UNDOBOY

The Series of Self-Portrait 12

2010-11-09T14:53:00.007-08:00

"Pop Art, Chinese sub-cultures and Japanese comics are Undoboy’s predominate influences. His work often mixes bright colors, icons, and simplistic imagery and it evokes a sense of optimism and playful imagination. His work is also comprised of characters that openly engage the viewer with a sense of humanity and emotion. Through his characters, the artist often explores story telling that speaks to the eternal human being, his personal thoughts, and global pop culture.

In this exhibition, Self-Portrait 12, Undoboy uses a series of seamless characters to illustrate his multiple personality traits. Each self-portrait is distinct and unique, but they also overlap and blend with one another. In a way, it is also a commentary on the complexity of the human persona. This series comes purely from his memory, plain silliness, his frame of reference, love, craziness, experiences, and ultimate happiness. The artwork is a process rather than a final presentation- a process of self-realization, a process of learning his identity, and a process of connecting to others. It will continue to evolve over time in this uncertainty of world. "

Most of my work is a reflection of my personal story and emotion. I always strive to connect myself with the viewer - even if it is indirect. I like telling my personal story through my work because I believe that each story told will create a connection between the viewer and myself. Self-portrait 12 is a series about my search for identity. I hope the work creates an imaginative space where the viewer learns more about themselves than they do about me.

Loves,
undoboy

John Jay is one of the most influential creative roles in the world.

My wife, she is a big fan of my works too. It's great that she always support what I'm doing.

The Opening Night

2010-11-09T08:43:00.019-08:00

As some of you already know that I had my solo show Self-Portrait 12 opening last Thursday, November 4th at W+K Gallery. Here is the info if you will like to know more.

I flew back to Portland,OR for a short trip with my wife. The opening night was fabulous to meet people and friends that come for the show and of course for some food & drinks. It was a good experience.

Here are some photos to check out and I will have a following post very soon for the arts.

Thanks everyone for your loves. It couldn't be any better without your tremendous support. Hope you enjoyed the show or if you haven't get a chance yet, the show will last till November 30th.

Regards,
undoboy

The poster on the gallery window

Michele LeFore

Self-Portrait!!!

It was very nice to meet Jim Riswold and talk about my creations. He is a great artist behind the works of Chairs of Chairman Mao and also the "Mad Men" behind the iconic Michael Jordan/Spike Lee Nike campaigns.

Matt Blum & Mark Shepherd

Jason Strand, Christine Ellsworth & Mirtho Prepont

Undoboy Self-Portrait 12

2010-10-27T10:53:00.009-07:00

I'm having first solo show Self-Portrait 12 at W+K Gallery, Portland on Nov 4th. The opening is going to start at 6 pm.

See you there! Or come to get some candies!

cheers
undoboy

Here is the gallery address:
224 NW 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97202

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Happiness?

2010-05-26T10:50:00.004-07:00

Another poster. This idea just flash into my mind and want to share it with you all.

cheers all,
undoboy

click for larger image :)

a glass of milk

2010-03-05T11:12:00.006-08:00

Seriously, I haven't post anything in almost 2 years on this blog. It's been a while and today I feel like making something, something that I like and hope you like it as well. Something that cheer me up.

Just make this poster this morning, fresh out!

live well all,
undoboy

singapore design festival

2008-01-21T23:52:00.000-08:00

I received some Design Propaganda Campaign's images from Foreign Policy. They also created a site to feature all the propaganda posters here. I am glad it was sunny during the festival.

undoboy.com updated

2008-01-21T23:38:00.000-08:00

I just updated my site undoboy.com with some of my recent projects I did at Wieden + Kennedy. These are some great projects I have involved so far and yet i have fun working on it.

Nike Women's National Team growing team microsite

Nike Zoom interactive tv

Starbucks Holiday 2008 campaign

design propaganda poster for singapore design festival 07

2007-12-08T23:51:00.000-08:00

I am invited to design a poster by Foreign Policy Design to contribute to their Design Propaganda Campaign for Singapore Design Festival 2007. The concept of Design Propaganda Campaign is to promote good design and crack down on bad design. This is my poster"Long Live Good Design":

black and white collaboration with Zeptonn

2007-12-08T23:33:00.000-08:00

I received an invitation from an artist Zeptonn from the Netherlands to collaborate on his "Black and White" book project. The aim of the book is to celebrate doodling/free drawing as a form of art. They are a lot of artists participate on this project and i think it will be a great book for inspiration. Here is the drawing process of me and Zeptonn on a page:

1st round from Undoboy

2nd round from Zeptonn

3rd round from Undoboy

4th round from Zeptonn

I contribute a small portion on the book cover (top left corner/2 icons)

3p-3 prints and event

2007-10-13T19:45:00.000-07:00

My friends Giselle + Pablo from 3p-3 based in San Francisco are doing a lot of great screen prints on fabric and paper. This is one of their recent lovely print:

They are showing their stuffs at following event and they will be at Capsule Design Festival tomorrow at booth 134, so don't miss out this opportunity.

undoboy dreamland wall installation

2007-09-18T12:02:00.000-07:00

This is my first wall installation by using Undoboy Dreamland wall graphic. I shot the whole process for about 2 hours and did a time-lapse video for it. It is really fun to customize different composition of dreamland on my own wall. What would your dreamland look like? Enjoy it and many thanks to blik for the wall decals & The Mae Shi for their awesome song- Lamb and Lion.

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here are the still frames:

king and queen animation

2007-09-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

I did a very short intro animation for the mimobot king and queen. This animation is one of the exclusive content in the mimobot flash drive.

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here are the still frames:

wall installation

2007-09-04T23:05:00.000-07:00

I know some of you can't wait to see what I did for the Blik 5 years bash wall installation. Here are some snapshots. It was really fun.

i love these life size icons.

took me two and half hour to finish it. the sky turned dark as you can see.

mimobot by undoboy + spear collective: king & queen

2007-08-30T23:39:00.000-07:00

I posted this King and Queen design a while ago as a design submission opened to Spear Collective artists by Mimoco. They chose my design for part 2 of their 2007 Artist Series. The Undoboy Mimobot is just launched yesterday with a ton of Undoboy exclusive content — wallpapers, icons, avatars, animations, and screensavers in the drive. They’re limited edition — only 2,000 of each are being produced, you can get yours here.

undoboy installation + blik 5 years bash

2007-08-14T23:20:00.000-07:00

Blik turns 5 years old and they are throwing a birthday bash in Venice on August 17 to celebrate! I will do a live art installation at the party. They have got ice cream for the kids and drinks for the grown-ups. Also, live DJ, giveaways, an interactive coloring wall (my icons :P).

Gosh! I love ice cream. It is going to be fun, are you coming? RSVP here!!!

one show awards + ADC

2007-07-14T14:05:00.000-07:00

I am please to announce that my toys Super-Bastard Box Art Characters won 2007 One Show Design Silver and also 2007 Art Director Club Merit.

undoboy dreamland + wall decals

2007-06-23T20:16:00.000-07:00

Blik launched my wall dacals- icons wall tiles, icons and rainbow poops. This dreamland set will launch in July, 2007.

rainbow poops + wall decals launched

2007-06-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

Icons + wall decals launched

2007-06-23T20:02:00.000-07:00

icons wall tiles + wall decals launched

2007-06-23T19:37:00.000-07:00

moved to portland

2007-05-30T12:10:00.000-07:00

I have been really busy in past two months for the move to Portland, OR. Feel great working for Wieden + Kennedy. More posts are coming.

this is the portland dude

new site is up

2007-03-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

Just launched my new site undoboy.com with some up to date projects.

spear collective

2007-03-10T10:08:00.000-08:00

Spear Collective which is started by Josh Spear will fuse a hand-selected group of cutting edge artists and designers, creating opportunities for collaboration, artist representation, and a progressive think tank to act as a conduit between artists and many of our commercial clients.

wall decals with blik

2007-01-30T12:10:00.000-08:00

Blik is an I.D. Magazine award-winning line of surface graphics created by and for people who like to change their mind. They contacted me last year June to produce undoboy first wall decals under their name. Then we started emailing back and forth to get the right ideas and design together. Finally I got a chance to meet them in NY International Gift Fair last 2 days. They set up a really nice booth and they are super nice persons. I snapped some images of my wall decals prototype. We are still working on the packaging. Check it out.

Tiles the icons, they would be your friens in your house, rooms or offices.

This is the world of Undoboy's icons. You can create your own composition with different sets od decals.

Tiles together to make a huge rainbow poops wall. I would do this in my bathroom.

halls defense

2007-01-08T22:03:00.000-08:00

I am working on this Halls Defense print campaign at JWT with my partner Jason Campbell for about half year to produce it. It was a long journey to make it happen. Finally it is live, you could find the ads at the airports, subways, buses, newspapers and some magazines.