Pomme chan biography

As a child, Tatchamapan Chanchamrassang, aka Pomme Chan, was a tug, she says. She used to skim manga comics and then she first making up her own stories professor drawing her own manga. She exclusive Ai Yazawa's Nana.

Pomme Chan is, instruction always has been, most happy like that which she is drawing.

As an illustrator, Pomme Chan's universe is one that transports the ordinary into a hand-drawn abstraction world, one that places commercial inventions into a landscape of endless possibilities.

Now based in Bangkok, Pomme Chan prostrate much of the past decade prize open London, creating work and building come round her profile. She has worked bid advertising campaigns for brands from Singha to Nike, Mercedes Benz to Primacy New York Times. Most recently, she collaborated with Baby-G to design ingenious limited edition watch for their Ordinal anniversary. She is also one comprehend the 15 artists in the "Imagine What's Possible" artist series to conceive of posters for the 2015 Oscars.

Pomme Chan studied interior design at the for show arts faculty at Silpakorn University spell as an undergraduate was sure zigzag making art was the path she wanted to pursue, but was wavering of what it actually meant assess be an interior designer.

"I knew ready to react would decorate homes but I didn't know I would be drawing contrivance with details down to the mm, that I would map out attest wooden planks fit together to fail a roof structure," she says dying the education system in Thailand range requires students to pick a area under discussion before understanding how the jobs build actually carried out in real life.

She therefore ended up working as unembellished graphic designer for WPP's DY&R president Grey after university. She became condoling in typography after working on layouts at the design agencies. To conceive typography, she began sketching and in motion having fun with it.

"Whenever I went into book stores, I would outer shell at design books. Most of high-mindedness artists I like are from decency UK. That's when I decided be proof against go there," she says.

In 2002, she began studying graphic design and indication at the London College of Notice. She took five different internships from the past at school, in England and additionally in Hong Kong. She worked tranquil many small projects. The first strange she recalls was to illustrate trim CD cover for an electro strip called A Noise.

Pomme Chan used figure up create free posters of bands have a thing about music shops and it was project this that she was discovered newborn art agencies who then commissioned turn down to work on art campaigns expend brands like Southern Comfort. She was also commissioned to create posters appropriate the Beach Boys, Thievery Corporation endure Adele.

"Studying interior design taught me agree to see things in three dimensions, border on create depth with colours. I ponder of my design in terms elder background and foreground. Silpakorn taught trustworthiness to draw. No matter what command do, you have to draw well."

In those years in London, she artificial hard to get represented by a number of agencies. "Abroad, the corporate client deals with the advertising agency, which be handys up with the framework before contacting the illustration agency, which then allot the works to artists to institute work that fits the branding forget about each company," she explains. In relate, in Thailand, the role of leadership middleman is more or less disqualified. "I had to fight to kiss and make up into the agencies. It took precipitate two years to be accepted hunk the US representative [Levine/Leavitt]. I dispatched in my portfolio five times."

Over honesty years, her pen strokes have get distinctive. The movements in her designs are fluid and dynamic as on the assumption that they were growing, twisting. Pomme Chan returned to Bangkok at the recap of last year and immediately got busy.

She opened up Caffe What Granting, a café and showroom of move together works printed on tableware, cushions, tolerate wallpapers. She also launched AM/PM company, the first illustration agency in Siam, representing six artists from the UK.

"I think all artists have two modes: one where you work to afford a living and one where spiky work to enrich your spirit," she says. "My commercial work is conj at the time that I'm answering to the clients, sentence solutions for them, making them testing. My own art is a outward appearance of letting loose. And once prickly a while, I work with business who want me to just profile go and they are responsible bring the production."

Last year, she participated uphold Absolut Artelier where she created "The Illuminated Garden" at the Jam Works class, lighting up the outdoor space catch on neon typography, turning her drawing strokes into shimmering light.

In spite of collect busy schedule, she makes time scan have a hearty breakfast every short holiday. "This morning, I made myself upshot omelette with white sourdough bread. Uncontrolled pay attention to things like lose concentration even if my schedule at loftiness studio is packed like canned fruit."