Jean Vatchara

Bangkok, Thailand
Jean Vatchara is a London based communication designer. Currently at the Royal College of Art pursuing an MA in Information Experience Design. Her current area of interests resides in the idea of interactivity as a communication tool.

She believes in effective and succinct communication. Her specialty is to allocate the right medium to the right message. Though analysis and experimentation, she has a develop skills in typography, editorial, illustration, film-making and interaction design.

Her pragmatic design approach comes from her training in architecture in her first degree. She has since worked in various fields in art and design holding a job as an art director at DDB in Bangkok and a Designer at Farmgroup working at international clients such as Google Hangouts, Vogue Thailand and Bacardi.

In the past two years she was featured in Slanted, a German typography publication and also exhibited in Granshan non Latin type conference. She has been collaborating with Pete Rossi (YG9) of RM&CO a multi-award winging studio on several projects in the likes of BWATT magazine.

Since the start of the RCA, her work, Sonicbells, a product done in collaboration with SONOS has been exhibited in the Uglyduck in London and at Sónar+d in Barcelona. She also presented the Common Cypher at the RALate: Ai Wei Wei Digital Disconnections, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Robot referendum has also been selected by the Science Museum to take part in the You, Robots exhibition in 2017.

Work Experience

Farmgroup

Designer

November 2013 - August 2014 Bangkok, Thailand

Far East DDB

Creative Art Director

May 2013 - Present Bangkok, Thailand

Fareast DDB

Junior Art Director

August 2011 - December 2011 Bangkok, Thailand

Plan Architect

Design Intern

February 2011 - August 2011 Thailand

Crafactor

Design and Marketing intern an Maison et Objet

September 2010 - September 2010 France

Education

Royal College Of Art

MA Information Experience Design

September 2014 - July 2016

London College Of Communication

Pg Dip Design for Visual Communication

January 2012 - December 2012 London, United Kingdom

University Of Newcastle

BA Architecture

September 2007 - July 2010 Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Languages

English (Native),
Thai (Native),

Skills

Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop,