Gifted Singapore designer Jonathan Yuen on Born Magazine with a new animation

The new online quarter issue of Born Magazine is now live with an animated piece by previously posted Jonathan Yuen (Singapore), who teams up with writer Victoria Chang (Los Angeles, California) to create the “Two Trains” collaborative work.

Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists.

View “Two Trains”

Shameless plug – and only because its my birthday today (!) – I created some work for Born Magazine a while back – more below.

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Born Magazine has been running for a number of years now – one of the online creative collaboration sites that I can remember that is still active today.

One of the great things about working on a project with Born is that they bring together people from around the world whose skills they think will compliment each other.The development cycle is very free-form (basically left up to the artists) and the collaboration exists completely online.

For the project I was involved with, I never met the other 2 people in the team, but I worked with the originator of the written piece Cheryl Gatling, who is based in the US, and a sound designer from The Netherlands, Hugo Verweij.

The piece we developed is an animated, Flash motion graphics piece, is called Schrödinger’s Newspaper. It also features (a post-production treated) Tom Wu, a talented, British Chinese movement director, action star and martial arts champion. (No relation to me unfortunately!) If you can, view the project and turn up the volume for a dark, gritty soundtrack (Hugo is truly talented).

Schrödinger’s Newspaper