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Are you a tech and creative entrepreneur? Are you curious to know if you can make a living as a Designer?

Join us in this session!

The audience will get a glimpse of how to get design jobs from other parts of the world and how a designer could be relevant in this contemporary era. At the same time, why design is important and how it actually developed a country and its citizens.

Founders Series : Stay Local, Grow Global
How does Culture + Identity = Uniqueness and How a local design company goes to Hollywood.

1) Introduction
Short introduction of how design is relevant to everyone and how the company got into design.

2) Culture + Identity = U
Elaborate the importance of being true to oneself to produced creative works rather than living in somebody else's shadow.

3) UrbanCr3atures
Showcasing works and an insight of how the speaker get the job and the process.

4) The Toys
Going to talk about how the speaker venture into toys and the story behind the art toys.

5) Going to Hollywood
How is Hollywood not impossible to reach. What do we do in Hollywood? and how it workout for the team.

6) Love + Money
Set priority, aiming for the quality of the work first and the money will roll in.

Speaker

Lim Chun Woei @ Urban-Cr3atures

Growing up in an environment surrounded by toys and the 80’s cartoons, Chun Woei has long found his aspiration and inspiration from TV. Since young, his love to draw started from drawing his favorite cartoon characters. At a young age, he knows exactly what he wanted to do when he grows up which is to be a comic artist but eventually it changes to graphic design as he enters college where he learns more than just drawing. After years of experience in the advertising industry, ChunWoei has venture into multimedia, animation and motion graphics upon returning from New Zealand in 2002 graduated with a degree in Computer Graphic Design from Wanganui School Of Design in New Zealand., ChunWoei has started to involved in the job scope of graphic design, digital illustration, motion graphic design, animation and visual effects since then. In 2005, Urban-cr3atures was born out of passion to create new design, trend and dare to be different based on the principle of cultural identity. Chun Woei founded Urban-Cr3atures that treated creative works as his playground, where he finds satisfaction from his works in experimenting with weird approach in order to create and develop original new ideas. With this approach in over the years, Urban-cr3atures have produced a range of original designer’s products from clothing to toys.

In 2017, Chun Woei has build yet another adventure locally with few friends. They build a space called GrafikDistrict dedicated for the graphic design community in Penang to gather and talked about anything from lifestyle, ideas to design especially the development and the future of design in Penang.

Apart from all this, Chun Woei is also the Panelist in the Penang Public Art Review Panel and also a Committee Member for Penang State Art Gallery. Chun Woei is also an active educator with 19 years of teaching experience and is now a Head Of Programme for Mass Communication at INTI International College Penang.