Milk powder ad mashes up Angry Birds with kung fu
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Author: Jason Li
Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
Troll defaces luxury handbags on subway
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According to this report from Apple Daily HK, there’s a real-life troll that’s been going around on the subway in Hong Kong defacing various strangers’ luxury handbags with a ball point pen.
Stats on the commerce of film in Hong Kong & China
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Haexagon Concepts has just released their industry report on the film industries in Hong Kong & China. It’s a snappy, well-researched report, and tackles subjects ranging from advertising methods to the emergence of transmedia storytelling in these two regions.
An excerpt about Hong Kong’s advertising quagmire:
“A major problem in HongKong is that there aren’t…
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China’s Nike, Li-Ning, signs Dwyane Wade
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Sole Collector has an exclusive interview up about NBA superstar Dwyane Wade starting his own line of basketball sneakers with Li-Ning.
Aside from discussing Wade’s plans with his own brand, harkening back to almost two years ago when he commissioned a designer to create a logo for his name, it also talks a little bit about his views…
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Featured illustration + fiction
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A short story called Raising Whales by Xiang Zuotie. Excerpt clipped from a post on Prospect Magazine.
At dusk one evening, as cooking smoke started rising from the roofs of the houses, the head of our village came back from market with baby whales for everybody. We were going to develop the local whale-farming industry,…
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A font that promises to balance Chinese and English
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A graduate school project by Vancouver-based designer Vince Lo, the Collator font purports to create a font that melds English letters and Chinese characters together into a non-jarring stream of text.
Collator is a typeface designed to achieve greater harmony between Chinese characters and Latin letterforms when set together. Drawing inspiration from the two traditions of…
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Cheng I Sao: the biggest pirate in history was Chinese and female!
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Above: An excerpt from a six-page comic about Cheng I Sao.
Below: Excerpts from a CNN mental floss article about her:
The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors — and she did it all without the help of facial hair.…
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Featured cafe: Mr. Sea Monster
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Mr. Sea Monster (海怪先生), a cafe in Gulangyu (鼓浪屿), Xiamen.
Exact address: 鼓浪屿乌埭路2号
Via Samantha Culp. Photo sources: 1, 2.
The Online Chineseness Test
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Village-in-a-city, 城中村
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From the Atlantic blog, by Dan Chinoy:
This suburban expansion has taken place so quickly that in some places, it has created what are known in Chinese as 城中村 or chengzhongcun, which translates roughly to village-in-a-city: older mud and brick houses and abandoned fields surrounded by brand new apartment complexes. Often,…
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