Substrate

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

181 works match

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

Rohan Chaurasia on how his childhood in Thailand influences his design practice, exploring mundanity and animism

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

Photographer Duong Gia Hiếu on capturing the quotidian beauty of Vietnamese street style

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

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

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

Mak Kai Hang discusses the typographic differences within Chinese graphic design

An illustrative portrait of rapidly changing Shanghai by Jeffrey Hsueh

Photography: Nguan captures the dreamy stillness of Singapore's cityscapes

Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population

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

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

High octane Nike China animation gets kids to wear their bandages as a “badge of honour”

Sarula Bao’s Real Chinese Food is a zine about take-out, shame and diaspora identity

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

Do Not Design uses illustration to create approachable branding for Singapore’s Archifest

Jamie Hawkesworth’s shots of a hunt for a rare, Vietnamese cacao bean

Eric Hu's book features 1,000 unique Chinese character illustrations

Taschen’s monograph features Sebastião Salgado’s powerful photographs of the Kuwaiti oil fires

A traditional Chinese dessert brand inspired by plastic collectible toys

Designer Can Yang's book visually presents ancient Chinese elixir recipes

Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures

Zhang Kechun encapsulates the oblivion of China's mysterious Yellow River

Photographer Dave Carswell uncovers the DIY basketball culture of the Philippines

Director Angela Stephenson documents Manila's defiance for creative freedom in the narco-state

Chloe Dewe Mathews: China's Wild West

Adam Birkan captures the diverse and juxtaposing landscape of Hanoi

Josh King directs video for Khruangbin featuring a lady hula-hooping her way through Shanghai

Photography: Mengxi Zhang's 350km/h is a portrait of a new high-speed China

Siting Yao’s bilingual dictionary translates Chinese lesbian slang

Genre-bending, era-defining graphics in a book of 20th century Chinese design

Des Signes creates "vibrating" identity for Singapore in France festival

Sun Kai Qiang documents the quiet moments at a Chinese art school

Illustrator Chenyue Yuan digs deep into social histories to tell the story of Chinese labourers living and working in factories

A tricolour branding and packaging project with exotic fruits from Singapore studio Fable

Funny project documents China’s strange public service announcement posters

Miscellaneous: A webcomic based in China's version of Google Maps

Devour the extensive design feast that is The Singapore Graphic Archive

Marilyn Mugot's photos capture the neon melancholy of China's streets

Shanghai's Ka Xiaoxi captures basketball kids for Nike

Working at the intersection of graphic design and music, meet Kuala Lumpur-based creative Najmi Arifin

Huynh Khang builds bikes, plants and Vietnamese delicacies out of Lego

Nike devotees get yourselves to Beijing, your retail dream awaits!

Wu Lie Wei’s work is an ode to the Chinese youth

Breathtaking and arresting, Livien Yin’s series Paper Suns explores the “desires, uncertainties and pleasures” of Chinese American immigrants

Product Design: Own gorgeous jewellery design with Kuala Lumpur brand Miramika

This illustrated book is a poetic toolkit for navigating Indonesia’s rapidly decreasing public spaces

Chinese photographer, Feng Li's series White Night is a flip book of strange scenarios

Grafis Nusantara uses the nostalgia of crackers to tell stories of Indonesian culture and design

Flip phones, vintage selfies and kitschy graphic design: Meet 1413 magazine, a “tickle fight” with Chinese culture

In Singapore, Thaqif Nazri’s intricate typography and graphic design evolution catches our eye

Studio 150 wants young graphic designers in Thailand to break the mould

Jonny Seymour’s cute and strange photo series of six-year-old Chinese kids’ “graduation”

Studio Lava Beijing is erupting with puns and playful designs

Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du

Peter Steinhauer's colourfully symmetrical Singapore apartment blocks

The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes

Using props, backdrops and lavish clothing, Weishan Hu captures the aestheticism of a postmodern China

In Smart Kids, Alex Huanfa Cheng explores the demise of a lost Chinese subculture

The Kuala Lumpur-based Ejin Sha explains why graphic design “can be anything”

Thai illustrator Tanawat Sakdawisarak has a coolly surreal aesthetic

Dina Kelberman's I'm Google is a visual game of Chinese Whispers

This collection of “ghost signs” shows how the Chinese written language has changed over the last century

Rebecca Chew adds handcrafts to Esquire Singapore’s art direction

Sascia Reibel explores the popularity of Ikea Beijing and three iconic female coders

Sushi fans beware, these Chinese fish factory shots are beautiful but graphic

Photography: Albert Elm captures Russia and China with a rose-tinted lens

Annie Lai thoughtfully photographs young Chinese women in an exploration of emotional and physical home

Ronghui Chen photographs the young people of China's forgotten “Freezing Lands”

M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids

Snapshots of commuters during China's typhoon season by Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Food, ritual and secrecy: Anh Nguyen examines Vietnamese traditions today

Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein capture the “memory and legacy” of the Vietnam-American war

The changing Singaporean design scene and how an e-commerce agency turned to branding

In Visions of Qinghai, Arnaud Lin depicts a diverse and rapidly changing Chinese province

1413 is back with another playful ode to Chinese culture – this time focusing on medicine and wellness

Feng Li “combs the streets” of Singapore in his latest obscure series

Shuwei Liu combines David Bowie and Chinese mythology with a planet mushroom

Paris Syndrome: photographer Francois Prost explores a replica city in China