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.

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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Typography Design

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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