scene. More than just a toilet finding app, it's a social platform that showcases the freshest trends on the bathroom scene. WeWee™ was a concept that was realised in a short two week period with Sean Murphy during Collabology 2015 at Somerset House. In order display the WeWee™ idea fully, we built a fullsize WeWee™ pop-up toilet that was showcased during the Collabology pitch night.
  • The Distance of the Internet
    The Distance of the InternetThe Internet exists as an ambiguous time-space. Despite locations and timezones, whenever people communicate online, they are brought to a parallel universe where they are at the same place, at the same time. It brings those far away closer, and separates those close by.
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Work history
    Designer
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    My main job was to work closely with the head designer in Ideation and creation of branded direct mailers and collaterals for brands such as Mercedes and SingTel. I also assisted art directors in design and craft oriented print and digital works.
Skills
  • Advertising
  • Visual Arts
  • Branding
  • Print Design
  • Art Direction
  • Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Creative Direction
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Photoshop
  • Craft Skills
  • Web Interactive Design
Education
    Graphic Design
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    Broadening the definition of graphic design beyond print and digital, situating my practice in the bigger picture.
    Visual Communication
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    Technical design software and hardware skills. Creative problem solving