Kamolayakorn Sumonvarangkul

Publication

Seeing the scenery of colorful Fueng Fah blooming and swaying along with the nature while traveling to visit my aunt in Chachoengsao during summer was memorable. It reflects the strong bonding of my aunt, her neighbor, and people in the area toward this flower. In rural area, flower and nature are the essential part of these people daily routine. Flower is used as colorful fencing for the house, as food, as shadow and fulfilling the happiness in their heart. Flower is also the center of bringing this community together, it symbolizes the giving and sharing within the community.

Looking back to our capital city “Bangkok” the number of population and constructions have significantly increased, there is little nature to be seen. Therefore, a better management between the relationship of urban dwellers back in touch with the nature has become very important. Adding more public green space, planting big trees will fulfill the absent of nature and bring our city back to life. When urban dwellers look outside the window, they will have an opportunity to enjoy the colorful flowers and fresh green from the trees. Therefore, everyone should pay more attention to develop our city to a better future by bringing the green space back to our city. Therefore, we should re-connect and balance the happiness of urban dwellers back with the nature around us.

This book, “Fueng Fah”, allows urban dwellers to re-connect with nature, re-introduce meaningful and colorful energies from natural world back into their daily lives. It is a visual reminder to recall how nature needs to be considered in people’s living habits.

Kamonluck Pisitkasem

Drawing and Video Documentation

The majority of the society nowadays are not happy with their lives and deem it boring because what happens in their life becomes a boring routine, making their lives very mundane.

Contrary to the negative connotations the word mundane has, I personally enjoy it more than freedom. The mundane is what is ordinary and overlooked by most people, but it is my comfort zone. Although it seems you are just repeating your life over and over again each day, there will always be some aspect of your life that is different from the day before and once you begin to notice it, these differences will enable you to enjoy everyday life.

My final piece of work aims to prove that an activity which is done repetitively until it turns into a routine does not necessarily have to be mundane and boring. They, too, have something marvelous within themselves. If you change your perspective and look a little closer, then you may start to realize that doing mundane things can also become enjoyable.

For the project, I incorporated this action into my daily routine. Every day, I spent time simply drawing squares on paper. Squares are metaphorically the representation of the ‘frame’ that shapes people’s lives into a life of routine and has a negative connotation attached to it. However, for me, squares are a symbol of safety and security, of stability and comfort.

The result of this project is the documentation of my repeated routine of drawing squares for a duration of five months in the form of a video, and an assembly of all the pieces I’ve drawn into one masterpiece to prove that it is possible to find enjoyment and happiness in a mundane life.

Kwanchan Songkakul

Mixed Media

“Everyday this familiar place is randomly neat and untidy tidy.” is the place where people get to experience the world of living with ‘obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)’ in which majority of the people haven’t understood that ‘OCD is not about being a Perfectionist. This will demonstrate how people who are diagnosed with OCD living each day and how it is different from being a ‘perfectionist focusing on their daily rituals and objects [ cooking, eating, getting dress, reading and leaving the house]. The use of various media will effectively tell how OCD people suffering through.

Chaturaphat Ngamaharat

Digital Print and Art Book

Ayothaya originates from word undefeatable, yet also one of the most glorious age of Thai history in both power and architecture. Many of the history and Thai value become oblivion, it is not interested, on the other hand, not reused for any purpose.

Ayothaya is a project that inspired people by using architecture, culture, and tradition to create the concept of city view in fantasy future cityscape that drove by Technological Advancement Fantasies corporate with Thai Heaven Myths. The theme is a mix of Sci-Fi, and Thai tradition, myths, and heaven. The work aims to inspire people by persuading future vision in term of reminiscence of Ayothaya during golden age into concept art print outcome. This work based on the scale of the print to remind of the art on temple ceiling, the intent for an audience to find out the future vision just like reading the picture in the temple.

There’re two print images at the scale of A0 size, also, for concept art book for the developing of concepts and works behind this as additional information. This project aims to inspire people the possibility of Thainess and development to the future, due that people nowadays were obsessed by seductive of technological advancement and seem to take over into a digital world. This work intent to acknowledge audience that “Use technological advancement as tool, instead of letting it shape us and erase our culture?”

Chatdaroon Narkphanit

Graphic and Product Design

Ideasthesia is the phenomenon which would occur when our senses rely on ideas such as some specific sound can trigger us some smell or some specific noise can trigger some vision. Ideasthesia is the fundamental part of our life that we all human have since we were born. There are many factors that can trigger ideasthesia to happen. But in this project is aimed to focus on “Graphic Color”. According to the research, color can be so influential on the human mind that they are even considered to have healing properties. Therefore, my goal is to create design tool that can deliver positive mood to people who have boring, and routine life such as “Office workers”. office work has to go through a strict schedule, competitiveness in the company, dealing with bossy managers. This may seem like a difficult job, but there is still another group of office worker who have to deal with those problems at the same time as their intense work loaded as working with numbers, computer, limited time and strict clients which is “Brokers”. They always have to keep an eye on stock market and keep updating with their clients, which this seems to be the biggest deal to them that make their life so stressful. In this case, to provide graphic color that will make them feel positive, I’ve decided to create series of napery that are composed with graphics for them to use during their lunchbreak, which graphics would be divided in 4 series of mood; peaceful, relaxed, refreshing, and joyful. Also, in each series would be provided with graphic color of 3 different times of sky; sunrise, noon, and sunset, for users to choose the right one for them and enjoy their meal even more.

Chalisa Nilrattanothai

Print Media

The inner court or the residence of woman court. All the population are child and woman. The only guys who can step into the inner court is King. Behind the massive wall, the beautiful life, art and cultured have occurred. A chance to see it is a cold day in hell. I have tried my best to gather all the information from historical image, book, memos, and other sources to create a numerical data and a portrait of the majestic atmosphere of inner courts.A numbers of arts and craft has begun here, as well as flowering. 24 hours in the inner court, woman court have spent 2 out of 3 with flowering. This caused me to represent on a topic of “ Life, Living and Flowering of the woman court”. The purpose is to inform the later generation with entertainment about the gracefully history of woman court.

Chutiwan Boonyoiyad

An intellectual entertainment tool.

Kanit is a project with a starting idea of “ Math is boring ”. It is a design tool that will help to solve the learning problem in Thai school mainly focused on Mathematics subject. It is hope to become an intellectual entertainment or extra tool for Thai students who are struggling to understand maths.

The design tool that I’ve created covered all the lessons of M.4 in Thai school, which are (Set, Reasoning, Number and Function). The design comes in form of board game which makes boring math lessons more fun and exciting. Instead of memorizing math formulas from the textbooks to solve the equations, students could understand the mathematics content through learning by doing from playing with “ Kanit” design tool.

The tool helps to explain mathematics in a easier terms by using patterns and pictures. Not only you will understand maths better, but you will enjoy them even more. Kanit aims to cause a positive impact towards Thai students who have negative thoughts or fear over math subject. They usually have a mindset that maths is complicated and hard to understand, but once they have the chance to play with Kanit they will realized that math is not that complex.

Kanit comes in form of 4 box set, with easy to carry size (sightly smaller than an A4 paper). The design tool is made for one player and it can be played anywhere. Therefore, learning math is not difficult anymore with the help “ Kanit”!.

Nakamol Techapoonpon

Website, Video and PR materials

Since the old style of blood donation campaign in Thailand was not persuasive enough to encourage the young generations to become the blood donors, retargeting is the answer. Bloody Fandom is a blood donation campaign which has K-Pop fans as a target group. Te campaign use the consumer insight which is K-Pop fans are the loyalty between them and their favorite bands. Also the competitiveness but rather than compete other K-Pop groups, their unity is strong enough to create the phenomenon event for the country.

Nattanun Sumpunkulpak

Animation

What is the true meaning of happiness? In this short animation is the story of a relationship between father and daughter, which both of them have different happiness. However, there are one main key to happiness which is maintaining a good relationship. The daughter who enjoys being on her phone while her father tried so hard to connect. He came up with a plan by bringing her to wilderness in order to enrich their relationship.

Tipwarin Boonyathai

Animation

Everybody has the determination to adjust themselves to become better, however, by doing it alone only made them stuck or descended. Many people have faced experiences with their inner struggles that come from their abusive relationship such as parent’s word, and because of those kind of struggles. It might lead these people to give up their life because of loneliness and feeling of isolation from their inner struggle. This is the beginning of animation, “Not just you”, a reminder that encourage people who’re facing these things, make them realize and become a reminder that they are not struggling alone.

Thanat Jenthumrong

Animation

Is a frame by frame animation and an adaptation of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time” a novel by Mark Haddon.The film portrays Monday routine of Christopher John Francis Boone or the protagonist of the story. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time is written with a unique writing style in the perspective of a 15 year old boy with behavioural and social difficulties for instances the use of repetition of words to create confusion, detailed explanation of things, the use of short and simple sentences, colloquial languages,the use of diagrams and images to explain things,difficult distinguishing other people’s feelings, getting easily overwhelmed, lack of understanding humour and specific daily routine. Hence these points describe the symptoms of a person who has Asperger’s syndrome or one of the autism spectrum disorders such as high cognitive ability, visual and pattern thinking, difficulty to socialise, hypersensitivity, honesty and interest in activities that are restricted and repetitive.Though the author never mentioned any of this syndrome. The concept then made its way across the rest of this animated film by using Asperger’s syndrome traits along with some elements from the novel in order to correspond the analysis and also to remain essence of the novel which will make you feel what Christopher feels by his true nature through his difficulties and extraordinary thought process and moreover to understand more on people who have Asperger’s syndrome throughout Christopher’s ordinary but yet challenging routine life.

Ralyn Udompanich

Thai society is aware of the current “standard of beauty” through criticisms from others. Thai ideal beauty has unintentionally put pressure on many Thai women; losing their identities by trying to be someone else rather than themselves. The question is, what defines beauty? My purpose is to share my point of view of the ideal of beauty which is “Being Yourself.” Under the strategy of giving alternative beauty to the norms with the concept of being yourself. As the quote says “Be the prettiest, be yourself.” The aim is to share alternative beauty to Thai women aged 18-24 years old. It is not the intention of the project to go against any ideal of beauty but to give an alternative perspective. The creative work captures and tells the stories of women that have their own perspective of “being yourself” beauty. Presenting in a series of photograph of a daily life of the unique individuals along with a supportive quotation each series. As the concept of photograph are candid, not conscious, and not posy. Creative work from this project be targeted through social media, primarily instagram. In conclusion, offering alternative concepts of beauty rooted in strong personalities, not only in the looks, and be who you are or another word “ I am what I am.”

Teerit Juengpanich

Drawing

These drawings are based on my experiences of gay hook-up culture in Bangkok, experiences in which I encounter men of many different backgrounds. The “butterflies” of the title refers to both a colloquial term for promiscuous gay men and a sense of excitement and anxiety.

My drawings aim to both document and explore a queer aesthetic by imaginatively responding to the romanticism of my encounters. The rooms where my acquaintances live are typically decorated in a manner at odds with the bland functionalism of the spaces, and suggests an attempt to re-make their world in more delightful and glamorous ways. This underlines the romanticism I aim to capture and claims queer interest. Some of the decorative details also suggest longings for a rural past, albeit sweet or sentimental.

These encounters could never just be “about sex.” The encounters are about relationships that push me to re-think my understanding and views of the world. The drawings aim to capture multiple possibilities for thinking differently, prompted by moments that are never mere or casual.

Napassorn Wisanphokha

Website

The word ‘ Blues ‘ was first used by Chaucer in about 1385 in his poem, “ Complaint of mars “ in the term of sadness. The journey of blue project was started with my curiosity about the word, feeling blue, when I have a chance to experienced it by myself. I went on google, the dictionary website defined ‘ Feel blue ‘ as be depressed or sad with an example : I was really feeling blue after she told me she was leaving. That’s was the beginning of the project.

After that, I went on to interviewing a lot of people about the word. What I found out more about it is the word ‘feeling blue’ doesn’t just means as being sad or depressed as on the internet but people describe it more widely. From the data that I got, I can categorise the word into six types of blue such as nostalgia, curiosity, tiredness, fearing, monotony and sadness according from the theory of the structure of personality by Sigmund Freud.

I came up with an idea of an interactive story website that could identifying a suitable types of blue and giving a song as a description. The website is about a story of a young girl who is facing with a blue feeling, decision making of each people will lead to the different story. At the end of the story, instead of giving a normal description it will turn to be in a form of song’s lyric.

Nichapa Piyawatin

Animation

My project is about solving problems of kids being trouble in the cinema, which I saw a lot of people have been complaining a lot on social media. Based on my interview and research, I found that some parents weren’t aware that their children behaviour cause problems.

So, I came up with the idea of making a spot video, telling parent that ‘cinema is not a playground for kids’. This project aims to raise parent awareness to concern more about their children behaviour in the cinema. They should take care of them and be more considerate of others when bringing their children to the cinema. The spot video will be animation that show the contrast image of what parent see and the reality of their kids behaviour.

The spot video will be separated into 3 stories based on the most annoying kid behaviours in cinema on social media which are running around, standing and talking. It will be about 30 seconds for each stories. At the end, my project aim to point out the problem of their kids behaviour that creates the awareness for some parents to be more considerate of their kid behaviour.

Nusaree Asawanonda

Narrative Illustration on Print Media

Musicians’ Hands are set under the concept of different hands tell different stories. This project provides information about structures, activities and stories of four types of musician: guitarists, bassists, pianists, and drummers. They are all in rhythm parts and use their hands directly to produce sound.

Musicians’ Hands is accompanied by a music composition. Pattern and music staff is used as grid to set the story line. Additionally, I inserted many musical notations in the narrative illustration, so audiences will receive profound information from this project, for both musicians and non-musicians. New musical arrangements were created from different styles of music to support meanings and feelings of the content, so it is going to bring audiences into mood and content smoothly.

The narrative illustration will be presented on format of music score along with providing both offline device and online source (QR code) for audiences to experience this project.

My expectation for this project is to inform people about interesting facts and hidden stories about the hands of musicians.

Pawanrat Koonprugsakul

Application

An application is created as a platform for both elders and homeless dogs to interact and potentially find each’s destined companion, along with basic trainings and initial guidance to prepare elders to be responsible dog owners. The project aims to use media to bridge problems of lonesome elders and homeless dogs together. It is due to potentials that the complication of Thailand’s shift to aging society and the rising population of stray dogs can complement on one another. The project tackles directly to the issue of inactivity among lonesome elderly in Thailand with dogs’ companionship. The application is going to serve benefits to both parties and dogs adoption providers, as well as raises the general public’s awareness on such matter.

Pochara Lertvilai

Video Installation

This is the project that use projection mapping to bring the visual narration, motion and space together. In order to form the immersive space for the audiences to follow all along the seafood process, starting from fishery industry, then routing to the consumers. However, as the video progresses, not only that it will show a beautiful part of the journey, but also, the audiences can see the side effect that this consumable system has done so to satisfy every human need, in order to remind everybody that we are, nevertheless, a part of the system.

Pacharaporn Jiranyakul

Mobile Application Prototype

Hop is a trip itinerary creator mobile application that allow users to personalize their travel preferences such as the places to see, eat, and shop. The algorithm of Hop is to collected the large database of crowd-sourced reviews from Google map. Hop is geared primarily toward a group travelers because we know that each fellows have different preferences which cause difficulty to create a trip itinerary that suit everyone’s needs, but with Hop it’s possible. The highlighted feature is ‘Plan for you’. It’s the feature that will shorten your time even more. It requires users to set the preferences then the app will automatically build the day-by-day itinerary for you.

Prow Pongpech

Typeface

Shalu is the solution to the usage problem of the Thai typeface in stencil version, which some have similar features, such as “ด” and “ค”, or “ข” and “บ”. Shalu is created and designed to increase readability and legibility, and is particularly used in stencil work.

Prow Putthisri

Website and Social Media

School bullying is a chronic problem in every society. Many children are involving or facing this problem. Some adults who had experience with this situation are facing mental health problems. This is the reason why I am interesting in this topic and created a project to solve this problem. My project was focus on the group of people who related to school bullying, especially the teenagers who were under peer pressure. So the school society became the biggest part of their lives. As many studies reflected that new generation spent most of their time on internet, liked to express their feeling by using the social network as a media, and spent their free time on comic and novel. Therefore, I created an open stage in online platform for the user to feel safe to share their story, express their torture, learn about other’s feeling and encourage each others. I also added a series of visual novel about bully and spread into the public to help people to aware the feeling and the pain of all parties who get involve in bully situation and consider about the severity of this problem.

Prawpim Yongchaiyudt

The unexpected death by 13 mundane object project aims to create social perspective and raise people awareness about the unexpected situation from mundane objects that can lead to death. There’re 13 objects in the showroom, each of them could be told into the death story by themself. In order to make the best way to be told in story, it needs to be the easiest way to be notice like the 'warning label'.

Primrose Chindavanich

Sexual assault in Thailand happens averagely 87 times a day. This is only the statistic collected from the newspapers, which means that there are plenty more unknown. As a reader, we may have seen this news often that they start to turn into something normal in our society. However, these victims have been negatively affected both physically and mentally, and eventually becomes one of their lives’ stigma. From all of the researches gathered together, I have put up a project called “SE—CURE”, which includes 3 objects designed to become a tool for victims healing themselves from the situation. This set of objects for women who were sexually assaulted to be able to heal themselves in their own space and time. By focusing on the sense of touch as the physical impact from the situation has made victims become scared of any physical contact, because it would remind them of the event, therefore affecting in their everyday lives. Every object has been thoughtfully designed from existing theories and have been tested by users as a potential tool to help them recover. Sensual, Somatic experiencing and Sex are the three principles used in the project to portray the simplicity, safeness and are able to self-heal. Nevertheless, the aim for this project is that if the users both recover themselves from our tools and psychologist treatment, they are able to become whole again and much more effectively.

Pichapat Mongkolamornpat

Photography

Because I lived in the city for so long, I didn’t entirely understand what happiness was. I spent years feeding off temporary blisses, the artificial sorts of excitement that money can buy. When I turned 22, I stepped out of this unhealthy comfort zone and travelled to Myanmar to experience the basics. What illuminated through the unfamiliar faces were the familiar smiles. Then I realized that if I am going to search for happiness, it should start from every little thing around me. I chose this place because this was where I always drive through to the main road everyday without noticing lives around. I got interested in these people because we are all different in whether age, purpose and life experience that shaped our perspective about things. My work speaks to the urban dwellers because Bangkok’s urban community is extremely concentrated in a small area of its total area. A very short distance from the city’s financial and shopping districts shed light on the unique lives of the suburban. My set of photographs included both portrait and their daily routine in order to show facial expression and what is the simple reason behind their smiles. I also added short interviews and quotes from people in the photo to show sincerity moments between strangers also their perspective about things. I chose warm color tone because I want my audiences to feel heartwarming like I did though my journey. I would like to display it based on timeline and story sequence for each photo. If my work makes my audiences smile for a while this will be my success.

Pinaree Pongtanee

Publication

‘Fancies in the non fancy’ is a set of publications that illustrate beauty that lives in every day life, in objects that are mundane and ordinary. In this case, the object mentioned is referred to as flowers that are widely grown in countries of southeast Asia. Some examples are ruellia tuberosa, bougainvillea glabra, and hibiscus. These are commonly seen in places such as gardens, as decorations, and on roadsides.

The appearance of these flowers are beautiful and iconic in many ways, therefore, making them very mundane and common to us. And so, this publication intends to enhance beauty that not only exists on the outside, but also on the inside of these familiar flowers. Here, the term beauty is visualized through photography. This is done by photographing each flower from different elevations, beginning from the first level of life of a selected flower, which is the cells, and ending on the last level or the flower itself.

The photos are ordered from the first level moving onto the last and are captured by different types of lens, ranging from a microscope, macro lens, to tele lens. They are printed in a form of accordion in order to show the sequence continuously and consist of 12 - 14 photos in a series. The set contains a total of 3 series of accordion depicting the 3 most mundane flowers.

It is able to be opened from two sides, a series of beauty in every level through photographs, and a brief documentation that talks about the history and knowledge of the flower on the other side, aiming to enhance its beauty even more.

Phairam Danjittrong

Responsive Website

Inspired by the many curiosities and questionings made by young female adults regarding the topic that many viewed as ‘taboo’. SEX SNOOP serves as an accessible website that openly discuss on the topic that many classified as secretive.

SEX SNOOP is an online platform for the target audience to share their experiences publicly and learn about safe sex at an advanced level from educated advices and medical guidances. By enhancing the teaching approach to be more relatable and visually engaging, SEX SNOOP aims to make progress towards practical sexuality-related education and emphasises the importance of safe sex ultimately.

Phakwiporn Pichaiyuth

Motion Collage (Video)

Thai traditional games are rarely to be seen these days in the cities because everything has changed, such as, the power of technology and modern lifestyle. I’ve been researching about Thai traditional games including icon of Thai traditional games, local materials that used in various kinds of games (ex. coconut shell and banana), on-site research at urban and rural school and also interview about lyrics of Thai traditional games. And the result was interested me, from the interview part “no one knows the meaning of lyrics”.

Therefore, I found that i’m interested in the “songs” of Thai traditional games because the vocabulary can tell the origins of it, the lyrics itself not just sing-for-fun only but also some lyrics have the connotation meaning and contain the old words and the wisdom of people who introduced the games and invented the game materials for entertaining Thai children in the past.

From the Thai traditional games that have lyrics, I chose to do literal meaning for 3 songs (รีรีข้าวสาร, มอญซ่อนผ้า, จ้ำจี้มะเขือเปราะโดยตรง) and Implied meaning 1 song (จ้ำจี้มะเขือเปราะโดยนัย) to inform and clarify Thai people who used to play but they didn’t know the meaning of the song to have more understanding in lyrics of Thai traditional games in Central region through motion collage which I want my target to see the new perspective of Thai traditional games and attract people to come and see the history in a fun way. Moreover, the total amount of video is 4 videos which the total timing is approximately 2.30 minutes.

Purida Pantisoontorn

Documentary-Photography

We hardly related ‘Savage’ to ourselves, we related animals. Savage means fierce, violent and uncontrolled. It’s quite hard to picture ourselves as being savage because we became very civilized. We could say that we’re civilized group of people but, I believed our behaviors were savage toward the environment and other animals. What we did to the world are the awful ways.

Thailand is a country filled with stray and abandoned dogs. It’s common when dogs wandered on the street. Every time I photographed them, trash and garbage seemed to be everywhere. I couldn’t avoid it. It sounds like abandoned dogs and garbage dumping were two different issues. Nonetheless, my discovery found no difference for the fact that we treated them exactly the same. We simply dumped everything, even the dogs too. It’s not dog problems, it’s ours. We believed we’re above all other animals on this Earth but, all we did to solve problems were kill and burn. However, we were the only species capable of making decision and make change. We have been long the rulers of all creations. How was it possible to blame them? We were careless and irresponsible.

SAVAGE STRUGGLE indicated lives on the street which struggling to survive. A state of being abandoned and miserable were crucial. Feeling unwanted, unlovable and worthless as to just dump them like a piece of trash. They were physically and mentally miserable. They had nothing to look forward to, they would rather just sleep life away. No purpose, no relationship and no place they could go. They were trapped in reality.

Methita Trakulpoonsub

Publication

“ Kongtek” is a very important ceremony for Thai families with Chinese blood which is carried on from our ancestors through to our generation. It is a ceremony that has been done for ages but its real intentions and understandings are lost with time. The new generation no longer knows why this ceremony is conducted, what/who the ceremony is for, nor do they know the reason behind this ceremony.

“ The Journey of Letting Go," is a project that intended to show the importance of Kongtek ceremony and to reveal its core idea. In fact, it is a ceremony that brings together relatives to see the importance of family values and to let go of the dead ones without worries. The messages are conveyed through publication with notable facts, illustrations and experience of the creator, who once attended the ceremony, that allows the readers to truly understand and see the importance this delicate ceremony.

Lalita Chatromyen

Illustration / Print screen

From my observation, every community in Bangkok has at least one "Shohuay", a grocery shop where people in community familiar with. Each Shohuay seems to be selling similar products, but in fact, they are distributing different products according to demands of people in each community. In other words, products sold in each Shohuay reflect the people’s way of living in that community.

"Tee-Nhee-Jum-Nhay" is a project that aims to visually record the livelihood of three different communities in Bangkok through a series of illustration journals. The products portrayed in each illustration are the best selling products and common products sold in Shohuay in each community.

Lalita Mahaisiriyodom

Photography

Sweet Sidewalks is documentary photograph series which tell a story about each vendor and their stalls. They had been made in the process of finding an answer to the question “Should street food be gone?” After the research of taking photograph and talk to street food vendors. From not knowing where to stand in the answer, now discovered the meaning and value of these daily events which never been seen before. Each series portrays stories about each vendor and their stalls which allow people a chance to really pay attention to these daily aesthetic atmospheres.

Lanlapitch Wongthanasophon

Cacti are one of a kind plant which is attractive and has various interesting physicals. Therefore, they are popular among those who give them to others on many special occasions. However, it is difficult to make a decision on buying a cactus due to the varieties type of them. At the same time, each type of cacti has its own way to be taken care of, so that the grower might lack the necessary knowledge and understanding in growing each cactus. Moreover, the physical of this plant also usually causes problems in shipping as well.

The project named “Not a cactus” was created in order to respond and solve the mentioned problem by taking MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR or MBTI, which are the universally accepted theory of differentiating human’s personality. This theory groups humans into 4 groups with 16 types, used to classify and compare between those different characteristics. It is also used to compare the cacti, specifically approachable and famous ones in Thailand. The comparison will make growers easily understand more about its nature and growing process. It also helps the grower make the decision on buying certain appropriate cacti easier through the designed and developed branding. This would be a representative of the product linked in between physical and psychological which could solve problems and add value to cacti for certain special occasions.

Worameth Srivarakoonkit

Audiovisual Installation

This project is about noises in Soi Nana that changed into communicated sounds through the 4 tracks of narrative story which combined into 1 EP Record and displayed in form of the audiovisual soundsystem. All the 4 tracks are about the different types of love and businesses that run for 24/7 in this street to represent the concept of “Nana.Land ,Never sleep system”.

Waristha Thariya

Experience design, installation

Everybody usually have a period of time that full of memory and wishing to go back. For me it was in 2002 when I was an eight years old kid in an elementary school and this is the starting point of this project. This is where a boundary of time separate the present and the memory which allow audience to experience the environment included selected object from childhood. Let the trigger bring you back to a faded past, whether you have seen it or not. Try sharing your story with others, I believe that even one objects will lead to the difference of memory.

Saruntorn Chongprasobtam

Product Design and Brand Identity

Side by Side was originated from the idea that people should be able to carry their favorite dipping sauces with them when travel abroad as a stand by in case if food are unsatisfying.

Dipping sauce, or in Thai Namjimm, is a common element among Thai dishes which enriches the flavor of the food to be more delectable. Unfortunately, in foreign countries, our favorite dipping sauces are often unavailable.

Side by Side provides a solution with simple yet efficient dipping sauce container with a strong brand identity that increase the product appealing and encourage users to use our product.

The model is available in three different lids to suit different kinds of dipping sauces. It is refillable which allow you to either bring any desired brand of sauces or your homemade one easily.

Portable dipping sauces, in fact, have been prevalent in the market for a long time, yet not all decide to bring them overseas for several reasons: they come in inconvenient size, conspicuous design, and are not refillable. According to the research and survey, where almost two-thirds of the participants found overseas cuisines unpleasant, this marks an inspiration for Side by Side to cease the protracted culinary inconvenience among consumers.

Through years of conceptualization, remodelling, and developments, the final product is a distinctive dipping sauce container with a strong brand Identity which suit every vacation in unfamiliar territory - whether short or a long trip.

Sarit Trilertvichien

Experience Design

Nirundr Airlines is an experimental project creating an airline, which looks at superstitions believed by Thai middle-upper class as it’s principle. These superstitious practices can integrate into our lives seamlessly, they often go unnoticed and accepted without questioning. I would therefore propose to uncover its myth of superstition and its roles in our life by satirizing it into this project.

An airline that I have created is called “Nirundr Airlines,” by using an airline it allows me to experiment with all the touch points, services and experience. Designing customer’s journey from choosing the right date and time of flying to the plane’s landing process. I have included variety of existing theories referred from real superstitions and beliefs. Bringing in the concept with a question of, “how far can these practices be pushed until they seem absurd?” Nirundr Airlines is a modern, minimal yet luxurious airline focusing on a specific purpose of flight destination. For the first phase of my flight route, I have chosen Macau as the destination with the objective of going to Casino. Therefore, every theory, element and services that I have produced, comes from the same purpose which is to enhance passenger’s merit points and gain luck for “money.” Passengers will be scheduled to follow every step of our activities strictly, to gain the best for themselves.

An experience design for Nirundr Airlines has been created in the execution. There are 4 main pieces in my final outcome. Firstly, an actual air hostess costume including a dress and a sacred cape. Secondly the on-flight activity equipment such as Nirundr Sphere, Meditation Fabric, Boarding Pass, Food Menu. Thirdly, the Electronic Prayer Tool (iPad) for passengers which includes all the reading materials and lastly to wrap up the project a promotional video for Nirundr Airlines, showing each stages of on-flight activity, from the beginning of the journey till the very end.

This is a satire project, however one day could become realistic if we are still obsessed and are constantly growing the culture without questioning the phenomenal subject.

Sarisa Ratsameeruangchai

Publication

A publication informing people about common stereotype which are often misunderstood about multiple births through a triplet’s experience.These stereotypes are based off of the expectation that multiple births should look the same, like the same things, and think the same way. However, we are just like any other siblings; we may have some overlapping aspects, but we are not the same neither physically nor personally. There are three versions of the publications representing three individuals who share the same stories. The three publications come with subtle differences, indicating the idea that even though overall of identical triplets are alike, we are also unlike each other. The publications juxtaposing with the three oversized portraits captured in neutral light and neutral expression to emphasize our facial differences. “ so are we still identical? ”

Atikarn Jaratwasan

Publication

Although I was born in Thailand, I was brought up in a Thai-Chinese household upbringing. When I was younger, the Talat Noi district, where I grew up, was surrounded with rich cultural heritage. But as time passed, this was not the case anymore. The rapid growth in globalization and capitalist culture has dominated society so that the presence of the old culture and traditions are rarely seen today.

My generation was born during an evolving process, and got a glimpse of true Thai-Chinese culture and tradition. However, I do understand the need for changes in order to adapt the traditional lifestyle to the new “western-dominated” lifestyle. Therefore, I feel the urge to carry on the cultures and traditions as much as I can. I came to an understanding that it is impossible to record a “true” Thai-Chinese culture, due to a variety of Chinese immigrants from different parts of China that have entered Thailand since the late 1920.

I am fascinated by the texture of Thai-Chinese visual cultural arts with the overuse of different elements, mainly using the colour red and gold. These exaggeration of colors for in house decoration and super graphical offering papers can portray the vividness of the Thai-Chinese lifestyle. By using these elements, I created an artwork that not just my generation would enjoy looking back on, but all generations as well. A collection of photographs, real-life experiences and mythical stories are being put together from my memories and those who have lived through it. This book captures the evolving beauty and vitality of Thai-Chinese culture. Therefore, these memories can be treasured and appreciated as the old culture fades away.

With the iconic Chinese ”tear-off” calendar format, it allows me to create a platform for a visual book that combines all generations together. Whether it will be our grandparents, or parents to go through a journey of nostalgia or even the younger generation to learn about how the Thai-Chinese culture was.

Arisara Sahasakmontri

Mixed media and Illustration

A speculative design demonstrates polluted dystopian world in 3500s through the discovery of 3500s creatures discovered and illustrated by a time traveller. 3500s animals had evolved their bodies to fit with a large scale of toxic waste such as microplastic, oil spill, heavy metal and radioactive waste. The exploration about those animals indicates that 2000s pollutant emission may last for at least 1,000 years and be the main factor of 3500s animal mutation and 3500s toxic environment.

Anna Wattanodom

Photography, Video Documentary and Installation

My personal experience living with scar for 18 years has always been undesirable, painful, and traumatizing. This project started off with a curiosity of ‘how could other people live with their scars then?’ Especially in our society with the extreme pressure of perfection, scar has always been perceived as an unwanted subject and always will be. Through the process of research and exploration, after I was exposed to many scar stories, I started to realize the importance of the story as it can give definition to that scar more than the actual physical scar itself.

This project is about paying homage to a group of people who did not just able to live with scars, but choose to live with them proudly in an exchange of achieving their life aspirations knowing thoroughly that scars will never disappear for the rest of their life. In contrary, I want to share stories and memories of how I have been living with my scar and how these people have been living with their honorable scars through juxtaposition of a story narration and actual scar visualization using stilled images, video footage and sounds as media.

The contrast of how different people live with scar, voluntarily or not, will suggest that there are always many perspectives to every subject matter, depending on your understanding, judgments or background experiences. I want the audience to leave my exhibition reconsidering their point of view towards scar, just like how I did. At the end of this project, I feel my scar becoming so much smaller. It is almost nothing compared to many other scars that I had met through out the project, and I feel more comfortable living with it right now.