China Design Ideas and Inspiration

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 11:51.

Design Ideas/Inspiration

The China Design Now exhibition at the V&A in London was about to close and I didn't want to miss it so last Saturday I went down there to take a look.

I wasn't disappointed as I walked around viewing some of the best work to come out of China in the last 20 years. Everything from photography, illustration, architecture, film, clothing and more were on view in a well laid out sequence of rooms. Some fantastic work was shown which will hopefully fire your mind!

For anyone that missed it or had no chance of visiting I have collected just a few snippets of inspiration to give you a flavour of what was on show, enjoy. If you'd like to share further design ideas and inspiration from China do leave a comment and link below.

MEWE Design Alliance

Interview with MEWE

Maleonn

Maleonn
Gallery

Wong Kar-wai

In the Mood for Love, film.

Adfunture

Adfunture at Plastic and Plush
Adfunture

Chen Maner Photography

Chen Maner

Wing Shya Photography

Wing Shya

Digital Beijing Building

Global Construction Watch blog post on Digital Beijing

China Central Television Tower

Global Construction Watch blog post on the China Central Television Tower

Richard Dewick's blog

Ooooh!

Submitted by liam on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 14:23.

Nice collection some great works here!

Spark your brain into life!

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 14:45.

Thanks Liam, I hope it gives some a little inspiration, it's always good to discover new things :-)

AWESOME!

Submitted by Hawksdomain on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 16:22.

Thanks so much for sharing this! It's just a bit far for me to travel to London all the way from Kansas, so I probably wouldn't have ever gotten to see this!! ;)

Pretty impressive stuff

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 19:22.

I think you'll agree. I don't blame you Hawksdomain for not traveling over, your carbon foot print for museum visits alone would be huge!

Cannot believe I missed that!

Submitted by Xavier on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 23:22.

I'm gutted. I would've loved to have seen that! Thanks so much for sharing. In return I've uploaded a couple pictures I took recently that you might find a use for! I think he's pretty cool....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteheatdesign/2671842417/in/photostream/

Great exhibition

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Wed, 16/07/2008 - 09:52.

Thanks Xavier for the makak pics, I'll see if I can put them in somewhere :) Were these taken at London Zoo?

Makak pics

Submitted by Xavier on Wed, 16/07/2008 - 11:06.

No they are from Woburn Safari. I need to put some more up though- there's a great one of the makaks on my car. Speaking of which.....I need to check my aerial is still intact!

Awesome stuff

Submitted by Alvaro on Sat, 07/03/2009 - 06:38.

Congrats, those pics are truly inspiring! Thanks for sharing! I love the "Maleonn" pic

Keep up the good work bro!

Alvaro

Photography

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 14/04/2009 - 00:20.

The photo by Wing Shya photography is amazing thank you for posting. Its like a modern version of that famous egyptian painting called the kiss. I am definetly going to keep an eye out for their work if this si any indication of the caliber.