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Diana Lin is a fashion designer, T-shirt designer and an illustrator who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Using humorous and eccentric style through her works. Born and raised in New York City majority of Diana's childhood memories were obsessively drawing. At the age 10 after living in the big city she moved to the south of Taiwan, Ping Tung. The cultural transition made a huge influence in her life and works. She took her first step in Fashion Design by Enrolling into Mingsheng High, where she won twice 1st place in both Fashion Design competition and illustration competition, 10th in the National Fashion Design Contest and won a Honor Award in Fashion Design. After spending her teen years in Taiwan, She headed back home to NY, carrying on her studies in Fashion Institute of Technology, where her works have been held in displays and exhibitions. Diana aside has exhibited and collaborated her works in other various fields and events from urban tees to performance. Diana studied her final year abroad in Milan (FIT in Politecnico di Milano). Diana perspective towards designing is to utilize different ranges of medium and technique with a dose of unconventional humor

Exhibit & Awards

*Pie- Art Display, Union Square, NYC. September 2009
*POLIMI Fashion Show in Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy June 2008
*Publishing in UK Fashion Illustration 2008
*Everybody! Let`s Make Some Noise @ White Room Group Exhibit, Brooklyn, NYC March 2007
*WONKAVISION MAGAZINE PRESENTS: "Long In The Tooth Group Exhibit, Philadelphia March 2007
°Metropolis Gallery April 2007
°The Lizard Lounge Group Exhibit April 2007
°Fashion Art Display in Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan NYC May 2006
*Body Conture Display in Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan NYC May 2006-Present
*Fashion Art Display at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan NYC May 2004-2006'
°Fashion Design Achivement Award 2002
*10th Place National High School Fashion Design Competition 2002
*1st Place Mingsheing High Fashion Design Competition 2002
*1st Place Mingsheing High Illurstration Competition 2002
*1st Place Mingsheing High Fashion Design Competition 2001
*1st Place Anti-Drugs Illurstration Competition 2001
*3rd Place Mingsheing High Fashion Design Competition 2000
*1st Place Dancing Competition 1999
*3rd Place Native Taiwanese Dancing Competition 1999

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Last Semesters' Projects

Intimate Project "Big Brothers' Closet"
I used menwear Suits, Ties and underwear as inspiration
drew all the backrounds myself (It's Raining men!)
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Evening wear Project "Evening with Poiret & Klimt"
We had to use cretain period of mid 1850~1920's a designer and recreate the designs {Paul Poiret}
Using within that time periods artist {Klimt}
Love Both of the artist and designer {too bad I only had one night to do it and didn't have enough time to make it look better}






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Knit wear Project "Picasso Knitting"
We had to use a certain artist as inspiration for the color palette
I picked Picasso (kinda cheesy) cause I also wanted used his geometric shapes into the design developement {came up with 40 something designs but in the end the teacher didn't pick much of the geometric shaped ones......}
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Old stuff

Drew these all a while ago....Sports wear project, I did Wrestling....thought it'd be fun (but it was kinda hard to draw)

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Drew this a few months a ago at a jazz bar

Boss
Bass
Deebie
Laze
Threeos

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Late Colored X'mas

Been pretty busy these past few weeks
so the ornaments for the Xmas tree we made in early December was left uncolored
till last night"
Took us a good 4 hrs to color (took about the same amount of time to make too....)

Mine (Looks pretty werid...)

Jason (Very Xmasy~)

Mike (many many Tofu & Poo??)

At Mikes' cute apartment
Eating, watching TV and painting at the same time
Soooo comfy~
In the End we didn't actually finish (didn't attach the hooks on)
The most favorite one I made
Maybe one day if I have a ton of time in my hands I'll make a Monster family (ps..he's a male (green twinky))