A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
As the deadliest fire in California’s history rages on, we trawled through over 500 items on China e-commerce behemoth Taobao to find you the most stylish pollution masks on earth today. What we found was better than anything created by this Dutch designer or this Swedish…
Continue readingCyberpunk Pollution Masks, Editor’s Picks from China
After much fanfare, I had a chance to visit the two opening exhibitions at the new Design Society 设计互联 in Shenzhen – “China’s first design museum.” Freshly unveiled last December, Design Society is located at the newly-constructed Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shekou, one of the most historically-progressive areas in Shenzhen. That it is…
Continue readingDesign Society Shenzhen: conservative curatorial at a cutting-edge institution
The second Melon festival about “science fiction, innovation and the future” took place in Hong Kong on March 17 and was markedly more packed, slick and diverse than its predecessor. Festival organizers added a third set of speakers – scientists – to their roster this year on top of the previously-featured science fiction authors and…
Continue readingMelon Festival Year 2: emphasizing the science in science fiction
This was my first year at Toysoul, but the fair’s third year in operation. Billed as the “Asian Toy Fair,” this Hong Kong-based mostly-vinyl toy festival comprises products and designs from Greater China, Japan, Korea and Thailand. In sharp contrast to the more established ACGHK, Toysoul was a more…
Continue readingToysoul 2017: a focused and curated Asian toy fair
From Samantha Culp‘s Instagram:
Compared to four months ago, I’m seeing many more of these signs (on private buildings/driveways) as cities try to manage the chaos of the bike-sharing boom
…it’s just that there are too many of the shared bikes (competing startups flush with…
Continue readingPeak bike-sharing in China?
