Posted: May 6th, 2013 | Author: rod | Filed under: china | Comments Off
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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Posted: March 6th, 2013 | Author: rod | Filed under: china | Comments Off
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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Posted: March 1st, 2013 | Author: rod | Filed under: china | Comments Off
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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Posted: February 18th, 2013 | Author: rod | Filed under: china | Comments Off
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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