People & Spaces
Weddings • Café Illustrations
When people ask for illustrations and designs for events, the designer has to consider what the context of these designs will be. The answer, usually, can be found in the client's memory. Memory is one of the more challenging things to capture in a 2D landscape, particularly when it is someone else’s memory that has to be considered. When I try to imagine what someone else remembers, it is not just a matter of what they see, because memory is often textured by all senses. Their memory must be evoked; I do not create my own interpretation. Because of this, collective memory plays a key role in making these illustrations: will how I experience the world match how they experience theirs?
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Invitations for Baba and Gab's Wedding (2026)
Illustrations
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Assets for Raf and Dre's Wedding (2026)
Illustrations
This is a challenge that is most prominent when I make illustrations for weddings. Weddings are not just the memory of the couple, but are also the collective memory of their love; past, present, and future. To start the process of designing for a wedding, I first need to know the couple’s stories, which is a privilege in its own right. As a celebration of love, it had to feel tactile and nostalgic at the same time, and so the stories make the design real, and the design makes the memories of all kinds feel real in turn.
In other cases, however, my own memory is what makes the illustration feel alive. Much of my work is based on these memories of spaces I have been, and how they felt. Magdamag Market Cafe is one of those spaces that held my imagination the most recently, and my creation of this illustration reflects that. I used a lot of iconic features–the features I remember the most when thinking of this cafe. The shelves, the arched windows and the seats are as detailed as possible, as my markers of reality.
Given that the image is lineart, I used a technique that aimed to lay out the flow of the cafe on one surface, stretching out the space to evoke the feeling of walking through without having to use too much 3D scaling. This way, the warmth and energy of being in this space almost everyday is more accessible to the viewer. In the end, this cafe was built on the collective recollection of its customers, our memory as a family and what it has become.
Magdamag Market Cafe (2025)
Illustrations and Printing
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Odd Cafe's Valentines Event (2026)
Illustrations
Odd cafe also reached out to create an illustration for their Valentines event that essentially captures Odd’s unique interior and tastes while evoking the feeling and memory of love over coffee. This was sold as a postcard during the Valentines event.
