Year of Horse Banner Art
Lunar New Year Banners
Designing a complete pattern of tessellated horses that would cover the whole plane was much difficult than expected. Inspired by the ‘Samtageuk’ from a older version of South Korea’s flag, the horses were able to be presented as a tessellating spiral.
Experiments with the central emblem design
Monochromatic versions
Iterations of monochromatic backgrounds were executed to see if it would help accentuate the horses more. But it ended up looking too flat overall.
Final Prints
Iterations of white backdrop of horses
2026 would be the year of the fire horse, which would represent rapid energy and transformation. The goal from the start was to represent the horses in an abstract and tessellated manner.
“Synergy”
Had the privilege to be chosen as one of the artists behind City of Sydney’s 2026 Lunar New Year celebration. The sequence of banners were placed between Liverpool st and Park st.
“Synergy” depicts overall unity. Created in collaboration with creative director Melissa Lee, as Korean-Australians, we were heavily inspired by the traditional Korean patchwork, “Jogakbo”. The patchwork consists of breathing new life onto old, spare scraps of cloth by combining them into something new. Even though separate and abstract, each shapes and forms unite as one.