1. Myname is Chen Min Yan, I am an artworker and a graphic designer with
significant design experience: More than 5 years from China and also as
an independent designer in the UK since 2007.
I hope you will enjoy looking at my portfolio. If you are interested in my work,
please feel free to contact me. My contact details are below.
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Mobile: 07879128988
Tel: 02075370948
Email: cmy@cmy-designs.co.uk
Address: 10 Castalia Square, Canary wharf, London E14 3PQ
Contents
Artwork--A page layout for a magzine..............................1
Artwork--A company introduction....................................2
Artwork--Pamphlet............................................................3
Artwork--A printed example.................................... .........4
Artwork--Leaflet................................................................5
Artwork--Apartment floor plan..........................................6
Graphic design--Greeting card...........................................7
Graphic design--Mug and coaster......................................8
Packaging--Moon cake boxes............................................9
Packaging--Tissue & chocolate boxes..............................10
Retouching--Before and after............................................11
Retouching--Presentation design......................................12
My photography................................................................13
My craft.............................................................................14
My shop--Interior decoration............................................15
2. .1.
WHO’S WHO
IN THE COURT OF VERSAILLES
VERSAILLES, a 10-part drama set during the reign of Louis
XIV, aired on BBC Two last night. Conservative MPs and family
watchdogs had already weighed in on the main talking point of
the show: its plentiful scenes of graphic sex and violence (many
of which occur simultaneously). Made as a co-production with
the European network Canal+, the English-speaking series de-
buted in France last November to over a million viewers. After
just a few episodes, it was commissioned for a second season.
The surprising thing is that most of what you see isn’t that unre-
alistic. The biographer Lady Antonia Fraser recently confirmed
that life in the court of the Sun King was just as debauched as
the big-budget drama - if not more so. In fact, “I am surprised
that it has taken so long for a TV blockbuster to use this mate-
rial,” she wrote in a piece for the Guardian last week. Having
researched the period extensively for her book, Love and Louis
XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, she explained that
the show’s depiction of “mistresses, intrigue, illegitimate chil-
dren, gay sex, happy marriages of state and unhappy marriages
of state” were all rather commonplace.
Within the first five minutes alone, there are scenes of
straight sex, same-sex sex, sex involving the erotic use of
an orange… The freedom with which clothes are flung off
escalates to an almost comical frequency. One lady emerges
from a morning dip in the palace’s lake like a 17th Century
Ursula Andress, her nightgown turned completely see-
through - apropos of nothing. Conversely, almost every man
in Versailles has the poise and prettiness of a Lord of the
Rings elf: alabaster skin, flushed cheeks, and goodness, the
hair… in the fashion of the day, carefully-groomed chestnut
waves fall to the collar-bone on these courtiers (each wig
was made-to-measure for £4,000 a piece by the costume de-
signer behind Amelie).
Set in 1667, the action begins in the fallout following the
Fronde - a series of civil uprisings that erupted during the
Franco-Spanish war. In a bid to reassert his power, the
28-year-old King Louis XIV (played by British actor George
Blagden) uproots his court twenty miles west to rural Ver-
sailles, where he plans to renovate his father’s hunting lodge
into the magnificent 700-room estate we know today. It was
an unprecedented strategy - imagine if the Houses of Parlia-
ment were to suddenly move to the Cotswolds - and meant
all of the rebels were brought under Louis’s nose, trapped
within the gilded walls of Versailles.
Louis became king at just four years old and reigned until
his death in 1715, aged 77. During that time he surrounded
himself with - besides a queen - a steady stream of official
and unofficial mistresses. In episode one we meet a hand-
ful of these ladies, all of whom can be found in the history
books. Scroll down for a guide to who’s who in the turbulent
court of Versailles...
Queen Marie-Thérèse (Elisa Lasowski)
The stoic Spanish queen was married to Louis
in a bid to secure peace between their coun-
tries. “A lot of historians at the time - much
like tabloid newspapers today - were more
interested in the king’s mistresses and the de-
bauchery of court rather than Marie-Thérèse,”
explains newcomer Elisa Lasowksi, speaking
over the phone from France, where the cast are
currently filming the second series. She pored
over biographies of the queen in the British
Library to research the part, which expands
significantly in season two. “She was Louis’s
political ally and he respected her as a royal if
not as a woman. She’s quite a mysterious char-
Louise de la Vallière (Sarah Winter)
The deeply pious Louise de la Vallière was Louis’s
main mistress. She is something of an oddity in
court, and her love for the king often conflicts with
her strong moral and religious conviction - although
in episode one they have a rather passionate encoun-
ter during a church service…
acter, something of an enigma, but was very much in love with him, and had quite
a lonely life at court living alongside his mistresses.” In the opening episode, she is
about to give birth to their second child and, without spoiling the ending, the twist
is based on a real historical record…
Henriette of England (Noémie Schmidt)
Sister to King Charles II, Henriette grew up
in France, where she married Louis’s brother
Philippe (played by Welsh actor Alexander
Vlahos). However, the cross-dressing Philippe
prefers the company of men - specifically, the
blond-haired courtier Chevalier - which regu-
larly leads Henriette into the arms of Louis.
Madame de Montespan (Anna Brewster)
The wily Madame de Montespan is conniving to re-
place Louise as the maîtresse-en-titre in the opening
to Versailles. The femme fatale eventually succeeded
and came to be known as one of the most influential
women in court, and bore seven children by Louis.
An example layout for a magazine
3. .2.
Two A4 pages layout for a company introduction
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