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Graphic design by rubberpixy.

Graphic design by Wang Meng.

Illustration by Nanguazi.

Illustration by My Name Is Black.

Illustration by xiao longhua.

Illustration by I am white.

Fashion from xixi.

Photography by Ren Hang.

Toys by Graphicairline.

From Vision Union.

The binding of the books read 张 (Zhang).

From designbrandchina blog.

Forum of Chinese Type Design & Awards Presentation of CHINESE KAISHU, 5th FounderType Chinese Type Design Competition

The old “new China”, inspiration for Chinese designers in the 21st century and collector items for western designers.

Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century: A Documentary - XIN Icograda World Design Congress Beijing 2009

Right. First establish the function and then the form. After decades of developing it’s economy, technology and other “hardwares”, China have created an international design industry basing from Beijing. Judging from the works already seen from Beijing design studios, the city will not only look prettier but become even more interesting then it already is.

The construction of China’s first design market was officially launched. Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau under the CPC Central Committee and the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, participated in the inauguration ceremony of the China Design Market on June 29.

The China Design Market is expected to be put into operation in October 2010 and its total construction area is expected to reach 60,000 square meters including four areas—the transaction service area, the “Red Star Award” museum, the design investment area, and the brand agency area. It aims to create an efficient and convenient high-level international design market and service platform where recourses are gathered and people can trade actively. Efforts have also be made to gather more than 100 domestic and overseas famous design institutes and enterprises to promote the revenues of the Beijing design service industry to achieve 130 billion yuan in about three years. By continuously improving its level of internationalization, the design industry in Beijing has made considerable progress in recent years and has presented a picture of prosperity, said Fang Maotian, general secretary of the National Committee under the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO. He hopes Beijing can further promote the design industry development to become a solid foundation for Beijing to become a city of design worldwide via the construction of the China Design Market.Beijing currently has 20,000 various design institutes and enterprises with 250,000 employees. In 2009, the revenues of Beijing’s design industry exceeded 80 billion yuan and formed advantageous industries such as architectural design, planning and design, as well as design of integrated circuits.

By People’s Daily Online

Some images from Abitare International Design Magazine. They also have a Abitare China site, of course.

China Design Market, better known as CDM is a special project for the international design market undertaken by the collaborative efforts of the Center for Beijing Design Industry Promotion (BIDC) and Abitare Magazine. The main purpose of CDM is to create a platform for the Chinese industry to operate in the international design market. Partnered with Abitare group, CDM will be making history this spring by debuting Chinese designs at world’s most prestigious and largest design and furniture fair: Milan Salone del Mobile.

The Corner Shop 小卖部 was a networking project created in Shanghai in 2007 during the Shanghai International Creative Week. It was created by Cai Kai, Anouchka van Driel, Gao Ling, Elaine W. Ho, Lulu Li.

Info from the site: 

typical chinese corner shop goods, such as sunflower seeds, cigarettes and snack sausages are available, but the currency here is not cash, just business cards. your name is your ¥ yuan and how well you gather the right 关系 guanxi, or “connections”, is your worth. shoppers can exchange their 名片 mingpian, or business card, for products redesigned and repackaged by us, and this is our calling card for you. if you like what you get, eat it, smoke it, use it. we’ll be calling you, too.

please note: the historic 1933 old workshop building hosting the shanghai creative industries week was originally a cattle collecting point and slaughterhouse.

Hand rolled cigarettes, package by Lulu Li

Snack sausage by Cai Kai

Connections made…

Money Counter Flipbook by Lulu Li. 

Lightning Babe, by Lulu (Li Xinlu), is a modern twist on the 1950’s Chinese female gymnastics figure, similar dress, hairstyle, green uniform, pink cheeks, energetic voice and music. The Lightning Babe works range from posters, animated wallpaper for projections, small sculptures, bags, clothing, and emoticons for MSN PC, cushions, etc. Found in Get It Louder 2007 exhibition.

Lightning Babe celebration design for 2008 Olympics

Lightning Babe stickers

Lightning Babe crotch

China Dance video for MTV Bloom

Lightning Babe playing golf

I found Mina Wu’s Chair Dress project from the Get It Louder 2007 exhibition. 

Get It Louder 大声展 is a traveling exhibition of design and art, mostly by “young creators with Chinese background working in different places around the world”. It was initiated and co-curated by writer, filmmaker, music promoter, graphic designer Ou Ning; and featured works from many familiar names from contemporary Chinese art scene. 

The exhibition traveled to Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2005 and 2007. I’ll post up awesome art works from those exhibitions.

Get It Louder will be held again this year. I couldn’t find the Get It Louder 2010 site. Here’s info to the promo event.