A cosmic adventure blending mythology, science fiction, and elemental wisdom, Jahan Loh’s debut CASETiFY collection reimagines ancient traditions through a contemporary lens. Known for collapsing the boundaries between street culture, fine art, and pop iconography, the Singapore-born artist transforms the phone case into an intimate, everyday canvas, one that explores ideas of prosperity, abundance, and the rituals we carry with us daily.

Unveiled at the exclusive Jahan Loh × CASETiFY ARTiSTS Collection evening, the collaboration celebrates the intersection of art, design, and lifestyle, pushing Loh’s long-held belief of art beyond the gallery and into the public realm. Drawing from three bodies of work that fuse mythology, sci-fi, and cultural symbolism, the collection invites its audience to hold a small universe in their hands. We sat down with Loh to discuss designing at an intimate scale, translating storytelling into functional objects, and what it means for art to live and travel with us every day.

Bakchormeeboy: How does designing for something as personal and functional as a phone case change the way you think about scale, detail, and storytelling in the art?

Jahan Loh: Designing a phone case forces you to think in a very intimate scale. It’s not something people observe from a distance, it’s something they hold, touch, carry every day. So the storytelling of my art has to be condensed, almost like a miniature universe. Every line, every symbol, every placement matters more. It becomes less about spectacle and more about closeness, art that lives in your hand.

Bakchormeeboy: CASETiFY sits at the crossroads of tech and lifestyle. What excited you most about translating your visual universe into tech accessories, and what challenges surprised you?

Jahan Loh: What excited me most was the idea that tech accessories are the new everyday canvas. Phones are almost like a part of us, they travel with you, they witness your life. Translating my universe onto them felt like placing my characters into modern rituals. The challenge was learning how design lives on an object with real constraints like camera cutouts, edges, different juxtapositions for each phone model actually pushed the creativity further.

Bakchormeeboy: Many of your works explore the everyday becoming extraordinary. How does this philosophy show up in the CASETiFY collection?

Jahan Loh: That philosophy is at the heart of it. A phone case is such an ordinary object, like our portal into the world, designing the case of this portal turns something functional into something imaginative, reminding you that wonder can exist in the most everyday things.

Bakchormeeboy: Your art often lives in galleries or public spaces. What does it mean for your work to now live in people’s hands, pockets, and daily routines?

Jahan Loh: It means a lot to me. When art leaves the gallery and becomes part of someone’s daily rhythm, it becomes alive in a different way. It’s no longer something you visit occasionally — it becomes a companion. The work travels with you, gets worn, touched, carried through the city. That feels deeply aligned with where I came from, street art has always been about living with the public.

Bakchormeeboy: Can you walk us through one or two designs that feel especially personal?

Jahan Loh: The spaceman design is the most personal. That character has been my alter-ego for decades, a symbol of migration, dreaming, distance, and the optimism of a better world. Other elements in this capsule draw from the Chinese Five Elements, each element offers a different kind of energy, something to suit different needs.

Bakchormeeboy: Collaboration requires balance between artistic freedom and functionality. How did you and CASETiFY navigate that?

Jahan Loh: CASETiFY was very respectful of my voice. We approached it like design and storytelling working together keeping the core motifs of my art intact while adapting them to function as objects. It wasn’t about compromise, it was about translation.

Bakchormeeboy: Street art is about accessibility and visibility. Do you see this collection as an extension of that ethos — a new kind of public art for the digital age?

Jahan Loh: Absolutely. Street art was always about reaching people where they are, outside traditional spaces. In today’s world, phone cases are almost like moving walls, they travel through crowds, subways, cities, across countries. So yes, I see this as a new  canvas and an integral part of contemporary life.

Bakchormeeboy: For someone discovering your work for the first time through this CASETiFY collaboration, what do you hope they feel or understand?

Jahan Loh: I hope they feel curiosity and connection. That my world is playful on the surface, but layered with emotion, memory, and mythology. I want them to sense that the everyday can hold wonder, and that even a small object can carry a larger universe, one that blends street culture, heritage, and the dream of the future.

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