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April 10th, 2010 | Posted in China, life, typography

Yesterday I was walking down the street and stumbled upon this guy that can write your name in all kind of creative ways, “signature design” he called it. So I decided to give it a shot.

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苗吉龙

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December 28th, 2009 | Posted in illustration, life, my fun

Hey ho!
Happy New Year and all good winter holidays. Next year is certainly gonna be even cooler and crazier in a good way. And I wish you pleasant adventures, amazing coincidences, great people and good luck all the way!
People of the World, relax!

Olly



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December 6th, 2009 | Posted in art, life, photography

I have this picture right above my desktop. Super-funny-cool-crazy-sad-inspirational-funny-boombalicious.

(I though I’d just created a word. “boombalicious”. But Google proved I’m wrong with 471 results with this word. Come on!)

andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-posters

November 25th, 2009 | Posted in China, architecture, art, graphic design, life

I feel like I had to start with this general post about ICOGRADA event in Beijing.

The last week of October ICOGRADA and Chinese authorities organized international design congress. It was a huge event that attracted designers from all over the world. The big kick to promote China and Beijing in the world and design in China. There were  many intersting exhebitions, lectures by prominent international and Chinese designers, workshops, performances and so on.

The main venue of the event was CAFA (China Academy of Fina Arts). This beautiful building is the new CAFA Art Museum, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

And this is the logotype of the event, stylized Chinese character “XIN”…

And further I’m going to write what it’s all about…

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