Category — Hong Kong

Hong Kong artist and designer toy legend Michael Lau recently released some new vinyl figures.

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Hong Kong’s NSBQ created a Learn Chinese tee. Along with a calligraphy template, which young children use to practice their Chinese character stroke, the shirt features a front writing of Ning Si Bu Qu or NSBQ.

Like all other releases this tee will be individually packed in a NSBQ stenciled shoe bag, now available on the NSBQ web store.

Via Hypebeast

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Show your love for Hello Kitty in a subtler way with this gentle application of the feline on this jacket.

SiLLY THING were commissioned to do a special collection for the upcoming Hello Kitty Black Wonder exhibition in Hong Kong.

Unlike Hello Kitty’s personality as a cute kitten, SiLLY THING offers their own perspective on things as they appropriate the theme onto the Kitty Button Up shirt and Kitty Tailored jacket.

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Perhaps the world’s most recognisable designer toy designer, Michael Lau, who is based in Hong Kong, worked with Nike to come up with the following very unique China BMX Blazer.

From Hypebeast:

The shoes come in “Chinese” colors with yellow all around and red shoelaces and insole. It has great details such as the flares of the sun drawn on the sides, and the year 20-08 on the left and right shoe separately.

It comes with a vinyl biker figure and his bike, all in a special box that seems to be covered with dirt.

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Chinese photographer Shi Guorui presents a timely collection of five large-scale, black-and-white photographs, each at least two meters in length, that capture some of the most mesmerizing new cityscapes around the world.

Working in situ within special rooms, Shi used the traditional pinhole-camera technique of the camera obscura to capture skylines that blur into the distance, endowing his images with an ephemeral quality.

His negative-style prints - the lights and shadows are inverted - further set the tone, showcasing the blend of old character and recent growth in the modern metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Las Vegas.

Shi Guorui’s work on show in Hong Kong at the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery from now through August 30th, 2008.

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Chapel of Dawn, is designing a few pieces for Hello Kitty’s Black Wonder event happening on July 17th in Hong Kong.

So far the release includes a canvas tote bag, pen/cosmetic case, and two special t-shirts. All the products use Hello Kitty’s face as a foundation for design.

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If you’re curious (course you are) about Miss Hong Kong, you can check out all the winners every year from the last 35 years on the Miss Hong Kong Gallery website.

As pointed about by the British Born Chinese blog, you can see some famous names in there such as Maggie Cheung (1983). I’m personally not too sure about some of the entrants, but then, who am I to judge beauty.

Miss Hong Kong Gallery website

Via the British Born Chinese blog

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Cult notebook makes Moleskine have expanded their City Notebook range with the release of the Hong Kong and the Beijing versions - the first of many Asian City Notebooks to come.

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