“点卯 /diǎn mǎo/” is a phrase of Beijing dialect, which means to go to a place and to experience that place. It also reminds me of a part of my grandfathers routine as an old Beijinger. He went to the Baoguo Temple every Thursday. The Baoguo Temple has become a well-known antique collectors market in Beijing for several years. It is not only a market for antiquarian experts, but also a place for antique collectors to find community. Unfortunately, permission to set up stalls at the market was revoked in 2019.
The posters below were designed for three of the most famous Beijing Antique Market—Panjiayuan, Baoguo Temple, and Liulichang. By naming the project “diǎn mǎo”, it is not only about educating the current and next generations to have an experience toward the culture but it also serves as a reminder of the old Beijingers’ habit of going to the antique market(s) every once in a while.
*This was a series of hypothetical posters designed for the Beijing Antique Market.
“We Chinese have a saying: if this life is bad, it doesn’t matter. There's another life waiting. So death is not a too bad thing.”
It is a comedy film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Ge You and Rosamund Kwan. It was released in China on December 21, 2001. The film tells the story of the “comedy funeral” directed by Yo Yo (the laid-off worker from a film studio’s photography department) for the Hollywood director Taylor.
*This was a hypothetical film poster redesigned for 大腕 /Big Shot's Funeral/.
“We weren’t so much trying to do ‘green’ as just wanting to be able to live in a better way.”
Abatematter is a serif font with the condensed feature to contain more words per page. By using less paper, you can reduce your impact on forests, cut energy use and climate change emissions, limit water, air, and other pollution, and produce less waste.
To live a better life, let us attach importance to rethink recycling as a high-quality lifestyle.
Pocky is about sharing happiness anytime, anywhere, and with anyone. At the moment when the pocky stick is shared and passed around, one lights up the other like a sparkler firework that sparks energy and happiness.