SLOGAN ILLUSTRATION

Tang Yau Hoong, a famous illustrator from Malaysia.

His illustrations are mostly conceptual, surreal and minimalist.

I'm quite admire about his brand new series of illustration that combine with famous quotes on 8th April 2013. Although his this series of artwork are with simply illustration but yet it let others more easily to understand because he mostly use symbol to form the illustration.

"Patience is the companion of wisdom" - St. Augustine

Hourglass represents patience because it's need time to fill the sand from the top to the bottom.

glasses represent wisdom usually person who loves book wear spec.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Lao Tzu

The swallows represents a journey of a thousand miles because swallows fly to others country that depends on season of the country.

Single step represent shoes' lace. It's a part of shoe that show that it can be take a single step or even more than thousand steps. 

 "It always seems impossible until it's done" - Nelson Mandela

This graphic kind of abstract + illusion. As we can see from the top is three pencils and the bottom is few triangle. when  we look at the image, we will lost the direction of looking it, it somehow like are our eyes blur? look at it for few times, you might get it. OOOOOH! actually it just the technique of the drawing make us confuse.It is somehow impossible but he show that he can do it.

 "Imagination is the beginning of creation" - George Bernard Shaw

Do you ever think of an apple tree grow on top of an apple? Naah. no right? imagination is the best way to get inspiration to create something that so called creation.

"It's not what you look at that matters it's what you see" - Henry David Thoreau

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique just line everyone else" - Margaret Mead

Everyone are the same have head,body, hands, legs and so on as a human. But everyone's characteristic, personality and face features are different. 

Zebras represent as human that with different thickness, direction and shapes (regular,bold and italic) to represents the how unique of a human can be even every zebra is looking the same.

Hope you guys can learn from some of the quote also. CHEER! :)


ref: http://www.123inspiration.com/famous-quotes-illustrations-by-tang-yau-hoong/