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Jason posted on Citybar/City8.com last summer, and I thought I'd give a little update because I love it. City8 gives you a beautiful high res full-screen photo of the place you choose, which you can navigate for a 360 degree view, move closer and farther, annotate, and see others' annotations as well. (Tip: click on the middle of the green nav tool. It will take you to full screen. Wait for it to resolve). The short video (in Chinese) on their homepage with "Little C" shows you what the site can do. You can follow it even if you don't speak Chinese (there's a City8 English tab at the very bottom of the page but it only allows you to search in Shanghai and Beijing, and it has much less functionality than the Chinese version).
At the home page you can click on the images of 8 different cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Jinan and Wenzhou of all places) and just play with the locations they give you (places to eat, tourist spots, places to shop). The site is also searchable by street or keyword. You can also enter your own spot to see what's there.
You can drop into, say, the Five Horses Mall in Wenzhou and get a pretty good feel for what street life looks like in Wenzhou on a nice day. Great stuff!
糖果猫猫 popil is a Guangzhou-based designer (comic, graphic, fashion, animation) who runs a pretty little blog called "candy variety shop 糖果杂货铺." I've picked out two of her works below.
First up, an illustration of a street-market scene with a classical border. The title suggests its based on a 烧衣街 in Guangzhou.
Second up, a page from her sketchbook, an infographic of artifacts on a train in China, which should strike a chord with anyone that's been in one.
Link to her old blog (where these pictures are from). New blog here.
Mad that Youtube is BANNED in China Facebook group seems mostly to be expats, although not completely. It has over 700 members at present.
From TechCrunch:
Sohu paid 30 million dollars back in 2005 to create the official 2008 Olympics' website, and now claims exclusive rights to all internet advertising for it as well. The Beijing International Olympic Committee has yet to process their claim, but the original article from AFP reveals some insider views:
"Zeng says he should know. He worked for Sohu.com as business department director before defecting to Tom.Com two years ago. One of his projects at Sohu.com was the Olympic deal.
'The claim about exclusivity on advertising has no basis... It would be like saying that all Olympic sponsors in the US would have to put their TV ads on NBC.'"
Thanks to Adaptive Path's Dan Harrelson for the tip.
Businessweek ran an article recently called Rise of the Asian D-School. (Here "D-school" is short for design school, not to be confused with Standord's "d.school" which is Stanford's catchy name for its Institute for Design.)
Summary: Asian design schools are ramping up to recruit and retain talent, and multinationals are arming themselves with these grads to conquer the Asian market.
Details that caught my eye: I was happy to see that my hometown's Hong Kong Polytechnic University named, and that the school had made Businessweek's top "D-Schools" list two years running. They also mentioned that "Beijing's Tsinghua University recently hosted a sustainable design workshop with Milan Polytechnic University."
Are these signs that design in Asia is on the rise? Or are they false alarms? To answer that question, answer this one: How long are you willing to wait?
Businessweek: Rise of the Asian D-School.
I haven't checked it out yet, but I wanted to get it on the radar, for those of you tracking these things.
In beta stages. See their website.
An exhibition using "infographics" to compare and contrast cultural differences between east and west, from a Beijingnese artist in Germany.
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