Frederick CK Tam
An illustration and graphic design portfolio. Short illustration projects go underneath the "illustration" page.
Stopmotion Animation: Manifesto Project (2012 March - April)
A group project collaborating with 5 other members, with each of us creating our own character and forming a mini society. A manifesto is then being produced based on our secret rules within the society.
Animation by: Yiyu Lam, Diandra Reyes, Yuko Yamamoto, Beau Gregory Giles, Soo Shin and Frederick Tam
Manifesto Project (2012 March - April)
A group project collaborating with 5 other members, with each of us creating our own character and forming a mini society. A manifesto is then being produced based on our secret rules within the society. A manifesto in the form of a book, a website and a stop motion animation were produced.
The Morrison Dental Chair Project (2012 January- February)
Research on a dental chair. When, where and How it was made. Who designed the chair. How it was used. Etc.
I then personified the chair into a steam punk assassin lady and put her into a teaser comic including the designer of the chair being the protagonist in a fictional parallel universe.
Illustration Project: Woman In Black (November 2011)
An illustration project based on Susan Hill’s classic horror novel, the woman in black. Some research was done at the south coast of England at Camber Sands. Unfortunately I didn’t really use the landscape sketches I have done over there, but I felt the emptiness and void in the marshes have contributed to the atmosphere I have decided to build in these illustrations.
Caption to the first illustration:
As I turned away, I glanced once again round the burial ground and then I saw again the woman with the wasted face, who had been at Mrs Drablow’s funeral. Now I saw that her face did wear an expression
Caption to the second illustration:
It was one of what I can only describe - and the words seem hopelessly inadequate to express what I saw - As a desperate yearning malevolence; It was as though she was searching for something she wanted, needed - must have, more than life itself, and which had been taken away from her.
Caption to the Third Illustration:
I ran after her as she slipped away - Quickly and lightly over the short stretch of rough grass between the graves towards the gap in the wall, and came out almost on the edge of the estuary. At my feet, the grass gave way within a yard or two to sand. All around me the marshes and the flat salt dunes stretched away until they merged with the rising tide.
Collection Project: Abomination (October 2011)
The collection project started initially as a given task from the college to do observational drawings and compile it in a meaningful way. I have chosen to establish the link between all the objects on the medical abnormalities. I have also drawn monsters by combining different parts of animals together (on the cover page) and I try to mix these creations into the medical catalogue. I do not feel like victims of these disorders are abominations, in fact I have one of the disorder within the catalogue which made me understand that i’m the odd one out among people around me. The feeling we have when we see someone different though, is the feeling I try to hold onto with this work.
Eagle Global Logistics Identity Design (August 2011)
Graphic Design project for Eagle Global Logistics, my first client job received during the time when I was interning at Cranes Media, Hong Kong. My job is to design the logo, name card and the stationery with the logo imprinted upon. The outcome was well received.
EMIKKO Identity and Logo design (August 2011)
Graphic Design project for EMIKKO, a student fashion brand founded by Crystal Ho and Arseni Muliarchyk. Emikko found the Celtic Triple Symbol the most suitable image to represent their brand. The Celtic Triple Symbol exemplifies the three powers of maiden, mother and crone. It is a sign of female power.
The illustration in the logo is based on the mythology behind the celtic triple goddess symbol.
For more information: http://www.emikko.com/
The Exhibition Space for “Balloon Cocoon”
The arrows drawn on the wall pieces the whole series together.
Exhibition Space in Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design BackHill
Photo Courtesy of Geoffrey YF Cheung
“Balloon Cocoon” (April 2011)
Watercolour and Ink
The “Balloon Cocoon” series depicts a sequence of illustrations drawn on cubes to narrate the story of a character retrieving his balloon head which ultimately leads to his escape from the cube using his balloon head as a hot air balloon.
The focus of the work is to question the reason to be imprisoned in a fixated role. The character in the story realizes the ability to challenge the framework when he witnesses the balloon doing so, which tempts his desire to break out from the conventional representation as he finds innovative ways to reclaim his head.
Self Portrait. (February, 2011)
The project bases itself on the “Case File” cliche to construct an information file which is completely unemotional. It provides me a new angle to view myself in a totally detached sense.
