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  • Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition

    Master Tang was born 1921 in Ningbo City, he began studying calligraphy under his first mentor which was appointed by his father at six years old in Nanjing. He later studied traditional…

    September 5, 2014
    chinese typography, design and typography, design process
  • Christchurch Autumn Colour

    There is this romantic pocket of time in the autumn season, dazzled with a beautiful and romantic palette of colors when leafs starts to turn. For some people, it’s an ugly sight…

    April 30, 2013
    chinese typography, weekend hobbies
  • 4th Piece, The Christian Choir Singing Chants of Buddhism

    Graphic Design as Art – Part 4/6

    50cm x 100cm, digital print on canvas Visual Works on Close Up Yiyi finally decided to choose Music over Medicine as her studies at the University of Canterbury. Music is what she…

    August 17, 2010
    chinese typography, design and typography, design process
  • Chinese Character for 'Learn''學'

    Graphic Design as Art – Part 3/6

    Permanent UV ink on canvas, 50cm x 100cm, scroll bound contemporary Chinese style Visual Work – Sections on Close Up Chinese character for ‘Learn’ ‘學’. The bottom part of this character is…

    August 14, 2010
    chinese typography, design and typography, design process
  • Chinese Clerical Script

    Graphic Design as Art – Part 2/6

    Permanent UV ink on canvas, 50cm x 100cm, scroll bound contemporary Chinese style Visual Work – Sections on Close Up Chinese Pictograph for ‘Fly’ ‘飛’ As you can see the character is…

    August 12, 2010
    chinese typography, design and typography, design process
  • Chinese Typography - Character for 'Arrive' or 'Come'

    Graphic Design as Art – Part 1/6

    When I say ‘Graphic Design as Art’, I mean there is no ‘Client’ involved in the process of making, and there is ‘No Commercial Value’ in the work produced, and most importantly,…

    July 22, 2010
    chinese typography, design and typography, design process
  • Treasure Found at the Antique Shop

    We visited Tainan for the second time, the purpose of the trip was to assist artist Tsai Yu with a photographic project, she wanted to have a selection of her antique collection…

    April 18, 2010
    chinese typography, photography and travel
  • A Typographic Journey to Tainan

    Purpose We have been given an opportunity to meet with a Tainan local artist, Tsai Yu – a well known painter specializing in oil painting, Chinese calligraphy,  jewelery design and ceramic tile…

    April 10, 2010
    chinese typography, design and typography, photography and travel
  • What are Chinese name chops?

    What are Chinese Name Chops (name seals)? What? Lamb chops? No, not something you bought out of a butcher shop, a name chop is developed in ancient Chinese times to symbolize and…

    November 21, 2009
    chinese typography, design and typography
  • Chinese Typo-graphy

    Chinese characters were originally drawings of objects (pictographs), but during the course of history they have been refined that they are now abstract and many of them are no longer recognizable as images. By putting the image quality back into a character, the character can then be read as an image again and can therefore also be understood by people with different language backgrounds. Universality thus re-established.

    October 29, 2009
    chinese typography, design and typography

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Joseph is a passionate graphic and web designer, servicing clients globally, and likes to share his thoughts on this blog. Contact Joseph if you'd like to talk about a design project.

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