Wang Jing | Product
Wang Jing from Chengdu is a designer with one of the most interesting portfolios I have seen in a while – her colour in pH project is especially fascinating.
Chinese New Year
EightSix will be taking a short break over Chinese New Year. We look forward to introducing the world to more great Chinese designers in 2013 and the year of the snake! Elliot
Mock Up – Architecture of Spatial Art | EightSix x Design China
A special collaboration between EightSix and Design China.
Mock Up exhibition is taking place in Shanghai from the 4th of August until the 2nd of September and explores the relationship between people and the spaces they live in and what creative responses 10 Chinese architects and designers have to reimagining these spaces. Mock Up is curated...
SendPoints Books
SendPoints Books based in Guangzhou publish English language coffee table books on branding, logos and graphic design. What is unique about SendPoints is that they are one of very few publishing houses born in China. To see more of what they publish, visit their site here.
Super Nature Studio | Interactive Design
Super Nature studio is a Shanghai based multi disciplinary design company which specialises in interactive design, visual communication and media technology. Founded by Billy Wen Hao, Lin Yew and Yeoh Guan Hong they have developed the studio since 2008, and have worked with Nike, TEDx, Surface magazine and many more. They have a huge archive...
Wenbin Li | Packaging
Wenbin Li from Beijing has a small portfolio of work, from his ‘This is Just Milk’ packaging design with subtle Chinese characters hidden within the typography, to his graffiti.
Auccie Gao | Sculpture & Packaging
Although I don’t think Auccie Gao single handedly did this project himself, and although its a commercial project, I think it looks great. Enjoy this!
Wei Guan | Design & Publishing
Wei Guan is a man of many talents. Having studied industrial and product design in Germany, he has returned to Dalian in China to start both Bananafish Books and Pausebread Press. Bananafish Books is an online bookstore linked with [a perfect book] which is an independent publisher for small-run artist books and zines. Check out the...
Nini Sum & Idle Beats Screenprinting | Graphic & Illustration
Nini Sum is an illustrator and print maker based in Shanghai. She was born in 1986 in Nanjing and co-runs one of the first screenprinting studios in China – IdleBeats. IdleBeats specializes in illustration and hand-drawn art creations, the duo have rich experience in cover art creation, poster design, advertising illustration, canvas painting, wall painting...
Feng Haoyu | Photography + Design
Feng Haoyu is a US based Chinese designer & photographer. He has a varied and wide ranging portfolio of work from product design to photographic essays and has worked with companies such as Audi, Lenovo and North Face.
Lei Lei | Animation
Lei Lei is a 26 year old animator, who graduated from Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design. He has worked with big brands (Nike, Fiat) to drawing murals in friends bedrooms.His childish and colourful illustrations range from the surreal to bizarre, but are all relatable. Its hard to know what works of his to...
Lu Xinjian | Art/Design
Although this is considered ‘art’, I love the strong geometrics and bold colours in Lu Xinjians work. As seen on designboom in his ‘city DNA‘ series, chinese painter lu xinjian abstracts the forms of cities based on aerial views from google earth. xinjian first sketches a design while looking at the map, next turning these...
