Visual Vibrations_ Blog Idol

  

  

by Yeung Ma Lee Mary


Little girls and some women are addicted to play some kinds of fashion dolls. These dolls have a wonderful outlook, and they are the ideal images for people. When playing with fashion dolls, people can change their clothes, shoes and accessories etc… Some of the players will imagine that the dolls are themselves, and they cannot stop themselves from pretending to live as a fashion doll in their real life. Furthermore, the internet has pushed the phenomenon of fashion dolls ahead, and many Blog Idols have emerged in the cyber world. As being a Blog Idol, people are not only dressing like fashion dolls, but they also have exaggerated makeup and created their own characters and lifestyles. In the cyber world, people post their pictures, words, sounds and even videos to share their Bolg Idols’ lives with others. In other words, they can influence each other. Gradually, people will lose their unique identity, and look for a fake character when they have become addicted to be a Blog Idol.

I have designed a series of blog idol dolls’ packaging to enable people to understand the phenomenon of Blog Idol. You can recreate yourself by following the three types of Blog Idols. These three types are make-up idol, fashion idol and lifestyle idol.

年輕的少女和女士們都沉迷於某類洋娃娃玩具。這一類有著完美外表的洋娃娃成為了一些人心目中的理想形象。透過替洋娃娃打扮、換衣裳，就有如把洋娃娃想像為自己本人一樣，並幻想自己就是這個洋娃娃，活在現實世界當中。這種觀念被推至網絡世界中，使博客偶像出現於這個虛擬的世界中。要成為一位博客偶像，除了有如洋娃娃一樣愛打扮，更需要誇大其外表、個性及生活。她們需要在這個網絡世界中上載個人照片、文字、聲音，甚至錄像。他們向其他人分享博客偶像的生活的同時，又與其他博客偶像互相地影響著。過份沉迷於博客偶像，讓她們漸漸地失去個人獨特性，追求著一種虛偽的人格。

透過一系列博客偶像洋娃娃玩具的包裝設計，可讓人了解博客偶像現象。從化妝偶像、時裝偶像和生活偶像三個不同的設計中，你可以嘗試建立自己的博客偶像。

Visual Vibrations_ Beauty And The Beast

  

  

by Cheng Kwan Yui Angel


For decades, companies have been using animals to prove that their products are safe for humans. This has become a very inhumane practice in which millions of animals are subjected to intolerable cruelty.

According to recent research, animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in a number of European countries. However, the message of “cruelty-free” is still not spread in Asia. Japan is one of the countries support animal test. Companies in Japan have produced many brands of cosmetic, such as SK-II, Shiseido, and RMK…etc. These brands are famous in Hong Kong. For the public, they are attracted by the nice packaging. Also some of them even don’t know about the ingredients and the animal test. On the scientific side, many non-animal tests were developed. Instead of measuring how long it will take a chemical to burn away the cornea of a rabbit’s eye, manufacturers could now drop that chemical onto donated human corneas. These and dozens more tests in use today are cheaper, faster, and more accurate at predicting human reactions to a product than the old animal tests ever were. Beauty and the beast is project to remind everyone that animals were suffer from the animal test and they died in a cruel way. It was inhumane.

一直以來，化妝品生產商以動物進行樣本測試，以證明產品可以安全推出市場。這種不人道的方法讓數以萬計的動物接受令人難受的殘酷對待。
  
據統計，多個歐洲國家已禁止生產化妝品時進行動物測試。但“人道品牌”(cruelty-free) 卻仍未流行於亞洲地區。日本是其中一個國家支持動物實驗。SK-II、SHISEIDO、RMK等來自日本的化妝品品牌，都因其吸引的包裝而受到香港人熱愛。事實上，大部分人使用這些化妝品時都不會注意到當中的成份，以及曾進行動物測試的生產過程。在科學界，其實早已發明了非動物測試，例如用人類捐贈的角膜以代替白兔的角膜。新測試比舊有以動物作測試的方法更便宜、快捷和準確。透過這個作品，希望表達出有無數動物因進行這一類殘酷的測試而犧牲，讓人反思這一種不人道行為。

Visual Vibrations_ Art Makes Public

  

  

by Lam Kin Pong Leo


In this few years, a big reverberation from the public was created by many artists who have performed in the pedestrian area in Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mongkok. This issue has been influencing people of Hong Kong to pay more attention to the use of the public space and the definition of ‘Art’.

In this project, different messages of ‘Art’ will be introduced to the public in the pedestrian area. It is essential to encourage creative input to regenerate Hong Kong. Modern society undoubtedly needs creativity and vision of the importance of art. In additional, ‘Art Makes Public’ would also document how the public will react on art activities in Sai Yeung Choi Street. Let people think about their relationship between art and themselves in public area, and public criticize what form of ‘Art’ they really needed.

近年來，不少藝術家或藝術團體於旺角西洋菜南街行人專用區進行街頭藝術表演，並引起了許多回響。因為這個現象，公眾開始對公共空間的使用和藝術的定義有所關注。

在這個作品中，將會透過視覺向公眾傳遞各個不同的藝術信息。革新改變香港，創意是必須的。無可否認的是現代社會是需要創新意念和藝術文化視野。這個作品當中還紀錄了在西洋菜南街，公眾和西洋菜南街中藝術活動之間的互動性，讓大家思考在公共空間中，自己和藝術之間的關係，並判斷到底什麼形式的藝術活動才是自己需要的。