If you recognize the slippers above it may give you a feeling of nostalgia, at least it does for me. They are the famous Taiwanese 藍白拖 that are so important they have a Wikipedia entry in Chinese. Now that summer is here and school is out I can once again wear them, and get […]

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From the Wall Street Journal

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Yet another ad in Coca Cola’s campaign for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
via MadisonBoom

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A very nice article about the state of Chinese graphic design was just posted a couple days ago over at PingMag. Click here.

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For some news a little closer to home, Renny Gleeson, global director of digital strategies for renowned ad agency Wieden + Kennedy (invented “Just do it” for Nike, and does work for Starbucks, Nokia, EA etc.) gave an inspiring talk at Indiana University yesterday. It was a basic overview of the digital advertising scene and […]

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A movie worth watching starring Jet Li. It’s about the Taiping Rebellion, in which 20 - 30 million people died in China.

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Wired.com has a short gallery on Lenovo’s Olympics torch design here.

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