Simon Kim Blog

‎Daniel Rhim - single album

2011-12-27T08:39:00.000-08:00

Daniel has released the single album:

the title is "No one like our God".

It is his first single album he did and he is offering people.

Today he is officially announcing his single album at GKYM (Rochester).

Check it his single album here.

Applied Arts mag - Interactive Awards 2011 cover

2011-03-04T18:36:00.000-08:00

This year 201
the artwork have selected for the
cover of the Interactive Award Winners.
Thank you for the feature.

TMS Ads.

2011-02-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

This project that I've worked with a creative director, Laurie,
has now displayed on bus stop shelter ad on Yonge St.
...

NYC

2010-12-18T21:40:00.000-08:00

so, i was there today at Time square, NYC.
traffic wow.... and people,

way too busy today.

2010 Applied Arts Awards Exhibit + Creative School Expo

2010-11-10T18:35:00.001-08:00

Wednesday, November, 10th
The place was at Artscape’s Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street, Toronto
+ + +
It was great show and delicious food.
Please check out for more details about open show this week.
Applied Arts

2010 Design & Advertising Awards Annual

2010-10-29T21:53:00.000-07:00

hello

I have been busy the past few days.
Time really flies.
...
The Sim design poster has been selected
for the Design & Advertising Awards.
In the Young Blood Design categories,
you would be able to find the piece.
...
very exciting!
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Coming up for more projects soon
...
thanks.

FANEXPO 2010

2010-08-21T21:17:00.000-07:00

It has been such a long time, since I've updated my blog.
Anyhow, there's FanExpo coming soon on August 27, 28, and 29th in 2010.
A table I'm going to share with my friends, Juan Solon and also Yuta Onoda.
I am very excited.

...

see you there,

SolidRock financial

2010-05-24T21:51:00.002-07:00

"SolidRock financial" is just a startup company
and it was fun project for me and good exp.
Probably more related designs will be created.

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York / Sheridan Graphic Design Grad show 2010

2010-05-04T19:27:00.001-07:00

I should have posted them earlier.
The show was great. Free food!? no
It was powerful grad show, I get to meet all cool artists.
Congrats!

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2010
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2010 business promo design

2010-05-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

Coffee Chain

2010-03-09T08:12:00.000-08:00

In Canada, espresso caffé is expanding but it's committed to maintaining quality. As many people are treating it as a delicate art, it has just gone through a burst of expansion. Espresso at Dark Horse, Mercury, Manic, Sam James, Cherry Bomb, TAN Coffee and several others.

GizMag Online PDF magazine featured

2010-03-01T10:23:00.000-08:00

Hello, March first Monday.
I have been featured in GizMag (online PDF magazine). Very exciting issue!
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http://gizmag.eu/
http://gizmag.eu/view/pdfmag8/

dpi interview

2010-02-22T09:22:00.001-08:00

I have had an interview from Taiwan dpi magazine. It is a well known design magazine to artists and designers in Taiwan. Much appreciate, Chiamin.

Joinonline247 project

2010-02-16T12:53:00.000-08:00

The project is about a short intro animation of JoinOnline 247 fitness based on the web. It's very quick project I have done.

Check out the website - JoinOnline 247

Brain's language.

2010-02-01T09:56:00.000-08:00

The title of the article is "Wires inserted into human brain reveal speech surprise".

A rare set of high-resolution readouts taken directly from the wired-in brains of epileptics has provided an unprecedented look at how the brain processes language.

Though only a glimpse, it was enough to show that part of the brain’s language center handles multiple tasks, rather than one.

In a study published Thursday in Science, Sahin’s team studied a region known as Broca’s center, named for French anatomist Paul Pierre Broca who observed that two people with damage to a certain spot in the front of their brains had lost the ability to speak, but could still think.

LKPC

2010-01-22T09:48:00.000-08:00

It's something that I have done for the church website banner.

The Sims: 10 Years collection.

2010-01-19T14:08:00.000-08:00

Humans have various emotions and characteristics. It is an important component when it comes to socialization in "The Sims". So, I have come up with the representation of nine different emotions that I could typically think of. Then, when nine masks are combined with each other, that interprets human's characteristics.

Again, much appreciated and many thanks to Justin.

Click to see more details

The official website 2010

2010-01-01T06:14:00.000-08:00

The new website is now upgraded in Jan, 2010. Please feel free to check out the site. It took me a while to finish the new website.

Now the new features are the store page and the newsletters that you can subscribe. The store is officially opened online and please feel free to take a look. If you have any questions, please contact me.

And Happy Happy New year 2010!!!

www.simon kim art .com

2009-11-24T09:21:00.000-08:00

Thankfully, Johann invited me for its showcase section of Digital Arts Magazine in UK.

Stay

2009-11-18T09:38:00.000-08:00

Stay(personal work)
mixed media on digital.

Applied Arts Exhibit 2009

2009-11-06T00:30:00.000-08:00

It was the great opening night and many thanks to Georges!!!

2009 Applied Arts Winners' Exhibit

2009-10-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

I am very excited about joining them at the exclusive Opening Night Reception for the 2009 Applied Arts Winners' Exhibit, showcasing the winning work of all five of our Annual Awards: Design & Advertising, Photography & Illustration, Interactive, Printing and Student Awards.

It is on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at Studio 1, 9 Davies Avenue.
For a detailed map, click here.

The exhibit will be open again to the public on Friday, November 6, 2009, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

Special thanks to our event sponsors for making this exhibit possible:

T-shirt design

2009-10-14T04:00:00.001-07:00

Well, I thought I could share with you. Last night I just played around with my old work I did. Here is my t-shirt design I have done. Need some clothes?

Sweet Dreams

2009-10-05T07:40:00.001-07:00

For those children who have trouble sleeping or cannot get into deep sleep, I would like to give them what they love in order to get them into sleep. I want kids sleeping in peaceful and sweet dreams.
I see kids are so excited about having candies and later on, I can imagine that they will fall asleep in happiness from getting tired of running around with candies.

Sweet Dreams
13" x 19" mixed media on digital.

Beauty Trend

2009-09-21T11:03:00.000-07:00

14” x 17.7”, mixed media on digital.

Beauty Trend: Pin-Straight Strands for Spring 2009
This illustration is about an article by Emily Hebert from "ELLE".

"I wanted the girls to have super sexy hair with a glass-like finish," says Bumble and bumble's editorial stylist Dennis Lanni, who created the hair for Hervé Léger's spring 2009 show. "I aimed to impart an airy texture to the hair so that it moved freely on the runway. The style is polished but with an effortlessly modern feel - the length of hair is treated with lightweight products and has a slight bend at the ends for movement."

In styling the look, Lanni began by prepping damp hair with a lightweight conditioner. After spraying Bb. Styling Lotion on strands, he used a flat brush to blow-dry hair from roots to ends and parted down the centre with a fine tooth comb ("If the part is crooked, the polished look is ruined"). To finish, he flat-ironed hair and sealed the look with Bb. Spray de Mode hairspray for shine and control.

Applied Arts - 2009 Student Awards

2009-09-14T11:00:00.000-07:00

"Alzheimer's disease" illustration piece has selected in Applied Arts magazine and also for its cover. Thank you......

Food chain...

2009-09-03T23:22:00.000-07:00

Simply it is a cycle of food chain...

17 x 22 mixed media on digital

infectious

2009-08-20T13:56:00.000-07:00

"Mysterious Forest" got voted by number of people from infectious. It's for this week’s Open Submissions winners. Thanks everyone.

CCTP conference.

2009-08-17T19:44:00.000-07:00

Brendan is a fairy.

2009-08-09T17:25:00.001-07:00

A week ago, I did a quick illustration work for National Post.
This illustration is about "From the Prince of neither here not there by Sean Cullen". Basically, Brendan finds the truth: He's a Faerie who was lost in the human world. Once he knows his true identity, the human disguise that has been protecting him begins to fade, and a whole host of wicked creatures tries to tempt him to use his Faerie powers for evil intentions. It's up to Brendan to protect the human world and make the ultimate choice between the family he's grown up with and his new Faerie roots.
And I found that it has really interesting story in it.

Vote on art for iPod skins.

2009-06-28T20:11:00.000-07:00

I have submitted "Mysterious Forest" piece for Infectious.
Thanks for checking it out.

Website process

2009-06-16T19:41:00.000-07:00

It's a simple design logo is done for someone's favour. Anyway, he finally chose what he likes and I am glad that he likes it. Can't wait to finish this project.
Thanks.

Creative Quarterly issue 15

2009-05-30T14:16:00.000-07:00

Here's the recent news since I haven't updated my blog for long time. The #15 magazine was just arrived. It's great to see others' new talent from this magazine. Thanks, everyone.

something that would be interesting to check out..

2009-05-10T12:43:00.000-07:00

My showreel 2008 is created and posted on my website.
feel free to check it out.

Simon Magazine

2009-05-08T13:17:00.001-07:00

I have done a magazine design for myself. Simply, I brought out one of my illustration work and I used it for the magazine cover. I'm probably going to continue producing more design work with using my illustration images. This is going to be a part of my promotion card.

Alzheimer's Disease

2009-05-04T15:19:00.000-07:00

I have worked on other projects for the Grad show. The last week was really hectic. Anyhow, I finally made a new illustration work. The idea is about alzheimer's disease. Losing the old memory is one of the most scary things I could possibly think of. The most commonly recognized symptom is memory loss. Hopefully, there will be full recovery treatments of the disease sooner.

"Alzheimer's Disease"
Mixed media and digital. 11" x 17"

Upadated

2009-04-28T21:13:00.000-07:00

updated my official website.
Feel free to visit simon kim art.com.

Butterfly lost

2009-04-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

From Stuart McGinness course, I made a short film in after effects program. enjoy.

Sheridan Graduation Show 2009

2009-04-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

On April 23, 24th 2009, I will be having a grad show for which I have been very excited for long time.
To get my artwork framed I revisited the old frame store where I used to work. It was nice to meet with the owner and it brought me back to the old days, when I worked there in high school.
After they were framed, it surprised me how totally different they looked. Spectacular!

Thanks to Jen, and have a safe flight.

Cgunit - Simon Kim Art featured.

2009-03-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

Some of my work are featured in Cgunit website - online gallery Thursday, March 26. Thank you Ben for the featured.

Mysterious Forest

2009-03-23T23:14:00.000-07:00

"Mysterious Forest"
Mixed media and digital. 17" x 14.5"

The illustration is based on the article about "No trace of girl missing in woods". I tired to show the female figures getting trapped in forest and struggled to escape from it.

Tempest-edited

2009-03-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

I just need to fix some colours and grass. It's upgraded.

Creative Quarterly

2009-03-11T00:16:00.000-07:00

Creative Quarterly
Creative Quarterly 15: coming up soon. I can't wait to see my work on the magazine.

website...

2009-03-05T02:12:00.000-08:00

oy, here's my new updated website that I worked on for 2 days.

simon kim art

Thanks for visiting.

Tempest

2009-03-01T21:33:00.000-08:00

"Tempest"
Mixed media and digital. 11"x 17"

This is the illustration of a violent windstorm I did from the interpretive course. Because my theme is about the conflict between human and the nature, I try to show the concept from this illustration piece.
I think the exaggerated drawing is well done from this piece, I will keep pushing myself harder.

Contamination.

2009-02-22T21:19:00.000-08:00

"contamination"
Mixed media and digital. 8.5"x 11"

This project is done for Thomas Sevalrud's class. Through the process, I learned a lot about the composition and I am happy how it turned out. For the next piece, I will try to make it more dynamic composition. I'll push myself harder.
Anyhow, basic idea that I try to show in this image is that oil spills and garbage, those will slowly contaminate water if we don't solve the issue of protecting the environment.

precious

2009-02-09T10:40:00.000-08:00

"precious"
Mixed media and digital. 15"x 9.5"

impossible mission

2009-01-31T19:08:00.000-08:00

"impassible mission"
Mixed media. 10"x 15"

Here is my work that I did recently from interpretive course. So, I wanted to show that she keeps trying to plant on dry circumstance. Neverending mission...

website

2009-01-14T21:38:00.000-08:00

I would like to announce my new website.

simon kim art.com

Please feel free to visit the website.

Thank you.

the flower

2009-01-14T05:46:00.000-08:00

Over the break I have been working on building a website for myself, and it's literally good feeling that having a website. So, the winter semester is already started, I am happy I will be able to do more pieces during the semester. Anyhow, this piece is just my personal piece, done on Christmas break. It didn't really take me too much time to finish it.

Moving on.

2008-12-10T14:46:00.000-08:00

38 x 23

Mixed media on stonehenge

This piece is done in Thom's class. This is the biggest piece that I have done, but I pulled it off pretty wel and I had a lot of fun with it.

process...

2008-11-28T21:05:00.000-08:00

Christmas break is coming up soon. haha. Everyone seems to be all excited about it. Anyhow, this is my process of the new piece that I am working on right now. Hopefully, this turns out well.

business promo

2008-11-28T21:03:00.000-08:00

Absence

2008-11-26T11:07:00.000-08:00

17 x 21
Mixed media on Stonehenge

It took me a bit while, but I like the way the colours came out at the end. More coming soon.

Messenger

2008-11-18T22:01:00.001-08:00

21 x 23
Mixed media

This concept is based on Korean traditional superstition story. People believe at some point that as one passes away, the 'dead messenger' comes down and takes the one's soul to either heaven or the depths of hell, dependant on the messenger's judgement. The one wants to rest in peace for his/her eterneral life.

There are a lot to improve...

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2008-11-13T22:32:00.000-08:00

graphic Tee demo-samples

2008-10-16T20:57:00.000-07:00

2008
'be dat style'

T-shirt fashions include styles for men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth, and adult sizes. Many youths wear t-shirts; they are great protection from the sun and useful for all wears, but the main reason being the fashion.

The second Tee stands out really nicely andI liked it how it turned out. Next time, I think I should try to throw some colours. By the way, thanks to the models.

Escapism process

2008-10-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

This is the process of it. My idea is about the Korean superstition. This is about the messenger that takes the dead soul to under world and the image of 'face' reveals the feeling that desires to escape from the dark messenger to peaceful world.

T-shirt design for sales

2008-10-09T17:26:00.001-07:00

For the 4th year of illustration program, I took the design out from the "good and bad" project. I actually want to do silk screen this t-shirts for myself at home. I will have some experiments.

Strong vs. Weak final sketch

2008-09-23T23:51:00.000-07:00

24x18

It's the first project called "Good & Bad" that we had from Interpretive course.

UT t-shirts website

2008-05-12T18:29:00.002-07:00

Calendar design

2008-05-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

This project is also done in graphic design class, and I designed the calendar with the series of the glass of water pictures. I found out overall it evokes of feeling freshness and all of seasons have the nice flow to it.

CD case

2008-05-01T18:50:00.001-07:00

It's been a long time. Anyhow, I had the project from graphic design course. I really had fun while I was working on the project. My CD title is "DJ fresh". Funny thing is that I had an interview with one design company a few weeks ago and asked me if this band is a real band. Anyway, it is not real.

Fraud_email

2008-02-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

This piece is for one of the assignments from the interpretive class.

coffee sleeve

2007-11-29T20:35:00.000-08:00

This is one of my interpretive project, "coffee sleeve". It took me alot of time. Evantually I had to rush on finishing it. I barely made it on time. There are still alot of areas to fix.

Doll painting

2007-10-27T18:32:00.000-07:00

This was painted from the last summer and it was just a practice for my painting.

Life drawing

2007-10-27T18:28:00.000-07:00

Using water-color gives a interesting effect. I really liked the way it blends into the another colour and transparent.

Life drawing (mixed media)

2007-10-27T18:23:00.000-07:00

I try to improve my life drawing skill and thinking about the media as well.

Fresh start

2007-10-27T16:41:00.000-07:00

I remade my new blog and I will upload my work often.