Design Collection

Playing Hooky (THESIS 2020-2021)

“Playing Hooky” challenges the stigma around lifestyles commonly deemed as “unacceptable” and instead frames them simply as different and equally as valid ways to live as the societal norm, highlighting the comforts and challenges their lifestyle brings about in ‘regular’ society.

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Portrait of an Atypical Mind

"Portrait of an Atypical Mind" exposes a mind that is deeply in touch with their full and vibrant character, one that they have to hide from the world. Their hair is taking an intimate grasp around their body as representation of the warmth and... More

Installation

Nocturnal (DSPD I)

"Nocturnal" presents the life of someone with DSPD--delayed sleep phase disorder, otherwise known as being a night owl. It challenges the norm of daytime living and argues that nighttime living is as valid a way to live as it has the potential to... More

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Solitude (DSPD II)

"Solitude" displays the other side of DSPD (delayed sleep phase disorder). Though "Nocturnal (DSPD I) suggested that the solitude of night can be a welcomed thing, this piece acknowledges that we do need connection in our lives and a consistent... More

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Inattentive Type

"Inattentive Type" exposes the inattentive ADHDer who spends a great deal of their life daydreaming while merely watching the world around them go by.

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Otaku

"Otaku" presents the life of an anime-nerd, or someone who has revolved their life around this lively genre of fiction. It shows that a life absorbed in fiction and other media, even though taking place in the physical bounds of one's room, can... More

Illustration

Hikikomori

"Hikikomori" peeps into the comfortable life of a social recluse—someone who is willingly shut in their home and shut out of in-person social society. The image fuses them with their homey surroundings to emphasis that their space is very lived in... More

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Music Mind

“Music Mind” is about the role of music to atypical minds. Music fuels the mind that is bored of the static world, inspiring it to create and indulge in it's own world. For night owls, music can symbolize the artificial energy needed during dark,... More

Illustration

Baby Meth

Though the overwhelming theme of my thesis is to challenge stigma around atypical lifestyles, "Baby Meth" turns that around and instead suggests that there should be stigma around the normalized routine of prescribing some ADHD stimulants, which... More

Work by

Leann Mei Foon

Illustration