Discover How LALATOWN Tools Revolutionize Artistic Workflow

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Hyung Joo Kim

• 2h

When a Tool Becomes Part of Your Art

People sometimes ask where my work belongs.

When I studied craft design, every project had a clear purpose. It had to solve a problem.

Later, when I studied fine art, I was expected to express my own world. Learning to write artist statements was one of the hardest parts for me. I grew up in an education system where expressing your own thoughts so openly wasn’t something we practiced very much.

These days, I realize I’m standing somewhere between those two worlds.

I build my own little world through LALATOWN, but I also keep making the tools I wish I had.

That’s how my brushes began.

And recently, that’s how these color palettes were born.

While painting, I kept stopping.

“Not this color.”

“Not that one.”

I would spend one or two minutes searching for the next color instead of painting.

Eventually I realized the palette itself was the problem.

So instead of creating another pretty collection of colors, I designed a working tool for myself.

LALATOWN Flow Palette was arranged so neighboring colors naturally work together. Moving across or down the palette feels intuitive, letting me spend less time searching and more time painting.

Then I created LALATOWN Hidden Colors.

These aren’t louder colors.

They’re the ones I always found myself wishing existed—the in-between greens, unusual blues, softened purples, and quiet colors that are surprisingly difficult to find when you’re in the middle of painting.

My earlier palettes were created simply because I loved beautiful colors.

These two are different.

They were built to save time.

They help me stay inside the creative flow instead of interrupting it.

Sometimes the things I make for myself become the things I end up sharing.

Welcome to my little general store.

Welcome to LALATOWN.

Digital illustration Illustration Procreate

Andrew Norman

pro

• Jul 6

Creating my portfolio and wondering which colour direction to go with.

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MD Rafee Alam

• Jul 6

Voted Option 1. The blue makes the enormos wordmark pop way more, the dark version almost blends into itself. Portfolio sites need that first second of impact.

Alex K

pro

• Jul 6

Color, gradients and faceless designs

Figma Framer webdesign

Godwin John

• Jul 6

Can't wait for you to release this

Joey Judkins

pro

• Jul 6

For this challenge, I'm excited to share this first glimpse at an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app, named after my own non-speaking son whose name just happens to have the letters "aac" in his name! You'll meet him in the first half of the video. The idea for a new AAC app that used animated characters to speak the words came to me during my first few weeks of learning Rive, and I'm so happy that this challenge has pushed me to make a considerable amount of progress and be able to show some of the features that set it apart, besides the fun interactive characters. The ability to quickly add and remove words, quick phrases, easy to read icons, and intuitive categories, are all part of the app experience, and the characters (starting with just a couple ready-made characters, but eventually a custom avatar builder) bring an element of fun to the otherwise purely functional world of AAC. When it's ready, I hope this app makes it easier and more fun for families, caregivers, and language-delayed people everywhere to communicate with each other. Thank you for watching this video!