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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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Dai Fu Lou Exhibit at Prologue!!!

Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 9:12PM / Standard Entry

Tommorrow 14th October will be very first exhibition of Dai Fu Lou in Hong Kong @ Prologue in Tsim Tsa Tsui. It will be a 3 weeks exhibition with all 3 weeks having different themes. First week on opening will be all about animations with super special new designs and also a special animated book which is extraodinary special. Second week is all about toys will be showing plushes and vinyls which are limited sold and which are all hand made. Third and final week will be about clothing and accessories. Special tshirt will be made for this exhibit which are all limited sold and could be either bought at Prologue or be ordered online.

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Maggie Hou Live @ Racks

Friday, Sep 4, 2009 7:12PM / Standard Entry

Here is an uncut vid that I made at Maggie Hou live performance at Racks, I was literally lying on the ground to film this. I just found this great angle to vid plus I did not wanted to get in the way of the official guys who were filming it so I got down on the ground behind the pool table. Only to bad on of those guys had to get in the way of my at the end of the song. Would had been a great single shoot vid if not for that. Got allot of shots though but not really into editing stuff at the moment that I filmed for nothing, unless I know I can make it into something very special or get paid for it.

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IDS Summer Street Dance Showcase

Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 11:21AM / Standard Entry

Sunday August 23 I went to Stanley first time and also very first time be able to film same performance twice. The clip above shows a crew called 2Evolva who has the opening act of the dance show also they are wearing shirts that are designed and sponsored by Prologue Workshop. I was invited by a friend and also co owner of Prologue Workshop, to help out filming this event. Was a great experience and learned allot cause it is very first dance show I filmed and in theater. Editing this video was quite fun cause it is also a very first time I edit something that would had look like that it was filmed by multiple camera's. Also funny was I filmed more different angles compared to the official videotographer and also I had a HD cam while he just used a Ricoh pocket camera to film the event. While first thought he was using Nikon cam to film but he just takes pictures once in a while with that.

Hope to shoot more vids like this and sure was great turn out. Also will edit few other crew that I also filmed, but I did not film every crew cause that would had been allot plus allot of editing to do. I also tried out photographing in the theater but found a problem when using flash somehow everyone gets red eyes while anti red eye is on, but the red eyes are not red but green, not sure what up with that. But just had to used super high ISO plus having the speed around 200 cause the dancers really moves very fast, to be able to good pictures of them. Luckly Canon got great noise reduction build in so picture still very good. Also pretty great I had bought a battery grip so I totally did not had to change the batteries, making able not to miss much. However had to change my lenses way too often I think I need to get a Sigma 18-200 soon!

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Dai Fu Lou @ Esprit friends

Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 2:03AM / Standard Entry

Saturday 22 August 2009 Dai Fu Lou had an interview at Esprit Friends and talked about a serious subject what is friends. Do you really have to know everything about the other person to be friends with. Or just knowing and feeling of a friendship is enough. Everyday you can make a new friend without knowing them at all, which might be better then if you knew all the information about them instead. Friends could be friend however between all of them there lies also people who tries to mislead you or people trying to be your friend to get something from you. Always make clear the difference between a friend and business, both can't happen at the same time. Jona talked about his past experience how he got hurt by a friend he trusted and came to Hong Kong with fully having trust in their friendship, having later known that he had a hidden 3 year plan for Jona with out him knowing it. Also in talked about how Jona and Alan met in Hong Kong and from totally not knowing about each other and still able to become friends and setup Dai Fu Lou. Watch the interview and vote for use here.

Please support Dai Fu Lou and vote for us, so Dai Fu Lou and exist and do more exhibition and finance our business. Also if we win we would like to give a shirt away to one of the voters, tell us if you have voted and tell friends, family and others to help voting.

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Wing Liu Photographer

Friday, Aug 14, 2009 11:23AM / Standard Entry

7th August at Camron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui there was an exhibition of a friend of mine, Wing Liu a Photographer who had lived in England, The Netherlands and now in Hong Kong. This exhibit shows pictures that he had made on the streets in Hong Kong and printed on shirts which are for sale. I filmed this event and made this clip above. I've met Wing while we were waiting for the shuttle busses at Tsim Sha Tsui to go to the Adidas House Party.
I also designed his logo which is a 80's styled design. The logo illustration is that of a DSLR camera which is build up from the name Wing. It is a simplistic logo without to much things added. Type face is not from a font but designed by me cause I wanted to have a W which would sit nicely with the i. Also some might think why not just write only Liu below while on top it already says Wing, the problem with that is that not everyone is that bright and knows that the illustration actually is saying Wing. And basically all logo should have a very readable section for the name and people can read the name fast without having to figure out what is says.

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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: Graphic Designer , Cinematographer , Photographer
Age: 24
Gender: Male
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