Crystallize

Another FAUVE editorial for August's issue! This one's my fave so far. As you can see I've put it all over my banners and such. Its also on August's issue cover! BOOYAH

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I'm blessed with an awesome team :)

Photo & Graphics > Rachel mantiri

Art Direction >FAUVE

Styling > MCYO

Model > Dominique for Fauve Agency

Mirrored Wonderland

10 pages of Kaleidoscopic madness!!!! On CATALOG Magazine's June 2013 Issue.

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Photography: Teck Lim (Lumina)
Digital Imaging: Rachel Mantiri

Futuristic Fantasia

Some where in between my travels, I'd take up random collaborations with old friends and colleagues. In this case, it was a digital manipulation spread for May issue Men's Folio Magazine Singapore.

The brief was my favourite so far: "make it a crazy colour explosion! It doesn't matter if it's bad or good, as long as the person turning the pages will stop and react to it."

So I worked on majority of the spread during a 5 hours transit in Surabaya airport, only to be briefly interrupted by a power failure... yes in an airport.

Photography by TECK LIM
Digital Illustration by RACHEL MANTIRI
Styling by JOSIAH CHUA

Rainbow Riot!

Haha it's been over two months since my last update! It actually takes more effort for me to get my lazy-ass up and promote my works via social media than actually creating works. I wish I had the luxury of hiring someone to do the uploading/updating for me!

Ah well as for travelling, it seems i've gotten used to my Bali - Singapore lifestyle already. Not as exhausted as I used to be... in fact its been fueling my creativity!

So here's whats new at the the moment!
This project I've been working on sometime last year, it was to create psychedelic prints for Josiah Chua's lastest collection CAPSULE, ☾☄★ RAINBOW RIOT.
 
Josiah and I were interns at CATALOG MAGAZINE many years back. He was an intern stylist while I was an intern graphic designer. We spent many cheeseburger sessions bouncing ideas back and forth. So naturally I had a lotta fun doing these, mainly cause we knew what we love to create already!

Sink or Swim?

I'm exhausted... I've not gotten used to this lifestyle of constant traveling. I just did 20 hours of road-trips and flying from Palopo to Singapore. Which in the past would've been a fun adventure for me. I'm not old or anything but I just don't have that kinda energy anymore since I gave birth.

...anyways this is supposed to be a design blog! So anyways during my time in Singapore I worked on this mystical looking piece:

Its an artwork used to promote Voice Of The Ocean: ADEX Photo/Video Competition. The Whale Shark photo was shot by Cassandra Dragon.

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Original Ad printed in Asian Diver Magazine

Janus

Ahahahaa my lazy bloggin habits are kicking in again. Well its a start of a new year and I'm glad to say the job opportunities are getting better and better! Sadly my trusty Wacom was decided to retire and I've been crippled to using a mouse/trackpad for work these days.

My last bit of photoshopy-collagy-nonsense I've done before my tablet broke is this piece, it's sorta my glammed up take on Janus.

Promise I'll post more often once I buy a new graphics tablet. Until then cheerios!

Dream Catcher

Messin' around with photoshop... may print this as a tshirt someday :)
Sweet dreams y'all
good night

Love is The New Black

Booyah! another FAUVE Shoot. I gotta admit the conditions were less-than-perfect, My strobe lights mysteriously stopped working and i forgot my cables, therefore leaving me with an external flash unit. Which is not a problem except that the batteries were running out. It's almost like I had to make every shot count, which in turn slowed down this photoshoot! To top it all off it was scorching hot!

Well nature is nature, in the end I got some shots :D add a bit of re-touching and VOILA here's the results from "Love Is The New Black"

Photography: Rachel Mantiri
Art Direction & Make-Up: Juhenry
Styling: Ozlem Esen
Hair: Tini for Yeanne & Team
Model: Ozlem & Aby
Poem by Mark Stephen O’Neill

FUEL

Good o'l 2010 work, the year I was most inspired! This artwork's called 'FUEL' there's a black-inverted version also but i like this better, enjoy!

Bill-Dings

Just posting up anoher old and unfinished project I started up. This one I thought of circa 2010 inspired by detail-heavy isometric pixel art. I wanted to do the entire alphabet as buildings so when put together in a phrase it'll appear as a bustling city!

Problem now is that its such a time-consuming project... and time as been rather minimal these days. so this was put on hiatus for years until it popped in my head again last night. I'm inspired to continue this slowly and steadily... i know it'll turn out pretty awesome if i can finish this! dont give up!!!

First Draft Type Structure

Seasons

Managed to dig up an old typographic-illustration I worked on (circa 2009?) Its too bad I don't do stuff like these anymore, its just that these things take me much longer than any other kind of work.

Ps. I hate the gears! But if i'm not mistaken I did it as a proposal for some watch client.