Dai Fu Lou Toon Exhibit

From 14th till 20th at Prologue on Cameron Rd 8 in Tsim Tsa Tsui, is an exhibition by Dai Fu Lou showing an impressive book designed by Jona Lam. This book includes a special design so you can see animated images inside the book, with out it using lenticulars or even electricity. The book contain a collection of Dai Fu Lou animations with a set about a stinky underpants that get washed dried and ironed. Also inside the book are information about the technique used to make this animation and explained how you can also design it yourself, to inspire designers to make use of this technique. The books are for sale and get them before they are gone, it is a truly special book to get inspired by or just to see the funny animations.

After this exhibition will be all about Toys with Dai Fu Lou again, all new toys from Dai Fu Lou which are hand made by Jona Lam and truly limited. Will show all plush toys of the characters of Dai Fu Lou which will be used later for stopmotion animations in the future.

Night before the opening I made this around 3 am and next day in the morning it was already gone the people pasted exactly the same posters back but then over my piece of artwork.

3T Dai Fu Lou exhibit @ Prologue Workshop

Exciting news next month the 14th October will be very first exhibition of Dai Fu Lou in Hong Kong @ Prologue in Tsim Tsa Tsui. It will be a 3 weeks exhibition with all 3 weeks having different themes. First week on opening will be all about animations with super special new designs and also a special animated book which is extraodinary special. Second week is all about toys will be showing plushes and vinyls which are limited sold and which are all hand made. Third and final week will be about clothing and accessories. Special tshirt will be made for this exhibit which are all limited sold and could be either bought at Prologue or be ordered online.

Dai Fu Lou @ International Original Design Fair

It was the very first booth at a fair for Chung Dha and we actually choose to use this booth with few other designers instead of using it all for Chung Dha Design. The booth was shared with Cotton Candy from Prologue and DimSum who is an illustrator and Dai Fu Lou the other side of Jona Lam.

The fair is a great promotion and given away allot of business cards plus stickers and for sure know that we had allot of people viewing our works and also gotten some interest.

For sure also learned a few things cause one very sad thing happened is that the small Dai Fu Lou hand made character got stolen even though he was ugly. And also need to write down what they can take and what not people think to fast that things are for free.

At least we have shown our works at China and done some good publicity and made few interesting contacts. And hope to see you all at our next exhibit @ Prologue in TST Hong Kong on Cameron Roar exit C2 on 14 October.

Dai Fu Lou @ Esprit Friends

Saturday 22 August 2009 Dai Fu Lou had an interview at Esprit Friends and talked about a serious subject what is friends. Do you really have to know everything about the other person to be friends with. Or just knowing and feeling of a friendship is enough. Everyday you can make a new friend without knowing them at all, which might be better then if you knew all the information about them instead. Friends could be friend however between all of them there lies also people who tries to mislead you or people trying to be your friend to get something from you. Always make clear the difference between a friend and business, both can't happen at the same time. Jona talked about his past experience how he got hurt by a friend he trusted and came to Hong Kong with fully having trust in their friendship, having later known that he had a hidden 3 year plan for Jona with out him knowing it. Also in talked about how Jona and Alan met in Hong Kong and from totally not knowing about each other and still able to become friends and setup Dai Fu Lou. Watch the interview and vote for use here.

Please support Dai Fu Lou and vote for us, so Dai Fu Lou and exist and do more exhibition and finance our business. Also if we win we would like to give a shirt away to one of the voters, tell us if you have voted and tell friends, family and others to help voting.

Yandy Birthday Party vid

Last weekend was the birthday party of Yandy which included a small fashion show showing few Dai Fu Lou shirts and also new design which was not shown before. Also as a gift for Yandy's Birthday a special Octopus Dai Fu Lou was made cause it is her favorite animal.

Dai Fu Lou to Mars!!!

Dai Fu Lou will be send on a microchip with several thousand of othernames to mars!!!

Dai Fu Lou the Netherlands

Here is a short vid of my trip back to the Netherlands filming the flight and few surroundings in the Netherlands, but also the exhibition that was held in Rotterdam. Mostly haven't done any real tourist stuff cause mostly cause I am from the Netherlands and have seen those places many times before. However still the Netherlands got allot of beautiful places and allot of open spaces. However I am now back in Hong Kong again and will be back in the Netherlands in January.

Dai Fu Lou exhibition in the Netherlands

15th July there was a small exhibition held by Dai Fu Lou in Rotterdam at the Wah Fook Wui which is stated in the basement of the Ka Fook Mansion. Within the exhibition several things were presented like paintings, shirts, paper toys and photography.

Jona brought along different shirts he had designed and made in Hong Kong to show.

Also the newest design of paper toy figure were shown at this exhibition.

The figures were standing on top a special made light box painted with the Dai Fu Lou logo and pattern, inside the box you can see a lamp with buttons and business card placed.

As you can see the exhibit is mostly about Dai Fu Lou 00 and Dai Fu Lou 0 the two very first characters that were designed. For those who have missed the exhibition you can view the pictures on our Dai Fu Lou Flickr group or Facebook. Also we filmed the exhibition and soon release a clip of this happening plus traveling from Hong Kong to the Netherlands.

Dai Fu Lou 00 painting

Here I am showing one of the works that will be displayed on the very first Dai Fu Lou exhibition actually also my very first painting on canvas and showing how I actually painted it. I actually sketch out the design with a pencil and then afterward painted it in using a light color paint first and dark colors after.

Please come and visit the exhibition on 15th July 2009 at Ka Fook Mansion in Rotterdam which is on the Graaf Florisstraat 45 in Rotterdam. Free entrance.

Jona back to NL

Sorry that I haven't updated in a while, I have not been back in the Netherlands for a whole week and first few days really got a major jetlag was sleeping long hours. However I got allot of stuff to do in the Netherlands, my administration of my company plus doctors visits and allot things for Dai Fu Lou. I now managed to get a exhibition in Rotterdam that will be held on 15th of July and I am now busy prepairing allot of designs and paintings.

Here above you can see some pictures of the flight back to the Netherlands, I first went to the Hong Kong Airport and then flew to London Heathrow and had to stay there for a while to catch another plane to the Netherlands. When I was back home and later that night was a beautifull sunset.
Great to be back because it is really pretty here compared to HK where everything is gray. However will be going back to HK on 19th.

Dai Fu Lou Hair Cut

Last week the day before Jona and Dai Fu Lou left to the Netherlands Jona had a hair cut session, with him actually cutting and trimming his own hair. He wanted to do this to actually leave behind some bad times and hair are kind of time cause it grow with time and can actually measure top of the hair is from last time Jona had a hair cut and below it growing from each day and rest are the days between. Also Jona wanted to do something bold and actually having few photographers capturing the moment and let them try experimenting with taking pictures. Watch the video below.

Special thanks for Alan who was holding the camera and directing it, Elden Cheung and Yandy Yot who were photographing this moment.
To see more pictures visit Elden Cheung fotop album here.
Also visit Yandy Yot album at Facebook here.

EVENT Anniversary! Website Launch!

At the party we gave a shirt to the newest Dai Fu Mui , Annie Lin / AnnieWho who actually sponsors Kate Sullivan with lovely dressed at each EVENT. Also if you can see the shirts are actualy different then before because we have gone over to a new design actually placing the Dai Fu Character on the bottom close to the area where people normally would wear their underwear.

Also we have gaven a shirt to Elden Cheung who have photograph these pictures, also credits to him for photographing our shirts and Dai Fu Lou each time. Hope to see everyone who has gotten a shirt to wear them during the next Event. For more pictures of this EVENT click here.

Dai Fu Lou Cap

Finally first Dai Fu Lou Cap made by Jona Lam actually spraying the logo onto the cap by himself and adding a limited edition button onto the cap.

And here is Dai Fu Lou wearing the cap !!!

June 3rd special day!

Last Wednesday was a special day! The Birthday of Jona Lam the creator of Dai Fu Lou. On this day he didn't really went receiving gifts but actually give some away to his friends.
He made special editions for Kate Sullivan, DJ Re:Flex and Micheal Chan and gave the shirt to them at the Speak Up Event.Credits to Elden who is the photographer of Speak Up!

Dai Fu Lou first film

Dai Fu Lou Freshly washed start from Jona Lam on Vimeo.

Full movie directed and made by Jona at the studio and ofcourse the figure is also Jona, but only the head the body is Alan's works and also hanging it on the cloth hanger. The Dai Fu Lou figure is moving cause of the airco blowing it. Sound and voice is also Jona. Pretty much most by Jona. This short film used Canon EOS 500D to film it in 720 HD setting. Voice is recorded afterwards.

The Body He Made

Alan made the body for Dai Fu Lou, while Jona already made the head of Dai Fu Lou now added colors to it.

Alan later added some more details to the body.

And this is Mars Chan try adding the body for Dai Fu Lou.

Also made a short clip of Dai Fu Lou and will start on more videos with Dai Fu Lou.

Website relauch!

Some might have seen this when going to Daifulou.com you get to a website now instead of going to this blog, we just relauch our website and will be adding allot of stuff to it. Also there are some hidden funny easter eggs between some of the pages, which would activate some animations.

At the gallery we will be adding allot of Dai Fu Lou Characters and will add more sections. You also can easily access the store at the stuff page.

Will soon ad more sections with in the gallery and stuff. Will be adding arts section where all art with Dai Fu Lou will be added, multi media of various vids and more and also downloads of free things you can get.

Dai Fu Peak!

Something that had caught my eye that has the most biggest thing in Hong Kong shaped as and underwear, it is the big building on the Peak where you could go on top to watch the view over Hong Kong. Showing above how close the shape is to an underwear / Dai Fu. Will try and photograph some more stuff that is same shape as Dai Fu Lou but isn't an underwear at all.

Dai Fu Business card

Something we haven't showed yet is that we have been giving away business cards of Dai Fu Lou, some might already recieved them and some even collected all three. If you see one of us you can always ask for a business card.

Dai Fu Mui Yvonne

Last weekend a new Dai Fu Mui character have been created especially for Yvonne Leung. And wore the Tshirt during the Jagermeister Bikini Dance Event.

Dai Fu Lou online shirt shop

After several event showing our Dai Fu Lou shirts in public we now opened our online shirt shop, so people who like Dai Fu Lou and all our supporters can now order a shirt online.

We have chosen to start with Spreadshirt cause of their high quality prints and durability, that have been tested and reviewed. Also to make it easier for our international fans from all across the world, cause Spreadshirt have a great delivery service and can send their products to any country in the world.

We now have placed the most basic Dai Fu Lou character on the shirts. You can order the illustration in the colors black, white or glow in the dark. The color of the shirts are open to choose any color that are available with that shirt.

Each shirt cost $35 USD and you can use either a creditcard or with use of a PayPal account to transfer money to order a shirt.

To visit our brand new shirt shop go to http://daifulou.spreadshirt.com.
If there are any questions please contact jona@daifulou.com.

Real Dai Fu Lou at Speak up!

First time the real Dai Fu Lou appeared in public at the Speak Up! Event. Dai Fu Lou presented himself and searched for more supporters.

Also this is the twelve Speak Up! Event which is which is held each month and that means it has already been a whole year that Speak Up! started, so it is their first anniversary.

Even Micheal Chan of the movie Lumina had a try of being a Dai Fu Lou, doing some poses and trying the mask. During this Speak Up! they showed the trailer of Lumina and almost the whole cast was there. If you haven't seen the trailer yet, watch it here.

There were even few Dai Fu Mui at the scene, and one of them is actually the lovely Kate Sullivan who had just a opening of a play at the Fringe Club before the Speak Up! Event.

And also some Dai Fu Poses poses were done.