Mike Lai
Location Vancouver, Canada
Job Graphic designer/illustrator
Contact www.mikeylikeydesign.com
Software Photoshop, Illustrator
With his breadth of passion for modern culture, freelance designer and illustrator Mike could have embraced any number of professional avenues – but he knew that design was his calling. “Prior to entering the Design Essentials programme at Emily Carr University, I had finished my bachelor degree, majoring in English literature, at the University of British Columbia,” Mike explains of the background that led him to design. “I’m classically trained in the piano and the tenor saxophone. My passion has always been art and music, and as soon as I developed a better understanding of what graphic design was really about, the more I felt that it was a natural transition for me.”
Once in a Dream “I wanted to capture the surreal quality of dreams,” Mike says of this piece. To do this, he worked in Photoshop and Illustrator, scanning in sketches before tracing and colouring them, and creating Photoshop brushes from everything from flowers and trees to clouds.
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