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Tang Shipeng portfolio | China
Posted by rod - 13.06.2013
Shanghai, Chinese freelance designer Tang Shipeng has a broad design portfolio ranging from Typography, Posters, Packaging to identity design. I especially like his experiment typography work.
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Learn Chinese with Chineasy characters
Posted by rod - 06.05.2013
If you ever wanted to learn Chinese and never got around to doing it or felt it was to difficult this could be your chance. Chineasy is a project by Shao Lan who has developed together with illustrator Noma Bar an easy to understand Chinese character set. As you can see in the images above, each character incorporates an illustration which reveals the meaning of it.
“Over the past two years, I have deconstructed nearly two thousand of the most frequently used Chinese characters and identified the top one hundred ”components”. These components are similar to the different shapes and sizes of LEGO® bricks. To create more characters, you just need to combine two or three (and sometimes four or five) of these components together.”
If you have been following CreativeRoots since 2010 you may remember the Mandagrams project which is quite similar. If you haven’t, I recommend you to check out part 1 and part 2
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Made in China Rice packaging
Posted by rod - 26.04.2013
China is well known for its assembly lines, manufacturing of goods, and a nation that exports lot rice. Design student Yoav Gati recently created a new kind of rice packaging called Made in China. Instead of placing a design onto a conventional rice bag Yoav was inspired by Chines assembly line’s. 15 packaging tubes were designed each with a slightly different design. Rolling the tubes reveals the message Made in China in big capital letters ,check out the video. via theeieline
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Hong Kong traditional Chinese architecture exhibition identity
Posted by rod - 10.04.2013
Traditional Chinese architectures is special among historical buildings in Hong Kong. It isn’t only because of the historical value and the artistic architectural style, but also the manifestation of the Chinese spiritual life – the pursuit of luck, fortune and happiness. TGIF were asked to design the identity and promotional items for the Hong Kong traditional Chinese architecture exhibition. The visual graphic elements and the typography was created by the details of traditional Chinese architecture, which was implemented on different applications.
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Chinese restaurant interior design fook yew
Posted by rod - 06.03.2013
This Chinese restaurant doesn’t not only have a young interior design style but also a cheeky name. Fook Yew is a vibrant, colourful and funky traditional Chinese eatery inspired by the streets of Schanghai, set in an old fashioned Chinese pop-style canteen. The restaurant has lots of fun interior pieces such as the the red lanterns, the rickshaw, and all the cool modern posters. If you fancy paying a visit to Fook Yew, head to Jakarta, Jalan Sultan Iskandar Muda. via weheart
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Tian’anmen inspired roof typeface
Posted by rod - 01.03.2013
The roof of the Tian’anmen inspired visual designer Dan Cheng to create a typeface with concealed subversive potential. The typeface is based on the roof tiles of Tian’anmen itself. Then Dan created a short text which then returned to the original building, proposing it as a public art work. Appearing like an unobtrusive patterning of the roof, on closer inspection the audience discover it to be revealing sensitive information: In China, because of unregulated construction some historic buildings have been replaced with inferior replicas.
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24 hours in Beijing
Posted by rod - 18.02.2013
What would you do if you had 24 hours in Beijing? Qatar Inflight Magazine Oryx gives you some useful suggestions how to explore the city, and how to get the best experience out of your time in the Chinese capital. Vinay Chhana created the lovely illustration which features some of the cities iconic buildings such as the CCTV towner. But also more general Chinese icons appear in the illustration, the Panda and the Great Wall.
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Chinese inspired illustrations
Posted by rod - 15.02.2013
What do you think about these Chinese inspired illustrations for Malaysian delivery company Hamper2u. “At Home Creative” created the illustrations, which feature a world of celebration and gifts with a Chinese style. The illustrations are used on their website, catalogue, etc.
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Experimental chinese typography
Posted by rod - 12.02.2013
I am not sure who created these experimental Chinese typography but they look quite interesting.
Who do you think?
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Terracotta Warrior illustrations
Posted by rod - 28.01.2013
The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an, China invited illustrator Herry Ye to illustrate the various figures with a modern fashion style. The museum hopes that the illustrations will generate new interpretation of the Qin culture and eventually inspire more young people to be interested in the traditional culture of their ancestors.
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First Color Photographs of China, 1912 Albert Kahn
Posted by rod - 13.12.2012
These images are most-probably the first Colour Photographs of China, taken in 1912 by Albert Kahn. “In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world.” Throughout the years Kahn took 72000 pictures, which were until recently relatively unheard of. Some of these pictures can be seen in his book “The wonderful world of Albert Kahn” and a few of his Mongolia images can be seen here.
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Chinese gothic typeface by Tao Chen
Posted by rod - 12.11.2012
Chinese designer Tao Chen designed this fantastic Chinese Gothic typeface whilst studying in Paris. The typeface characteristics is based on the gothic script or also known as “Blackletter” which was and is still is used in some extent in western Europe. It is interesting to see how well the two (Blackletter style and Chinese characters) perform together when merged into one typeface.
Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands and take years to develop. It would be great to see a typefaces such as the one Chen designed it in its full beauty.
I don’t know of any other Chinese gothic typeface out there apart for this one. If you know of any other please drop us a line below in the comment field.
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Johnnie Walker, Year of the dragon packaging design
Posted by rod - 08.10.2012
Over the period of this year we have featured a few projects that have adopted the Chinese zodiac, Year of the dragon concept. One of them was the Nike air Jordan packaging design, which is worth a look at. It seams like more and more foreign consumer brands such as Nike or in this case Johnnie Walker try to capture the imagination of the Chinese people and adapt to their culture and history.
British Illustrator Chris Martin in partnership with LOVE created these limited edition Johnnie Walker packaging design to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon. Each label (Red, Gold and Black) received its own limited edition box with the beautiful Chinese inspired illustration on.
This is not the first attempt for Johnnie Walker to inspired and adapt to the Chinese culture and people to buy their limited edition whisky’s. Last year the company created a limited edition series of Chinese inspired porcelain bottles which were also crated by Chris Marin and LOVE.
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Forest Treasure SongJianq Tea packaging design
Posted by rod - 25.09.2012
The packaging design for Forest Treasure SongJianq Tea was inspired by black and white Chinese landscape paintings. The box is designed that it unfolds like a lotus leaf when opening it, revealing its “forest treasure”. The packaging design was designed by subtropics
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Mr Wong – Chinese Restaurant
Posted by rod - 05.09.2012
Mr. Wong’s interior design is a mixture between 1930′s Shanghai colonial style and its former occupants Tank nightclub. Its Chinese influences can be seen all over the restaurant with its bamboo framed French woven chairs, hand-painted murals and traditional china. The Cantonese-style menu features over 60 dishes including Chinese roasted duck, faux Shark Fin Soup and Abalone served Steamboat style, as well as an unrivalled dim sum selection. via wehart
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Redesigning Hong Kong’s Tai Cheong Bakery
Posted by rod - 16.08.2012
Redesigning a product or brand which is legendary is very designers dream.
Chinese design agency Pointblank design were given exactly that task. The Tai Cheong Bakery one of Hong Kong‘s legendary bakery’s, famous for their Chris Patten and egg tart received a updated brand identity and product packagings. With the launch of the new visual identity Tai Cheong also extended it’s product range into different categories from traditional Cantonese snacks to drinks.
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CHINA – A Journey To The East
Posted by rod - 25.07.2012
Sheffield based creative agency The Cafeteria together with illustrator Jonny Wan created the exhibition designs and illustrations for China – A Journty to the East. This touring exhibition by the British Museum is one of a number of exhibitions promoting the understanding between various cultures.
“The primary illustration of the Dragon sits on all the promotional and marketing material from the posters to the banners and is the main indent for the exhibition. The gallery space is divided into five separate areas each delving into the rich past of China’s heritage and thousands of years of innovation.
Separate icons were illustrated to distinguish these areas which will be hung as banners indicating the key attributes of China’s history which is being explored. These areas include “Language and Writing,” “Food and Drink,” “Play and Performance,” “Festivals and Beliefs” and finally “Technology and Innovation.”
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Traditional Chinese Fujian Tulou House
Posted by rod - 16.07.2012
Fujian Tulou houses are a type of Chinese rural dwelling which can be found in the mountainous region of southeastern Fujian, China. Most of the buildings were erected between the 12th and 20th century.
Dutch photographer Iwan Baan traveled to the region to photograph these fascinating architectural structures and the people who live there.
