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Rising Packaging / Graphic Designer based in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. If you want more info about me look at chungdha.com or google "chungdha" I bet I am always on top.

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Macau from outside the casinos

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:36AM / Standard Entry

Mainly I go to Macau from time to time but I rarely be there for gambling actually Macau is such an awesome place with totally unexpected stuff. It literally is a mesh up of las Vegas , Hong Kong and Spain or Portugal. The here is a set of pictures I took with my iPad and added filters from just giving them very old vintage look.

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Delhi Belly

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:11AM / Standard Entry

First a big Thanks to Elena who got the ticket plus posted about the special preview.

I have to say overall it's not a bad movie felt very British somehow. The plot is interesting and allot of stuff happens which kinda at few moment to kinda start to loose the picture who is what. But overall very funny stuff.

But have to say the ending with the mv kinda felt odd as it did not add more to the ending nor made it spectacular. Wish they just ended without the mv or added a scene after the mv and also would been better if they made the mv shorter as everybody was kinda just waiting for it to end.

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Back in 2005

Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:32AM / Standard Entry

Kinda awesome I already know this be some special product in 2005 but damn I wish I knew the people I knew now so literally could had build these products back then. Here below is a sketch plus notes I wrote in 2005 got plenty of these stuff in my very first black book, now kinda looking and there should be a major message to myself somewhere how I should be working.

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MacSilo logo contest 2nd place!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:04PM / Standard Entry

Trying to get back doing logo pitches got 2nd place! Need to get myself back into the action had to say was the first batch I sensed and didn't check nor updated new batch of designs. Have to do better next time!

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Product photography!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:41PM / Standard Entry

Last week been busy doing all sort of stuff even product photography again. As I was busy helping out a catalog, we saw that the picture that the client was sending were quite low res ( website pictures) for printing. So the first thing was to get all the pictures retaken , however the thing is that I wasn't the art director so did not knew how the whole thing was handled. I though they send a pro to do the pictures.

When the pictures arrived I had to retouch them but then I saw how horrible the picture were. They had been taken with 5d but with a wide angle lens and inside a light tent, this cause that there bottles all got perspective changes and you saw the horrible reflections on the bottle of the tent.

Mainly the thing is I also own a tent but only under certain circumstances I would use it, it's not advisable to take all kinds of products with it.

So the thing was I had to rebuild the products in photoshop to remove the reflections but to rebuild every bottle took too much time plus I could not also build every bottle back to the correct perspective cause that meant even more time.

So in the end I said I can also do product photography ad have the right equipment. Below you can see the test pictures of what I took in my office of random product. As I cannot show you the product that were taken for the client yet. The pictures below were taken with Canon EOS 550d with a 135mm f2.8 Makikonen with 3points light setup.

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Chung Dha is a designer based in Hong Kong / the Netherlands. He studied Packaging Design/ Graphic Design and joined different contest to explore his designing abilities, also he do freelance designs for companies and started his own design company Chung Dha.

2001 - I got my Mavo-D diploma at Aquamarijn Reviusplein.

2002 - I joined Gp500store.co.uk with the nickname LaZy_tJaI. Where I soon learned allot of photo editing skills with Paint Shop Pro and from a friend called GAP. I soon became a well known texture skinner in the community.

Later changed from Paint Shop Pro to Adobe Photoshop to improve my skills in photo editing. Later learned skills to convert models from SEM and Mautorex. And learned 3d studio Max from online tutorials. And made different models and most famed for making helmet models.

This year I went to pre-police academy to train my self so I could join the Police force. But in my free time I became more attracted to the designing things for games. I finished that year and got a diploma but did not applied at the police force.

2003 - I worked as a freelance designer for http://www.brandmerk.com/ where I got the first taste of graphic design in a real company. The first logo I sold was also the logo for this company. This year I also went to study at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam and was aiming for Animations and Games, but due to too much lessons which I did not needed I left.

2004 - I went to Delft to study Industrial Design at Mon3aan, where I learned problem solving, product design and materials. Studied 2 years before I heard the diploma was for mechanical engineering instead of Industrial Design.

2006 - I found out Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam got a new study direction for Packaging Design and went to study there. This year they improved with much better lesson programs.

2007 - In the summer I joined Design Contest.net and soon became one of the Design Team Members. At Design Contest I could compete with the contests to test my own designing abilities and learn to improve my skills in designing. Also soon won in a contest to design a t-shirt for NFME F-Body Event in Memphis 2008. I also started this blog at the same time when I joined the Design Contest.

2008 - Started well and I won a logo contest directly and it was also my first time I won in a logo contest. The logo is for CircleOfArtists.com and also for Kings Poker.
Also I've been approached by Good Web Practise to design a new logo for their website.

After publishing a post of a bottle prototype I've made with using sliceform technique, I've been contacted by Computer Arts to make a tutorial about it for the special Packaging Design edition.

In the spring I had contact with a friend of mine Arkady from the GP500store days , who actually does game textures for a game called MotoGP08 and ask me if I wanted to join his team. I first gone into a test and actually passed it and also did it well with the needed time. Then I got the job to do the low helmet resolutions textures of the game for the Wii and Playstation 2. I textures allot of the riders from fairly unknown one to the top rider like Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa and more.

Begin summer started my own design company Chung Dha and officially registered it as a company. Had a summer internship at Jackson Chang in Den Hague.

End of the summer I became a moderator at Design Contest.

In the winter joined a major packaging design contest held by one of Europes biggest packaging company SCA packaging. Only 90 entrees were submitted from all across the world, and in februari of 2009 a shortlist of 5 designers will be choosen to get 2 more weeks to improve his design in a workshop within the design centre of SCA packaging.

2009 - Embarked on a new journey on the opposite side of the world and moved to Hong Kong to have a better environment for my health and also to be able to design for Asian companies.

Came to Hong Kong and met up with allot of artist and designers. In May went to Speak Up and met Alan Leung and became friends and later worked on a toy together. However during the brainstorm and sketch sessions I accidentally made Dai Fu Lou. Now started a brand named Dai Fu Lou and start building up this brand with different products.
And who knows what the future beholds, but I am sure I will be very busy doing allot of designs.
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Occupation: Cinematographer , Graphic Designer , Dubbing Artist
Age: 26
Gender: Male
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