http://www.radiodada.hk/#archive/dih20100421

Wishing the best for Yushu in Qinghai, Netease BBS Discussion Forum netizens share “Qinghai jia you!” signatures。

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/chinese-netizens-show-support-for-qinghai-earthquake-victims.html

http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/photo/173089712.html

Maxim

Thesis project, exploring parallels between conceptual
branding and the fine arts market by creating a body of work
from a fake artist, and presenting a retrospective.

http://nikolaysaveliev.com/

Hifana meets Nike
http://nike.jp/musicshoe/

http://www.kittehroulette.com/

Coming off the back of the hugely successful Nike+, Nike’s latest venture challenges Londoners to race it out to the bitter end. However for this challenge, runners don’t need to invest in smartphones, pedometers or even special Nike branded trainers.

Nike GRID uses the now almost defunct iconic London telephone box to track a runner’s progress at designated Nike branded locations. After registering online, players run between two phoneboxes and punch in their unique user id number at each, logging their run and earning them points online.

The more runs, the more points earned for that postcode. The person with the most points in each area claims the crown of that postcode, badges are also awarded for speed, stamina and insider knowledge of the streets. There are 40 postcodes in play and four phoneboxes in each, players are encouraged to use their street knowledge to get them around their local area as quickly as possible by any possible route. There are also maps online and in various outdoor locations.

To celebrate the event, London grime artist Tempa T created a track to motivate runners pre-race. Produced by Skitz Beatz, the video featuring Tempa T performing the track is available to view on YouTube.

Nike GRID launches officially 8pm, Friday 23rd April and players have 24 hours to race and conquer their streets.

www.nikegrid.com/nike-grid/
http://www.facebook.com/NikeGrid

http://www.contagiousmagazine.com/2010/04/nike_21.php

http://www.ilovedust.com/project/view/nikesister

test out to see how your site looks like on the iPad.

http://ipadpeek.com/

JL is a fashion label started in 2008 by Fenfen Chen and Nicole Wang in Shanghai. JL is a representation of the Chinese character –“儿” (er), the Japanese character ”ル”(ru), and the two English letters J and L. It has no real meaning and the founders simply hope people can read and recognize JL in as many languages as possible.

JL’s driving concept is to combine the essence of Chinese traditional painting and poems with their personal imagination of the future. In this way, JL is trying to find a new way to express their fashion vision and share that vision with everyone. Along with the desire to express themselves, Fenfen and Nicole are also trying to show Chinese people unique was to wear clothes and help people find their own style.

http://www.jleshop.com/
http://www.play-lab.cn/jlblog/
http://edge.neocha.com/creative-collectives-studios/jl/shanghai-brand-jl/

Earl Woods asks his son a few questions before Tiger’s return to golf.

Japan - The Strange Country (Japanese ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

http://kenichi-design.blogspot.com/

VINEC 007

(October 2005)

The 7th poster in a series of nine about the road between Arnhem and Nijmegen. The poster shows a compositon of aerial photographs of the highway.

http://catalogtree.net/projects/affiche

Michael Beirut on his design process: “When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk about your problem and read whatever background material I can find that relates to the issues you face. If you’re lucky, I have also accidentally acquired some firsthand experience with your situation. Somewhere along the way an idea for the design pops into my head from out of the blue. I can’t really explain that part; it’s like magic. Sometimes it even happens before you have a chance to tell me that much about your problem! Now, if it’s a good idea, I try to figure out some strategic justification for the solution so I can explain it to you without relying on good taste you may or may not have. Along the way, I may add some other ideas, either because you made me agree to do so at the outset, or because I’m not sure of the first idea. At any rate, in the earlier phases hopefully I will have gained your trust so that by this point you’re inclined to take my advice. I don’t have any clue how you’d go about proving that my advice is any good except that other people — at least the ones I’ve told you about — have taken my advice in the past and prospered. In other words, could you just sort of, you know…trust me?”

Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big business.Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies.The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal.Should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical emergency?

A Gold : Bi Xuefeng

The GDC exhibition and competition is probaly the most important graphic design event in China, and Shenzhen is regarded by many (including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London) as China’s graphic design capital. The competition first took place in 1992, and was followed by exhibitions in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2007. The results of the 2005 exhibition were donated to the Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, and shown there in an exhibition in 2006. The latest exhibition, organized by the Shenzhen Graphic Design Association SGDA, opened on December 4, 2007 in Shenzhen, and was juried by Michael Rock, David Ellis, Norito Shinmura, Tommy Li and Chen Shaohua, who awarded the prizes below in the categories Category A: Posters on the theme “Caracteres sportives” Category D1: Cultural posters Category D2: Commercial posters Han Zhanning’s blog (in chinese) gives a good overview of GDC 7.

A Silver : Chang Dong

Chang Dong

Chang Dong

Chang Dong

A Silver : Ke Quan

Ke Quan

Ke Quan

Ke Quan

A Silver : Ruan Hongjie

A Bronze : Liu Yongqing

Liu Yongqing

Liu Yongqing

A Bronze : Ni Xueyun

A Bronze : Yang Zhen

Yang Zhen

D1 Silver : Chen Yongji

Chen Yongji

D1 Silver : Wu Yong

D1 Silver : Pan Qin

Pan Qin

Pan Qin

Pan Qin

Pan Qin

D1 Bronze : Eric Chan, “Gough Street poster”

Eric Chan, “Gough Street poster”

D1 Bronze : ?

D1 Bronze : He Jianping

D1 Bronze : Hei Yiyang

Hei Yiyang

Hei Yiyang

Hei Yiyang

D1 Bronze : ?

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D1 Bronze : ?

D2 Silver : ?

D2 Bronze : ?

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D2 Bronze : Li Jong & Long Gang

Li Jiong & Long Gang

Li Jiong & Long Gang

Li Jiong & Long Gang

http://www.posterpage.ch/winners/shen_07/shen_07.htm

Friend and fellow Art Director in W+K Shanghai. I miss this guy.

Ingenious : )

http://www.madisonboom.com/article.asp?id=6231

http://www.bankrungame.com/

iPhone app for creating your own Buro Destruct designs!

http://www.burodestruct.net/bdd/

“I loved the way you wore that sexy grey-blue background on your transparent PNG.”

http://ie6funeral.com/

Mouse pointer track after few hours of working on computer. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks). Made with java applet. You can take it here: dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.exe.zi p (PC) dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.jar (Mac). Run it and leave in background. “S” – save image. “R” – restart. “D” – ignore dots recording.

via Motherboard

This is definitely a cool piece of art, a Mandarin song called “ABCD Said” by PixieTea. The music in this video was created from various music applications for the iPhone 3GS! Really creative of this girl to have come up with this idea and a great music video for the song showing how it was all done.

By Jessica Helfand
Filled to overflowing with the cryptic residue of my addled mind, my sketchbooks accompany me wherever I go: they’re my mobile studio. At turns wildly chaotic and compulsively neat, they’re densely packed with questions, yet vexingly devoid of answers. If there is a palpable representation of lunacy, this may well be it —though a more forgiving description might be that they’re eclectic, which is to say they’re all over the place. In sum, they are honest, if random, representations of the way I think. What they lack is consistency.

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=12718