Victo Ngai's cultural background is hard to nail down: she speaks Chinese, English, and Japanese. She attended Christian schools, but is not Christian. She holds a British passport, but is not truly British. She is a Hong Kong citizen but holds no Chinese ID card. Her parents live in Hong Kong; her grandparents are Chinese American on the west coast. She goes to the Rhode Island School of Design. Victo is an illustrator and finds her identity there. She takes strong influence from Japanese woodblock prints and Asian arts in general. She believes that style is overrated. "Style merely means one's habit of drawing based on one's own experiences. Therefore, everyone has a unique style because everyone has a unique life." Victo works both traditionally and digitally. The lines are done with nib pens or rapidograph pens. The textures are done on different pieces of paper with various mediums, like graphite, acrylic, and oil pastels. Then everything is digitally composed and colored in Adobe Photoshop.
Here’s an exciting project commissioned by Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Available exclusively in Hong Kong from September 2017, the limited-edition 70cl bottles features a Cantonese Opera performer adorned with iconic Hong Kong symbols including neon lights, colonial architecture and skyscrapers, celebrating Hong Kong’s unique Eastern and Western influences through marrying the artistry and craftsmanship of the coveted blend and the illustration. This project, which deals with a three-dimensional object, provided an interesting challenge the images needs to work well as a flat image but also as a three-plane tryptic, and elements needed to be well-placed and not awkwardly cut off around the edges when wrapped around the next plane. While the blue hues show off the natural golden color of the whiskey, we wanted the image to look good on its own too, so people will keep the empty bottles and display them as standalone art pieces. Society of Illustrators New York 60, 2017
Victo Ngai is a renowned illustrator born in Hong Kong and living is Los Angeles. Her works blend Eastern colors with Western philosophy
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I am so excited to share with you this recent collaboration with INFINITI. There are a few qualities that captivated me and eventually inspired the art pieces: elegant, powerful, daring, and forward while redefining boundaries and possibilities. The ma…
To capture the magical feeling of Xmas, I worked with the idea of "the infinite possibilities of gifting", represented by the box within the box within the box and the multiple Mixc Elephants and Little Girls. The title of this piece is "Mixc Christmas Wo…
I have had the great pleasure of working on a new line of wines called Prophecy. They are available in most American wine stores so perhaps you have sighted them in the wild before already. The slogan of the Prophecy wine is ' See the Unseen. Try the U…
A selection of color illustrations ran in different publications for various social and political topics.
A selection of magazine covers.
A selection of book covers.
2016 marks 20 years since the death of Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. I have had the great honor to work with MK2 Productions in France and Black Dragon Press in the UK, which I previously collaborated on Tarkovsky’s Solaris Posters with, to celebrate his work by bringing you a set of original 18X27" silkscreen posters for what turned out to be his last work, the iconic Three Colours Trilogy. This set of posters can be purchased at: https://www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/
A collection of silk screen posters.
The main concept behind the Mixc World Spring Festival image is the celebration of a new spring and the sharing of good fortune. There has been a long tradition of emphasizing "Luck" when it comes to Chinese Spring Festival, from new year’s greetings to p…
A selection of conceptual illustrations for various science and health articles in different publications.
A selection of conceptual editorial illustrations for PLANSPONSOR magazine.
New York-based illustrator Victo Ngai creates captivating illustrations with elaborate narratives. Her unique style features swirls of lines and colors
Personal works inspired by childhood memories, movies, books and other goodies.
