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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

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Seriously beautiful - and plentiful - patterned Japanese manhole covers!

More banging work from French design studio Alles Gut

Andrés Gallardo Albajar's Korean Schooling captures the pastel-hued perfection of South Korean school buildings

James Gilpin (In Tokyo)

Rafael Rozendaal's work projected onto the world's biggest LED screen in Seoul

Emiliano Granado’s new zine puts a fresh spin on Tour de France fandom

Olafur Eliasson’s installation The Open Pyramid dominates the Long Gallery in Shanghai

Parisian studio Untitled impress with some quietly confident graphic work

Light-hearted and distinctive work by Japanese designer Toru Kase

Lost In A Moment - Tokyo

Go dancing in the street with brilliant French illustrator Yann Kebbi

Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching

Agua Viva portrays the immigrant experience of a Chinese manicurist in Miami

Nicholas Bonner shares his collection of North Korean graphics collected since 1993

Zut alors! A bunch of brilliant work from French agency Zoo

Dave Prosser treats us to a beautiful snapshot of South Korean life in Mountain

Data becomes alchemy in Japanese maestro Ryoji Ikeda's jaw-dropping new Berlin installation

Gem Fletcher and Ken Hermann shoot death-defying Indian tradition The Well of Death

Mak Kai Hang discusses the typographic differences within Chinese graphic design

Catching up with Charlotte Trounce while on a residency in Japan

An illustrative portrait of rapidly changing Shanghai by Jeffrey Hsueh

Shining a positive light on Asian voices, Chuntian is a guide to spring inspired by the philosophy of Chinese medicine

Paris-based studio Twice presents a bundle of crisp, textural new design

Exhibition Design: Plaid transform The British Library into Mughal India

Cépé's illustrations capture the colours of southern France

Here's some super clean, crisp, colourful Japanese graphic design

The comical content of French illustrator Roxane Lumeret

Laurent Kronental photographs the forgotten elders of Paris

Xiaoxiao Xu's tranquil and intimate photographs explore her immigration from China to The Netherlands

Danny Sangra's awesome illustrated interviews for new Tokyo show are a thrill

A Week On Monday: Lawrence Zeegen on 80s pop and Japanese junk

WIN: Tokyo Bike

Miscellaneous: Behind the scenes of the 1956 Japanese Godzilla

Samantha French’s dazzling underwater paintings hark back to childhood summers

Check out the mid-century stylings of Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto

Seoul-based illustrator Yeon Ji Kang's beautifully thick-limbed ballerinas

Shun Ishizuka's designs combine Western design influences for a Japanese context

Illustration: Vincent Mahe's excellent drawings of his Parisian neighbours

Photographer Anu Kumar on reconnecting with her Indian heritage, failing exams and recipes for weddings

Ailsa Johnson’s illustrations draw on the everyday magic of Japanese culture

Two new projects from Korean-French publisher Animal Press

Jean-Michel Tixier’s fantastic illustrations for French mag M Le Monde

Photography: Eerie photographs of the cemeteries towering over Hong Kong

Design de vivre: Paris as told by graphic designers

From Mile End to Paris: the rise of photographer Pani Paul

Mahesh Shantaram presents a look beneath the glossy veneer of Indian weddings

The View From Mumbai: the Indian photographers taking back control through self-publishing

Can Yang's graphic design style is deep-rooted in her Chinese heritage

Min Hyun-woo visits Korean villages to photograph the wit and wisdom of grandmothers

Japanese studio who sent a bonsai to space's Encyclopaedia of Flowers

Guillaume Blot documents food and football across the country in L’Autre Tour de France

Da大 by Beijing-based ori.studio reimagines the format of the interview

Ophélie Paris balances fantasy and existentialism in her illustrations

Art: Henrique Oliveira's installation is taking over the Palais de Tokyo

Japanese studio Nendo use the everyday as inspiration for their compact designs

Paris Day

Traditional Japanese woodblock carvings give Nintendo a newfound gravitas

Meet the French illustrator creating part-animal, part-human Frankenmonsters

Seoul-based Sujin’s illustrations depict sassy ladies with a cool attitude

1937 New York shipping - SS Ile de France - French Line CGT

Art editor of The Paris Review, Charlotte Strick on her most-treasured tomes

Moksha captures the diversity of religious rituals across India

Graphics studio Brest Brest Brest injects some silliness into French cultural institutions

French illustrator Damien Filliatre's “trashy and cynical” universe

Alex De Mora documents the key characters of Mongolia’s booming hip-hop scene

The View from Seoul: Korean designers studying abroad have paved the way for a new generation

Smashing prints from French surrealist Baptiste Virot

Maciek Pożoga captures Paris Nord “in a mode close to pickpocketing or police work”

Suzy Chan’s kitsch and sparkly project explores the children who grow up in China’s factories

From Seoul to Chennai, London and back to Seoul again: Joonho Ko explains how travel has aided his illustrative practice

Khichdi (Kitchari) brings together 846 photographs of India, and its people, taken over ten years

The inimitable Ryan McGinley's new works on show at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong

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Spoon

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