http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design Ginger Ngo Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:10:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As part of the research for my graduation thesis on Filipino history and identity, I used the words of Dr. Jose P. Rizal as an exercise in typography. This was an interesting process, as I was basically typesetting a foreign language, and looked to conveying the same emotion without the ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2010/mi-ultimo-adios-2/ He's a gentlebird, monocle and all, wary of contempt and lies. http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/mr-bird/ Tree Appeal is a project on content and layout management, outlining a publisher’s goal of creating a series of 100 books on trees in 20 years. We were asked to design a layout that could accommodate this need; then pick and gather information on one species of tree to create ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/tree-appeal/ Winner of the 2009 Applied Arts Student Awards for Best in Editorial Design (Single), and a finalist for the 2009 Salazar Student Awards for Best in Print. Ibarra’s Historical Almanac is a short history of the Philippines, illustrated by pieces of literature specifically written during or about each episode in time. ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/ibarras-historical-almanac-2/ A studio partnership I started with Chloe Lan, Tea Party Design is a side-project focusing on bookmaking and seeing where the craft takes us. The logotype and message is playful, but the products themselves show a consideration to precise detail and labour. The name reflects the idea of tea parties, where ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/tea-party-design-2/ In collaboration with Benjamin Larose. Looking into ideas behind participatory design and student relations between the art & design departments at Emily Carr, I decided to ask certain questions and test out several hypotheses and observations regarding these through initiating a collaborative effort with Benjamin Larose, a Film & Media 4 ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/nuit-blanche/ Photography by Holly Larsen, Anne Cottingham, and Mark Stokoe. This was a project geared towards responding to the then-Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan’s initiative, as introduced to us by our instructor. The class was asked to group together to create self-directed visual responses to the issue, which had ultimately ended in an ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/hello-civil-city/ When we were asked to create a monograph on any topic, Britney Spears was an interesting choice, simply due to the amount of information that was so readily and surprisingly available. Choosing an article previously published in Rolling Stone Magazine on her very public downfall to act as the main ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/the-rise-fall-of-ms-britney-spears/ Exploring the ideas behind client-designer relationships in a more internal level, we were asked to partner up with a classmate and work together to develop and create promotional pieces for one another. I worked with Maggie Chok, who had shared with me her very intuitive creative process as well as ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/everything-ethereal/ In this assignment, we were given a text about the Big Bang Theory from Wikipedia to typeset within a context that we were to establish ourselves (approach, audience, medium). I chose to gear the text towards an audience with a slight appreciation, but not a whole understanding of the topic, ... http://www.ginger-ngo.com/design/2009/theory-of-the-big-bang/