Quick Update!

Wow! Its been a long time since we last posted again! Yes, we admit, we had abandoned the blog for quite a while, but we're back again!

Quick update!

Monomochi Design celebrated its Anniversary this year in March!
We've released two seasons of tees, check out our Limited Edition Anniversary Tees - Gold and Silver.

We are on Twitter and have just joined the Pinterest community.

Currently we are running a promo, "Buy A Tee, Get A FREE IPHONE CASE". Yes, we understand the new iphone 5 just got released, but our phone cases are catered mainly for iphone 4.

Aside from the T-shirt business we're doing, we've also broken ourselves up to two teams. One for T-Shirt designs and the other for Website design. So if you're looking to have a personal or business website build, feel free to contact us for a quote! :)

Thats all for now kids! If you havent yet Like Us on Facebook, why not do it now?

Wow! Its been nearly one and a half month since ive last updated my blog! So much has happened!
The most happy part of my life at the moment would be the official startup of Monomochi Design :)

For those who is unfamiliar with what Monomochi Design is,

Monomochi Design is a Melbourne based T-shirt design company. Our T-shirts are designed by an aspiring young artist who recently graduated from Monash University and is now further studying for her Masters at Swinburne University. We value our customers and thank them for supporting young designers in providing them an opportunity to create and design.

Besides creating our own products, Monomochi Design also design for companies, student clubs and individuals. From design to printing to packaging and shipment, Monomochi Design covers it all for you. So if you want to have your designs made, contact us now!

Yes, im very excited about the upcoming launch day for the FIRST EDITION Black/White (BW) Monomochi Design T-Shirts! They will officially be available for purchase via our website or on ebay or if you're in Melbourne, you directly buy from our store in mid-April ;)

At the moment, besides starting my own company, im also working at two other Part-Time jobs. Well, one of them is more of a volunteering job :) but i enjoy it, and love the exp! ^^~

Im now considering deferring my Masters so that i can have more time working on the projects at Monomochi Design. Hopefully things will start picking up and we'll be on the run! ^^ awesome!

to visit monomochi design, please click HERE

and if youre a fan, please LIKE our facebook page aswell ;)

The Year of Rabbit and new Monomochi T-shirt designs

As you all know, 2011 is the year of Rabbit in the Chinese Lunar Year calender. Therefore, to celebrate this, i've created a Choy Sun (the god who brings wealth to families) version with the monomochi design logo.



The following are new design concepts for T-Shirts of Monomochi Design.






The design comes in two colors, white and black. Features the monomochi design text and logo.

Hey there!! Happy 2011! Another year have just gone by, i would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a pleasant 2011 and all the best with everything you do ;)

In Chinese lunar year, 2011 is the year of rabbit. Coincidentally, Monomochi Design's logo is also a rabbit. Lately ive been working on a few new T-shirt designs (displayed below).



This is the most recent design by monomochi. Colors used are the CMYK.
Playing with the monomochi logo silhouette.
hope you all like this, please feel free to comment :)



This is another recent design by Monomochi Design.
This design plays with the individual CMYK colors, composition and shape.
This design comes in four colors, with the silhouette in Blue, Pink, Yellow and Black.




Another composition and space design.
Also a silhouette of the logo design with CMYK color.


Later on ill start working on a few for the Chinese New Year theme :)

Just a notice, Monomochi Design have just setup its facebook page, please LIKE it if you have facebook and likes my design :)

Petstore and iPhone App

Hey folks! I've decided to start my own online petstore.

Ruff Pets is created to promote awareness to dog owners and lovers the importance of looking after your pet's health. Raising a dog is not just a matter of spending money and playing with it from time to time, but a matter of patience, responsibility and love. Remember, a dog is a lifetime commitment. Ruff Pets imports products from Australia and many of which are hard to be found in Hong Kong. We sell a range of items from food, toys, clothes through to bedding, toiletries, and healthcare.

Ruff Pets's commitment is to make every dog a happy dog in its lifetime :)

For more information, please visit RuffPet's facebook page.




So how does this have anything to do with art & design? well...basically all the promotional items like website, banner, namecard, etc. will be created by myself and so far im halfway complete with the website. Heres a sneak peak!




I particularly like the buttons ive created at the top



Im trying out a new way to build a website this time. Im going to splice it up in photoshop and export it to dreamweaver instead of the traditional coding.

Besides starting up my own company atm, im also working on creating an iphone app for RuffPets with my Multimedia friend Twinsen.

Search Engine Optimization

Here I am studying for my User Experience Exam tomorrow, listening to our guest lecturer talking about Search Engine Optimization.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by definition is the process of improving visibility of a website in a search engine. These process can be done natural search results. But ofcourse, in the real world, if you have a new site, how can people find it?

Google ranks a website out of its importance Newly built websites start off by having a ranking of "0". As time goes by, when the domain has been registered long enough, its rank gets upgraded. Besides waiting for time to pass, other factors such as having a lot of incoming links, outbound links and a lot of traffic will also increase your chances of having your website published in a higher place in Google's search engine.

To have your website being found, it is important to have keywords embeded into your Metadata. It is also suggested that by repeating these keywords will increase your chances of getting bumped up by Google's search engine. Ofcourse, if you start spamming the same word accross your page, Google will also bump you down. That is why, it is important to keep a density of using keywords (8% frequency usage, and appropriate usage). However, if you only use these keywords in your metadata and fail to use them in your context, Google will also not use them and thus, you will not be upgraded to the top of the search results.

So keep this in mind folks! The next time you build a website, do remember to put keywords in your metadata and USE them in your context. ;)


For more info, please visit http://www.monomochidesign.com

Name card design

With World Cup going on, ive been staying up late and getting up late lately :P

So ive been redesigning my namecard and have just began working on a new website for myself and for the Monash Hong Kong Student Association.

Some of my name card designs are as follow:







The front of the name card is pretty much complete. Just the back where all the information goes need to be decided....If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know :)

What im thinkin of is to have the front white area holographic like this one below:

//http://www.kenichi-design.com

As for the back, i was thinkin of holographic just the text for the 1st design.



see how it goes...