Undoboy Photography and Illustration 2007

At press time, Malaysian-born designer Chean Wei Law, aka Undoboy, was on his way to Wieden + Kennedy/Portland, after roughly a year as an art director at JWT/New York. Only 26, he's also already put in an 18-month stint at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky in Miami, which was a short hop from Florida's Ringling School of Art and Design, where he got a BFA in graphic design in 2005. As his name implies?though CanDo Boy might be more on the mark, since his interests range across brand identity, editorial design, interactive design, character design, packaging, toys, motion graphics, and illustration?he was doing online work at Crispin, mainly for Burger King (including the Coq Roq art) and Mini. But he wanted to get his ticket punched in New York, and now that he's had a taste of JWT (where his most notable contribution was the iconic Halls Defense print/poster campaign), it's off to what he hopes will be the richer design pastures of Portland. Agency work aside, his design sidelines are led by a line of Super-Bastard Box Art characters ($95 for the set of 16, which can make 64 different characters), sold in stores like Kidrobot. If this seems like a quintessentially Japanese toy idea, it is. His influences "can be attributed to growing up with manga and Japanese/Hong Kong pop culture," www.undoboy.com www.super-bastard.com

Undoboy Photography and Illustration 2007

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