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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2016Olafur Eliasson’s installation The Open Pyramid dominates the Long Gallery in Shanghai
2016
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2023Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching
2023
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2019Agua Viva portrays the immigrant experience of a Chinese manicurist in Miami
2019
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2018Mak Kai Hang discusses the typographic differences within Chinese graphic design
2018
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2021An illustrative portrait of rapidly changing Shanghai by Jeffrey Hsueh
2021
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2020Shining a positive light on Asian voices, Chuntian is a guide to spring inspired by the philosophy of Chinese medicine
2020
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2018Xiaoxiao Xu's tranquil and intimate photographs explore her immigration from China to The Netherlands
2018
Identity
2019Sarula Bao’s Real Chinese Food is a zine about take-out, shame and diaspora identity
2019
Identity
2019Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population
2019
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2018Can Yang's graphic design style is deep-rooted in her Chinese heritage
2018
Motion
2017High octane Nike China animation gets kids to wear their bandages as a “badge of honour”
2017
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2019Da大 by Beijing-based ori.studio reimagines the format of the interview
2019
Motion
2016Filmmaker Maceo Frost captures the formidable Cuban boxer Namibia with rhythmic flair
2016
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2022Suzy Chan’s kitsch and sparkly project explores the children who grow up in China’s factories
2022
Publication
2014Eric Hu's book features 1,000 unique Chinese character illustrations
2014
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2017Tria Giovan’s thoughtful portrait of Cuba in the 1990s
2017
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2024A traditional Chinese dessert brand inspired by plastic collectible toys
2024
Publication
2018Designer Can Yang's book visually presents ancient Chinese elixir recipes
2018
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2020Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures
2020
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2016Zhang Kechun encapsulates the oblivion of China's mysterious Yellow River
2016
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2012Chloe Dewe Mathews: China's Wild West
2012
Motion
2018Josh King directs video for Khruangbin featuring a lady hula-hooping her way through Shanghai
2018
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2013Photography: Mengxi Zhang's 350km/h is a portrait of a new high-speed China
2013
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2024Siting Yao’s bilingual dictionary translates Chinese lesbian slang
2024
Publication
2012Genre-bending, era-defining graphics in a book of 20th century Chinese design
2012
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2015Sun Kai Qiang documents the quiet moments at a Chinese art school
2015
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2021Illustrator Chenyue Yuan digs deep into social histories to tell the story of Chinese labourers living and working in factories
2021
Poster
2015Funny project documents China’s strange public service announcement posters
2015
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2014Miscellaneous: A webcomic based in China's version of Google Maps
2014
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2019Marilyn Mugot's photos capture the neon melancholy of China's streets
2019
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2015Shanghai's Ka Xiaoxi captures basketball kids for Nike
2015
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2013Nike devotees get yourselves to Beijing, your retail dream awaits!
2013
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2021Wu Lie Wei’s work is an ode to the Chinese youth
2021
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2022Breathtaking and arresting, Livien Yin’s series Paper Suns explores the “desires, uncertainties and pleasures” of Chinese American immigrants
2022
Identity
2019Rodrigo Sombra’s four-year project explores Cuba's shifting identity as the island opens up to the world
2019
Poster
2014Graphic Design: Incredible Cuban propaganda posters from OSPAAAL
2014
Photograph
2018Chinese photographer, Feng Li's series White Night is a flip book of strange scenarios
2018
Publication
2020Flip phones, vintage selfies and kitschy graphic design: Meet 1413 magazine, a “tickle fight” with Chinese culture
2020
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2015Jonny Seymour’s cute and strange photo series of six-year-old Chinese kids’ “graduation”
2015
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2022Studio Lava Beijing is erupting with puns and playful designs
2022
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2020Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du
2020
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2014Photography: Catherine Losing and Anna Lomax celebrate Cuban shop windows
2014
Publication
2020The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes
2020
Garment
2019Using props, backdrops and lavish clothing, Weishan Hu captures the aestheticism of a postmodern China
2019
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2022In Smart Kids, Alex Huanfa Cheng explores the demise of a lost Chinese subculture
2022
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2016Photographer Carlos Jaramillo captures the pigeon racers of Cuba
2016
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2015Dina Kelberman's I'm Google is a visual game of Chinese Whispers
2015
Publication
2021This collection of “ghost signs” shows how the Chinese written language has changed over the last century
2021
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2019Sascia Reibel explores the popularity of Ikea Beijing and three iconic female coders
2019
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2012Sushi fans beware, these Chinese fish factory shots are beautiful but graphic
2012
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2013Photography: Albert Elm captures Russia and China with a rose-tinted lens
2013
Motion
2021Annie Lai thoughtfully photographs young Chinese women in an exploration of emotional and physical home
2021
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2019Ronghui Chen photographs the young people of China's forgotten “Freezing Lands”
2019
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2015M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids
2015
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2016Snapshots of commuters during China's typhoon season by Wiktoria Wojciechowska
2016
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2022Gabriel Sanchez paints the strength, hope and vulnerability of Cuban youth
2022
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2019In Visions of Qinghai, Arnaud Lin depicts a diverse and rapidly changing Chinese province
2019
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20221413 is back with another playful ode to Chinese culture – this time focusing on medicine and wellness
2022
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2019Shuwei Liu combines David Bowie and Chinese mythology with a planet mushroom
2019
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2018Paris Syndrome: photographer Francois Prost explores a replica city in China
2018
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2017Catherine Hyland explores the vast, yet eerily barren tourist destinations of China and Mongolia
2017
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2022How you can win an original Melissa Kitty Jarram painting inspired by Beijing Silvermine
2022
Publication
2018XXL Studio is an iconic Chinese graphic design studio producing exceptional book design
2018
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2015Chinese animator Lei Lei reflects on sadness
2015
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2017Zhiyuan Yang's photos of her parents scrutinise China's nuclear family dynamics
2017
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2018A photographic series documenting the Korean communities of Mexico and Cuba
2018
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2014Photography: Incredible shots of China's busy coastline from Zhang Xiao
2014
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2022Mischelle Moy’s pleasant and dreamlike photography pays tribute to her Chinese heritage
2022
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2017Thomas Pratt photographs youth and music in Santiago de Cuba
2017
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2018Eating the Other explores the western fascination with Chinese traditional dress
2018
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2019Sacred Shanghai: Liz Hingley photographs the spiritual renaissance of the city
2019
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2019Yunying Huang challenges the Eurocentric perception of techno-culture in China
2019
Motion
2021Shanghai-based studio KauKau returns with a striking and multifaceted rebrand for Strong Noodle
2021
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2018Yang Qi’s work expresses a strong Chinese and German cultural background
2018
Project
2017Photographer Joshua Osborne takes a closer look at Havana’s male subcultures
2017
Garment
2018Hailun Ma returns to China to document the vibrant and startling fashion of her hometown
2018
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2020Luo Yang captures China’s Generation Z through an intimate lens
2020
Identity
2016Twelve studio’s rippling identity for Beijing new media studio
2016
Motion
2023El Cartel Cubano: how Cuba’s revolution-era political posters transformed film poster design forever
2023
Publication
2015Design with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters explored in new book
2015
Project
2018Olivia Schenker documents sexual freedom in Cuban LGBTQ+ communities
2018
Motion
2019Mark Parascandola documents the scenery and sets of China’s booming film industry
2019
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2017Photographer Noah Sheldon captures the “pride and physical confidence” of Shanghai Tower construction workers
2017
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2013Olly Burn documents a beautifully dilapidated symbol of hope in Cuba
2013
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2021Zoe Lowdermilk-Oppenheim’s moving project documents young Chinese women adopted into British families
2021
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2019Another Design creates a vibrant visual system for Guangzhou Triennial
2019
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2022Chuqiao Liu's powerful photography offers a glimpse into contemporary China
2022
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2019Patrick Wack's photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China's new frontier
2019
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2017Globe-trotting photographer Théo de Gueltzl's view of Cuba
2017
Publication
2015Lost Magazine explores global travel from a uniquely Chinese perspective
2015
Publication
2015More sharp, strange work from Qiu Yang for T Magazine China
2015
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2017Régis Tosetti and François Rappo tell us about Havana's design scene in 2017
2017
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2018Leslie Zhang's sentimental series Little Flexes is a "beautiful glimpse of China"
2018
Publication
2022Jaeyou Chung’s rebrand for Beijing’s X Museum features a type inspired by twisted dimensions and chair legs
2022
Publication
2025Dancing In Utopia captures the trance-like communion of public square dancing in China
2025
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2020Hannah Yoon’s Restaurant Kids documents the children growing up in Chinese restaurants
2020
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2024The Filial Daughter孝女 by Mengyu Zhou is a tender story of Chinese womanhood
2024
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2020Suzy Chan left London’s academic design bubble to return to China to “do something and talk to people”
2020
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2012Zaha Hadid wows us again with stunning new Beijing development
2012
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2020Avoiding clichés, Sophie Wedgwood turns her lens on Havana
2020
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2019The Beijing Silvermine now consists of over one million photographs of Chinese history
2019
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2016Scott Newett’s eerily quiet, ethereal portraits of Chinese utopia
2016
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2018Luo Yang photographs modern Chinese girls in their natural habitats
2018
Publication
2021Designed to mirror a physical experience, Oriental Silk documents the first Chinese silk importing business in the US
2021
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2019Cian Oba-Smith looks at China’s copycat architecture in his latest series
2019
Typeface
2020Willie Liu’s Dinkie Bitmap fits Chinese characters into a seven-pixel grid
2020
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2018Wang Wei’s series Young Wild & Free captures the fresh energy of Beijing youth
2018
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2012Extraordinary work as Jonathan Frantini photographs Shanghai acrobats
2012
Publication
2014Illustrator Anne Simon's new comic book is a sinister ode to a Chinese Empress
2014
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2019Design 360°’s editors discuss the illustration and media scene in China
2019
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2016Larry Hallegua captures the humour and whimsy in China’s Chengdu
2016
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2015Brad Ogbonna's photography captures the colour and spirit of Cuba
2015
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2022Provocative and playful, Beijing-based studio UDL takes creative control of a toy brand
2022
Photograph
2020Michael Bodenmann’s latest book creates a non-linear pictorial tapestry of his time in China
2020
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2024“The veiled and poetic subtlety of love between boys”: Yifei Xiang explores the Chinese queer experience
2024
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2012A pic-N-mix of beautiful aesthetics here from Holland's Ming Sing Ho!
2012
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2011China 2011: An artistic snapshot
2011
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2017Wang Zhi-Hong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”
2017
Motion
2019An exclusive look at Joshua Gordon’s heartfelt story of Havana’s trans women
2019
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2008Oglivy & Mather Beijing
2008
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2023Challenging the female radical characters of Chinese with artist Zoe Cui
2023
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2022Inside the Beijing Silvermine: A unique archive of everyday China captured through discarded photography
2022
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2019In photographing the American west, Andong Zheng uncovers hidden traces of Chinese history
2019
Publication
2019The Shanghai Art Book Fair 2019 welcomed the creative industry’s big-wigs this weekend
2019
Typeface
2017Daniel Reed’s new typeface is inspired by the Chinese word “Kong”
2017
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2020Who made the objects in your house? Ivy Li explores the vernacular visual language of Chinese migrant workers
2020
Motion
2015The beautiful film poster designs of post-revolutionary Cuba
2015
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2019Interior Lives documents the unassimilated lives of the largest Chinese population outside of Asia
2019
Poster
2022Xinmei Liu takes inspiration from vintage Shanghai advertisements and Chinese propaganda posters
2022
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2020Explore Muge’s unique approach to large format photography based on ancient Chinese philosophy
2020
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2024Ming Hsun Yu uses graphic design and art to ask questions, seeking “constant joy”
2024
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2017Rosanna Webster and Phoebe Henry’s cinematic portrait of Cuba
2017
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2011Zara Arshad: Design China
2011
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2017Photographer Rose Marie Cromwell's unconventional look at Havana
2017
Publication
2019Xiaopeng Yuan reinterprets the Chinese fable, The Butterfly Lovers, in a series for Télévision magazine
2019
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2021Xiaoxiao Xu takes us on an eye-opening journey of everyday life along the Great Wall of China
2021
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2019Alex Huanfa Cheng photographs the beautiful contradictions of contemporary China
2019
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2015ECAL Interaction Design students' innovative Beijing documentation
2015
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2015China returns passport to artist Ai Weiwei after four years
2015
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2018Amelie Kahn-Ackermann's latest series is an ode to one of China’s most remote regions
2018