About the Author

Maria Fung is a graphic designer based in Singapore. She graduated with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design from the University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone, one of UK’s leading creative universities, and has worked in London for 2 years.

She has worked for the popular annual Sonic Music Festival in Singapore, and at some of UK’s top creative agencies like The Design Conspiracy and Stylorouge, where she collaborated with the team to design for musician David Gilmour, and at Deep where she designed for AEG Europe. Although the music business is her passion, Maria has a fond interest in diversifying her design magic to other sectors such as entertainment, games, film, corporate, publishing, PR, events and charity. Her clients include the NHS and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has also worked for BBDO in Singapore, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, doing projects for SingTel, NETS, Aviva and BridgeAlliance.

In December 2006 and 2007, Maria was one of the 30 students selected to showcase their video works at the ODEON cinema, Maidstone. Apart from having her works exhibited at the D&AD New Blood Show in London, 2007, Maria came in second place in internationally famous digital design tournament, Cut&Paste, London 2009. She has been featured in a variety of press such as Creative Sinergy, YCN, CulturePush and annual publication, Web Design Index 9. Her articles have been published in UK’s leading creative recruitment website CreativePool, and UCA Alumni Magazine.

Maria loves experimenting and building her artworks from pixels and recycled materials, likes Singaporean food, enjoys cooking, loves dogs, wishes that people will know that graphic design is more than just computers, and that Singapore is NOT in China.