Daisy Tang is an illustrator and graphic designer currently based in London. She is enthusiastic about illustrating ethnic, cultural, identity, political and social phenomena by reinterpreting them imaginative and interesting.
‘a lipstick showroom named EXCEED REDS’
Her graphic novel, ‘a lipstick showroom named EXCEED REDS’, is the latest experiment on creating metaphors on freedom and civil rights through storytelling and printing. ‘Here is a colourful and fancy city. She is called Unsleep. People here try to beautify their lips using every colour by all means possible. Therefore, lipsticks that selling here are not only in red or pink. Because of these reasons, a lipstick showroom named EXCEED REDS is opened and a revolution will begin in this city…’ The whole story is about suppression, the resistance between police and citizen, meanwhile explaining what is freedom in an anti-utopia world.
Apart from the graphic novel, Daisy also practised on inheritance own culture by illustrations. She tried to record the neon signs designs and city views as contexts by using ‘Gong Choi’, the endangering porcelain painting craftsmanship in Hong Kong.
I’m a bi-lingual illustrator and graphic designer who is originated from Hong Kong. I keen to explore narratives and activism to communicate with different generations or cultural backgrounds by all means. Thus I designed the graphic novels without long dialogues in pure visuals for native or non-native English audiences.