Manshen Lo

Poster for indie band ‘Japanese Breakfast’ on tour in the US

An interview with Heart, filmed on location at Manshen’s East London studio

‘Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone’ a review of Carrie Sun’s memoir entitled ‘Private Equity’ an account of her experience of working in high finance in the early twenty-tens and her quest to be a writer... but having a day job whilst doing it

Cover artwork for Sally Rooney’s novel ‘Beautiful World Where Are You’

Film poster for a special screening hosted by MASSIVE for Celine Song’s directorial debut,’Past Lives’

Manshen’s artwork depicts the reunion of characters, Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae-Sung (Teo Yoo) childhood friends who meet again in New York

Cover for issue 3 of MOMENT, a magazine from Japan published by Re: public with a focus on creativity and lifestyle. This issue features interviews related to the theme "explore and interact with what is in the field, in a post Covid-19 world" The interviewees were fabric designers and printmakers, who use natural materials found in their surrounding environments to create beautiful works.

First published in Korean, part memoir, part self-help book ‘I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki’, has become an international best seller

Baek Sehee was a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she began seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. In her memoir she writes about feeling persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others

Cover for 'I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki' by Baek Sehee, the sequel to the international-bestselling therapy memoir ‘I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki'

Cover for The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi.

Hiirgagi’s novel tells the stories of visitors to a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life. Visitors are able to relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife

'Mountain Hug'

‘There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing’

Illustrating an article that identifies the dominant emotion of the pandemic

Animations created in collaboration with Nicolas Ménard for the opening title sequence of The House

The House, produced by Nexus Studios and streamed by Netflix, is an adult stop-motion series of three stories set in the same house

The hand drawn opening sequence, inspired by 19th century woodcuts, provides a stylistic difference to the stop frame animation of the feature. The neutral colour palette of black and white creates an elegant but tense sequence, with references to the mysteries explored in each of the stories

Animations created in collaboration with Nicolas Ménard for the opening title sequence of The House

The House, produced by Nexus Studios and streamed by Netflix, is an adult stop-motion series of three stories set in the same house

The hand drawn opening sequence, inspired by 19th century woodcuts, provides a stylistic difference to the stop frame animation of the feature. The neutral colour palette of black and white creates an elegant but tense sequence, with references to the mysteries explored in each of the stories

Animations created in collaboration with Nicolas Ménard for the opening title sequence of The House

The House, produced by Nexus Studios and streamed by Netflix, is an adult stop-motion series of three stories set in the same house

The hand drawn opening sequence, inspired by 19th century woodcuts, provides a stylistic difference to the stop frame animation of the feature. The neutral colour palette of black and white creates an elegant but tense sequence, with references to the mysteries explored in each of the stories

‘June’ artwork from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

Gui Chuanliang, Editor of Meng Ya: “The artworks capture many of the subtle emotions that characterise the younger generation, and at the same time with a warm nostalgic touch. So there is no surprise that these works resonate strongly with our readers. And the gift of capturing the invisible things is most valuable in literature, painting and life”

‘February’ from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

‘October’ from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

Gui Chuanliang, Editor of Meng Ya: “The artworks capture many of the subtle emotions that characterise the younger generation, and at the same time with a warm nostalgic touch. So there is no surprise that these works resonate strongly with our readers. And the gift of capturing the invisible things is most valuable in literature, painting and life”

‘September’ from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

Gui Chuanliang, Editor of Meng Ya: “The artworks capture many of the subtle emotions that characterise the younger generation, and at the same time with a warm nostalgic touch. So there is no surprise that these works resonate strongly with our readers. And the gift of capturing the invisible things is most valuable in literature, painting and life”

‘November’ artwork from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

Gui Chuanliang, Editor of Meng Ya: “The artworks capture many of the subtle emotions that characterise the younger generation, and at the same time with a warm nostalgic touch. So there is no surprise that these works resonate strongly with our readers. And the gift of capturing the invisible things is most valuable in literature, painting and life”

A selection of artworks in context, from a year long commission to create the twelve covers of Chinese literary magazine Meng Ya

Music video for Tom Odell’s single Sad Anymore

Music video for Tom Odell’s single Best Day of My Life

‘Find your very own forest retreat…’

Collaboration with Japanese skincare brand BAUM to create a series of artworks and animated artworks used in stores and online around the theme “coexistence with trees” and featuring different BAUM products

BAUM products use ingredients extracted from every part of the tree - trunk, skin, leaves, fruit, and roots

‘Find your very own forest retreat…’

Collaboration with Japanese skincare brand BAUM to create a series of artworks and animated artworks used in stores and online around the theme “coexistence with trees” and featuring different BAUM products

BAUM products use ingredients extracted from every part of the tree - trunk, skin, leaves, fruit, and roots

‘Find your very own forest retreat…’

Collaboration with Japanese skincare brand BAUM to create a series of artworks and animated artworks used in stores and online around the theme “coexistence with trees” and featuring different BAUM products

BAUM products use ingredients extracted from every part of the tree—trunk, skin, leaves, fruit, and roots

‘Find your very own forest retreat…’

Collaboration with Japanese skincare brand BAUM to create a series of artworks and animated artworks used in stores and online around the theme “coexistence with trees” and featuring different BAUM products

BAUM products use ingredients extracted from every part of the tree - trunk, skin, leaves, fruit, and roots

‘Find your very own forest retreat…’

Collaboration with Japanese skincare brand BAUM to create a series of artworks and animated artworks used in stores and online around the theme “coexistence with trees” and featuring different BAUM products

BAUM products use ingredients extracted from every part of the tree - trunk, skin, leaves, fruit, and roots

‘Elephant’s Ears’

1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, in a limited edition of 600 copies, made in France

‘Elephant’s Ears’

1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, in a limited edition of 600 copies, made in France

Ingredient artworks created for the branding of Octo Skincare.

Prickly pear cactus

Ingredients artworks created for the branding of Octo Skincare.

Xanana flower

Ingredient artworks created for the branding of Octo Skincare.

Sandalwood

Ingredient artworks created for the branding of Octo Skincare.

Marine algae

Ingredient artworks created for the branding of Octo Skincare.

Sanoma

Artwork created for the branding of Octo Skincare

Cover artwork for MOMENT magazine issue 2 , “What we talk about when we talk about our city ”, published by Japanese think tank RE:PUBLIC with a focus on modern urban design

Window dressings

'Pavillion'

‘Set yourself up for Growth, Aspiration and Intention with Tylko’

A short animation showcasing the studio office incorporating the ‘Type02’ Tylko shelf in mustard and sand

‘Is Social Egg Freezing the Future of Motherhood?’One of a series of artworks illustrating an article that looks at the rising number of young women seeking to preserve their fertility

‘Wellbeing – With… From “Me” to “We,” From GDP to GDWe’

Exploration of social media’s quest to take advantage of our reliance on audiovisual information

One in a series of artwork commissioned or SONY’s ‘Design Vision Annual Report’ on the theme of using Science Fiction Prototyping to imagine what the world will look like in 2050

 

While social media has benefited us in many ways through the digitization of our social connections, it has also led to the creation
of harmful content—false news reports, deepfakes—that take advantage of our reliance on audiovisual information.

‘Multispecies; ‘How do we reconstruct the human world to benefit all species?’ Multispecies ethnography, is the concept of symbiosis with multiple species, not only plants and animals but even microbiomes

One in a series of artwork commissioned or SONY’s ‘Design Vision Annual Report’ on the theme of using Science Fiction Prototyping to imagine what the world will look like in 2050

Animation used to promote the non-profit annual animation festival which takes place in Berkley, California

Artwork to celebrate the 270th anniversary of The Royal Society of Arts and their theme for the year 'courage'

Review of singer-songwriter ‘Mitski’

Artwork for a social media and instore campaign in Hong Kong and Singapore

'Orchid'

Artwork for a social media and instore campaign in Hong Kong and Singapore

A Supposedly Fun Thing I Just Might Do Again

Travel writer Emily Nunn, surprises herself by enjoying her visit to Primland, a lavish outdoor resort she previously despised as a virtual fairyland for the rich

A Supposedly Fun Thing I Just Might Do Again

Travel writer Emily Nunn, surprises herself by enjoying her visit to Primland, a lavish outdoor resort she previously despised as a virtual fairyland for the rich

Artwork for Block magazine’s interview with the co-founder of Kinfolk and now creative officer of Indigo — the largest bookstore chain in Canada, on the subject of slow living and the future of retail. Published by Allied Properties REIT and Whitman Emorson

'Letter of Recommendation: Airport Layover'

Writer Sasha Chapin recommends indulging in an airport bound layover rather rushing to try and make something meaningful from a few hours in a location that you didn’t necessarily choose

“Layovers are enforced ellipses in life — temporary tenures in air-conditioned limbo”

One in a series of artworks for the covers of Poetry Review, responding to each issue’s contents

One in a series of artworks for the covers of Poetry Review, responding to each issue’s contents

One in a series of artworks for the covers of Poetry Review, responding to each issue’s contents

Personal work

'Starecase'

‘An Artwork that changed by Life: Dorothea Tanning, Self-Portrait, 1944’

Novelist Sophie Mackintosh reveals how a self-portrait by Dorothea Tanning, depicting a lone woman facing an uncertain future, helped her to discover the self-confidence she needed.

"When I saw the painting I felt at once a deep sense of comfort and possibility"

One in a series of five artworks illustrating an imagined ‘Garden City’ of 2040. The project was commissioned by Space10, a design studio set up to collaborate with IKEA, as a research and design lab.

The artworks were presented at ‘The Ideal City: Exploring Urban Futures’ exhibition at The Barbican, London. An interactive installation, shared three speculative environments — the Coastal City, the Garden City, and the Solar City. Viewers glimpse these futures through one of three VR headsets, custom-designed in the shape of coin-operated binoculars. Each headset reveals five scenes, accompanied by an audio narration that guides the viewer through the actions each city took to arrive at a safe, desirable and hopeful 2040

Website artworks for ‘Tyrus’, a free digital toolkit from Airbnb Design that helps freelancers optimise their business structure, so they have more time to focus on being creative

Poster and advertising for Lost & Found a quarterly event in Barcelona

Review of the indie band Japanese Breakfast

'Reception'

'Portrait of FX'

'Portrait of Saul'

Cover for the Association of Illustrators magazine, based on the subject of nostalgia

Cover artwork for MOMENT magazine issue 3, “City as Home”, published by Japanese think tank RE:PUBLIC with focus on modern urban design

'Untitled 01'

Artwork for an article about how to manage scent

'Midday'

Artwork for Faber & Faber merchandising used on tote bags, notebooks and prints

Referring to oneself in the third person and how that connects with the Buddhist concept of non-self

'Garden'

Film review of Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane about a woman pursued by her fears

'Untitled 02'

Artwork for online promotion, wrapping paper and gift cards