Tools & Tutorials
Tutorials, essays, and tools on digital art, chemistry, LaTeX typesetting, music, magic, teaching, balloon twisting and more.
Clocks of History (Chinese Dynasty edition)
An experimental project that accurately portray historical time as a clock-face. The current outcome is one where Chinese dynasties are juxtaposed against periods in Western history.
Pictorial Guide to Thin Layer Chromatography, feat. Lego
A comic explaining how thin-layer chromatography works, using a whimsical analogy featuring Lego on a lego-beach.
Interpreting Proton NMR – Overview
A bird’s eye view of 1H NMR spectra interpretation in comic form. We first dissect it into the three major components implicit in every peak, and then systematically approach each component to show the connection between spectral information and molecular parameters.
Pretty Picture of Messy Membranes
A colorful visualization of Scott Feller’s MD results of DOPC (18:1 PC) at 303K.
How Does “SmartShade” Cosmetics Work?
A chemist explains how the “Smart Shade” cosmetics “matches any skintone”. In comic form!
Pictorial Guide to Interpreting Infrared Spectra
A illustrated “pictorial guide” to interpreting infrared (IR) spectroscopy.
Jon is a chemist who also makes illustrations, plays the flute, swims, and has one too many curiosities. He was born and raised in Hong Kong before studying in Italy and Canada. Jon now teaches at the United World College in Hong Kong. 
