A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
In the years leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Fuwa (福娃, “dolls of good fortune”), the official Olympic mascots, were everywhere: on billboards, in TV ads, made into stuffed toys, and erected as mini-statues in malls and airports all across the country. Since then, hyper-cute anthropomorphic mascots designed through public contests have…
Continue readingMascots: the Cutest Social Police?
A fantastic account about growing up as a teen gamer in China – dodging parental fears of “videogame addiction,” finding meaning in leveling up and going cold turkey as she is forced to surrender her laptop.
From Haoyun Su:
Inspired by ProPublica’s StateFace, EyesAsia is a web font focusing on East Asia. In brief, you type a letter and get a mini map in return (open-sourced on Github). It includes the following shapes:
- East Asian countries, such as Japan and…
Continue readingAn icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries
Endless Learning poster design for US & China Typographic Poster Exchange 2013.
More designs by the talented Fever Chu 朱安邦 on their Behance profile.
Our illustrated notes from some of the talks and panels we attended this week at Art Basel Hong Kong.
Into Asia: Publishing Asian Editions:
Digital Geographies: Net Art in China:
In China Airborne, Fallows skillfully uses the rise and uncertain future of the aviation industry in China as a parable for the development in China. An avid political-economic analyst and storyteller, Fallows’ account is surprisingly easy to read, given the complexity of his argument that China is “contradictory” yet exciting.
Fallows is a charismatic writer with a…
Continue readingBook Review: China Airborne by James Fallows
