ijoi’s Chinese name is 视觉我享, which roughly translates to “I Enjoy Sight.” ijoi is a web platform to promote design(ers) from and in China. They showcase work, conduct interviews and have plans to roll out podcasts (video & audio).
For example, here’s an excerpt from the video interview (subtitled in both Chinese and French) that was done with Weestar 魏星宇:
Translation: In fact, I’ve really liked drawing ever since I was a child.
ijoi was started by Gabriel Jorby, who we profiled here.
It’s a pretty impressive effort so far, and reads like a good and glossy design magazine: Visit ijoi now.
From my friends over at Khaki Creative (based in Beijing):
An interesting detail: “All MOKOMOKO apparel sizes are Asian standard, which is slightly smaller than European standard. Please reconfirm your order to account for this difference.”
An ad for Wellcome (one of the big supermarket chains in Hong Kong) based on the premise that if the little daughter saves enough, one dollar at a time, that she can buy back some of her father’s time spent at work.
But why does it stir my emotions? Because Hong Kong people are famously overworked and their children are increasingly raised by housekeepers. A story that touches on both of those at the same time — excellent.
This is a “panda shaoxiang” version. Shaoxiang, aka “烧香” in Chinese, means go to the temple for burning incense and offering up a sacrifice. The Shaoxiang Panda is a very famous computer virus (worm like) in China during 2007. Once you get infected, all the icons of your files will be a picture like this one.
Then of course, someone applied this image to a real photo and Photoshop:
A city wall tower and very clearly, the moat, Beijing, 1840-1860: just one of the many photos from around the Pacific, circa 1840-1940, now to be found online at the National Gallery of Australia’s Picture Paradise exhibition. Well worth browsing through this eclectic collection of shots of everything from Australian aborigines to Javanese dancers, a white European man in Chinese dress in a Hong Kong studio, bathers on the Ganges, and views of Fuzhou, in “daguerreotype portraits, mass-produced views and portraits on paper made possible by the revolutionary wet-plate and dry-plate glass negative-positive process, and prints from the modern era of small format film cameras and photojournalism.”
Start at the themes page and click through to the different collections, and be prepared for the dizzying format of photos sliding into view from left to right. I wish they wouldn’t do that.
“With music by Damon Albarn, and imagery by Jamie Hewlett — the duo that brought us the Gorillaz — I am loving BBC Sport’s marketing campaign for the Chinese Olympics.”
You can browse through the Gallery to find the works of professional and nonprofessional CPA members alike. Just click on any photo and it will lead you to 4-8 examples of the photographer’s work, and below that there will be thumbnails of other people who can you link through to. You can also click herefor the past and current selected photos of the month on the site’s BBS forum, which are submitted by CPA members. They’re a bit rawer than many of the works found in the gallery, to my eye anyway. That’s where I found this by Hao Xu.
Check out Fujian photographer He Xingshui’s gorgeous painterly landscapes of fisherfolk, too.
You can contact the CPA via email at cooperate@cpanet.cn
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