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The Green Thumb Project    
A Direction to The Oasis Lounge at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

“The Green Thumb Project” was a collaborative effort to support the Oasis Wellness Garden at Emily Carr University as a space for rest, learning, and community connection. The focus of this project was reciprocity with the garden by encouraging deeper engagement with its plant life, exploring both botanical and Indigenous knowledge systems. Our team conducted extensive research on the gardener’s diverse plant variety, with magnificent help from the library staff who are currently taking care of the garden.

To make this knowledge accessible and the engagement deeper for everyone, we designed and built a durable signage system using wood, alongside a risograph-printed garden book, providing information on the plants’ names, origin, usage, and habits. These tools serve as both an educational resource but also a gentle invitation for people to pause and connect with the space.




My Morning Walks.  
Bookposter


The project “My Morning Walks” values the beauty of typography in relation to places and neighbourhoods. It puts an emphasis on how it makes the personality of space. My early morning walks started as a meditative habit which largely emerged into a simple act of paying attention to my surroundings. Through this process I had the chance to recognize details that I usually wouldn’t in the fast-paced life. And with working on this project, I focused on how typography has the power of transforming ordinary urban spaces into visual pieces that add personality to spaces.

This work started with taking many pictures of different signs with my camera, and later on using those and my senses to make different mood boards, making connections between the signs and their personality. And eventually coming up with the concept of a bookposter, which can have the mixed usage of a map, or a playful zine to look at.



A love letter to Cambie
An archive

“A love letter to Cambie”  is a project that hopes to bring a sense of commuity within the “Cambie Village” neigbourhood. It started with me documenting icons and patterns that could be used and later deveoped that into a letter package, including a hand-written letter to the neighburhood and lots of pictures as riso prints.