Archived entries for Design
Lego Accessories
Love the products. Love the site.
Dee and Ricky is also collaborating with Russ and Reyn on Limited Edition prints. Buy them here at hi, hello, high five
East Meets West: Cultural Difference
A very interesting project done by designer Yang Liu who is born in China and educated in Germany. Being having lived in both countries, the designer was able to discern the culture difference based on first hand experience. She created a series of blue (German) and red (China) posters to convey these cultural differences and nuances with simple and effective symbols.
The perception of how Germans see the Chinese and how the Chinese see the Germans
Punctuality
Connections and contacts – This is probably the most true one of the bunch. An Asian will know an Asian will know an Asian who knows an Asian who knows an Asian…etc.
At a party…
Queuing up…do Chinese people queue on a line? We all know the answer. 
Noise level in any restaurant…Chinese people for some reason talk very loud..
Telling the truth…Chinese people tend to avoid as much confrontation as much…
Traveling and recording memories
MiniPops
Designed by pixel art illustrator Craig Robinson, this app is a collection of 1000 characters he created over the years. You are supposed to guess who. Get the app on iTunes.
Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion
From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster’s fine press edition.
Yigloo Yogurt
Photo Courtesy Foreign Policy Design Group
A recent design project my team and I completed over the past few months. We were working on everything from branding to store graphics and tasting the yogurt ~ burp ~
Pictogrammed Kanji
Sounds like an oxymoron – kanji that is pictogrammed when a kanji is a pictogram. Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura cleverly combined type with illustration to reinforce the idea of the word as well as a graphic symbol. On how he came up with the pictograms:
We looked at the meanings each kanji letter has. making a part of the letter an illustration gets right and left brain working at the same time, and it increases one’s attention.
Hiromura-san is also the graphic designer behind the 9h hotel in Kyoto.
9 Hours
Designed in a collaboration with award-winning product designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S, the 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel launched in December 2009 by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp. It looks nothing like its predecessors and represents a revolution in the capsule concept. 9h, so called for the average amount of time visitors usually spend in a pod hotel.
“I used black and white because this hotel is about night and morning”
The themed is continued inside the rooms, with white towels and toiletries and black pyjama and slipper sets. The hotel website is also minimal and in the black & white color scheme.