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The Retro Logistician
Hi, my name is Christine Santarin.
Here’s a little teaser of my portfolio,
and it’s based on my personality and
what I’ve done so far
during my Foundation year in Design.
I love colours and arranging them in
codes. Kinda old-fashioned, right?
But I like to call it being organised
in style, but going beyond the colour
spectrum is where I find
the fresh designs are! Supposedly.

W hy ‘T he L ogistician’s R etro C odes’
Codes: A system of words, symbols or
figures to represent information.
I like using colour coding as a way to organise
things like text, categories, and images. For me, it’s
more practical to see labels with different colours,
especially if somethings are similar but not
completely different. Therefore, sometimes I can be
picky when it comes to relating one colour to another.
I’m old-school; I like designing things inspired from
the past. For me, it feels like the fun doesn’t stop
when Vinyl Records still go round and round.
As a ‘Logistician’ person, I like being practical and
won’t dilly dally over a situation for long. Relying
mostly on facts besides creativity is my way to go.
Firm with my decisions, I was actually serious on
adding the cat at the side here. ;)

T rophy is M e
With my reflection on my trophy,
I sketched out roughly of what the
final outcome would be; a VERY
distorted version of myself. Then, I
began sculpting the foundation of my
sculpture with wires and modelling
clay; making the actual form of my
trophy. I added my exaggerated facial
features, some fake eyelashes for
realism, and a dash charcoal powder
for contouring.
Caution: Scary self Portrait
One of my funny assignments was
to create a self portrait of
myself in clay. Except this time,
I had to use a different, and
shiny refelctive object as my
mirror of the day. The victim,
my Trophy, besides me.
DE4B53 CLAY BUST
Pantone 1

H appy B irthday!
I started off by thinking of the profile
of the card; something interactive,
innovative, fun, simple, and modern.
I then remembered the chatterbox or
fortune teller game using a square sheet
of paper. It’s easy, and can be designed
with a modern twist! A perfect idea, so I
got into designing the illustrations, the
text and placement for colleagues
to write a note.
My first project for a
company client! The task was
to make an interesting
birthday card with a modern
twist of any theme using
photo manipulation via
Photoshop and Illustrator.
I decided to make my
birthday based on ‘playful’.
6FB0B4 PHOTOSHOP
Pantone 2

Y oll’s T otem
This personal project was
just a small practice for me
to try out wood carving.
Since I was new to the
medium, I went for a very
simple design; a vector owl.
I don’t have any initial
sketches of this piece,
simply because I didn’t want
a ‘polished’ result. I just
wanted to learn and get a
feel of wood carving.
Using Scandinavian Wooden
Toys as reference, I began
carving the very basic form
and obvious features of an
owl. It ended up looking
like a totem which was way
better than I thought and
named it ‘Yoll the Owl’.
F47820 WOODCARVING
Pantone 3

C
A collaboration with my
orgi’s Sunshine Scale
classmates; Mei Qing, Yee Man,
and Calista. We were tasked to
make art from canvases and
yarn as the main ingredients
with the theme, ‘Reasons to be
Cheerful’. It was a challenge
as we wanted the piece to be
somewhat interactive.
There were many sketches, from a sign post in London, a
kaleidoscope, a box, to a weather detector. We eventually settled
with a weather detector combined with a scale or meter.
We also used dogs in particular as our mascot for the scale with
the metaphor ‘walking on sunshine’. We combined the canvases with
a bamboo stick so they could hang from the ceiling. With a notepad
and pen attached, people can write how they feel now and relate to
the levels of cheerfulness, like a public diary.
967569 CANVAS
Pantone 4

P opper the A mphivena
Caution: Scary Cat Face
I would say this project can be
under my ‘fails’ but it was a
good try. The task of this projct
was to make a pinata based on
mythical creatures, and funnily,
our personality. I choose to base
my pinata off an ‘Amphivena’, a
two headed monster that confuses
people and preys.
I referred to this creature was because it was
similar to my personality; quiet yet deceiving as a
child (used to pull funny pranks on people that were
mean to me). I have also added a cat as the ‘heads’
of my pinata because I used to be ‘playful as a
kitten’ when I was a child. After many sketches,
I’ve constructed the pinata. Not the most accurate
thing I made to a sketch, but it was a funny try.
29682D PINATA
Pantone 5

S parking L ove
I took ‘spark’ to literal sense and based
on chemistry(love) when substances are
mixed together.
With my salt and watercolor mark making
techinques, I tested out colors and
textures, seeing what kind of emotions they
emit. After that, I made the storyboard and
started animating.
I would say this is one the
pieces I like the most; my
first try at animation! In
this assignment, I had to make
a 30 second flipbook
animation. It has the same
theme as the Corgi’s Sunshine
Scale - Reaons to be Cheerful!
The reason and metaphor for
this one is, ‘To Spark Love’.
7C3B6D SALT ANIMATION
Pantone 6

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