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.

Dai Fu Badges!!!

We now have made some Dai Fu Lou Badges and will be selling them, we have several versions and will be sold in a limited amount. These are all handmade by ourself and we have some special sets of badges for sell too. The one you see on some is the most plain basic badges and will be sold for 20HKD per piece or some as 2 Euro per piece.

We also got 3 sets of Dai Fu Lou Under Ranger sets, which consist of 5 badges with the Dai Fu Lou in the colors Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, Red and Green. These will be the begin of the Under Ranger sets of 5 fellow Dai Fu that will become the Under Rangers ( Shirt not included). These colors will be only sold within this set and will be super limited to just 3.

Buttons can be bought at Speak Up! tonight or when you meet us in person, however you can also order these buttons online, by emailing jona@daifulou.com

Dai Fu Lou Mask

Here is the very first Dai Fu Lou mask done, and also a new one is underway which will be made out of plastics so it would be lighter plus also won't get damaged when it gets wet and can be caried around easier.

Students Exhibition

Last sunday was the exhibition held by the student which we had taught about creativity and also how to setup an exhibition. We came to see if they actually listened to our tips and informations.

It is a quite small exhibitions because there were only 4 teams or 4 school that have entered. Also was a kind of showoff by the school which have better students, by showing greater designs then others.

This team (Polariod window blinds) kinda have listened, but still made a far too busy display and have the most to show then others, however I find that this team should been disqualified cause this project s not made by the students. During the exhibition was a guy / teacher who have allot to talk about this and actually sounded to me that he has invented this. Also on the table there are actually stuff from science class which there is no way those students could have bought at any local shop, also they have light sensors and everything that is either from the science class or that teacher had ordered.

Also their invention is made far to complex while a certain blinds or curtain would have work just well to, cause there invention has too many parts and too many moving things making it to have a far too high cost. Also there is a electric window blinds which can regulate the amount of lights that can shine through, however it is far to expensive to replace all the windows with and uses allot of chemicals to produce.

The display that they have made got a certain order to it however it annoying to have to turn your head from side to side to read each time cause they have placed all the text in a different angle each time. However it attract you to look at is but not to read it.

This is the Dirty water electricity generator team, this has the most simplistic and cleaned display with everything printed and plastic with the numeral order. The display is good however I would have chosen for a normal foamboard instead of a polystyreen board with all the bubbles showing. On the prototype they should have used a smaller sheet of paper cause now the attention is too much drawn to the sheets and not actually to the prototype, also the prototype almost disappeared cause of the sheet of paper. However for the city to give money to place this in the building might be a far to big play, they might have better change it to a more of a consumer product or ad it with in a product. Like with in a washing machine where water flushes out the water could generate some electricity that is used to was the clothing with.

Mama wake me up alarm clock team ( alarm clock that wakes you without sound but vibrates your cushion, this team is a pretty funny setup cause even though it exist of 4 students I can see it is basically made all by just one cause of his design and drawing style. This kid actually like to make things small instead of getting his hands dirty on project that they could not handle, cause the others made their project far to big while this project staying relatively small and more on consumer based then having to be financed by the city or government. However the text might be very small it is basically good, cause as if you would talk with a lower volume people would listen more carefully. Also love this working model which they basically moved the on and off switch of the vibrating machine to the alarm clock.

Electric bus team, this team just got to many ideas but this is not an invention because they things they have summed up are basically already invented stuff and also basically are designed for this purpose. This team just got too many ideas but eventually as you can see the end result is either their budget or did not have enough time to make a good display. They just took few pieces of cardboard and just drew on it, however got to say they did well with the layout how they drew and wrote things on the board. But it looks too much like they ruffly made this and did not spend much time on making it at all. But basically replace or added stuff to the bus but did not do a full bus design on how the bus would look like, more data on how much energy it would use and how much less exhaust and more.

These two are basically the better one during this exhibition, but the best for me is the alarm clock with the only one placing the display boxes not against the wall making it looks more like an actual exhibition feel and simple poster on the wall, however there is one thing it is showing of their school a bit too much though. However it does fill and attract some more attention then the electric generator.

Eventual each team gets a certificate for attending this exhibition and creativity lesson.

And the better team would get som lego, to play out some of their creativity.

However I doubt most of them actually still do play with Lego most be playing computer games instead.

I bet that this panda would agree with me that his alarm clock is the best and the kid who design this have a very bright future if he want to get into the design world.

Dai Fu Lou Teaching Students about Creativity

Friday we had a small creativity lesson teaching students from age from 10 to 17 how to be creative and how they should prepare for a exhibition, mostly cause most of them have never seen a exhibition before or let alone know how to make one.

Vanessa, Alan and Jona are all creative in different field of design could easily explain and help them out with certain problems and things. The main theme of the exhibition these students are designing for is Building something for this city. As for the big difference between the Hong Kong and Europe we also have a different perspective on the already made project that we done by these students. Mainly the students all designed innovations, however many of them made it too complicated for them selves compared to others, while some just did not do the full research.

We came there actually without knowing how many students would be there or actually knowing what they all have designed. So we had few presentations of the student showing us their made project and we gave feedback on the pros and cons of them. Actually most of them aren't that well thought of plus they aimed at a much to big of project that would have summed up allot of data and statistics that need to be shown. While between it all there is one great design made by the youngest kid of the whole group who is working alone today cause his partner could not be there.

The boy here is front is the small talent, I am sure this kid would become one amazing designer in the future also could see some aspect of myself in him cause he also like to draw very very small. But he is actually the only one who has made an actual consumer product instead of things that the government would look at or could buy and would have cost millions to invest in. This kid just made a simple alarm clock that would wake you up by making your cushion vibrate, so it would not wake up others in the same house or the neighbors. In Hong Kong there are not much space and people live stacked on top of each other and in pretty cramp places and Hong Kong is also allot of 24 hours businesses and allot of people sleep and wake up at different times. Also he was one of the teams who have a working prototype with them.

The other team made an electric water scoop generator which a real energy meter to show how it produces energy. However this generator will be driven by the flushed or dirty water that are produced daily in the many tall buildings however the main problem is that the water is dirty and could clog up the scoop and may need allot of maintenance. This might have been easy if they just designed a scoop which would generate more power then normal ones cause of somethings special, however now placing in a building they made it much to hard for them selves, cause now they need to get informations from architectures about how the water moves within building and many more problems with maintaining it.

We did few exercise to see the skills of the students, we let them design a logo for their invention and posters and see how they made it and talked about what is good and bad about them.

Sunday 3rd of May there will be an exhibition held by these students and will see then if they have learned and listened to use cause we have given the information that they have needed. The exhibition is held at Cattle Depot, 63 Ma Tou Kwok Road, To Kwan Wan, Kowloon.

And here are some other snapshots made during the creativity lesson that we have given to these students.

WIP Dai Fu Mask part 2

Today we started with adding color to our mask. We have chosen for a special sheet that feels like fabric, the sheet has a kind of suede feel to it. We used spraying glue to glue the sheets onto the mask, also spraying glue is less messy then other glue and also fairly easy to apply when pasting sheets of things.

Here we have pasted the sides yellow first and then later paste with one long sheet over the front top and back. It is not a problem is you have to much fabric it is a bigger problem if you got too little. I actually learned how to pack this mask up cause of my packaging background and had learned how to do it cause of bookbinding and pasting graphics on packagings.

And this is almost to the final result of the mask. However we show you the final result of the mask very soon when we will be using it. So be sure to look out for Dai Fu Lou, also if you spot us you can take a picture with us any time.