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Featured Chinese typography: Fever Chu – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Featured Chinese typography: Fever Chu. March 24, 2015. Poster design for US and China Typographic Poster Exchange 2013. More designs by the talented Fever Chu 朱安邦 on their Behance profile. On Publishing Art Magazines in Asia & Chinese Net Art. An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries. 88 Bar is a group blog about technology, media and design in the Greater China region. More about us. Sign up for our newsletter. Is a Bei...
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Support citizen journalism around the environment in China – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Support citizen journalism around the environment in China. April 28, 2015. Check out chinadialogue’s Kickstarter campaign. To set up this year’s Citizen Journalist Award for environmental reporting in China. Mascots: the Cutest Social Police? What the internet users in China thought about the China-themed Met Gala. 88 Bar is a group blog about technology, media and design in the Greater China region. More about us. Is a Beijing-based write...
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Growing up as a teen gamer in China – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Growing up as a teen gamer in China. April 9, 2015. In Ethnography of Tech. 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. Read the rest of the story on Boing Boing. An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries. Mascots: the Cutest Social Police? Is a Beijing-based writ...
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Flood and Famine: September 2011
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Sober meditations on the inebriated stumblings of the past. Or vice versa. Monday, September 19. Tangentially related thoughs - cyborg simulations. This is only slightly related to the discussion on nomadic academics of the past two posts. It is related in the sense that it is about alternative ways of relating to data and data-generation. There has been a decent amount of work on virtual economies. Models (like Conway's Game of Life. This is also different than gamification. Btw), or Jane McGonigal's.
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An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. An icon font for Chinese provinces and East Asian countries. April 2, 2015. 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 South Korea. China’s provinces and cities (administrative level one). More at the EyesAsia Github repository. Is an American des...
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Typography Design – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Chinese fonts are really, really hard to make. April 8, 2016. Nikhil Sonnad has penned a great primer on Chinese fonts on Quartz called The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font. Much of the article describes the lengths designers must go to in order to create Chinese font:. The default set for English-language fonts contains about 230 glyphs. A font that covers all of the…. October 7, 2015. Kendra Sc...
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八八吧 · 88 Bar – Page 2 – A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Whacky on Weibo: Dick Ng’s collected webcomics. May 23, 2016. In Chinese Comics Review. Ng’s webcomics are snappy, short and whacky. His comics are native to Weibo (a Twitter-like service), his strips thrive as self-contained, single-page gags. While other cartoonists in China might publish 100 page works on Douban. A Tumblr-like service) or one of the many webcomic portals (e.g. 有妖气. Interview: Oamul, Illustrator. May 17, 2016. May 3, 2016.
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A Look Back: Our Writing on Internet Culture & Graphic Novels in China – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. A Look Back: Our Writing on Internet Culture & Graphic Novels in China. March 16, 2015. Editor’s note: This post was commissioned by The London Book Fair, who wished to offer attendees in its upcoming conference. An introduction to internet culture, graphic novels and book culture in Greater China. Internet memes are alive and kicking in China, though they might not be the ones we’re used to seeing. We reviewed the first four parts here.
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China Meme Report – 八八吧 · 88 Bar
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八八吧 · 88 Bar. A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design. Category: China Meme Report. ZHUANG B (v.) to be a poser. July 21, 2016. In China Meme Report. This photo of the front-row at a Shanghai Fashion Week show is mine and intends no shade. The shady memes below were hand-foraged from the Chinese internets. In Chinese internet parlance, to 装B (zhuāng bì) is to put on airs worldly, moneyed, educated, eccentric, or any other combination thereof. In other words: to be a fucking poser. Continue read...
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