“Life sucks—and that’s okay.”
Bleak Illustration is an art and lifestyle brand creating emotionally driven artwork and products inspired by existential dread, mental struggles, and the chaos of everyday life.
Founded in 2012, Bleak started with handmade notebooks and stickers and has since evolved into a wide range of creations including paintings, hand-painted tote bags, stainless steel rings, ceramics, socks, Ez-Link charms, coasters, and more.
Using different materials and mediums, Bleak turns difficult emotions and honest human experiences into wearable and collectible art.
Mui Ping is a Singapore-based illustrator and product designer. An aspiring artist growing up, the harsh realities of life led her down the road of design instead. In an odd twist of fate however, she not only ended up enjoying her chosen course of study, but found an unexpected outlet where she could express and implement her art.
With an artist career being an uncertain one, she relegated drawing and illustrating to the side, choosing the stability of full-time work as a designer instead. Despite this, her love for drawing culminated in her own brand, Bleak illustration, as a way of documenting the hardships and life struggles through quirky illustrations and products.
She also has a weakness for adorable animals.