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Design in China: “Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century” exhibition at China Central Academy of Fine Arts
Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century showcases design objects such as Chinese posters, magazines and newspapers from the 20th century, and other graphic design-related objects, individual profiles and relevant documents [...]
Posted in China, design Also tagged Central Academy of Fine Arts, Communication design, design, fine artist, Graphic Design, poster 1 Comment
Listen to Mary Newsom’s “The information Superhighway: Urban Renewal or Neighborhood Destruction?” talk at IDEA 2009
As a long-time practitioner of daily newspaper journalism who sees the economic model of the newspaper industry sinking (and broadcast journalism isn’t in much better shape), Mary looks into what will happen to cities if/when the mass media splinter. With all of the “new media” journalism: the emerging trends of crowd-sourcing, blogging, YouTube, Twitter and the general explosion of information available to people, this makes virtually anyone, a potential journalist. What are the implications for information, and for the dependability of that information?
Watch Jacek Utko’s “Can design save the newspaper?” talk at TED
Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-19
Is there a way to make a “word count” in an Adobe Illustrator file? # Initial Indicators of International Design Capabilities (Study to develop an International Design Scoreboard) http://tinyurl.com/cl45fk # Report finds single women enthusiastic about technology, single men enthusiastic about single women http://tinyurl.com/dzpvbb # Eric Zimmerman Discusses Future of Game Design (The distinction between gamers and designers [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-14
[Design Business] Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable (Clay Shirky post on newspapers in the digital age.) http://tinyurl.com/armlj7 # Don Norman’s “The three ways that good design makes you happy” talk at TED http://tinyurl.com/cdrl27 # [Design, Interaction Design] “The tiny things matter”: a UX story (What a great story about what tips the favor!) http://tinyurl.com/b3wv4y # [Design, Interaction Design] [...]
Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: Over 117 Million Mobile Internet Users in China
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released two reports on China’s mobile Internet, according to the reports, by the end of 2008, there were already over 640 million mobile phone users in China, and the number of users who access the Internet via mobile phone already exceeded 117.6 million, according to the Research Report on Behavior of Internet Access via Mobile Phone released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on February 18 in Beijing...
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Advertising in China: launches amount to 36 billion U.S. dollars in first half/2008
In the first half of 2008, China's total advertising launch reached 244.9 billion yuan (over 36 billion U.S. dollars) , an increase of 17% compared with the same period last year, according to well-known global media and information group Nielsen latest report of ad information services, Xinhua News reported. Among the three types of major media Nielsen monitored, television continued to lead with 83% of the advertising market share, a total of 204 billion yuan; and print media advertising made progress with an increase of 14 percent. Among them, newspapers and magazine ads amounted to 36 billion and 5 billion yuan [...]
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Chinese media revenue to reach 77 billion US dollars in 2008
Chinese media industry revenue is expected to increase 13.1 percent to 554 billion yuan (about 79.14billion U.S. dollars) in 2008, said a report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently. The figure was 481.1 billion yuan (over 68 billion US dollars) in 2007, up 13.6 percent year on year, according to the report, which was based on data collected up to February 2008. Mobile and online media saw rapid growth, earning a revenue of 105.3 billion yuan (around 15 billion US dollars) and 29.7 billion yuan (almost 5 billion US dollars) in 2007 [...]
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