principal designer @shopify. member: @agigraphic. previously: @ssense, @nike, @cohere
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If you see an X in a Chinese person's name it's an 'sh' sound so like Xiao is pronounced "shiao" or Xu is pronounced "shoe" or Xi Jinping is "she jin ping"
If you see a Q it's a 'ch' sound so Qing is "Ching"
Way easier than it seems.
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My parents are stressed out that dog groomers aren’t open because Furby’s hair just keeps getting bigger and bigger
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Big regret is saying to myself back in 2019, "I want to do this thing but I feel too old to start and it's going to take five years."
Those five years went by like nothing. I'm even older than I was and that yearning never left. Glad to start now but don't make the same mistake.
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might be good to google "south korea youth bankruptcy" if you're watching Squid Game
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Now that I want your attention I wanna say BLACK LIVES MATTER, ABOLISH ICE, STOP KILLING BLACK TRANS WOMEN, MEDICARE FOR ALL
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at age 45 every Asian creative director must choose between the meek circle or the obnoxious square
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*Meanwhile in New York*
YOURE A CREATIVE DIRECTOR!
YOURE A CREATIVE DIRECTOR!
YOURE ALL CREATIVE DIRECTORS!!
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i really hate how every marvel movie is lit and color graded like a car insurance commercial
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Real talk I don't even use grids anymore I just have this photo of Massimo Vignelli with a gun pointed at me open at all times to keep me from going too wild
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Eiko Ishioka, a true multidisciplinary designer. She could fuck up a poster, a costume, a physical stage,
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If you own a rice cooker, Taiwan's FDA made a PSA stating that you can put your disposable PPE or mask in your rice cooker (with no water) and set it to steam for three minutes to sterilize it and re-use.
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Doing a logo for your parents means spending 5 minutes to show how the logo would look mocked up on a t-shirt and 50 minutes explaining you don't know who the guy wearing the t-shirt is it's just someone you found on the internet
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American households on average have a debt of about 8.6% of their income. The latest for Korea has the average debt per household at about 192% of their income. statista.com/statistics/1113…
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For the Air Force 1 NBA collection we created airbrushed portraits of some of its most legendary fans. Paintings by Michael Thompson based on portraits by David Brandon Geeting. With Andre Simmons and Serif Ozcan.
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I haven't finished the series. It's a lot—and obscene, but the sheer hopelessness of some of the characters that would drive them to choose a fight to the death over a life of debt and harassment from lenders comes from a very real place.
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chappell roan is not only right but it's extended way beyond celebrity at this point.
the type of shit that people (who dont even know you) will say or do to you for having any social media account with over 10k, or even 5k followers, is nuts
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I know the space moves really fast, believe me, but I don't think it's too much to ask AI folks to do a modicum of research on the fields they're claiming to disrupt
Font design is about to get a huge upgrade. Traditionally, given the same font, the letter ‘A’ looks identical everywhere.
How about a smart & magical font that draws ‘A’ differently based on the semantic meaning of the word? Smells like Stable Diffusion?
Deep dive with me: 🧵
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Everyone talks about the graphic design that came out of Cranbrook in the late 80s early 90s, but not enough people talk about the industrial design, I mean just *look* at this stereo receiver by Robert Nakata
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“Do you do any actual activist work or do you just police your group of 30 friends?” I forgot who tweeted this but oof that was a bar
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Old designer: Design isn't about style, it's about having a good idea. Concept is everything.
Also old designer: So this logo for a restaurant has a plate and the plate has a bite mark in it ha ha ha
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My girlfriend tweeted this as a joke and she’s gotten…some interesting DMs to say the least
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High credit limits, private lenders / loan sharks that target students (you can literally send a text message on Kakao, their equivalent of WeChat, to get a loan), it's a ticking time bomb
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Walked in a Chinese restaurant, hostess asked how many in my party, non-Chinese friends asked why I did the hang loose hand sign so here:
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It's natural to question the moral calculi of fictional characters—there's a lot of fucked up personal choices some characters make—but I think the phenomenon of culturally specific works streamed globally often causes us to look at this from a Western-centric POV
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Typographers seeing a typeface without serifs for the first time in 1816 nitter.app/tyIersbanditos/status/…
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Midori MD is my favorite notebook. Inexpensive, smyth-sewn, cold glued semi-exposed spine. Lays completely flat. Great paper—nice uncoated eggshell, perfect weight. Durable without feeling precious. Minimal branding. Available in different ISO paper sizes and thicknesses.
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one of the perks of being a good friend is i will literally come over and organize your cables if i see your struggling
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Nike Tech Pack Collection, Spring 19 Photography by Daniel Sannwald, Art Direction by our very own Andre Simmons — Nike Sportswear
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ssense is still one of the proudest moments in my career. the things that the team accomplished there I'll always cherish. rami took a chance on me when no one else did. i owe him so much. i fought against his ideas so much while i was there but he was always right.
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if you're looking for an alternative to a macbook that you maybe haven't considered, might I suggest a mac mini with the iPad pro as its monitor
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Debt is the leading cause of suicide in the nation as the cultural stigma and shame around it is often too much to bear (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…)
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Did anyone who attended the Lil B NYU lecture in 2012 remember that teenage kid who got up and asked to be knighted by Lil B look back and realize that kid was a young Timothy Chalamet
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The "working in music/fashion/art/etc" blackpill for me was that despite being a class of people who call themselves "creatives", a lot of them will only do something if they saw someone else do it
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And when you are part of your own culture, it's often a blindspot. Here in the States, the "American dream" and the "protestant work ethic" and "follow your dreams" are also silent drivers of so many of our behaviors with very real consequences.
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not to be reductive, but being a millennial in the workplace means being crushed on both sides
your gen x boss is throwing a tantrum because you didn't respond to an email at 10pm
your gen z direct report hasn't checked their inbox in a week because they "don't like emailing"
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I think the thing that rubs me the wrong way about a lot of web3 influencers saying “music nfts will change the industry” is that they haven’t demonstrated any love or passion for music much less an understanding of the music industry.
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I was looking at a proof for a typeface I'm working on and I was like "oh shit this is fire lmao" but then I realized I didn't set it to my font yet and it was Times New Roman
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The thing stopping me from making a C into the shape of a cat is not due to a lack of ability
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But I think in this age, where deciding which of the fictional characters we see are a "good person" or a "bad person," has become a spectator sport, it might be a good opportunity to question if we're looking at this through our own lenses and not theirs.
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boba liberal asian is an easy target but no ones ready for bushwick red ink tattoo asian discourse
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The first casualty of White Boy Summer
Follow our ongoing live coverage with reaction to the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh at the age of 99
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western design education is such a conceptual prison.
I'll be arguing with an imaginary Dutch person that exists in my head over whether or not I'm being too self-indulgent with that extra ligature...and then I'll just see this random Japanese apartment sign
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At the same time, it's not unproductive, if not offensive to reduce the behavior of human beings down to packaged cultural concepts like "confucianism" or "han" or "losing face," but cultural concepts are real and they form the frameworks of how we deal with reality
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fun little win over the weekend: screen on the device is now a react component that generates an animated svg on the fly
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And the thing about these cultural concepts is that they are often unspoken. We won't see an American movie stop every scene and give you a breakdown on cultural assumptions each character is making and we can't expect that to happen with cinema / television from other cultures
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they really made a Jamiroquai action figure 😭
あの『#Jamiroquai（#ジャミロクワイ）』のJAY KEYが、代表曲「Virtual Insanity」MVの衣装で可動フィギュア化、#魂ウェブ商店 にて受注開始！
□「S.H.Figuarts Jamiroquai」受注ページ
p-bandai.jp/item/item-100019…
□「魂のデジタル彩色技術」特設ページ
tamashiiweb.com/item_brand/d…
#t_shf
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he 100% has haters in Asia this dude is a major piece of shit in his personal life 😭
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Ambush published by Rizzoli, out 4 March 2024. By Yoon and Verbal. Design by Eric Hu Studio.
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