About Me

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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

Monday, July 21, 2008

Documented Doodles

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Traveled to quite alot of places this past year
Documented the events by doodles and scribbles but unfortunately not all (places and events)
Started Euro-Trip Journal when I was in Paris for the 2nd time, brought the tiniest sketchbook I could get my man hands on and started off from there
then kept up with a Muji sketchbook after my non-stop Euro trip in Feb, it has transparent paper and envelopes embedded in btw sections (was really convenient but a bit bulky)

Live Art, Breath Art, Eat Art, Shit Art- Villetta Exhibition

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I had the pleasure to live with 28 talented kids from all over the world in Milan
some studied Fashion Design, Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, Costume Design, Industrial Design and Art
So of course we were each others muse and the house was our canvas , Lots of collabrations
Just too bad we had this grouchy lazy ass maid (job description: smoke in the kitchen, eat our food, yell at how dirty and gross we were and tear down our art, installations
(I was the main target, but my Italian was shitty so what ever she said, didn't hurt much)
Alot of the works were not saved and unphotographed
I'm not gonna post much, since alot of it is a mix of other ppls work and some are a tad bit "too much"

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Made this for Gabri's B-day, and had everybody color-in his crown


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Monday, July 14, 2008

Addiction

This is a collection that was inspired by "Addiction"
in many forms
Used my housemates for this project (had 28 to pick out of)







2 Heads are Better Than 1

This was a collection, that I really went over the top with
It's not really very marketable but def one of the funnest time working on






Urban Climbing

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Urban Climbing

Me and my good friend Jose had a collaboration with Italians Patrista and Federica
We designed a product for Urban Climbing, it's an urban sport where they usually climb outside of buildings skyscrapers, bridges and other artificial structures
Often taken place at night since it's an illegal sport in many places
The Italians worked on the presentation and I worked on the designs, figure drawings, pattern and sewing the proto type
Designed a garment that could be worn either inside out or vice versa, it's half way doubled laired on the upper part which can be torn off to hang since it's attached half way of the shirt
Great Team Work!



I have my reasons...

It's been an incredible past year living abroad and traveling around Europe.
I didn't quite manage to keep up with blogging, but as they say a pic is worth a 1000 words
I think these works I did can manage to explain why

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