A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
糖果猫猫 popil is a Guangzhou-based designer (comic, graphic, fashion, animation) who runs a pretty little blog called “candy variety shop
糖果杂货铺.” I’ve picked out two of her works below.
First up, an illustration of a street-market scene with a classical border. The title suggests its based on a 烧衣街 in Guangzhou.
Second up,…
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Mad that Youtube is BANNED in China Facebook group seems mostly to be expats, although not completely. It has over 700 members at present.
From TechCrunch:
Sohu paid 30 million dollars back in 2005 to create the official 2008 Olympics’ website, and now claims exclusive rights to all internet advertising for it as well. The Beijing International Olympic Committee has yet to process their claim, but the original article from AFP reveals some insider views:
“Zeng says…
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Businessweek ran an article recently called Rise of the Asian D-School. (Here “D-school” is short for design school, not to be confused with Standord’s “d.school” which is Stanford’s catchy name for its Institute for Design.)
Summary: Asian design schools are ramping up to recruit and retain talent, and multinationals are arming themselves with these grads to conquer…
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They seem to have a Chinese pop-star motif going on, and there’s some talk in the blogosphere about how they rely less on user-generated content and focus more on entertaining people.
I haven’t checked it out yet, but I wanted to get it on the radar, for those…
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An exhibition using “infographics” to compare and contrast cultural differences between east and west, from a Beijingnese artist in Germany.
See the exhibit online at Yang Liu Design; via Information Aesthetics.
The folks at AsianOffbeat must have a really good network for scouring Chinese websites for the bizarre and wonderful! “3 Nanjing Youths Build 4.5 Meter Transformer” appeared on QQ.com news on Oct. 9, and AsianOffbeat posted it the same day. Even with a time difference, that’s pretty fast.
The three fans, who grew up watching the Transformers…
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The first Chinese “wiki book,” written by an online collective (see this WSJ article on wikibooks), is garnering attention in virtual China. Named “IBM Mafia” (The Memoir of former IBM PCD employees) IBM个人电脑事业部员工回忆录, the wiki book was written on Chinese wiki site hoodong.com‘s open source wiki software, HDWiki. It is getting hot…
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